Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting my older daughter, Miriam, www.miriammintz.com, in Chicago where she is continuing to hone her acting skills.
While there I met a number of her friends at a production she performed in (she was WONDERFUL) including one who recently was married and one who was soon to be married, who were comparing notes.
“Yes,” said the recently married one, “I did the ipod thing.”
“The ipod thing?”, I asked, “What is that?”
So, it turns out as I am sure everyone who is under the age of some-terrible-number-which-is-lower-than-how-old-I-am knows, or the parent of someone who is getting married (ahem to my two wonderful daughters), that at weddings today, it is not only not necessary to have a band, it is even not necessary to have a DJ to have music. All you need is an ipod and imagination (and time) to record all of the music you will want to have played at your wedding.
Though as is pointed out in a column on all this, http://www.ehow.com/how_2108877_throw-ipod-wedding.html, typically the DJ controls the lighting so if you want to do that you may need to reconsider. Perhaps there is, or will soon be, an iphone app to deal with the lights solving even this issue.
The part which bothered me was not that an “ipod wedding” existed conceptually and I didn’t know it, it was that the phrase could be used in a sentence and everyone listening understood immediately what it was without explanation except me.
And I TWITTER for God’s sake, I may be old but I had hoped to be cool. But no such luck.
We had a DJ for daughters wedding but all his music was on an iPod. He was more MC for the dancing, etc.
It’s good you never give up. Keep fighting the good fight.
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