Wedding Singers

Friends don't let friends sing at their weddings. Sure, you think they do, buy you're usually wrong. Think about all the people you know. Now think about how many of them are good enough to sing at a wedding. Now think about how many have sung at a wedding.

The nervousness, the crackling voice, the uncomfortable body language. And then the polite applause. It's just about all I can take. Who is doing the favor with this special music? I am specifically referring to the actual wedding, and not the reception singers, but without a doubt, in either case, when wedding music has been memorable, it has come from a hired gun. Months of planning have gone into these weddings - every last detail - to make them go as smoothly as possible, yet it is an unsettlingly consistent oversight to trust that one of your friends is going to perform so well as to enhance your wedding in any conceivable way. I do have one friend (yeah, that's you) who sings at weddings, but truth be told -- I've never heard her sing anywhere. As with my thoughts about gas stations, there are, of course, exceptions to the rules. But I implore you all -- don't let your friends sing at your weddings.