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What Are You Paying For?
People spend thousands of dollars renting halls for their ceremony and reception.
Consider the cost of groomsmens' tuxedos and bridesmaids' dresses, not to
mention the wedding gown itself! Several hundred into the thousands of dollars
are spent on flowers. Other pricey items include a wedding coordinator, DJ,
limousine and photographer. No wonder the average cost for a wedding in this
country is over $25,000.* A prominent wedding coordinator I work with tells me $100,000
destination weddings are not uncommon even here in Nashville!
Everyone knows you don't
just pay a doctor for services rendered, but indirectly for his
or her many hard years of medical school and internship. In a similar way, you
pay live musicians for all the work it took to reach their level of skill. When
you hire a classically trained organist such as myself, you get my expertise derived
from decades of discipline and experience. Briefly consider what it took to gain this ability: w Piano lessons from the age of 5 to 17 w College tuition to study as a music major for 5 years undergraduate school (175 semester hours) w 3 years graduate school (while working full-time) w All 8 years with private organ lessons w Music books purchased over a span of 30 years w Countless hours of continuing practice to maintain skills I wouldn't even try to put a dollar figure on all this. But I do know it was—and still is—a lot of work requiring time and energy. When I play for your ceremony or reception, I'm not casually waltzing in and having an easy time dashing off some tunes. It's highly skilled, technically demanding work! If that's not worth a few hundred bucks, I don't know what is. *Reference: www.CostofWedding.com | ||
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