"Soundtracks"

About a year ago, I blogged about how music defines my life's moments. Which is my I spent hours and hours carefully choosing the songs that would be played on our wedding day, while other couples just leave it up to the performers to play whatever love songs they deem appropriate for the affair. Imagine my panic when the wedding singers I chose (from Zamboanga) told me that they did not know 90% of the songs I chose for the wedding!

Anyway, I was watching SNN tonight (Yes, I know, I'm so mababaw) and Kris was talking about the "soundtrack" of the Judy Ann Santos-Ryan Agoncillo wedding. Her bridal march was to Runaway by The Corrs which was sung by Agot Isidro. I was reminded about the soundtrack of our own.

Let me share the songs played on our wedding day. I walked the aisle towards my husband-to-be to Barbra Streisand's All I Ask Of You, and our first dance was to Eric Benet's The Last Time. Those were the two most important songs of the day.

Other songs that were played were:

Make Me Whole by Amiel Larrieux
Beautiful Days by Amiel Larrieux

When God Made You by Newsong feat. Natalie Grant

Book of Love by Peter Gabriel

The Prayer by Celine Dion and (very common wedding song)

A Sorta Fairytale by Tori Amos (Jason Magbanua's SDE)

Lovely by Michelle Tumes (one of the songs on Lito Sy's AVP, the others he picked)

Destiny by Jim Brickman & Jordan Hill (another common wedding song)

Here and Now by Luther Vandross

Angels Brought Me Here by Carrie Underwood

God Bless The Broken Road by Rascall Flatts

Seasons of Love (Rent OST)

This Guys In Love With You by Burt Bacharach

Have You Ever Been In Love by Celine Dion

Cinema Paradiso Theme (Violin) by Ennio Morricone
My Valentine by Martina McBride and Jim Brickman
Whenever I Call You Friend by Alison Krauss and Michael Johnson
Beautiful In My Eyes by Joshua Kadison
With Or Without You by U2 (Pat Dy's OTD Photo Slideshow)
Feels Like Home By Chantal Kreviazuk

Hmm... I shall edit this post once I remember the rest of the songs. That's it for now. The Soundtrack of our wedding. The songs that remind me of the way I felt as well as that funny feeling I had in my stomach on that special day. :)

Love This Song!

Been trying to download this song on Limewire, but no success so far so I tried my luck with youtube. Not the same I know, but at least I get to listen to it when I want. I like her voice. :)

Don't Give Up by Clare Reynolds.

Always Love

More often than not, music defines my life's moments. I've shared this many times with people close to me. This is one reason why music is very important to me, and I am definitely one of those people who cannot live without it. At any given day, music is able to successfully set my mood. It has been a healer, a confidant, a companion, and more importantly, a friend. It can easily transcribe my emotions into words, give a definition to feelings I have yet to understand, and express those I have yet to acknowledge are there. Most times, it knows me even better than I even know myself. 

My life is music set to motion. 

There are some songs that remind me so much not just of special people, but of moments I shared with them. When a particular song plays, these moments come alive in my mind and for a minute or two, I have to hold my breath and close my eyes because it doesn't just remind me of a person, or a place but of a feeling. Because for a moment there, the feeling returns and I can truly feel it in my heart. At times, it feels so real and so fresh that when my mood calls for it, I allow the feeling to linger a little more than I should and let the moments play in my mind. I let myself get lost in the feeling again, lost in the moment, even if only for a while. Most times, I end up letting out a sigh, and then a smile. Grateful that even though the moments have already come to pass, I can still vividly remember how good a certain person made me feel at one time, how a certain place made me feel like it's where I'm supposed to be, or how a moment made me wish it would never end.  Then it's gone. ;) 

It's a long-standing love affair.

Music and me. 

Now playing: Always Love (Nada Surf)