Lisa's Flute Blog: Wedding Music News

I am beginning to catch up with myself! It’s been a very busy summer and fall, but I’m now set up in my new flute studio at 18 Langdon Street in Montpelier! With wedding season in full swing for September and October when my flute students started for the fall term in my new studio, it’s been a little crazy around here – but all very good! I’ve started meeting with wedding couples for 2012 weddings in person in my studio, and I have just begun to explore the option of Skype meetings with wedding couples. Comcast was here today to set up my internet access, so I’ll be updating you all on that once I’ve done a few experimental Skype sessions from here – so stay tuned! I look forward to being able to have face to face meetings with wedding couples, if you choose, even if you can’t travel to Montpelier!

Meanwhile, I’m finally making progress on completing editing video clips from Passeri’s March TV recording – you can click here for the most recent YouTube video – Waltz from “Waves of the Danube” by Ivanovici. I’ll add more links as I get more edited and put up!

I’m expecting some pictures from summer and fall weddings and hope to have a flood of new blog entries – mostly probably in January.

Looking forward to getting back into blogging more now that I have internet here in town! More soon!

I’ve just gotten some pictures from a July wedding! Hoping to get them up soon, but in the meantime, here are a few shots I took from Labor Day week-end weddings.The first set of pictures were taken at the Lang Farm Nursery on September 3rd. Nothing like having a wedding at a nursery – the flowers were all around and so amazing!I played this wedding with harpist Mary Fran Stafford – hopefully one of many we’ll play together!

I love this ring of flowers around the tree behind us.

And the next day, Sunday September 4, here’s a single picture from another wedding at Ohana Camp in Fairlee. I didn’t have as much time for pictures, but as you can see it was a beautiful spot and a gorgeous day, and a lovely and heartwarming wedding. Played this wedding with Mike Close (cello) and Eliza Thomas (piano).

Stay tuned for some professional pictures of some of last summer’s weddings coming soon!

Haley and Lee were married June 25 at Jay Peak Resort. The forecast and occasional sprinkles led to the decision to have the ceremony indoors, but it seems that so often on wedding days the rain holds off for the important moments, and spirits remained sunny, as you can see below from both indoor and outdoor pictures! Above, Haley and her Dad are walking up the aisle to the Pachelbel Canon in D.

Many thanks to Renee at Great Impressions Portrait Studio for the use of these gorgeous pictures!

I LOVE the looks from the bridesmaids above! Loving friends are the greatest!

Haley and Lee chose “Turdidae” flute/violin duo for their ceremony music. They chose the traditional classics for their ceremony: Jesu, Joy of Man”s Desiring for the wedding party’s processional, Pachelbel’s Canon in D for Haley’s processional, and Mendelssohn’s Wedding March for their recessional (above).

And the final couple back up the aisle!

I loved Haley and Lee’s candle theme. You can see in the processional and recessional pictures above that the aisle is marked with small candles. Here’s a close – up of the candles, arranged with flowers. (For my own wedding – 22 years ago – we had lilacs  – I’m quite partial to purple flowers of all varieties – I love these!)

The lighting on a cloudy day is amazing for pictures – I can’t imagine anything feeling sunnier than the way Haley looks here!

OK – party time!

I’m looking forward to exhibiting at the Rainbow Weddings LGBT Expo this coming Sunday, August 14th! Mariah and I will be there, playing three sets alternating between flute/harp and flute/violin, and available for chatting at our table in between. 

We’re putting together quite a mix of repertoire – some personal favorites as well as a wide mix of styles for every taste! We’ve got some flute/violin classical selections, a few of our favorite flute/harp Celtic tunes, a little Beatles, some other pop, a taste of a Broadway classic or two, an Israeli folk tune, a hymn,  and whatever else time allows!

It’s at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, 870 Williston Road in Burlington, Vermont from 12:30 to 3:30. Perhaps we’ll see some of you there!

I’ve been writing quarterly articles for Vermont Bride Magazine for a full year now! You can click here for the article from the Spring 2011 magazine: Putting a Personal Touch to Your Wedding Music: Selecting Unique Music for Your Wedding.

All previous articles are also available at the Vermont Bride Magazine web site. The summer magazine, with an article focusing on the Pachelbel Canon in D, is now available in print throughout Vermont, or you can download the full summer 2011 magazine now through this link. The article itself should also be available at a separate link before long. The summer magazine also features the Love Story of Leah Hartenstein and Gregory Morse at Basin Harbor Club. I’ve been awaiting pictures from this wedding for my own blog entry (some friends and I played trio music for this wedding) – be on the lookout for this and other 2010 weddings, and hopefully some recent 2011wedding blog entries soon!

Hi Everybody! I’ve got some major web site and blog transitions going on at www.lisaflute.com – hoping to get things more organized and easier to access. Let me know what you think! Hoping to organize the pages and posts a little more soon, but have settled on the basic layout. I’ll also be researching and working on background sound possibilities soon, so stay tuned!

Hi everyone! I’m in the process of reorganizing my wedding music blog. Please pardon any odd appearance while I’m in process! Thanks!   Lisa

The Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden is lovely any time of year! Here are a couple of pictures from before and after today’s wedding.  Above is the view from in back of the Inn itself, and below is the wedding site, at the Mountain Air House.

It was truly a blessing to be part of Patricia and James’ intimate gathering, and always an honor to see each couple’s cultural traditions in celebrating marriage. Patricia and James had a Japanese background, and incorporated a tea ceremony before, and other Japanese rituals following the ceremony. Patricia has promised to send pictures – though it may be a while, so I had to put up a couple that I took today for now.

 Just had to show off  a couple of my own pictures from shortly before Tricia and Dario’s wedding at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel this past Saturday. Looking forward to Katrin Mooney’s pictures in a week or so! I’ll give more detail then, just wanted to enjoy these fall colors a bit more before they disappear!