Wedding Songs: I Sing, You Sang, We Sung

A wedding can have everything and still end up feeling like nothing - a wedding is not truly a wedding unless it has the right "feel".  To Eric Banana, the one thing that will define a wedding and bring out the mood associated with love... has to be the wedding songs. Accordingly, he did some research on the Internet and happily suggested to Astro Girl (a.k.a. the final approver and sole decision-maker of all things minor and major in the Banana household come October 2009) that they should engage a wedding band (as in a company of musicians, not the ring!) for the wedding banquet.

Little Miss Pragmatic took all of five seconds to... say NO. "But dear, in addition to the wedding band, there will be an original wedding song as well," pleaded Eric Banana. "I would rather use that money for the honeymoon," Astro Girl said nonchalantly. "Besides, there is hardly any standing room left in the banquet venue - you can't expect the wedding band to play in the lift lobby," she added. Eric Banana quickly realised that democracy will be an one-woman affair in his future castle and wondered how much it will cost to upgrade from a honeymoon in Pulau Ubin to one in Sentosa instead.

"Fine, I will do without the wedding band but I get to choose the wedding songs," Eric Banana proclaimed in defiance. "I am sooooo not going to have Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March or Richard Wagner's Bridal Chorus for the wedding march. I would rather drop dead." Astro Girl looked like she was ready to make Eric Banana drop dead. The latter was just glad that his name is not Bill. 

Actually, Eric Banana did have a few... unconventional ideas in mind for the wedding march. He was thinking that something majestic would be good - something like Imperial March (or Darth Vader's theme):

Or maybe not. That suit looked a little suffocating - Eric Banana may actually die of a heatstroke. If the flames did not get to him first, that is... Besides, while Darth Astro sounds way cool, Darth Banana, on the other hand, sounds dubious at best.

Then he was thinking of using something more dramatic and uptempo - something like the theme from Mission Impossible, together with a dramatic entrance à la Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise):

Nah, what if Eric Banana falls flat on his face? Or if he breaks his back in the process? Not a pretty sight for sure.

Eric Banana and Astro Girl decided that they still have a lot of time to plan the list of wedding songs to play at their wedding banquet. They shall save the decision for another day. Live and let live.