My cousin is getting married tomorrow, and I'm in charge of music. And their officiant is the most disagreeable person I have ever met. Officiantzilla.
She's a longtime friend of the groom, but oi. She got into a shouting match with the bride and groom over when they're going to sign the license. She said "I'm the most important person here" at least twice (I'm sorry, whose wedding is this??). /1
Best part: She HATES the music choices (the 2CELLOS version of Hallelujah, Concerning Hobbits, Taylor Ash's A Human Heart, and Firm Foundation, for the curious). She had a bunch of last-minute music demands she's just lucky I'm a professional and could accommodate, including that I play the communion hymn instead of do a recording.
She treated me more like a nuisance than a pro, btw. /2
And she insisted on "something classical" for the offertory, "like Bach or Mozart."
She's getting Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral.
Either she'll recognize it and be furious but unable to do anything, or she won't and she'll praise me for choosing a piece in which the title character is on the way to her own beheading. Either way...lollll.
You pissed off the musician. Don't. /3
PS: The fact that she asked for a communion hymn and offertory TONIGHT, less than 24 hours in advance, tells me she hasn't thought about any of the other service music at all.
I fully expect to get asked to play a Gloria and the rest of it tomorrow when I arrive. Even though they're not in the bulletin. (But don't worry, she's been doing this for 14 years, according to her. I have to ask: do you have 14 years of experience or one year repeated 14 times?) /4
@danialexis ooh--could you sub in the Laura Brannigan _Gloria_ maybe?