As you know, we are getting married on 11th August (Woooooop) and we can’t wait to see you there!!
What you probably don’t know is, we have invited the team from Music Wedding Videos to film everyone enjoying the day, singing, dancing and generally having a great time to ‘Proud Mary’ by Tina Turner.
Here is the song we’ve chosen for you to get familiar with …
How this works is, the guys will be equipped with printed lyrics and speakers on the day; they’ll be looking for volunteers to sing along to a couple of lines from the track on camera. They’ll then turn the footage into a music video of the wedding day. Don’t worry too much about learning all the words as we mentioned they’ll have some printed on the day and after playing a short section of the song a couple of times you’ll soon pick it up.
You’ll have a few go’s at getting it right, and they’re pretty good at editing to make you look awesome. Your singing voice doesn’t matter either because they’re not going to use the audio – the real song will be played over the video footage of you singing along.
The lyrics are included at the bottom of the page
How up for it are you?
Mad for it!
OK, so you fancy yourself as a bit of a performer or a pop-star in another life?
Here’s what you can do:
- Watch the video
- Learn the lyrics
- Practice in front of the mirror
- Choreograph a dance routine
- Get together with some like-minded guests to do something as a group
We are looking for people to (willingly) come forward beforehand to be given specific lines to learn, and we will then forward everyone their own lyrics to perfect 🙂 If any of you do want to perform something special, please let us know or contact the MWV guys at info@musicweddingvideos.com so they can plan it into the shoot.
Happy to get involved on the day
Here’s what we recommend:
- Watch the video
- Try to learn at least one or two lines from the song
- Grab the MWV guys on the day and let them know you want to get involved
A little bit camera-shy
We realise some people either don’t feel super comfortable in front of cameras, especially video cameras. Don’t worry – the MWV guys are very sensitive to this and won’t force you to get involved if you don’t feel comfortable. But if it’s not too painful, we do hope you can at least give us a smile or a wave so that we can remember you on our special video. And remember – if it’s your singing voice you’re worried about, they don’t actually use that in the final video – you’re just miming along to the real song. Here’s what we recommend:
- Don’t worry too much about learning the lyrics
- On the day, see if you’re in the right mood. If not, just let the MWV guys know if you’d prefer to just be an ‘extra’ without performing, or if you don’t want to be in the video at all.
We think this is a really fun way to record and re-live our big day for years to come and hope you’ll all get involved in some way.
Still not sure how this works?
Here are a couple of examples of a finished video from previous weddings once they have been edited and effects have been put on…
So……..
- Glamorous couple – Check
- Beautiful Location – Check
- Awesome dancing and singing – that’s where you come in
Let’s make this a wedding video to remember!
Love
Karen and Dave
PS Remember, if anyone wants to do anything specific then please contact us or Kev at Music Wedding Videos at kev.bagnall@musicweddingvideos.com
PPS Here are those lyrics…
You know
Every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us nice, easy
There’s just one thing
You see we never ever do nothing nice, easy
We always do it nice and rough
And we’re gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy
But then we’re gonna do the finish rough
That’s the way we do
Proud Mary
Left a good job down in the city
Workin’ for the Man every night and day
But I never lost one minute of sleepin’
I was worryin’ ’bout the way things might have been
Big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
And we’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Listen to the story
Left a good job down in the city
Workin’ for the Man every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin’
And I was worryin’ ’bout the way that things might have been
You know that big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
And we’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
You know I pumped a lot of ‘tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Until I hitched a ride on the river boat queen
You know that big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
And we’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
We’re rolling on the river
Say we’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river,
We’re rolling on the river
I left a good job in the city
Workin’ for the Man every night and day
And I never lost a minute of sleepin’
Worryin’ ’bout the way things might have been
Big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Say we’re rollin’, we’re rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Alright
Oh, I cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
And I pumped a lot of ‘tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of a city
‘Til I hitched a ride on the riverboat queen
Big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
And we’re rollin’, so we’re rollin’, we’re rollin’ on the river
I tell you we’re rollin’, rollin’, we’re rollin’ on the river
Alright
If you come down to the river
I bet you’re gonna find some people who live
And you don’t have to worry if you got no money
People on the river are happy to give
Big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
And we’re rollin’, and we’re rollin’, and we’re rollin’ on the river
Tell me one more time
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Alright
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Alright then
We’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
So we’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
I tell you we’re rollin’, we’re rollin’, we’re rollin’ on the river
Alright
