Any More the Same Story !

When I used be a bridal singer, I sang hymns at wedding chapels almost every weekend. Wearing a long red gown, I enjoyed singing for beautiful young couples and prayed for their eternal happiness.

I belonged to a music agent as a professional bridal singer and sang at chapels in hotels, restaurants, or wedding centers with other singers, a bridal assistant, an organist, and a Protestant minister. During peak seasons, we worked at multiple ceremonies a day.

Singing the same songs almost every time, I didn’t get bored with these standard Christian hymns. But I often got bored with ministers’ speeches. For the first time to hear the speech, I was deeply impressed to weep. But from the second time, I got terribly bored because they always spoke the same story with the same voice, in the same tone, at the same speed.

From this experience, I learned that the charm of the content was being unique. However, ministers to the musical agent are not blamed for their lack of uniqueness. Because even if their speech is not unique for singers, but always unique for wedding couples.

One day, I had three ceremonies in the same chapel and I heard three different stories by the same minister. I felt respect for him and said; “He is great! He made three different speeches!”
But a colleague singer, one of regular members of the chapel, said; “I don't think so. He has only trree stories. That’s all.”