Thursday, June 3, 2010

Serenade your Spouse

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There is this line from William Shakespeare that says, "If music be the food of love, play on." Like Shakespeare, I too believe that music plays an important role in every relationship. I don't why but there really are songs that has magic woven into the lyrics and the melody.

Have you ever tried to serenade your spouse? My husband did! In fact, singing was his way of courting me (see how effective this love technique is?). I could very well remember the night we became officially a couple. Under the moonlit sky, he sang me three beautiful love songs. It was very romantic, believe me, my husband doesn't possess a perfect singing voice but he can carry a tune. But not considering the voice, the gesture itself is very touching and romantic. Of course, I was completely blown away by his love technique. I will always treasure that night for the rest of my life.

Throughout the course of our relationship, music has been a part of our lives. Because my husband is working in a nearby province, we seldom see each other, so to make us feel like we are just close by, we both recorded a song for each other in our respective cellphones. Whenever I call him, the ring tone would be a song that I sang and that goes to my cellphone as well. Whenever he calls, the ring tone is a song that he personally sang for me. Isn't that sweet? You might find that corny but it eases the loneliness a bit.

For some of you who doesn't have a gift in singing, who cares right? When you do it for the love of your life, why care what others say about you and your bad singing voice. Our wedding photographer, who is also a close friend told me that in one of the weddings that he attended, the bride's dream was to walk down the aisle while the groom was singing to her. The problem was the groom couldn't sing a note. He was that bad. But on the day of the wedding, as the bride prepares to walk down the aisle, she was surprised that her groom, standing on the altar with a guitar on hand and started singing a song he himself composed for his bride. Our photographer friend told me that no matter how hilarious the groom sounded, his gesture was filled with so much love and thoughtfulness. And that for me is very touching.

Serenading doesn't necessarily mean that you have to sing, if you really can't sing but you know how to play the piano or a guitar, play a song for her instead. If you really can't do any of those, then you can dance with your spouse, but that's another love technique there which I will discuss in the future. But I will give you tip, when you do serenade your spouse, choose a song that speaks how you truly feel for him/her. To those you can't hold a tune, just choose a simple song with a simple melody that you can easily follow. Remember, it's the thought and gesture that counts.

Play on loves.

p.s. The photo above is taken by our wedding photographer, Mr. Christopher Colinares. Yes, that's me and husband on our pre-nup shoot.

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