San Antonio Symphony Fiesta Pops

The San Antonio Symphony performed four pieces arranged by Allegretto Music director Jose Luis Irizarry for their Fiesta Pops 2010.

The concerts were at the Majestic Theater in downtown San Antonio.

The orchestra sounded wonderful and the music was fun!

Here: Juan Ortíz, director of Mariachi Campanas De América, Jose Irizarry (arranger) and Maestro Ken David Masur during a rehearsal .

Jose Irizarry and Belinda Menchaca, co-director of the Guadalupe Dance Company. They did a great job!!!

José Irizarry & Juan Ortíz

Jose Irizarry & violinist Anthony Medrano, from Campanas De America.

PuertoRico y Cuba. Jose Irizarry and Roberto Pérez López, from Los Tres Reyes trio.

McNay Museum & Hyatt Hill Country Weddings

The golf course was beautiful at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort. But the day did not start out quite that glorious! :-)

It all started on a dripping wet Saturday morning. Sandy was supposed to get married on the beautiful grounds of the McNay Art Museum. But you can't get married in the rain. Well, you can. But that's not the ideal.

Thankfully, Sandy has a very resourceful group of family and friends. They even came up with a canopy to protect us from the rain. The canopy, by the way, was perfectly matched to Sandy's color scheme. LOL!

And the rain let up just in time for them to have their ceremony. Another happy ending to a new beginning.

Canyon Spring Golf Club Waterfall Wedding

Our version of the great escape. ha, ha, ha!

Weddings at the Canyon Springs Golf Club Waterfall are always beautiful. The trick is getting everything down to the ceremony area. This post is for you couples wanting to have your wedding out there.

This is me, with my harp half hanging out of a golf cart. This is always the most nerve wracking part of our Waterfall weddings. We need to take lots of extra padding, and ask the driver to be very careful, which means they have to drive a lot slower than they're used to.

Of course, this is all you would see: beautiful instruments against that gorgeous backdrop. It was a perfect day for a wedding at the Waterfall.

JW Marriott Hill Country Resort Wedding Reception

Groove City Band played for a wedding reception at the JW Marriott.

This is the newest addition to San Antonio's vast collection of amazing places to get married. And this one is a real treat. If I had to pick a word, it would be LUSH. The grass is green, I mean GREEN. According to Melody Schmidt at the JW, we were not the first ones to ask what kind was it, and where we could buy some. :-) But everything else is lush too. The decor, the ambiance, and their service. It's a chocolate experience!

This wedding was put together in style by our friends at San Antonio Wedding and Event Consultants. Every little detail was perfect. Teresa Bryson and Melanie Uresti with SAWEC did a fabulous job. (not sure why this is underline. blogger is weird)

Audrie and Troy shared their first dance, In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel. Later on, their family and friends really got down on the dance floor with music by our own Groove City Band. The band played all kinds of music for them: from Jesse's Girl for the die-hard 80's fans, to Elvis Crespo's "Suavemente". The band even prepared and performed a special request from the bride's father, "Lo Voy A Hacer Por Ti" by Grupo Mazz.

Audrie looked radiant! This party was a blast!

Hill Country Wedding at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort

Allegretto Music provided music entertainment for a fabulous wedding at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort. On Saturday, April 3, David and Valeria had a lovely wedding in the Hill Country. The grounds of the hotel were lush and beautiful. The wedding was attended by their family and close friends. It was a gorgeous spring day... actually, a little too full of spring. Everything was covered with a fine coat of oak pollen! LOL

There is nothing like live music for an outdoor wedding. We received the guests with a prelude with a string trio, followed by the ceremony and an outdoor cocktail, on the deck under those wonderful oak trees!

Next we moved to the Lukenbach Pavilion for the reception. The tables had been decorated by Pizzini Designs, and they looked fantastic!

Then Groove City Band played for the dinner and dance. Valeria and David wanted a great wedding dance band that could cover a wide range of styles for their very diverse group of guests, who had traveled from all over for their wedding. When quiet hours hit at 10:00pm, David and Valeria planned to move the party inside for an all-out club-like experience. So we also provided DJ entertainment for the "after party". It was so much fun to watch them dance their hearts out!!

At the end of the night, everyone was happy.... and exhausted.