“I have so much to say I hardly know where to start. Lauren is incredible! We did not know what to expect when hiring a pianist. We just felt it would be nice touch in a venue with high ceilings and a more romantic ambience. Upon my first conversation with Lauren I felt impressed with her connection to and love of music. She has worked hard from a young age to become an immensely skilled player. Our entire family has a deep love of music and so I was stressed trying to find just the right method of sound-tracking my reception. She made it so easy and she communicated everything that we wanted to communicate in our favorite second language. Music. She invested in getting to know about me, my husband, my event (even colors and decor), and our story and she used all of that to help create a beautiful experience for us. She even allowed me to pick out her outfit! This is how committed she is to creating the right feeling for an event.
Nearly everyone at my reception commented on how incredible her playing was. She is really phenomenal. What is also impressive is how she tuned her playlist to my guests and what was happening at the reception. She would play more current, contemporary music for the teens and timeless pieces for the older guests. She would read the crowd. Awesome.
Lauren did something very special for us. I lost my mother and brother within a day of each other, 6 months before my wedding. Lauren learned a song that we played for my brother’s funeral and a second song my mother had composed about love and played both of those, in tribute to them, at my reception. Not. A. Dry. Eye. Lauren goes far beyond “pianist-for-hire” she integrated perfectly into the effect we were attempting to create, and made the night magical.
-Ernie R. Pippas, Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.