The Wedding (band)

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The Wedding
The Wedding plays at Cornerstone Festival 2007.
Background information
Origin	Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.
Genre(s)	Alternative rock Christian rock Post-Hardcore Hard Rock
Years active	2003–present
Label(s)	Brave New World Records Rambler Records
Website	http://www.theweddingrocks.com/
Members
Matt Shelton Trevor Sarver Adam Thron Matt Jameson Cody Driggers
Former members
Clint Robinson Joe Rickard Kevin Kiehn Jeremy Ervin

The Wedding (formerly known as Easier Said) is an alternative Christian band from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Musically, The Wedding fuses elements of pop punk, post-grunge, piano rock, ska punk, post-hardcore, Celtic punk and country rock with their pop rock base. The band is signed to the independent Brave New World record label, who also house Deas Vail and The Goodnight Fight

The band has toured with the likes of Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bleach, John Reuben, The Goodnight Fight, Last Tuesday, Number One Gun, Anberlin, Spoken, Disciple, The O.C. Supertones, Superchic[k] and Falling Up and released two albums: The Wedding (which produced two number-one singles) and Polarity.

After former singer Kevin Keihn got married, he decided to depart from the band. Landon Ginnings filled in for him on vocals until their current singer, Matt Shelton, formerly of Letter Kills, joined the band permanently.

[edit] Themes

The Wedding is musically eclectic. Their second release Polarity begins with an intro of ska horns (supplied by The Supertones' Dan Spencer) and hip hop beats. Elsewhere, the album delves into Celtic punk ("I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"), post-hardcore ("It's Time to Rock (OK?)") and a country female choir ("Fireworks"), as well as the band's signature pop punk nuances.

Lyrically, The Wedding use such themes as love, relationships, loyalty to the 479 Arkansas area code, confidence in God and working hard.