Kathy & Aaron

Ceremony Musician: Harpist Virginia Schweninger

Aaron and I drove to lovely Nelson County last weekend to meet with Virginia Schweninger, a professional harpist and teacher at Sweet Briar College. Out of all of the ceremony musician possibilities, I was pretty much dead-set on the harp. It has a perfect sound between formal (like a piano) but also light, airy, and very unique. It’s not an instrument one gets to hear very often so I hope you guys will think it’s a treat.

Virginia has been playing harp for over 30 years. She has also owned her own company and used to design theme parks and similar attractions with her husband, who worked directly with Walt Disney as one of the original Imagineers. He and his team worked on the animatronics that controlled the birds in Mary Poppins. How cool is that???