Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Listener Submission: Most Meaningful Wedding Music Story

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For my niece, Chelsa, her wedding day was both joyous and bittersweet. She was sad that her grandmother, Dorothy, would not be there. Dorothy, my lovely mother-in-law, had died just months before, and would not be there to see her first grandchild married. The two had been especially close because Dorothy had helped raise Chelsa.

At Dorothy's funeral, my eulogy was to perform "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on my flute because that was Dorothy's favorite song (and, yes, she was a great Judy Garland fan!).

Chelsa asked me to play the same song again for her wedding. When all of us who had known Dorothy heard that music at the wedding, we knew that Dorothy was somehow there.

Kathryn Tietze
Plymouth, MN