Saturday, June 19, 2004, The Tuscaloosa News. 

 

NEWSMAKERS - Even stars have wedding-day jitters

   Underneath is a picture of Melissa Etheridge and this piece taken from New York: No bride is immune to pre-wedding jitters, and singer Melissa Etheridge says she was no exception.

     Last fall, she married actress Tammy Lynn Michaels and worried about the details of the event, until she finally accepted that she couldn't control everything.

   "If you both know that things will go wrong and that it will all be just be an experience and you're not expecting perfection or something on that day," she said.  She told AP Radio, "that day will just be a coming together and a celebration of your love and your partnership.  Then it will be perfect in its imperfection."

    Etheridge said that, ironically, one of her problems was finding the right wedding music.

    "I asked so many of my friends to sing at my wedding and they were like, 'Uh, do I have to?'" she said.

     For a while she thought she would sing at the ceremony until it occurred to her that this was her wedding-- not a performance-- and someone else should take care of it.  Even with the music finally settled, she still had her lingering doubts about the say.