| I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but if all you have for time to get in shape to play is one week, you are about 3 weeks too late. In my experience, any time I have let my chops go for too long, it has taken longer than a week to get them to where I felt I could really rely on them for anything. However, since you are already on the hook to play this thing, my advice to you is to play daily, but keep it light - just enough to prepare the tune so that you can pull it off.
And I'm with Manny regarding the tune - it isn't your responsibility to research the music for someone else's wedding, unless you are relative or close friend or something of that nature and they entrusted this decision to you. Your job is to play what they ask/pay you to play and that's as far as it goes. Just play the ink (or play the ink plus whatever revisions have been made.) and call it a day.
One last thing, and I guess I'm a bit grumpy today too, but I'm puzzled why you would agree to play for a wedding on short notice when you don't know the music, your chops are questionable, and you don't know if you can pull it off, and then, you come on here asking for a fix to a problem that you created all by yourself when you agreed to play. Considering the circumstances, maybe you should have politely declined the request and directed them to someone that you knew could pull it off.
Just a thought.
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