Booking a Band or Three to Play at Your Wedding

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Carl_S_Liver]Carl S Liver
Live bands for weddings come in all shapes and sizes; from a solo vocalist with pre-recorded backing tracks to a ten or twenty piece big-band. With so many different types of wedding bands for hire, deciding which you and your guests will appreciate the most can be something of a stab in the dark. You can however book more than one band or artist to play at your wedding, which will certainly add more variety than having just the one band performing at the night do. For example you could hire a harpist to perform before or after the ceremony, or both before and after if you want. And believe me when I say that Here Comes The Bride sounds far nicer when played on a harp than it does on a church organ. Alternatively a string quartet, Gregorian or Welsh male voice choir could add a unique element to the ceremony itself.
Harpists, string quartets and classical guitar players are popular choices as performers for the drinks reception and meal. As with the wedding ceremony itself, you don't really want anything too intrusive as your guests congratulate the bride and groom, mingle and settle down to the meal, so sticking to classical or folk inspired music is preferable to a live band with drums, bass and all that racket. When people are mingling, chatting or eating they want the music to reside in the background providing atmosphere, and not in the Russ Abbot sense of the word!
When it comes to the evening reception, you guests will be fed and watered and eager to let their hair down. This is when the bride and groom will be having their first dance as a married couple and in recent years, the first dance has become something of a phenomenon. Many couples are having dancing lessons in order to both impress and entertain their guests by recreating famous routines from films such as Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever, Grease and even Michael Jackson's Thriller video. If this is your plan, then you need to make sure your wedding band can perform the song you're going to dance to, and they need to perform it well for maximum effect.
Once your first dance is over with, your guests can take to the floor and this is where live bands for weddings really have to prove their worth. Their repertoire needs to be up beat and enticing. They need to connect with the audience and this is where some live bands can falter. When booking the band, make sure they have experience performing at wedding receptions as it's very different to simply playing a gig at a local pub. Live bands for weddings are in a league of their own and finding the best you can get for the evening reception is essential for ensuring the best day of your life ends on a high note.
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