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Most people book us for the dance floor and then find out we can carry the rest of the day too. One band, one load-in, one point of contact, and nobody handing your night off to a stranger halfway through.
The band covers a wedding end to end: ceremony music you choose rather than pick from a menu, an acoustic cocktail hour set, a dinner set pitched under the conversation, three dance sets of thirteen songs, and the microphone throughout.
There is no fixed ceremony package. You tell us the songs and where each one lands, seating music, walking in, the moment itself, walking out, and we learn them and hit the cues. They do not have to be on our setlist and they do not have to be wedding songs. All we need is the list and the timing far enough ahead to rehearse it properly.
The one thing worth checking before you plan it: some ceremony sites allow non-amplified musicians only, which is a venue decision, not a band one. Read your venue's policy first and tell us what it says.
Background, if you want it: what a live band plays during a ceremony, how to choose your ceremony songs, and harp, piano, organ or a band if you are still weighing who should play it.
An acoustic set while people arrive, find the bar and start talking. Sonny moves to percussion instead of the full kit, so the room stays a room you can hold a conversation in. It is the same three players and the same voices, pitched at a volume that lets a hundred people introduce themselves to each other.
This is also the stretch that most often gets handed to a playlist by default. Keeping it live means the transition into dinner happens on a cue rather than on a fade. Cocktail hour music with a live band covers what that hour actually needs.
A softer set through dinner and toasts. Still live, still us, just pitched under the conversation instead of over it. Volume is the whole craft here: loud enough that the room does not feel empty between courses, quiet enough that nobody at a round table has to raise their voice.
Toasts land inside this set instead of interrupting it, because the people playing are also the people holding the microphone.
Three sets of thirteen songs, back to back, forty-five minutes of music each. Six decades of hits in the original key at the original tempo. This is the part people text each other about, and it is the reason most bookings start with a phone call about the dance floor.
The full running order is on the setlist page, every song and every runtime, not a sampler.
Rik and Bob share the microphone, working from a running order agreed with you beforehand: the wedding party in, the couple in, the first dance, parent dances, the invitation to eat, speeches, cake, last dance and send-off. It is part of the booking, not a separate contract. The detail is on the MC and announcing page.
We own the whole rig, a full PA plus our own stage lighting, and haul it to every show, so a backyard and a ballroom get the same production. Where a venue has its own system we plug into house instead, which is often the better answer in a room already wired for speeches. Either way it is the same three players, one load-in and one soundcheck, with no second crew arriving partway through the day.
Yes, and ceremony music is request-driven rather than a package. You tell us the songs and where each one lands and we learn them, whether or not they are on our setlist. Check your venue's policy first: some ceremony sites allow non-amplified musicians only, which is a venue decision, not a band one.
An acoustic set for cocktail hour, with Sonny on percussion instead of the full kit so the room stays a room you can hold a conversation in, then a softer set through dinner and toasts pitched under the conversation instead of over it. Same three players and same voices throughout.
Three dance sets of thirteen songs each, back to back, forty-five minutes of music per set. Ceremony, cocktail hour and dinner sit outside that and are agreed separately depending on how much of the day you want covered.
Ask about the setlist, the show, or what we need from your venue. If you want a date looked at, I can send it straight to the band.