What makes a great wedding band?
If you are planning a wedding whether as a private individual or a wedding planner then you will be concerned about making the evening entertainment the best that it can be. That means thinking long and hard about what kind of band to book for the wedding party.
Here are our top tips for wedding band hire.
1. Check the band have all the correct public liability insurance required by most wedding venues
2. Check that the bands equipment is pat tested.
3.Check out video and sound files before booking. There are a number of websites online that will have lots of videos for you to check over.
4. Check out customer reviews. Find out what other clients thought of the band.
5. Think of your guests. Will the band meet with all the guests tastes or are you only going to appeal to a small section of the guest list.
You can make many of the decisions involved in hiring a wedding band considerably easier by using an entertainment agency. Wedding entertainment specialists are able to offer you best value prices and invaluable advice about the kind of band and what you should be looking for when hiring live entertainment for a wedding. Your wedding day is very special and you need everything to be perfect. The evening party should be a time for you to relax, kick off your shoes and dance the night away. You can be certain of being able to do this if you have the knowledge that a wedding professional has organised the wedding band for your event.
This does not necessarily mean that you have to pay more for the entertainment as a wedding professionals will use their special relationship with bands in order to give you discount prices unavailable to a one off purchaser of entertainment.
The best way forward when hiring anything is to have a recommendation but if this is not available to you then using a well established agency with a pedigree is the next best thing.
With modern media such as video and sound files it is not always necessary to go and see a band live before booking. Its is sometimes very hard to find the time to see a band live before booking however beware of really professional sounding music clips as these can sometimes have been created in a studio and bare very little similarity to the natural sound of the act. Video is the best representation but again keep your eyes (and ears!) open for doctored sound and miming bands.