Anyone here tried wedding live band before? Is it recommend?

What the price for the service?

Got mine at over 3k for over 3 hours.
It depends if you want to keep your guest entertained with live music.

Make sure the MC can coordinate with the band.

Hi splinter.

I think to hire or not to hire a wedding band, it all depends on the venue. Most suited if the dinner is held in a nice hotel ball room with just your group of people rather than a traditional restaurant that combines other guest and yours. Very often your guest will not appreciate it. Not all but I guess most of them except for those who are really bored. But is still better than auntie uncle karaoke session which sometimes can be very noisy.

Most importantly is whether will you enjoy the live band yourself. If you do, then by all means hire one. But if yourself is not interested, then maybe you can just save some money and will be better spend on hiring Photo Booth with instant printing instead.

A 3 piece wedding band can be from hundreds to thousands. So you might need to survey a bit.

Just my 2 cents worth. In the end, is really up to you to do what you think is best.

Cheers........

I get mine at 3.6k for the live band and i held at club house which we did consider of those auntie and uncles tradtional karaoke but you can opt for no live band.... plus my live band is jazz so have sexaphone....

Thanks for all replied.

Yup can't agree with you all. No right or wrong but depending on yourself.

My wedding is small room which hold up 15-20 table. And yeah it better than some uncle auntie sing like their personal karaoke hehe which disturb others. Also for those who might be bored at lease can listen at or sing together.

I personally do enjoy attend my friends wedding with live band last year nov. Well thanks guess I have my answer.

check this out

http://www.bashful-brides.blogspot.com/search?q=live+band

Hi,
Just because a band has a saxophone or double bass doesn't necessarily mean that they play Jazz. . For me a band playing jazz needs to do some solo improvisation.

Back to the topic, if you plan on engaging a live band for your wedding, apart from the price negotiation, you need to do the following.

1. Audition the band. See if you like what you hear. Also, confirm that the musicians playing are the same ones you will be seeing play on your wedding. There are some bands which just swap players around as they have a group of musicians. Problems is, that they use the more experience players for the audition & for the actual event, they send the junior ones so the bands sounds different.
2. Prepare a time table showing the event schedule during the event & show when the band plays so they can schedule their sets as well. Also, let them know what time they can come in to set up & sound check.

3. Consider using a third party sound equipment supplier instead of the hotels. You may pay a little more but at the least the equipment would be working. Some of the hotel equipment I've seen are not useable & badly balanced.

4. Decide on what kind of music you want played. Jazz, classical or contemporary ect & select a group that plays it well.

Hope this helps.

any recommendation or links for live bands?