ceremony & cocktail hour music - what are you doing?

Can you tell me who you're using and how much for what. I'm getting totally different prices. Thanks.

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we're doing a regular church organist and a steel drum player for cocktail hour! Drummer is 575!

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We are having a flute trio for ceremony and a jazz trio for cocktail hour, but both are included in the total price of our band.

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String Trio for ceremony and cocktail hour.

400 per player or something like that, dont remember.

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Our dj is supplying the music for both at a reduced rate.

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Our band is providing music for everything.

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wow, a flute trio sound BEAUTIFUL!

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Our band provided the music for the cermony and cocktail hour but in my honest opinion - you don't need music for the cocktail hour. It is usually a smaller room and outside, if it is nice, and everyone is talking and mingling that you can't even hear the music.

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Since we are getting married at our hall our DJ is doing the music for the ceremony, cocktail hour and reception.

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We haven't booked them yet but the DJ will be playing the ceremony and cocktail hour. Would've really loved live performers but $$ tight and FI felt we should cut that.

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The DJ will play cocktail hour music (latin jazz)...not getting any special musicians.

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we are having my cousin (who is amazing)play piano and her sister will play violin for the ceremony. (FREE!!)

for ch music we are having classical guitar- beautiful- i think it is around $300.

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I am a member of my church's handbell choir so I will have them play (without me of course) for the ceremony. I am hoping to have a lot of the vocal choirs as well as string indtruments there as well.

For the cocktail hour we are having a string quartet and then the DJ will play for the reception.

I have no idea what the quartet will cost since I am asking members of my church to play.

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We had our band provide a musician for the cocktail hour (ceremony was included in the price we paid them) for $150

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My Ceremony (church orgnist) and Cocktail music (piano player) were both included in our prices.

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DJ. Vinny from High Voltage for both.

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My students are playing for me I have two flutists for the terrace and one playing piano in the mansion.

You should expect to pay between 100-250 dollars per musician, per hour. That's the norm. Anything more is a ripoff, unless you are paying traveling fees.

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Ceremony, the church is taking care of that.

CH-piano player from our band is playing. But if we were to add more pieces it would have added $500 onto the cost.

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Either have the DJ play for the cer. and Ch

or get a soloist for the Cer. and have the DJ play for the Ch

Havent decided about this yet.

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We are hiring Counterpoint (LI Vendor) for the ceremony. $425 for a string trio for one hour. Check them out, they sound really good.

For the CH we are having Giorgio's house pianist play for $250 for the hour. His name is Daniel and he's great (plays lots of billy joel!)