Ceremony/cocktail hour music

can anyone offer advice/suggestions on music options/prices for ceremony and cocktail hour music, everything seems so expensive...Help!
Thanks :)

A lot of DJ's will do it for a nominal fee. If you have your heart set on live music, think about having only one musician -harpist, guitarist or pianist - instead of a group of musicians. It's a lot cheaper and sounds just as beautiful.



ETA: Put a post on the vendors board. I did that and got a lot of great responses.

You could have a jazz trio or even a piano and acoustic guitar. I think that either one of those would be really nice We are using Soul Revival www.soulrevivalband.com their prices are really resonable and they are wonderful! FM me for pricing

We had a band for the reception (Code Bleu) and their price included a piano player at the cocktail hour.
We asked them to also help out with music during the ceremony and for only $100 more they did that too.

We basically had a guy set up with a keyboard, speaker system, and a laptop and he played the music we supplied him for each part of the ceremony.

If you're going with a DJ for your reception you should be able to have them do your cocktail hour and ceremony for a nominal amount more. It all depends on how extensive you want to be..