Vendor rave: After Hours Orchestra
I was just married on 7/25, don't have time for a full review but wanted to rave about my band. I have seen that there aren't as many band reviews as there may be for other types of vendors.
My fiance and I always knew we wanted a band for our wedding. After hearing about 15, we found After Hours. We met with Phil, and basically said that we'd finalize after we heard them live. Well, we went to a showcase a few weeks later and booked them on the spot.
We booked After Hours 2 1/2 years before the wedding. Throughout that entire time, I was in contact with Phil via email. He always answered my questions promptly and never made me feel like we werent a priority to him because the wedding was so far away. We saw them play 3 more times before the wedding, the last showcase at which they played a song they learned specifically for our 1st dance.... which had to be pretty much exact since we had a choreographed routine that we had learned.
We met with Phil a few months before the wedding to finalize songs and whatnot, I also gave him a list of dedications that I had forgotten about until I heard him doing them. Phil nailed every single request I had ever made.
Someone once said to me that she didnt want a band at her wedding because she wanted variety. Let me tell you, I have continued to get compliments about our band. They played swing. They played disco. They played SInatra, Journey, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Justin Timberlake, Ac Dc, just to name a few. There wasnt a genre of music that they didnt play. And they didnt just play these songs- they nailed them and sounded awesome!!!!!!!!!!
The dance floor was packed all night. We pretty much gave Phil free reign as to what types of music to play. Our main request was that since we wanted our reception to be the ultimate dance party for lack of a better term, we didnt want there to be any songs where people would stop dancing because they had never heard it before. Every dance song they played had people screaming along to the lyrics.
If anyone would like more info, feel free to FM me!! But for anyone interested in a band- check them out- very affordable, actually not too much more than some dj quotes we have heard.
My fiance and I always knew we wanted a band for our wedding. After hearing about 15, we found After Hours. We met with Phil, and basically said that we'd finalize after we heard them live. Well, we went to a showcase a few weeks later and booked them on the spot.
We booked After Hours 2 1/2 years before the wedding. Throughout that entire time, I was in contact with Phil via email. He always answered my questions promptly and never made me feel like we werent a priority to him because the wedding was so far away. We saw them play 3 more times before the wedding, the last showcase at which they played a song they learned specifically for our 1st dance.... which had to be pretty much exact since we had a choreographed routine that we had learned.
We met with Phil a few months before the wedding to finalize songs and whatnot, I also gave him a list of dedications that I had forgotten about until I heard him doing them. Phil nailed every single request I had ever made.
Someone once said to me that she didnt want a band at her wedding because she wanted variety. Let me tell you, I have continued to get compliments about our band. They played swing. They played disco. They played SInatra, Journey, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Justin Timberlake, Ac Dc, just to name a few. There wasnt a genre of music that they didnt play. And they didnt just play these songs- they nailed them and sounded awesome!!!!!!!!!!
The dance floor was packed all night. We pretty much gave Phil free reign as to what types of music to play. Our main request was that since we wanted our reception to be the ultimate dance party for lack of a better term, we didnt want there to be any songs where people would stop dancing because they had never heard it before. Every dance song they played had people screaming along to the lyrics.
If anyone would like more info, feel free to FM me!! But for anyone interested in a band- check them out- very affordable, actually not too much more than some dj quotes we have heard.
