Non-Traditional Music for Party (Long, sorry)
I am looking for atypical but elegant music ideas for the ceremony, cocktail hour, and maybe even dessert hour or late-night brunch. My party is going to be at an old club/mansion with various rooms. I REALLY do not want to do the classical music for ceremony, jazz trio at cocktail hour, big band slow song, then faster music for the rest of the party formula b/c I have been to over 30 weddings. I want it to feel like a Jane Austen/19th century ball and I really love classical music but realistically that wouldn't be that fun b/c my guests can not waltz for 4 hours (or let alone 5 minutes). And, they aren't stuffy people. So, I am thinking of Classical music for first dance and dinner hour to get an old-world feeling and THEN a regular band that could read the crowd/play whatever they thought people want to dance to. So that leaves me with 1)a musician for people's arrival 2)ceremony 3)cocktail hour 4)dessert. I am at a loss about what other types of music could work. I was thinking about an ACAPELLA group for the ceremony, but I'm not sure that would work.
