Buckinghamshire wedding band
If there’s one thing to remember ahead of your big day, it’s this: take time to enjoy it. Step back for a moment and remind yourself to have fun. While you’ll hope that your wedding planning will come to fruition and everything will run like clockwork, if it doesn’t, it really doesn’t matter. As long as the big things are in place like your partner turning up at the ceremony, your venue not having burnt to the ground the night before and friends actually remembering the correct day, you don’t really have to sweat the small stuff. All too often one hears stories of a wedding being ruined because the cake wasn’t the exact shade of emerald and sapphire, or groomsmens’ cravats being 2 millimetres too short. But it’s not worth it – life isn’t perfect so just enjoy your wedding as it comes.
Of course, that’s not to say that you should have too much of a laissez-faire approach your wedding reception. Inevitably you will have spent hours in planning mode so you will have a reasonable expectation that the stuff you have ordered and the services you have paid for will do what they are supposed to do. When it comes to hiring a band for your wedding reception, traditional wisdom might suggest that the slightly too relaxed vibes might be coming from the musicians. Certainly, creative industries have the reputation for delivering inspiration over punctuality.
If you have been looking for live entertainment for your Buckinghamshire wedding reception, this is something you may have already discovered – you find a band you like the sound and look of, send a quote request, don’t receive a reply. You send another just in case the email has gotten lost, don’t receive anything. The two weeks later you receive a reply. It says “Yeah we’re free”. Nothing else. Welcome to the world of wedding bands, where getting timely and accurate information can be like extracting blood from a stone. It doesn’t have to be like this.
At the other end of the spectrum, if you decide to submit a quote request for a live Buckinghamshire band to an entertainment agency or a platform like Hitched, it’s like opening a sluice gate – all of a sudden you find yourself deluged with a torrent of replies from all manner of artistes who you didn’t know existed and wouldn’t want to hire. Among the flotsam and jetsam of acts, you also may find yourself fending off some rather aggressive emails and phone calls from entertainment agencies trying to persuade you to hire one of their bands because your date is the only date they have available in the next several years and they are bound to be snapped up by another desperate bride and groom very shortly. Again, it doesn’t have to be like this.
The middle ground is to relax and have some fun. When it comes to Buckinghamshire wedding bands, there will always be more than one band that will be perfect for yourselves. Lovely bride Aneeka and handsome groom Josh knew this. That’s why they took their time reviewing all the live Buckinghamshire wedding entertainment they found to play at their wedding reception at Notley Abbey in Aylesbury. Having said that, they told us that HARD TO HANDLE were the very first band they saw online. They loved our mix of music and said that our onstage personality really shone through our performance videos. They also appreciated the fact that we replied to their quote request within an hour, not just with an email but a phone call and could speak to one of the band direct. But rather than jumping the gun and hiring us straight away, they decided that they needed some additional context, which is why they tried to find other comparable live entertainment for their Buckinghamshire wedding.
They admitted to us that it was an uphill struggle getting any kind of information to allow them to compare HARD TO HANDLE BAND with similar live entertainment – responses ranged from surly and uncommunicative to persistent and nagging, with wedding bands and entertainment agencies offering a bewildering array of packages at vastly inflated prices. With this in mind, you might wonder why Aneeka and Josh even bothered trying to find other wedding bands in Buckinghamshire. The answer is that trying to build up a series of viable options for live entertainment for your wedding reception is always a good idea, no matter the result. And if you do it right, it can be a lot of fun.
Also, by the time the bride and groom made their decision, they were confident that they had made the right one in hiring HARD TO HANDLE BAND. Here’s what we offer:
- 2 hours of classic and contemporary live band music featuring rock, pop and more
- live DJ performing sets before, inbetween and after live band sets
- fully customisable playlist of over 350 live band songs
- sound system and lighting
- all travel costs
- non-stop entertainment
- a full dance floor, all night!
And, we arrived in plenty of time on the big day, set up our equipment quickly, performed a brief and our DJ kicked off with a set of choice non-cheesy evergreen classics before we announced the cake cutting, gathered guests around the edge of the dance floor and then announced the arrival of bride and groom for their first dance, “This must be the place” by Talking Heads played by the band, after which we ripped into over two hours of dancefloor-friendly live band music while our DJ blew the roof off with sets of rock, pop, dance and Ibiza classics for non-stop music, all night.
Result? “You smashed it!” and a 100% recommendation from the bride and groom. So if you’re up for a whole heap of fun and want musical entertainment that’s going to be truly memorable, be like Aneeka and Josh and hire HARD TO HANDLE BAND!
https://hardtohandleband.co.uk/
Tel: 0796 433 5657
E: info@hardtohandleband.co.uk
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