Styal Lodge wedding supplier Cheshire Hard to Handle wedding band + DJ
Styal Lodge wedding supplier live band
One of the most well known venues in Cheshire, Styal Lodge is the venue set in the middle of a golf course which has become far more well known as a wedding venue. One step inside this lovely venue and you’ll understand why – it’s a single, purpose built room combining a wedding breakfast and performance areas in one. The aesthetics of the venue means that the flow of guests is smooth but it also means that everyone stays in on room, so you won’t lose anyone on smaller anterooms before you are about to cut your cake or it’s time for your first dance. As a professional wedding band we have lost count of the number of times where we are just about to perform the first dance when the bride or groom says “wait, has anyone seen uncle / auntie / cousin XXX?”
As well as the benefit of having all of your friends, families and loved ones in one place for the really special parts of your big day, one of the other advantages of hosting your wedding reception at Styal Lodge is that is there is a dedicated area for live entertainment – which means that you can hire HARD TO HANDLE BAND + DJ as your Cheshire live entertainment wedding supplier! Having performed at the venue many times, we can tell you that we always love it when bride sand grooms hire us as we know that everyone will have a great time on the dance floor. Venue staff are lovely, professional and more than ready to make your day memorable, and so are we! Our huge sound fills the room, our broad range of music keeps the dance floor full during band sets and our DJ (provided free of charge with every booking) blows the roof off!
Professional Cheshire wedding supplier
Here’s who we are and what we do:
- Versatile, experienced and entertaining live professional function band
- 80 5* Google reviews
- Trusted by over 200 brides, grooms and party planners each year
- Massive 350+ song genre-busting live band playlist
- Requests happily taken
- Classic and contemporary rock, pop, indie and more
- Live DJ playing sets before, inbetween and after the band
- Fully self contained with top-of-the-range sound and lighting system
- Quick set up gets the party started earlier!
- More cost effective than a most Cheshire wedding bands
- Hundreds of recommendations – see our video reviews https://hardtohandleband.co.uk/reviews/
- Fully insured
- Hire us direct, no entertainment agency, save £££s!
- A truly memorable night for you and your guests on the dance floor!
Should I hire a live band as my Styal Lodge wedding supplier?
Good question and we’re glad you asked it. Like any other Cheshire wedding venue, there is nothing stopping you from hiring a live band as your wedding entertainment. There are of course other forms of entertainment you could choose, but while some brides and grooms may feel that a stand alone DJ will play a broader mix of music, it’s true that unless you hire a DJ who is truly interactive and responsive to your music tastes, they will naturally gravitate towards playing genres of music which won’t include indie, rock, pop-punk etc. Similarly, while a live band will cover rock, indie, pop and soul, they are unlikely to play dance, or Ibiza classics. But hiring HARD TO HANDLE BAND as your Styal Lodge service provider means you’ll have every base covered as not only are we astonishingly versatile with a huge live band playlist but our DJ creates bespoke sets featuring your favourite music for non-stop music, all night.
You might also like to consider while hiring an alternative entertainment option such as a DJ might seem attractive, there are limitations to hiring a DJ instead of a live band as tour Cheshire wedding supplier at Styal Lodge – for wedding breakfasts the room is cut in half by venue staff using a dividing curtain to make the sit down meal area more compact. Once the wedding breakfast has finished, the dividing curtain is removed, making the room twice as large. Will a single DJ be able to hold the attention of your guests in such a large room? Possibly not, but a professional live music wedding supplier like HARD TO HANDLE will not only hold the attention of your guests but will fill the room with amazing music but our infectious energy means that you will probably see us running around the room mid song, getting your guests on the dance floor, dancing with them and generally filling the room with our presence!
Will Styal Lodge let me hire a Cheshire music wedding supplier direct?
While some venues have a quite restrictive list of bands and DJs they permit to perform, sensibly Styal Lodge know that because you are the best judge of what you want to achieve for your own wedding reception, they allow brides and grooms to choose their own wedding entertainment direct. They do have performance requirements however:
- Styal Lodge entertainers need to be fully insured and their equipment needs to be tested
- Insurance documents (PLI) and electrical testing certificates (PAT) need to be presented to the venue in advance
- Entertainers who do not hold PLI and PAT will not be permitted to perform
- Bands and DJs need to set up in the performance area as directed by staff
- Entertainers need to perform within volume and other standards as requested by Styal Lodge on the night
- All equipment should be removed by bands and DJs at the end of the night
Choosing HARD TO HANDLE BAND as your Styal Lodge wedding band means hiring a band that is fully insured and tested, have performed at the venue previously and are happy to work with venue staff to ensure their requirements (and yours!) are met, creating a smooth-running nights’ entertainment for everyone.
Should I hire a Cheshire music wedding supplier through an entertainment agency?
It’s true that some brides and grooms choose to hire HARD TO HANDLE as their live music Styal Lodge wedding supplier, but there quite a few reasons why it may be better to hire a live band direct.
- Hiring a band through an entertainment agency will almost always cost more. This is because you will be paying the booking agent an additional fee on top of what you would normally pay the band. Despite what you may have heard, entertainment agencies function as businesses and are not price comparison websites.
- While entertainment agencies claim to have “pre-vetted” the wedding bands who appear on their website, often all this amounts to is a quick check to see that they meet some simple requirements, such as the band owning their own equipment, which all professional bands do anyway.
- “Industry expertise” is often mentioned as a benefit of hiring live entertainment through a booking agent, but don’t forget that bands like HARD TO HANDLE also have thorough industry expertise, a body of knowledge built up from performing at over 200 weddings each year.
- Does hiring a band through a booking agency really save time? When you submit a quote request to HARD TO HANDLE via our contact form, you are likely to receive a response within one hour, which is much quicker than most entertainment agencies who have to relay through to bands and then await their reply before getting back to you.
- Speaking to bands direct is something you won’t be able to do if you hire your Sytal Lodge wedding supplier through an entertainment agency. This is because booking agents don’t want you to talk to bands until you have paid their commission. But you are more than welcome to speak to HARD TO HANDLE BAND at any time! In fact, now that you have come this far, you can get in touch with us right away!
HARD TO HANDLE WEDDING BAND – 2 hours of killer indie, rock, pop and more + live DJ!
Tel: 0796 433 5657
E: info@hardtohandleband.co.uk