Cost of a String Quartet Playing for One Hour
Like many professional groups who earn their living from playing at weddings and functions, we do have a minimum booking period that we have to charge for, regardless of how long we are required to play - in our case this is two hours, or three hours on peak Saturdays over the summer months. In [...]
Wedding at Quendon Hall
With September proving to be almost as popular a month to get married as August, we’ve still got a full diary every weekend, with Friday’s and Sunday’s being in high demand as well as Saturdays. This weekend, we played for weddings as far afield as in Evesham (Worcestershire) and returned once more to Parklands Quendon [...]
Music to walk up the aisle….
One of the main services we provide for weddings and civil partnerships is playing music for the ‘processional’ (walking up the aisle). Very often, couples have a firm idea of what they’d like playing, even before they book a string quartet or duo and there are certainly some popular pieces which can make a wedding seem [...]
Wedding at Highgate House
This Saturday we were pleased once again to return to Highgate House - a wedding venue very near to Northampton where we play several times a year.
Although we’ve played many times at Highgate as a full string quartet, this particular wedding was a more intimate gathering of around 70 guests and a string duo was [...]
Pachelbels Canon in D for Weddings
No matter how large the size of a string quartets repertoire, or how many other music choices there are on offer - it’s probably true to say that 99% of brides who book a string quartet choose to walk up the aisle to Pachelbel’s Canon in D.
So this week - in response to popular demand, we have recorded and [...]
Playing for outdoor weddings and events
Just had another busy weekend where we played for two weddings and a birthday party. Despite the weather being a bit unsettled, we still managed to play outdoors on Friday when we returned for another wedding at Notley Abbey near Aylesbury.
Although the wedding ceremony was outdoors, by law the registration process (signing the register etc) has to be conducted under a [...]
