The Cost of hiring a String Quartet to Play 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 Fridays and Sundays 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 [...]
String Quartet Music to walk up the aisle to….
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 hire a string quartet or string duo and there are certainly some popular pieces which can make a wedding [...]
String Duo for a 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 as a wedding string quartet or string duo. Although we’ve played many times at Highgate as a full string quartet, this particular wedding was a more intimate gathering [...]
String Quartet Pachelbel’s Canon in D for Weddings
No matter how large the size of a wedding string quartet‘s repertoire, or how many other music choices there are on offer – it’s probably true to say that 99% of brides who hire a string quartet choose to walk up the aisle to Pachelbel’s Canon in D for string quartet or even the smaller combination of string duo. So [...]
String Quartet 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. As we are a Buckinghamshire string quartet, this was a very local engagement to us. Although the wedding ceremony [...]
