Wedding timings, sunshine, rain and high winds!
Despite the best laid plans for the day itself, if you’ve booked a string quartet for your wedding reception with your guests coming straight from the church or registry office, do allow a generous amount of time for the move between venues. Although you might have envisaged that 5 minute drive taking everyone no more [...]
Hiring a string quartet? Getting value for money
The next few blog entries are going to be a series of articles about various ways of keeping costs within budget and also gaining the maximum impact from hiring a professional string quartet for a wedding.
Overall, if clients are looking for quality, the cost of a string quartet can be a significant chunk of a wedding [...]
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 [...]
A busy bank holiday weekend….and a day in the life of a string quartet
It’s been a busy bank holiday weekend for us with three weddings, one was a wedding at Loseley Park near Guildford, the second wedding was at the Elvetham in Hampshire and a third (much nearer to home), was a wedding at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire.
All three had unique requests and in the case of the first two, [...]
Food poisoning, stuck in the Himalayas and professional responsibility
One of the most common questions we’re asked by potential clients is ‘what happens if one of our musicians is ill on the day of the wedding?’ All our players are in demand and generally get booked up by orchestras in advance, so how do we go about finding another musician of equal quality and [...]
