Wedding at Fanhams Hall, Ware
On Sunday, we returned to another of our regular local venues - Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire. The venue kindly supplied us with a gazebo so as it was a lovely day, it was possible to perform outside and entertain guests on the lawn before the wedding ceremony. The bride entered the service to Pachelbel’s [...]
Wedding at Kingscote Park House
Last Saturday we travelled across to Gloucestershire to play for a wedding that started off in St Mary’s Church, Painswick with the reception moving to Kingscote Park House afterwards. As the couple had engaged the services of an organist, we were only required to play before the ceremony and during the signing of the register. [...]
String quartet for just an hour…
Like many groups, we rarely take on bookings of less than two hours (or three hours on peak Saturdays over the summer) - as it’s simply not viable to break up a full day for just one hour of work. However, there are a couple of circumstances where we make an exception to this rule [...]
Booking a string quartet for just the wedding ceremony.
On the whole, quite a large proportion of string quartets have a ‘minimum booking period’ of at least 2 or 3 hours, particularly for peak Saturdays over the summer months. This is simply because in the busiest and best string quartets, all four musicians will not only be in demand for the quartet itself, but [...]