The wedding bands being a necessity, you need to consider the various costs while planning engage live wedding bands. The cost depends on various factors and music wedding bands are accustomed to fetch more from you.

1. Live Wedding
Band and
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2. Live Wedding Band and Costs
The wedding bands are essential part of
any wedding. But, the money spend on
the bands are generally high and you
need to have a research and check on
this huge expenditure. Here are a few
points that you may consider.
Cost Depends On Day of Wedding
The musicians wedding music bands
perform at other occasions too. They
are hired on weekends to perform at
places other than weddings. So, if you
plan for a wedding in weekends, the
cost of wedding band will be more as
compared to weekdays. So, if you want
to have a good wedding band at …
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3. Live Wedding Band and Costs
competitive prices, you must plan your
wedding from Monday to Friday i.e.
weekday.
Size of Band
More the number of persons in the
music band, the more will be cost. It is
quite natural. In general the live
wedding bands are available in the five
to fifty members group. You may decide
the money to be spent on band in
advance and then accordingly you may
hire a wedding band for your wedding.
The size of a band also depends on the
number of music instruments played by
the artists of the band and performers.
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4. Live Wedding Band and Costs
Time of Engagement
Generally the wedding bands are
booked as per the timing they need to
perform at your wedding. On peak days,
the wedding bands are engaged by two
or more clients. They tell till shift i.e. first
shift, second shift etc. This is generally
for one to two hour time. If you have
booked the band for first shift and
delayed them in relieving, you need to
pay extra cost to them.
On the other hand, if you book live
music wedding bands which will be at
your venue all the times from beginning
to then end of ceremony; you definitely
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5. Live Wedding Band and Costs
need to pay higher cost than that for the
shorter period. These bands will arrive
before the start of ceremony and will
continue to play music and entertain till
all rituals are over and the guest left.
Additional Costs
Various factors also affect the cost of
bands hired on the wedding day. These
are termed as additional costs. If you
ask for some specific artist, extra
performance times etc.; then you are
required to pay extra costs to the
wedding bands.
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6. Live Wedding Band and Costs
At the same if the location of band is far
away from your venue of marriage, they
will charge for travel expenses too.
Various wedding music bands have
different opinions in this aspect. Some
charge openly for travel expenses apart
from the cost of performance while
others include their travelling expenses
in their original charges.
Not only this, there are various costs
which you generally ignore. These are
related to providing meal and
accommodation for the performers of
wedding bands. It is must that you
provide meal to persons of wedding
band. If they perform for shorter period,
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7. Live Wedding Band and Costs
you may not provide them the food, but
for longer period of performance the
meal is necessity.
This is usually not required for
musicians only performing a ceremony
or for performance times under 2 hours.
Since bands and DJs are performing
for many hours (including load in and
break down times) this prohibits
musicians from going off site to eat.
This is coupled with lodging for the
musicians too.
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