Musical entertainment ideas for your wedding
Wedding Inspiration Wedding Musicians — 1st May 2023
Music is an integral part of any wedding.
Live music sets the mood and tone of your ceremony, helps to evoke feeling and emotions, and brings guests together to dance and celebrate. There are so many musical entertainment ideas for weddings, so where do you start when looking for inspiration?
Finding the right musical entertainment can be a difficult task. Musique’s dedicated team has decades worth of experience in the music industry. We work closely with you to help pair you with the perfect match for your wedding day. Large-scale or intimate, our selection of first-class musicians cover classical and contemporary genres and provide musical offerings that will enhance your big day and help to make it a truly memorable occassion.
To help you feel inspired, we’ve put together a list of our top five musical entertainment ideas.
Five musical entertainment ideas for your wedding
To help you get inspired, here are our top musical entertainment ideas for your wedding.
Hire a string quartet
A string quartet is a fantastic choice for your wedding day thanks to its versatility. When choosing your musical entertainment think about how you can maximise your musicians on the day.
With a string quartet, you can have music throughout the day, including:
- While guests arrive
- While you walk down the aisle
- Throughout your drinks reception
- Throughout your wedding breakfast
Most people will opt for their quartet to play classical music, but that’s not all they can do. You’d be surprised by the number of contemporary songs that sound fantastic and work incredibly well for weddings when put to strings.
A string quartet will enhance your wedding through the power of elegance and sophistication and provide the perfect blend of classic and modern.
Take a look at Musique’s string quartet suggestions.
Hire a live band
Live bands are a popular choice for evening entertainment at weddings.
The evening reception is all about having fun and celebrating so you’ll most likely want musical entertainment that encourages your guests to get up and dance. A live band is perfect for this.
The spontaneity of a live performance helps to keep your entertainment unique. With a live performance you know that your musical entertainment is going to be one-of-a-kind. Audience interaction, ad libs, and the ability to request personal favourites all help to keep your guests entertained throughout the night.
There are so many live band options to choose from multiple genres.
With some of the coolest, premium bands to hire in the North West, we have something for everyone. From jazz bands to pop, soul and everything in between. Check out Musique’s selection of live bands here.
Hire a wedding pianist
Perfect for ceremonies and drinks receptions, wedding pianists offer sophistication and charm.
Live pianists offer a special and intimate form of performance that have great adaptability to suit various parts of your day.
The great thing about pianists is that they’re very versatile artists. If you want something more than just an instrumental arrangement a wedding pianist can also perform as a headline act.
A pianist who also performs as a vocalist is a perfect musical combination for your drinks reception or wedding breakfast.
If you’re finding it hard to decide on a style of pianist for your wedding, as a general rule of thumb classical or jazz pianists are a great choice for background music, wheras a pop/rock pianist with vocals will be a better for providing entertainment that you want your guests to feel involved and engaged with.
Take a look at Musique’s wedding pianists.
Hire a harpist
A harpist is best suited to the more intimate parts of your wedding day like your ceremony and drinks reception.
Harpists will provide stuning background music throughout your day and have been shown to have psychological benefits including reducing stress and helping people feel relaxed.
Hiring a harpist to play from pre-ceremony through to your drinks reception connects these intimate parts of your day and provides an ethereal soundtrack that will create a sophisticated and romantic atomsophere.
Your choice of venue might also influence your choice of harpist. For larger venues a concert pedal harp will create a louder sound with a richer tone. This type of harp is a great choice if you want your harpist to veer away from classical music and to experiment with contemporary sounds. For smaller and more intimate venues a level harp will create a lighter, brighter, and clearer sound.
As well as offering beautiful sound, watchign a harpist play is a mesmirising experience and also serves to enhance your guests’ musical experience.
Find out more about Musique’s harpists here.
Hire a wedding DJ
A DJ is a great musical entertainment idea as they’re able to provide a wide musical selection.
Professional DJs live and breath music – whether you want the top of the charts or dance floor classics, their libraries are stocked with guaranteed floor fillers.
Having a live DJ in the room also allows for adaptability in your entertainment. They’ll be able to react to any unexpected changes that might occur during the evening and will also often take requests to make your experience more bespoke to you and your guests.
A DJ can also serve multiple roles throughout your evening reception. As well as providing the musical entertainment, they can also act as master of ceremonies, introduing the newlyweds to the reception, making major announcements throughout the nigth and most importanly announcing them to their first dance.
Take a look at Musique’s live DJs.
Summary
Whether you’re looking for sophisticated background music to soundtrack your day, or a lively musician to entertain your guests throughout your evening reception, there are plenty of musical entertainment ideas for your wedding.
Musique’s exclusive collection of musicians provide exceptional entertainment for weddings. Live musicians help to set the tone, relaxn, engage and entertain guests and create memorable environments throughout the day.