Everyone loves live music at their wedding, but not all couples have can fit live music into their wedding budget. Julie at Ensemble Elan shared four way to help you stretch your wedding day music dollars.  I thought they were pretty helpful, so I listed them below.

1. Book Your Musicians for an 60 Minutes Instead of 90 Minutes

If you book your musician(s) for 60 minutes, you will have a prelude for 15, live ceremony music for 30 minutes and live music during the recessional for 15 minutes. In the end, this only shortens your prelude music by 15 minutes.

2. Stretch the One Hour of Live Music Even More

Consider starting the live music 20 minutes prior to the ceremony. Then, you will have 10 minutes of live music at the end of the ceremony for the recessional and guest exits. So, this will be 20 minutes before and 10 minutes after, instead of 15 minutes before and 15 minutes afterwards.

3. Scale Back the Number of Musicians from a Quartet to a Trio

You can scale the number of musicians you book from a quartet to a trio or from a trio to a duo.  No matter what the size of the music ensemble, the impact on your wedding guests will be the same.

4. Still Can’t Fit Live Music into Your Wedding Budget?

Tell your preferred musician what you have in mind for your wedding.  Most of them are very creative and they can think of many ways to help you accomplish your financial goal of live music on your wedding day.

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Thanks for the tips Julie.  They are great!

Love and Soul Always, Kawania