Everything You Want to Know

Most couples book us six to twelve months ahead of their date. Popular weekends in May, June, September, and October fill first. If your date is closer than that, ask anyway — we can usually make it work, and when we can't, we'll tell you early.

Your first call is a conversation, not a pitch. We'll talk through your venue, your guest list, the kind of evening you want your wedding to feel like, and how the music can hold it all together. From there, we build a proposal around your specific night. Pricing follows the scope of what you want — there are no packaged tiers on the site because no two weddings are the same.

Your guest count is the easiest starting point. For groups of 150 to 200, a seven-piece — our most popular size — gives you the full energy and sound without being oversized for the room. Once you're at 200 to 350, a nine-piece adds fuller harmony, more versatility in song selection, and more room for the arrangements to breathe. For 350 and up, a twelve-piece is the full-blown show: four-piece horn section, dedicated percussion, three vocalists. The right answer depends on the room as much as the guest count, and we'll walk through it with you on the call.

Yes. Our rates include travel within a thirty-minute radius of our base city; beyond that, we apply a per-person travel fee determined on a case-by-case basis that covers both the musicians and the sound team. For destination weddings, we regularly build travel into the proposal with no markup. For events more than two hours from our base city, we also ask that lodging be provided — one room per musician and engineer, with a full bed or larger. That can be billed through us or handled directly by you; we'll decide during booking.

When you book the quartet, the band, and the DJ through Listeso, you get one contract, one point of contact, and one team responsible for the whole evening — we call that person your Entertainment Orchestrator. If the cocktail hour runs long, we adjust. If the DJ needs to start ten minutes early, that's one conversation, not three. Every vendor on the night knows every other vendor's cues. That's the whole point.

Yes. A curated DJ from our network takes over when the band wraps, with optional live sax and percussion accents layered over the set. It's a seamless handoff — no awkward gap, no second vendor to coordinate, no change in the energy of the room.

Yes to both. Our working repertoire covers hundreds of songs across every genre, and we add new songs for every wedding. Custom arrangements — typically the first dance, father-daughter, mother-son, or another special moment — are part of what we do, usually at no additional cost for two to three songs. More elaborate custom work is available if you want it; we'll scope it on the call.

You can share as much or as little input as you want. Most couples tell us a handful of must-plays, a handful of do-not-plays, and let us build the rest around the room and the energy we're reading that night. A few couples hand us a polished setlist and ask us to execute it. Both work.

You do. Ceremony music is always curated by the couple — the processional, the recessional, the moments in between. We help you think through options if you want input, but the choices are yours.

Yes. Our cocktail-hour options range from a solo pianist to a four-piece jazz ensemble (piano, upright bass, guitar, sax) — the goal of that set is to create a warm, inviting backdrop where guests can hear the music but still mingle comfortably over drinks and small bites. Dinner typically stays in that quieter register until the dance sets begin.

A reception booking is typically three hours of playing, with forty-five minutes of music and a fifteen-minute break built into each hour. The setup is ninety minutes before downbeat and teardown is sixty minutes after the last note. We work backwards from when your event ends: if the night ends at 11 PM, our first set starts around 8 PM. Your coordinator's timeline — entrances, first dances, speeches, cake cutting — gets folded into our plan ahead of time so the music cues are locked in.

Yes. Our musicians take a fifteen-minute break each hour so their energy and sound stay at the same level from the first note to the last. If you'd prefer continuous music through the whole reception, that's an option we can build into your proposal.

The energy doesn't drop. One or two of the musicians typically stay on stage for a jazz or acoustic interlude, or the DJ queues up a set calibrated to hold the room. Nothing about the flow of the night stops because the band is off stage for fifteen minutes.

We can't discount for short nights, and here's the honest reason why: the moment we book your wedding, every musician on our stage commits the entire night to you and turns down other work. An hour shaved off the reception doesn't give us that night back — we still load in, set up, perform, and tear down. It's still a full night for us.

We bring a professional-grade sound system tuned for your room and your band size. Some venues have their own in-house sound; when that's the case, we can use what's there if it's appropriate for the scale of the show. As for a stage: we don't require one, and we don't provide one. Any flat, dry surface near the power supply works. If your venue does have a stage and you want us to use it, a rough guide is 8×12 for a quartet or five-piece, 12×16 for a six- to eight-piece, and 12×24 for a nine-piece or larger.

Yes, for receptions. The musicians and sound engineers eat a vendor meal during one of their scheduled breaks. It doesn't need to be the guest meal — anything hot and filling is what we're after.

Black tie by default. If your wedding has a specific dress code or aesthetic direction, we'll align with it — we've played everything from black-tie weddings at The Plaza to barefoot beach ceremonies. Just tell us what you want.

Constantly. Your Entertainment Orchestrator coordinates directly with your planner, venue manager, photographer, and videographer in the weeks leading up to the wedding and on the day itself. The goal is that your planner's job gets easier, not harder, because we're in the room.