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Hertfordshire’s musical heritage is vast and varied! From George Michael and Wham!, Cliff Richard, two Spice Girls (Posh & Ginger), and the multi-award winning lyricist Sir Tim Rice, to folk guitarist and MBE Martin Carthy, classic rockers Deep Purple, contemporary electronic dance music band Enter Shikari and modern folk trio The Staves, musical output from Herts is eclectic to say the least! Not to mention celebrated drum and bass producers LTJ Bukem and Photek, indie pop band Friendly Fires, garage rock band The Subways and harcore band Gallows! There’s just too many to mention!
Its musical diversity is echoed in Hertfordshire's music festival offering which includes Slam Dunk - the UK’s biggest independent rock festival, Folk By The Oak - A festival of folk's finest acts gathered in beautiful leafy parkland, Standon Calling - An independent boutique music and arts festival with big acts, emerging talent and much more, Wilkestock Charity Music Festival - probably the best festival you've never heard of, and Hertford Music Festival - an annual celebration of local live music.
Hertfordshire is also home to Britain’s oldest specialist music school, The Purcell School for young musicians.
Our Wedding Bands in Hertfordshire
Our bands are available to hire in every area of Hertfordshire including:
Alive Network is home to 22 of the very best wedding bands who are based in Hertfordshire and 564 other bands who are available to hire for weddings taking place within the county.
Hiring a Wedding Band In Hertfordshire
How much does it cost to hire wedding bands in Hertfordshire?
The cost of wedding bands varies, depending on the line-up, and the options each band offers. In the last 12 months, the average price of a 5-piece band is around £1,600.
The table below shows the range of fees for different types of wedding bands:
| Type of Artist | Cost Range |
|---|---|
| Rock and Pop wedding party bands | £670 - £960 (3-piece) £980 - £1,550 (4-piece) £1,050 - £1,380 (5-piece) £1,570 - £2,160 (4-piece) |
| Upbeat and Dixieland Jazz bands | £460 - £1,210 (3-piece) £700 - £2,700 (5-piece) |
| Acoustic and Roaming bands | £330 - £720 (2-piece) £480 - £1,630 (3-piece) £600 - £1,630 (4-piece) |
| Soul Bands | £820 - £4,500 (4-piece) £960 - £2,420 (5-piece) £1,090 - £3,500 (6-piece) £1,210 - £7,500 (larger bands) |
| Rat Pack and Swing bands | £1,060 - £1,940 (5-piece) £2,120 - £2,904 (7 to 9-piece) £2,900 - £3,020 (10-piece+) |
Booking a band who are local to your venue is a great way to reduce cost, as any travel fees will be minimal. The home town of all Alive Network wedding bands are included on their profile pages, and your Entertainment Coordinator can recommend the best bands near to your venue. However, you don’t need to limit your search to just local bands – your perfect band maybe willing to travel at nominal cost!
How much space will they need?
The table below shows approximately how much space wedding bands of different sizes require:
| Size of Wedding Band | Performance Space Required |
|---|---|
| 3-piece band | 3 x 3 metres |
| 4-piece band | 4 x 3 metres |
| 5 and 6-piece band | 5 x 3 metres |
| 7-piece band and bigger | 5/6 x 4 metres |
How long will they take to set up & soundcheck?
Depending how close to the performance space a wedding band can park, unloading, setting up and performing their sound-check will take around 60 – 90 minutes.
Some busy city hotels require bands to load in via a supplier’s entrance, using a shared staff elevator, which can increase set up times.
Following their performance, it takes around 45 – 60 minutes to pack down and load out.
How long is a typical wedding band set list?
Our bands usually offer two 60-minute performances, though many can perform for longer if needed. You could spread out a two-hour performance by splitting it into three 40-minute sets. Most bands are flexible to fit in with your evening, and will usually take a break of around 15 minutes between sets, during which time they will provide background music from an MP3 player or laptop.
If providing the evening entertainment, a wedding band would typically arrive at 6pm, get set up and perform that all-important sound check by 7.30pm to 8pm, get changed and ready to start the first performance by around 9pm. The second performance would then start around 10.30pm, until a normal curfew of midnight. Many wedding bands offer longer performances or DJ sets at an additional cost, including finishing times of 1am and 2am. You can find the booking options on each wedding band’s profile page. These times serve as an example – the band will always liaise with you and will tailor what they are doing on the night to your particular needs.
Find The Perfect Wedding Band Hertfordshire Has To Offer!
Check out these reviews of Hertfordshire wedding bands to help you find the perfect band for you.
"Great wedding band - thank you!"
The Funk played at our wedding last night and were amazing! They made it such a party. Liaising with George from the band before the wedding was also great and he made it really easy. Thank you The Funk!
"Incredible! Couldn’t get people off the dance floor!"
Better than we ever dreamt. The band created the perfect atmosphere and were able to perform all genres of music. The lead singers voice was incredible. Many of our guests couldn’t stop talking about the fantastic band and how much fun they had dancing all night long. Really easy to organise and friendly team too!
"Fantastic band, great music and atmosphere"
Loved having Bandit at our wedding. They have a great repertoire, we were contacted by them beforehand so we could let them know any songs we wanted or didn’t want playing. Music was great and the atmosphere was brilliant.
"Our Christmas wedding- made magical!"
Hipster were fantastic. We danced until midnight and they managed to play songs which got all of our guests up on the dance floor or tapping their feet whilst resting! Such lovely guys. So friendly and easy to get on with, it felt like we’d known them for years. They totally got into our wedding vibes and helped to give us a night we will never forget They have some amazing voices and everyone said how brilliant they were. Thank you so much, wish we could do it all again!
"They made our wedding so much fun!"
I had been to two other awesome weddings which the band had played at and knew we had to have them at our wedding too as other bands we had heard just didn't compare. They are so talented and made the evening of the wedding so much fun! They took into account our song choices and got everyone up dancing all night. The whole process of booking them was easy and straight forward - they were totally professional and flexible. We cannot recommend them highly enough - they were totally amazing and I'm just so glad we chose them to play and be part of the best day of our lives! Thank you so much Shine On!
The Guns have just played our wedding at a pub in Hertfordshire and they were absolutely awesome. If you're even thinking about booking them don't hesitate and do it, you won't regret it. They were really flexible and helpful and friendly. The filled the venue with amazing music and got everyone up and dancing. They learnt our first dance and is was spot on as was every song and people were begging for more from them at the end of the night. Thank you Emanuele and the guys, you were awesome
Local Hertfordshire Wedding Venues
We work closely with some amazing wedding venues in Hampshire including: Tewin Bury Farm Hotel, Fanhams Hall Hotel, Hanbury Manor Hotel, The Priory Barn, Offley Place, Brocket Hall, St Michael's Manor Hotel, Hatfield House, Coltsfoot Country Retreat, Ashridge House and many more.
If you want any advice on suitable entertainment at your chosen venue, just let us know where you’re planning to book and we’ll share what we know, who we’ve booked there in the past, which of our bands are most suitable and any other key information about entertainment at that venue that we think you might want to be aware of.
UKAWP Wedding Planners in Hertfordshire
As a proud supplier member of the UK Alliance of Wedding Planners, we are happy to recommend their members who abide by the UKAWP Code of Business Practice.
The following UKAWP wedding planners cover Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas: Weddings by Mary and By Siobhan Louise.
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