Essex Wedding Bands on Alive Network
Our bands are available to hire in every area of Essex including:
How much does it cost to hire a wedding band in Essex?
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 wedding band in Essex was £1,800 including travel costs.
The table below shows the range of fees for different types of wedding bands:
Type of Artist | Cost Range |
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Rock and Pop wedding party bands | £750 - £3000 (3-piece) £800 - £4000 (4-piece) £1100 - £5000 (5-piece) £1400 - £27000 (6-piece or bigger) |
Upbeat and Dixieland Jazz bands | £660 - £1,800 |
Acoustic and Roaming bands | £380 - £2000 (Duos) £750 - £2000 (3-piece) £850 - £3600 (4-piece or bigger) |
Soul Wedding Bands | £1100 - £3600 (5-piece) £1600 - £5000 (6-piece) £2100 - £7500 (7-piece and bigger) |
Rat Pack and Swing bands | £1000 - £2500 (4-piece) £1100 - £3000 (5-6-piece) £1000 - £5000 (7-piece and bigger) |
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 list below shows approximately how much space wedding bands of different sizes require:
- 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 Essex Has To Offer!
Check out these reviews of Essex wedding bands to help you find the perfect band for you.
The Kicks “Well what can we say...the band were absolutely fantastic from start to finish! We requested a special first dance song which they learnt and performed on the night and it was just so special. They had everyone dancing all night and we have received so much good feedback from our guests to say how much they loved the band!The guys were so friendly and hopefully enjoyed the night as much as we did!!We cannot thank you all enough - you just made our day perfect <3Huge thank you to Verity for all of the communications and for helping us when we had to postpone so many times :) Fab service from Alive Network - we are already recommending!!!Thank you so much - Martine & Matt :)”
Martine T booked The Kicks for their Wedding in Essex
Tritts And The Numbers “We thought Tritts & the Numbers were great! Everyone enjoyed having a dance at our wedding. The band also played our first dance for us even though it wasn’t part of their set list, which really made our day. Highly recommended!”
Anna M booked Tritts And The Numbers for their Wedding in Essex
The Hot Waves “The hot waves were incredible from start to finish, they got the party going and the kept the dance floor full all night. Speaking to people after the wedding, all they could talk about was that the band were the best they have ever seen and where did you find them! Thank you for making our day so special.”
George B booked The Hot Waves for their Wedding in Essex
The MBB Band “Hi Chris! I hope you and the guys are well! Just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all of you! You made our night and we absolutely loved you! Thanks for letting me sing with you! You guys play all of the music that I love to sing! Though I only do it to backing tracks - so it was way more fun with you boys! Hope you’re all able to keep busy now! Cheers. Kurt.”
Kurt M booked The MBB Band for their Wedding
The Seasides “Thank you the seasides - we really enjoyed our special day and I think you made it that extra special! We really loved that you had our friends up on stage singing with you!”
Jude booked The Seasides for their Wedding
The Hot Shots “These guys are literally incredible! The most professional, polite and personable group of people you could come across! Absolutely everyone commented on just how amazing they were and said they thought they were mining because they sound that good!! Their range of music, their energy and voices just work so beautifully together. Everyone had an absolute blast - they sound good recorded but sound even better live. Would 100% recommend them to anyone! Thank you so much :)Grant from Alive Network was brilliant- easy to contact and returned our messages quickly- thank you for an easy process!”
Natalie S booked The Hot Shots for their Wedding in Essex
Local Essex Wedding Venues
We work closely with some amazing Essex wedding venues including: Gosfield Hall, Gaynes Park, Leez Priory, Braxted Park Estate, Quendon Hall (Parklands), Blake Hall, Prested Hall, The Reid Rooms, Layer Marney Tower and Houchins Farm 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 Essex
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 Essex and the surrounding areas: One Curious Dream, Weddings By Mary, Natalie Hewitt, BusyBrides and The Wedding Planners.
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