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Ceremony Music?

RanwaPRanwaP member
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 Anyone have any recommendations for ceremony musicians?  I'm having trouble finding a group to do it for under $1,000!  I was thinking some sort of strings thing...violin, guitar, that sort of stuff.   
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  • mellowdee7mellowdee7
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    edited December 2011
    I booked a great musician for the ceremony and cocktail hour for $500! We're just having the guitarist because we're having a small intimate wedding. But he also works with other musicians and is willing to work with most budgets.

    http://www.jasonsulkin.com/
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  • TurtlesAllTheWayDownTurtlesAllTheWayDown member
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    edited December 2011
    We used Larry Duff:

    http://www.lawrenceduff.com/weddings.htm

    We had a trio with 2 violins and a guitar. Then Larry also played piano at our cockail hour. We found that quartets were a bit out of our price range, but trios were fine.
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  • Shannon624Shannon624
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    edited December 2011
    Try http://www.jasonsulkin.com for guitar-violin duo, guitar-flute duo, string trio (guitar-violin-cello) and quartet (guitar-violin-viola-cello) . Great talent at affordable prices. We had the string trio for 1 hour at  our ceremony for $650. They were amazing.  He's out of Los Angeles but I'm sure he goes everywhere. You can listen to music samples on his website.  Good luck!
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  • renza183renza183
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    edited December 2011
    We are planning to hire student musicians, and apparently almost all music schools provide info for you to contact students. USC has a good music school, and here is the link for more info: http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/contact/hire/
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  • jwdeldottojwdeldotto member
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    edited December 2011
    Have you consider a harpist for your ceremony?  We are having one at our wedding.  We have seen her played and the harp instrument really adds a great touch of elegance:

    http://www.harpistcharissa.com/

    check out her site....tell her Jessica referred ya.  Charissa charged us $250/hr...and she will arrive like an hour early to setup and tune her harp (not counted twds her hourly rate).  IMO, I think this is gonna be something different from the violin, string quartet....
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  • shalomizardshalomizard member
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    edited December 2011
    I play in a group that does duos and trios and we charge much less than that.  I'm a bride too, so as not to get booted for being a vendor I wont post our website, but PM me if you'd like more info.  
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