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How many breaks are normal for a band?

fifinosilafifinosila
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Hi Everyone, I'm looking over my reception band contract and I noticed in the small print that the band is entitled to a 20 min break for every hour they play. I'm hiring them for 4 hours, so that's a full hour that they will be on break in total. That seems like a lot of time to me. Is that normal? Thanks, Ali
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Re: How many breaks are normal for a band?

  • phkesnerphkesner
    10 Comments
    edited December 2011
    ours took 2 short breaks ( one during cake cutting)  and one long break for dinner.  we worked out the times on the schedule for the evening.
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  • lareddinglaredding member
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    edited December 2011
    Ours the same 2 breaks for 4 hours.
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  • 2dBride2dBride member
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    edited December 2011
    Our musician normally takes one fifteen minute break per hour.  We just scheduled toasts and cake-cutting for the first break, and serving the cake for the second one.
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  • Margaret and AlexMargaret and Alex
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    edited December 2011
    Our band contract said they were to have a 15 min break every hour.  However, they worked with us to arrange it so that they took 1/2 hour while everyone was eating so they could play 2 hours straight while everyone was dancing later and we filled in the other gaps with events (cake cutting, bouquet toss, etc) as someone else mentioned above.  It still flowed nicely, I never even noticed the times the band took a break.
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