Hi..am hoping I can get some advice with this one. I found 4 students from a music college in a string quartet to play for the ceremony. The idea initially was that they would play with my aunt who is a classically trained singer and do the rest of the service. I had also contacted a harpist which seemed like a really cool idea too, but she couldn't play with my Aunt. This was all of my budget for the music, and more than I had really thought about spending to be honest.
What I didn't realize was that both of them seem to want to play the entire ceremony by themselves and it is way too expensive to get the quartet to rehearse 2 songs with my aunt. So now it seems as if I am going to have 2 different musical groups at the wedding, which is okay I guess.
However, now I am trying to figure out how to coordinate them at the ceremony. I could use a little advice on that, but the bigger question is should I just have one (the harpist) play at the ceremony and the string quartet play at the cocktail hour?
I feel like by hiring both I have just overly complicated my wedding and am not sure what to do.
Any advice would be appreciated.