Do you need music until 2am?

My thoughts on if you need a wedding disco to run until 2am.

Transcript

Brian: 0:00

Hello and welcome along to another episode of the wedding band show myself priming term. It's just a small little follow-up episode, a meta reel recently about the idea of not having any music late or at least Shortening the disco. If you're having a disco and the whole idea was that Sometimes, I think first, especially for smaller crowds if you run in the band from about half nine Till half twelve and the crowd are dancing all night and you get the most out of them, sometimes having a two-hour disco following that is a bit much in my opinion. I think what can be nice. Now all this depends, like I was saying before, on the venue, on the band, on the crowd. But just an average small wedding, I think, if the band have the guests dancing all night and the floor is packed, I think an idea is just to maybe play some background music after the band, not go totally quiet, but a full-on disco and expecting people to dance again Sometimes can be a bit much. I think if you play some background music the bride and groom as well get to talk with the guests. It's kind of like the residents bar part of the night, but just a bit earlier, and I think this also goes for DJs. Like, a lot of DJs do full wedding packages, so the same if they're starting at half nine. I'm sure I'm guessing most of them would agree with me that, like, five hours of a disco is a lot For again, depending on the crowd. But if a DJ is doing a full package for you and he's starting at half nine, going till about half twelve is probably enough in some cases, and then drop the volume to your background music. And again, some of the reason for this it like it depends on the venues, but some venues at 2 am, that's it. You'd have to leave the room.

Brian: 1:50

So the minute the disco finishes everybody has to clear out, so you don't actually get a chance to sit and chat with your guests, and Four couples as well. You know there's a lot of Wednesdays like that where you go off, you get your photos, you kind of rush back to the hotel. It might be about half four or five o'clock, so you've got about a half an hour window before the meal. You're called in for the meal, you're sitting there having your meal and everything. Then there's a small break while the band are setting up or the DJ, but after that you don't actually get much chance to talk with your guests on the day and, like of all days, it's both your sides of the family and friends all in one room. So you don't want to waste that. So I think it's nice to get the chance to talk to people. So that's just a follow-up.

Brian: 2:37

I couldn't get everything in in a reel, but just to kind of Expand on the idea a little bit. I think it's nice, depending again on the size, the crowd, the venue, the band and everything. Bush, maybe for smaller weddings, and it doesn't even have to be just smaller weddings. But if the band start round half nine, go till about half 12, even, you know, if you had an hour of disco after you know, go till about half one and have the last half an hour. Or go to one o'clock and have an hour at the end where you just get to, you know, just drop the volume, bit of background music and then you get to chat with your guests and just have a nice end to the day. So that's it for this little mini episode. I have a few interviews coming up with bands, so stay tuned for that and if you've any questions about wedding bands you can hit me up on Instagram at Brian Mcdermas or the Brian Mcdermas band on Facebook.