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Church Singer for a Wedding Waterford/Kilkenny area
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Caroline Reid O Brien sang at our wedding 3.5 years ago and she was excellent. To this day, people still ask us about her since our wedding. Her website is www.carolinereidobrien.com
Good luck with your wedding plans!
Regards Marie
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A friend of mine has booked Caroline Reid-O'Brien to sing at her civil ceremony in August this year. Caroline is going to play the guitar and will use backing tracks for some of the classical or musicals tracks requested by my friend. She was quoted an all-in cost of €220. The ceremony is in Waterford city.
I heard her at a wedding show in the Mount Juliet hotel in March and she was fab!
She has a website - www.carolinereidobrien.com.
Good luck with the wedding!!
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snuggles09 wrote: »i think its around 100 euro mark...if you need accompanying music i think they charge around 150 euro so you're probably looking at 200-300..anyone feel free to correct me if i'm wrong
Thanks all, At least i have an idea when im asking....oh and ill sing with you at weddings and split the money!!!!!! love all this wedding organizing thingy....:rolleyes:0 -
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So if I hire you in your home town and my friend hires you at the other end of the country do we both pay the same? I'd feel that I was getting ripped off if this was the case.
Like I say, fair play to you for charging what you can. A lot of people don't do this kind of work as their only job. If someone was earning a decent wage for their normal joba nd charging €200 for this service, I think they're extracting the urine quite frankly.
Ok... What do you think we should charge?
I think you just dont understand a performer will study and train for the stage for years, months and days. When the show is on its only on for an hour or maybe two and thats when a performer gets paid for his or her hard work. Thats how show business works.0 -
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Yeah but there's some difference in the hourly rate there, don't you think? And I never said that djs' rates are excellent either, did I?
I thought this €200 fee was not per hour? Its for all the music they do. DJs have a set rate I always thought, and not an hourly rate? One could argue a wedding singer does more training and work than a DJ would, yet you seemed to suggest that money was fine to give to a DJ? Or have I misunderstood? SorryI know all about the study required to be a musician. I studied music for 6 years, as did my two brothers. My younger brother is about to start his third year of a music degree.
There is more to most jobs than a piece of paper you get from a college/university/music school. Also depends on the type of music. Iv only come to see the costs signers actually have so its why I understand it a bit more.Having spent a certain amount of money in order to achieve something does not set the hourly rate for a job. And wedding singing is not a short career at all. I don't know how you'd even begin to think that? Most people who are in that line of work will start to do it in their late teens/early twenties and can easily keep it up into their forties. There are numerous people who, over the years, were still singing well into their later years.
IT companies with much more experience and qualifications charge more than the random joe soap doing IT repairs. Their hourly rate is different depending on their studies. Likewise in web and graphic design - you pay the more experienced companies more (same can be said for printing but that's balanced out in the past few years).
Some areas of the music industry is and can be short lived. A popular local signer is a bit different than someone on a more national scale.Nobody forces you to choose this as a career. You can't set a high rate just because that's your only income. But, in this case, you can because people in Ireland will pay inflated prices for anything to do with a wedding.
Who said about forcing? If you like it, you go for it. If your ****e, you generally don't get very far or end up doing budget gigs and are not highly regarded.
Why do you think businesses are closing down? Because they cant drop prices below a certain amount as its not enough to make a living. Therefore businesses and service providers set a rate which they feel matches the quality of service they can provide and that meets their costs and is enough to actually make a living from.
Where is Adam, he can explain this a bit better as a business student/graduate!0 -
I thought this €200 fee was not per hour? Its for all the music they do. DJs have a set rate I always thought, and not an hourly rate? One could argue a wedding singer does more training and work than a DJ would, yet you seemed to suggest that money was fine to give to a DJ? Or have I misunderstood? Sorry
A church service rarely lasts much longer than an hour. The singer is there for that long, even if not performing all the time, so it roughly translates to an hourly rate.There is more to most jobs than a piece of paper you get from a college/university/music school. Also depends on the type of music. Iv only come to see the costs signers actually have so its why I understand it a bit more.
As someone who is no stranger to the world of work, I well know that the piece of paper is mostly irrelevant. It was Joseph and yourself who seemed to suggest that the study required was some justification. The type of music is actually exactly what we're talking about - vocals. My older brother had some vocal training to add to a lot of natural talent and my younger brother is majoring in vocal performance.
As for the last sentence there, I really don't understand it.IT companies with much more experience and qualifications charge more than the random joe soap doing IT repairs. Their hourly rate is different depending on their studies. Likewise in web and graphic design - you pay the more experienced companies more (same can be said for printing but that's balanced out in the past few years).
I appreciate the concept of paying more for a better standard of product but can you show me any of these companies that charge €200 for an hour's work? I would also argue that some of the fields you mentioned above would require a lot more knowledge and expertise.Some areas of the music industry is and can be short lived. A popular local signer is a bit different than someone on a more national scale.
But we're specifically talking about wedding singers, are we not? If the topic has changed, then I've missed it, as you wouldn't find me arguing that the music industry is anything but a fickle beast.Who said about forcing? If you like it, you go for it. If your ****e, you generally don't get very far or end up doing budget gigs and are not highly regarded.
Why do you think businesses are closing down? Because they cant drop prices below a certain amount as its not enough to make a living. Therefore businesses and service providers set a rate which they feel matches the quality of service they can provide and that meets their costs and is enough to actually make a living from.
Where is Adam, he can explain this a bit better as a business student/graduate!
As I said Sully, I don't mean any of this as a slight on Joseph or anybody else who's doing this. The going rate to get someone to perform this service is a rate that I, personally, wouldn't be happy to pay. Just as I thought spending a fortune on flowers at my wedding was unnecessary. Just as I thought many other things that are done at some weddings were overpriced and unnecessary. My overall point is that prices for almost everything associated with weddings in Ireland are over the top.
I'm very lucky that there's such talent in my family that I didn't have to choose to use this service or not as my love of music would have probably made me do it. Music was one thing I felt was immensely important in my wedding day. We had a harpist play from when people arrived, through the civil ceremony and during the drinks reception. The cost was €150 by the way in case anyone is wondering. We also had a top class band in Opus Pocus who I didn't mind paying as they are top class and there are a lot of them in it. And the dj I mentioned earlier who played songs from a list I drew up.0 -
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