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Church music

  • 16-07-2012 01:14PM
    #1
    thenightrider
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    Has any one used a cd or something for the music in the church i priced the musician the church use's and he is looking for 240 euro :eek: its less then 1 hour and just playing a few hymns.


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  • #2
    Sleepy
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    I've seen it done at civil weddings but never in a church. It's just one of the things you have to include in the budget if you want a Church Wedding. It's like extra flowers, venue hire, "donation" to priest, pre-marriage course, fees for "freedom to marry" letters etc.

    TBH, it's one area where it's great to be having a non-religious wedding. There's more hoops to jump through in some ways but once you've worked around the archaic legalities, it saves you about a grand (which I'll be spending on the wine!).

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  • #3
    lazygal
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    TBH a cd won't cut it in a church, or even for a small room. You can't beat live music and I think its worth paying for. Is there any relative or friend who could do it? We were really lucky to have a family member do our ceremony music for a wedding gift but I would have paid for live music for it.


    Agree with the other poster, going on the rates for our local church we saved at least a grand having a ceremony in our venue, plus had exactly what we wanted with no compromise needed. Well worth thinking about. People appreciated the money behind the bar more than a long wedding mass.


  • #4
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    we got married recently and were choosing between hire a band or cd,


    it was a small church, in the end we paid for live music and im so glad i didnt skimp on it, the live music made the ceremony really, it would have been flat otherwise,

    with a civil ceremony its good as you can organise it anyway you want, with a church you need the music to liven it up a bit,

    our group it wasnt just the hour either, they were there 2 hours in advance to set up and rehearse, not to mention they learned a new song just for us (we requested our own song to walk down the aisle)

    so they had hours of practice for that,


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