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How much is too much?

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  • #32
    Honey-ec
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    I'm guessing a lot of the people thinking it's mad money to even consider spending on a band have never seen Spring Break. They are in a completely different class to pretty much every other working band out there. I wouldn't even consider them a wedding band, tbh - they are an extremely successful gigging band who also happen to do weddings.

    Having said that: I absolutely think the old adage "know thy audience" applies here. If your 60-people guestlist is made up primarily of people who won't dance, then you're wasting your money, no matter how much you love the band yourself.

    For what it's worth, our wedding band cost 3k and while some people clearly think that's a criminal amount of money to spend on a band, the dancefloor was jam-packed all night and loads of people commented on how much they loved the music the next day. To me, that's money well spent.


  • #33
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    I've seen Springbreak, both at a wedding and at a gig.
    They are amazing, completely and totally worth the money if you have a crowd that'll appreciate them, get into the spirt and spend the night up dancing.

    However, I kinda doubt that a 60ish person wedding is the venue for them to really shine, or for the bride and groom to get value out of them. Any wedding I've been at that had fewer than 100 people had very few people up dancing, probably because 60-70% of the crowd was composed of relatives rather than friends.

    You know your own crowd, how many of the 60 are genuinely likely to dance the night away?


  • #34
    clint_silver
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    Honey-ec wrote: »

    For what it's worth, our wedding band cost 3k and while some people clearly think that's a criminal amount of money to spend on a band, the dancefloor was jam-packed all night and loads of people commented on how much they loved the music the next day.

    In my experience, most weddings are like this. You do kind of get more of a guarantee of you get what you pay for with the higher priced bands though.


  • #35
    Northern Monkey
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    I was at a wedding last week with spring break as the band and they were amazing. I'd never heard of them before and I have been raving about them and the wedding ever since. I don't dance at all, but I never left the dance floor all night!


  • #36
    Viserion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Viserion


    If you have the money to pay for them, get whatever band you like but as someone else said, know the audience.


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