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This poll isn't intended as a contest. I'd just like to get a feel (in an obviously nonscientific poll) of what might be average. My quintet has played at four weddings so far since January, with another one scheduled for next month. We do everything ourselves, including booking and promotion. We started the group over a year ago. I have to admit that there's still a lot of things I don't understand about the wedding market.

Interestingly, if my group is turned down for a wedding gig, it's usually because we've lost out to a disk jockey instead of other musicians.

"zero, and we do want to" but ... we're not advertising aggressively, so our data-point is unnecessarily pessimistic.

FYI,

The best way to get gigs is to have some contacts with wedding coordinators, which you can make at those bridal shows.

Also, if there is a popular spot for weddings, like a gardens or park, you might be able to talk to the management and find some contacts that way.

Networking with the music directors of the bigger curches will help also.

Do you have a promo tape or cd? A great thing to do is sit down, in a decent space, and record all of the traditional wedding tunes and a few well-arranged popular tunes/ballads with maybe a flashy non-wedding tune thrown in the mix. This way, you can showcase your groups abilities and also provide a basic format of what you have that is wedding appropriate. This is helpful in planning so that the other folks can have an idea of what they want to have played before the rehearsal.

Matthew Gilchrest wrote:The best way to get gigs is to have some contacts with wedding coordinators, which you can make at those bridal shows.

Also, if there is a popular spot for weddings, like a gardens or park, you might be able to talk to the management and find some contacts that way.

Networking with the music directors of the bigger curches will help also.

I would agree that networking is the key. So far I'd say that we're finding most of our wedding gigs through recommendations from other people.

I object! It seems that "7" is underrepresented!

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