Wedding Bands For Hire Premium wedding bands for hire from the UK's leading live music agency, Tailored Entertainment. Here you'll find a select roster of musicians who are passionate about delivering lifetime highlight experiences and memories that will stay with you forever.
Our team manages every wedding booking for all of these acts; it means we can deliver unrivalled customer service and planning skills. We're professional, systemised, experienced, friendly and excited to play our part in planning the best wedding party ever!
On this page you can filter to find wedding bands perfect for you, watch music videos and start building your shortlist.
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Wedding Bands For Hire 
“The best band ever!!!! We loved having them play, they were friendly, fun and most of all amazing.”Jami Edwards - Wedding, Highden Estate
If you're looking to find out more about hiring a wedding band, then please take a look at our FAQs below. If you can't find the information you're looking for or would like to chat further, give us a call or message and our team will be pleased to help.
Professional 3 and 4-piece wedding bands start at around £1250. At this level, you can be confident the band is made up of good quality musicians with the requisite skill set, equipment and production to entertain at a wedding. Keep in mind that this is a starting price and lots of UK wedding bands are going to cost more than this - fees will increase depending on quality, experience, demand and how many musicians there are in the band. Typical payment terms for wedding band bookings are a deposit of around 20% to secure the date, with the balance payable 28 days before the wedding.
As standard, a Tailored Entertainment wedding band booking includes...
You also get our 5-star Tailored Entertainment customer service. From your first enquiry right through to the big day itself, you'll have a dedicated booking agent on hand to answer any questions or arrange any last-minute changes. This kind of peace of mind can make all the difference in the lead-up to your wedding day!
Lots of our bands also offer 'optional extras' for an additional fee. These include services such as afternoon drinks reception add-ons, roaming acoustic sets, live DJ sets, early load-in and late finishes. You'll find all these options listed in the band's profile.
The guide prices on our website show the cost of hiring the band to provide their standard wedding entertainment package at a local venue (within 30 miles of their base location). The price will increase if the band need to travel outside of their local area, as well as if you’d like to add additional services such as afternoon drinks reception sets, a live DJ set for when they’re not performing, or if you need the band to arrive earlier or stay later than their standard booking times.
For more information on this, give our team a call on 0800 564 2240. We’d be happy to answer any questions you might have.
The timing has to be right for you, but we’d recommend booking your wedding band as early as possible. We represent some of the most in-demand wedding bands in the UK and peak summer dates will often book up around 12 months in advance - sometimes longer. To ensure you get the band you really want, we’d suggest booking as soon as you have your venue confirmed and have found the right band for you.
All of the bands on the Tailored Entertainment roster invite you to choose your favourites from their repertoire so they can incorporate these into their tried and tested set list. We don’t recommend trying to write the whole set list for your wedding band as experienced acts have refined what they do to deliver the best party experience for you and your guests.
Our wedding bands also offer to learn one special song request as standard - most people use this for their first dance but you can also just choose a song you love to go into the party sets!
Absolutely! You can put together a song list or a Spotify playlist and pass this across to the band ahead of the day, we recommend selecting a maximum of 30-40 songs as there won’t be time to play more than that. Many of our wedding bands also offer a live DJ add-on, so you'll have a DJ on hand to select and mix tracks live, as well as take requests.
Tailored Entertainment wedding bands cover all the most popular music styles and eras. We have festival-style wedding bands for rustic barn and tipi weddings, soul & Motown showbands for big, glitzy events, Gatsby-style bands for vintage weddings and indie-rock wedding bands for a raucous finale! For those looking for something a bit different from their wedding band, we’ve got incredible dance anthem bands, 90s pop, pop punk, brilliant RnB bands and much more besides!
If you’re struggling to find the right live wedding entertainment for you, we’d be more than happy to help! Give us a call or drop us an email and our expert team will run through a series of questions that will help guide us to making recommendations that will work for you.
Absolutely! Most bands on the Tailored Entertainment roster offer afternoon drinks reception add-ons to their standard booking. You’ll find these listed under ‘optional extras’ on the band’s profile.
Alternatively, you could book one of our dedicated drinks reception entertainment options like a saxophonist, singer/guitarist, vocal harmony group or string quartet.
Most bands will perform 2 x 60 or 3 x 40 minute live sets at your evening reception. The Tailored Entertainment roster of wedding bands will provide a bespoke DJ service before and after live sets, so your whole evening of entertainment is covered. A lot of wedding bands can also provide an additional 60 minute acoustic live lounge-style set as an optional extra, which is great for during drinks or dinner.
Yes, Tailored Entertainment wedding bands operate on a standard 5pm earliest arrival and midnight latest finish. For an additional fee, all our acts are willing to arrive earlier or stay a bit later to suit your wedding day’s schedule.
Yes, this is essential for all professional wedding bands and most venues will not allow bands to perform if they can’t provide certificates. All of our wedding bands carry up-to-date PLI and PAT Testing Certification, meaning when you book a Tailored Entertainment wedding act, you’ve nothing to worry about.
The short answer is yes, you absolutely can book a great band if your venue has a noise limiter. Most of our professional wedding bands are able to perform within the restrictions of a sound limiter and your experience will be the same as at a venue without one. We have a few bands - mainly the club anthems style, whose music may not be suitable depending on the individual venue restrictions. Please contact us to chat further if your venue has a sound limiter as we'll likely have experience of working at your chosen venue. You can read all about what sound limiters are and how they might affect your wedding entertainment in our Tailored Guide on wedding venues with sound limiters.
Yes, our bands regularly travel to perform at weddings right across the UK and abroad. If your wedding is taking place outside of their local area travel costs will be added and if your venue is around two hours or more in travel time, an additional fee to cover Travelodge-style accommodation will also be accounted for in your quote.
Absolutely! Tailored Entertainment represents some of the UK’s very best international wedding bands. Our acts regularly travel overseas to perform at weddings and parties right across the world. You can read loads more about this in our Tailored Guide on booking overseas wedding bands, or you can call our expert bookings team for more information.
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The best and safest way to hire a wedding band is with a professional live music agency. When hiring a band with Tailored Entertainment you can be sure your band has proven they are of the highest quality and are a professional outfit that takes their role as a wedding band seriously. Your booking will be secured by a booking contract between you and the act and you will have peace of mind that you won't be let down in the lead up to your big day. All of our acts have the ability to call on rehearsed like-for-like ‘dep’ performers if they need to and we're on hand to support the planning process the whole way through - our experienced team and refined planning system ensures your expectations are met in full on the big day. We exclusively represent all of our bands and manage all of their bookings, this enables us to deliver a premium service to our clients and acts on every single booking.
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This time of year would typically see us at Tailored Entertainment sending out top-notch wedding entertainment to literally thousands of events right across the country.
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Tap on the heart icon on an artist’s profile to add them to your shortlist and they will appear here. Browse our hand-picked selection of UK wedding bands, DJs and musicians for parties and events.
