A Wedding Carnival

Over the past year we have performed our music at several wedding fayres and have met many great couples and exhibitors. One of the most recent fayres we have done was run by All Wrapped Up Events and Weddings and was held at the brand new Salford City Stadium on the 24th March. Now this wasn't just any wedding fayre, this was a Wedding Carnival and suppliers were encouraged to pull out all the stops to make this an event to remember. Armed with brand new business cards, a handful of sample CDs, a couple of paper doilies and several meters of floral bunting we were ready to go!

The venue is a great space due to the massive windows which lets in the light and by the time we got there the empty space had been transformed into a bride's dream with tables of sweets, stationery, cakes, photographs and fashion accessories. The team from All Wrapped Up had even styled different sections of the room with different themes ranging from countryside chic to an indian summer. The whole room looked amazing.

We set up our stall in the entrance so that the couples could hear our music as they registered with Julia from Brides Up North. Throughout the day we played lots of requests with popular choices including 'Marry You' by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face', and we got to try out some new arrangements including 'Patience' by Take That and 'We Found Love' by Rhianna. The music seemed to go down well with lots of interest from brides and grooms and we're looking forward to working with them soon! I think one of the best things about The Dotted Crotchets is said that when some couples see that we are a string quartet they presume that we just play classical music so aren't interested, but then they'll have a look at our repertoire list and are amazed that we can play anything from Greenday to Michael Jackson.

We all had a great day performing at the Wedding Carnival and can't wait to exhibit with All Wrapped Up very soon. A huge congratulations to them for organising a great event and thanks to Julia from Brides Up North who kept us busy with requests, the Cheshire Cat Cake Company for the delicious cupcakes and to the Ice Cream Dub who saved us from the unexpected summer weather with yummy basked alaska ice cream. We'll see you at the next Wedding Carnival!

The Dotted Crotchets x