Today we have a very exciting post to share with you all, our first 'Real Wedding' feature. The Dotted Crotchets string trio performed for Rachel and John's wedding back in September at the Priory Cottages in Wetherby, and we are delighted to be able to share some photos from the day, taken by the talented Julie Kim, and a little bit from the happy couple on why they chose to feature us in their special day.....
"Dresses, suits, honeymoon, ceremony, flowers, catering, guests, photographer, cake, the weather….Planning a wedding is a big job and with it comes the inevitable stress. As soon as this happens you lose the focus on what the day is about; the coming together of you, your families and your friends. We wanted to focus on just this and get rid of all the stress. This meant for us we needed to keep everything as informal and relaxed as possible, good for us and good for our guests. Everything we set out to do followed this theme.
Our venue, the Priory in Wetherby, was used for both our ceremony and reception meaning we had much more time to entertain our guests. Easy…awesome canapés and cocktails, but we still needed something extra just to really finish the experience. We had to think about what that extra bit of entertainment was going to be and we considered so many different options but it came down to a few specific things. We wanted the entertainment to be either inside or outside depending on weather, surprisingly this ruled out many things. Mimes and magicians are annoying indoors or outdoors so that also went! We wanted something that would be good for all guests, adults and children alike, and ultimately we wanted to add a bit of class to the day but without it feeling too formal. It was at this point that we stumbled upon The Dotted Crotchets, suddenly we had found something that had ticked all of our boxes.
They covered the whole time from the end of the ceremony until the end of our meal, entertained the adults and interacted with the children perfectly- they were great! The only concern we had was that the ‘sound’ may feel a little too formal for the day we were going for, but because of their diverse range of different types of music we were able to choose pieces that us and our guests were able to relate to. As a little extra bit of fun, being that we are both film buffs, the first ten pieces that we had requested were actually famous pieces of music from film and TV – it was great to see the confused looks on guests faces as they recognised certain ones, before this quickly turned into a competition of who would get the next one first.
Even with the best of planning the day passes you by so quickly, you never have the time you would like to enjoy everything, speak to everyone, manage everything going on etc. What a breath of fresh air it was to have booked The Dotted Crotchets. Their music was fantastic and exactly what we wanted, they interacted with our guests - especially the children, created a superb accompaniment to our meal and just when we were trying to get over to them to thank them for everything they realised we were too busy so just gave us the thumbs up as they exited stage left. Thank you again The Dotted Crotchets!"
Congratulations again Mr and Mrs Blackwell and thank you for sharing your day with us!
If we have performed at your wedding and you would like it to be featured on the blog, or if you would like to book the string quartet or trio for a future wedding please send an email to ruth@thedottedcrotchets.co.uk and we will send you all the information.
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