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Recession Busting Wedding Entertainment Ideas

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:43:56 +0000

During the current uncertain economic climate, trying to arrange your wedding within a sensible budget can be a daunting task. It’s important to carefully consider when, what and where to make cutbacks.

The evening wedding entertainment can really make or break your day and that of your guests too. Nobody will remember what design your wedding cake was or what shoes the bride wore 5 years from now but EVERYONE will remember a fantastic party where they danced all night to an amazing band!

The Simply Swing Wedding Band has thought carefully about how to accommodate more wedding couples during these times of cut backs and recession and we’ve come up with some recession busting entertainment options!

Our main party band is our 6-Piece but, if you have up to around 150 guests, you could quite easily get away with our 5-Piece band. If you have a smaller party with up to 60 guests you could even book our Quartet. For smaller budgets, we have our Solo Wedding Singer option with backing tracks, which is a fantastic option when followed by our disco service. We run our entertainment over a 3-4 hour slot and will provide background music before and after the live music ends, thus filling those awkward silent gaps.

Our disco service can be added to any of our band options and, if your wedding is not peak season, you may be able to take advantage of one of our fantastic special wedding offers so keep watching the website!

For more wedding entertainment ideas or help with planning your wedding music, please call Simply Swing on 0845 094 8693.

Trunkwell Mansion, Beech Hill, Reading, Berkshire

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:42:31 +0000

Despite the weather, we played a great gig last week in the marquee at the lovely Trunkwell Mansion near Reading in Berkshire. Simply Swing is no stranger to the many Berkshire wedding venues dotted around the county, but this was the first time we had the pleasure of playing at Trunkwell Mansion.

Other Berkshire wedding venues the Simply Swing Wedding Band is happy to perform at include Q Vardis, Mansion House Wokefield Park, Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Blue Mountain, Royal Berkshire Hotel, Millhouse Hotel & Restaurant, Trunkwell House, Northcote House Sunningdale Park, Hilton St Anne’s Manor, Bearwood College, Beaumont Estate, Royal Pavilion Marquee, Templars Events, Oakley Court Hotel, Grovefield House, Donnington Valley Hotel, Lillibrooke Great Barn, Regency Park Hotel, Old Luxters Barn, Rookwood Farm House, Coppid Beech Hotel, The Elephant, Basildon Park, Harte and Garter Hotel, Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa, Aldermaston Manor, Newbury Manor Hotel, Ascot Racecourse, Royal Adelaide Hotel, Highclere Castle, Mercure Castle Hotel, Stoke Park, Moor Hall, The Swan at Streatley, Cantley House Hotel, The Great House at Sonning, Newbury Elcot Park Hotel, Mill Hall, The Olde Bell, Englemere, Sand Martins Golf Club, Stirrups Country House Hotel, Spirit Venues, Fredricks Hotel & Spa, Coworth Park, Sir Christopher Wren Hotel & Spa, The Forbury Hotel, Reading Lake Hotel.

Hedsor House Swing Band, Taplow, Bucks

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:46:26 +0000

Great gig last week for Guy and Judith at the stunning Hedsor House in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Simply Swing played in the beautiful entrance hall where a black and white dance-floor had been installed and was lit up beautifully. The guests were truly ready to party when the band started playing and the dance-floor was packed all night. Guy and Judith chose the famous Ray Charles song “Hallelujah I Love Her So” as their first dance as a married couple which was a very unusual but perfect choice. The couple left the venue as the band finished, leaving Simply Swing’s disco service in full flight for the remaining guests to enjoy.

Wedding Entertainment Music: Pianist, Band and Disco at Wotton House, Dorking

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:03:12 +0000

Great gig at the weekend at the beautiful Wotton House in Dorking for the wedding of Rachel and David. The weather was fantastic and Simply Swing provided a full day of entertainment starting with a solo pianist for the drinks reception in the afternoon playing the electric grand piano on site in the bar at Wotton House. Then our flag-ship 6-piece band played for the evening reception and we rounded the night off with our disco service.

Rachel and David specifically wanted a Rat Pack feel to their evening and began the dancing with the fabulous “Fly Me To The Moon” as made famous by Frank Sinatra. This is always such a great choice for a first dance.

Never shy to miss a fancy dress photo opportunity, Simply Swing piled into a video booth with a big shoe in it and here’s the result!

Simply Swing with the big shoe

Wedding and Party Swing Band at Great Fosters, Egham, Surrey

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:13:25 +0000

A lovely gig yesterday at Great Fosters in Egham, Surrey where the 5 piece band performed for the wedding of Angela and Kostas. The happy couple opted for Simply Swing’s solo pianist in the afternoon for reception drinks, followed by our 5-Piece wedding band in the evening and and then our auto disco service to finish the night off. A great day was had by all at a wonderful venue.

Simply Swing Band on Facebook

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:50:11 +0000

Why not “like us” on Facebook and get notifications of all our special offers, public performances, latest photos, gossip and much more? We’ve just had a fabulous new Facebook business page designed in keeping with our website and we’re doing a special promotion in October and November of a free disco service or free cocktail pianist for any band booking in these months. This offer is only available to people who “like us” on Facebook. See our special offers for full details of the offers.

Jazz Band at Coq D’Argent

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:44:40 +0000

Another busy week for Simply Swing which saw the trio backing the fabulous Garth Bardsley in his wonderful Anthony Newley Story cabaret show. Then off to Dorking for a wedding at The Parrot Inn with the 5 piece and finally a wedding at the super French restaurant in London – Coq D’Argent.

We’ll be doing a public performance on Tuesday 17th May at The Loxwood Jazz Club in West Sussex.

Swing Band Special Wedding and Party Offers

admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:36:18 +0000

Don’t miss our fabulous special offers for October and November 2011. See our swing band special offers page for details.

Don’t iPod DJ Your Own Wedding!

admin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:04:00 +0000

A new trend that’s often talked about on “weddings on a shoe-string” websites is using the iPod to DJ your own wedding.

PLEASE DON’T DO IT! It’s a clumsy and wholly inappropriate tool for the job at hand. You have a gap between tracks which, coupled with a 10 second fade out on lots of contemporary songs, can leave your guests standing around the dance-floor like lemons.

If you’re thinking of going the DIY route, use iTunes or some other kind of DJ software on a laptop. This provides a far easier means of searching a database of songs and allows for changing playlists on the go.

You’ll then have to rent a top-quality sound system. The home stereo that sounds deafening in your lounge just won’t cut it in a large hall. Then there’s the venue in-house sound system that you might think is a good idea. It is not! Ceiling speakers are for elevator music.

Believe us, your wedding day is no time for fumbling with wires, speakers and iPods – you’re supposed to be enjoying yourselves!

We believe that iPods are great for background music between a band’s live sets or while you’re guests are eating. For that, they are invaluable.

Simply Swing’s Band and Disco Service

For our disco it’s a professional DJ program everytime. It’s run from a laptop computer and plays through our state-of-the-art Bose L1 sound system.

Brought to you at a fraction of the cost of an outside DJ – this is the way to DJ your “Wedding on a shoe-string”.

Simply Swing uses Bose Sound System

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:54:52 +0000

Another really busy summer and even the holiday season was bursting with events for Simply Swing. So much so that we decided to splash out on a new PA system. Our recent purchase of the Bose L1 sound system has been an amazing addition to the band. The sound was just knock-out on Saturday night and when our Disco was played through it, the sound was truly amazing. The Bose system has enabled the band to be set up in record time as we no longer have fold-back monitors to set up and lots of cables trailing across the stage. Not only is the sound incredible but it looks really space age and sexy (if, indeed you can call a sound system sexy!). Simply Swing recommends Bose.