Weddings

 If you have made the decision that you would like some live music at any part of your wedding, then Shimmer can help. Because Shimmer offer both acoustic, and sequenced styles of music, we can cover any part of your wedding day; from easy listening background music at your ceremony, through to up-tempo dance music at your wedding reception.

Below, we will cover three of the most common parts of a wedding where you may want to include some sort of entertainment/music. Of course we do not restrict ourselves to just these mentioned, the wedding structure is entirely up to you! Shimmer will liaise and have numerous in-depth discussions with you though out the period approaching your big day to make sure everything will be exactly as you wish.

 
Wedding Ceremony

At your wedding ceremony, many people like the idea of some live background music to be performed as light entertainment as your guests arrive. Below is just one example of how you may want to format the entertainment/music aspect of your ceremony.

Shimmer can begin by performing some of our light acoustic material, as your guests arrive and wait for the bridal party.  This makes for a more relaxing ambience, which your guests are sure to appreciate.

When your bridal party arrives, you may then have a special song that you would like to have played as the party makes their entrance. Here you have the choice of Shimmer performing this, or alternatively, often a more popular choice, is to arrange for Shimmer to play a CD of your song, which allow for an easier “fade out” effect once the party is ready for the ceremony to being, since the song does not normally see its completion.

 Once the ceremony is complete, you may want Shimmer to perform a song while the marriage certificate is signed, and then again once you have been announced Bride and Groom. Shimmer may then continue with some more light music for the congratulations, and as the party leave the ceremony.

Of course, this is just an outline example, and you may want to arrange things completely differently, Shimmer will quite happy to discuss and organize a completely different set of events.

 
Pre-dinner Drinks

After the ceremony, and before the reception formally begins, a Bride and Groom may want to have some pre-dinner drinks, and, may also like Shimmer to provide some more background acoustic music at this part of the day. Pre-dinner drinks may either be in either the same room as the reception, or could actually be in another room, such as an entrance hallway, at the same venue. Whichever it is, Shimmer will discuss and organize this with you.

If you are booking Shimmer for both pre-dinner drinks, and for the shortly to follow reception, we can setup two different sets of sound equipment, so that all we need to do is transfer the onstage instruments and microphones from one room to another. This is just one of the details that we will discuss with you when organizing the day.

Wedding Reception

 This part of the day/evening often has the most “events” within it. Apart from the live music that Shimmer can provide for you, we will discuss with you the proposed layout for the whole evening, and liaise closely with the MC on the night to make sure everything fits together smoothly. Shimmer will need to fit in both the live performances, as well as the in-between CD/DJ music with other events such as

• People being seated
• The arrival of the wedding party
• The entrance of the Bride and Groom
• Various announcement, such as the serving of meals
• Speeches
• Any games and event that may be organized (for example Garter, single mans games, Bouquet)
• Cake cutting
• Bridal waltz
• Bride and Groom leaving

 This is just an example list, yours may include just some of these, some others not included here, or completely different! Some of the events, you may want Shimmer to play a certain song, either live, or have us play a certain CD track.

 The wedding reception is where Shimmer’s versatility really comes into play. Typically, the initial part of the night, before the bridal waltz and the dancing part of the night, Shimmer can continue with a relaxing acoustic selection of songs, with mellow easy listening CD music between the live performances, while people mingle talk, and have dinner. Then once the night comes to the time of the bridal waltz, and then after a few slower songs (that Shimmer can also perform), Shimmer can switch from acoustic music to our up-tempo sequenced mode of playing, which is more suited to dancing. All members of Shimmer have years of experience playing in rock/pop bands, so this playing this style come as natural as the acoustic.

 In Summary

 Hopefully, the above should give you some idea of how Shimmer can be of service to you on your wedding day, whether it be just one, two, all of the above, or some other part of your wedding that you feel Shimmer can provide entertainment for you.

 Zowie, of Shimmer, is our main coordinator of organizing the entertainment aspect of your wedding day, and being a recent bride herself, knows what it is like to be on the “other side of the wedding fence”, so to speak. She is fully understanding of how much is there is to organize for a Bride and Groom to be, and will help you get the maximum benefit from having Shimmer look after the entertainment part of the day. We also understand, how plans can change, and even on the night, how most often things don’t quite go to schedule, but Shimmer expect this and just work around the night.

 We hope that Shimmer can be part of your most special day, and help to make it one that you, and your guests will remember with upmost fondness.