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A string quartet costs $1,200 for one hour or $1,600 for two, and that figure is printed on the After Hours site rather than hidden behind a form. String trios are $1,000 an hour or $1,300 for two. Jazz trios and quartets are priced by the hour too, and so is a solo vocalist, sax, keys, guitar or violin. This is ceremony and cocktail hour music, sold by the hour.
afterhoursent.com/ceremony_cocktail_hour_music_options.phpThe string trio is violin, viola and cello at $1,000 per hour or $1,300 for two hours. The quartet adds a second violin, or a flute, at the higher hourly rate. The jazz trio is bass, sax and drums at $1,200 an hour; the jazz quartet adds keys at $1,500. Steel drum bands scale from one to five players at $600 to $1,500. An officiant is $600.
String ensembles charge $50 per song for sheet-music arrangements. If your processional is a pop song that is not in their book, that fee applies per title, so several custom pieces add up. Ask which songs are already arranged before you build a playlist. Solo musicians are billed per hour, and the site lists solo vocalist, saxophone, keys, guitar and violin at one flat hourly rate.
Specialty acts listed include a Sinatra vocalist and a Travolta impersonator, and steel drum bands are a named specialty. A percussionist, saxophonist or vocalist playing alongside the company's DJ for four hours is $800. The company sells the reception as a DJ with live accents, and the ensembles above are for the ceremony and cocktail hour. Couples wanting a full band for the whole reception should ask what the company can source and at what rate, since none is priced on this page.
Silver Arrow is sold by headcount, three pieces to fourteen, and the headcount sets the price.
An agency, not a band: Hank Lane books from a roster, and the specific band and vocalists should be named in your contract.