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Silver Arrow is sold by headcount, three pieces to fourteen, and the headcount sets the price. Nothing is published on their own site. WeddingWire lists $2,300 as the starting figure, and that is the lowest full band entry on its Long Island page, where starting prices climb to $11,000. The company has operated since 2012 and is based in Brooklyn.
silverarrowband.comWeddingWire's Long Island band listings start between $2,000 and $11,000. The credible full band cluster on that page sits at $5,000 to $11,000. Silver Arrow's $2,300 is at the bottom of the whole page. All of those are marketplace figures.
Read that alongside an ensemble that scales from three pieces to fourteen and the arithmetic answers itself. The plain reading is that $2,300 buys the small end of the range, and a fourteen piece booking will not resemble it. Ask what size $2,300 corresponds to before you treat it as the price of a band.
There is no second number to check it against. The Knot's Long Island band page shows tier symbols across 45 listings and no dollars. For scale only, The Knot puts the New York City region average for a live band at $9,530 and the outer boroughs at $7,600, both marketplace.
A ten piece on a quote sheet can mean two lead vocalists and a horn section, or one vocalist and a lot of rhythm players. Those are different rooms on the night. Get the instrumentation written into the contract, position by position.
Get the vocalists named there too. Companies that book from a roster substitute performers as a matter of routine, and a demo reel is no protection against it. Ask for video of the specific singers working a live reception, not a produced studio cut.
Silver Arrow bundles in-house photography, videography and lighting with the band and runs an online event dashboard for planning. Last-minute availability is a listed specialty, which is genuinely useful if an act cancels on you in the spring.
A bundle is convenient and it is also hard to price against anything. Ask for each element quoted as its own line so the photography figure can be held next to a dedicated Long Island photographer's rate, and so you can drop what you do not want without renegotiating the band.
Overtime on a large ensemble is charged per musician, so running thirty minutes long at fourteen pieces is expensive fast. Larger bands also take scheduled breaks, and somebody has to cover them, usually recorded music or a DJ. Ask who, and ask whether that person costs extra.
Load-in, staging, power and a meal for every musician are usually the couple's expense, and they often sit in the venue's contract rather than the band's. Several Long Island catering halls cap stage size, which quietly caps how many pieces will physically fit. Confirm the stage footprint with your venue before you buy musicians who cannot stand anywhere.
The stated service area covers Manhattan, Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, Boston and New England, with worldwide travel offered. WeddingWire places the company in Brooklyn. No Long Island venue is named anywhere on the pages we read.
No East End travel fee is published either, and the difference between a Garden City date and a Montauk date is real for a group that size. Ask for the travel and lodging line in writing for your actual address.
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.
An agency, not a band: Hank Lane books from a roster, and the specific band and vocalists should be named in your contract.