We started this lovely sunny June day by setting off from Sheffield at 9 am on route to The Ashford International hotel in Kent.
After some extremely heavy traffic and major delays on the notorious M25! We arrived still in good time for the Wedding Breakfast entertainment.
We set up our equipment on the large stage in the room, and Christine & Martin came into the room at 3pm with all their family and friends. It was quite a large wedding with approx 200 guests.
I started the afternoon playing a collection of love songs chosen by Christine and Martin.
The speeches were performed almost immediately with Lee acting as master of ceremonies, introducing all the speeches and helping the nervous speakers with their speeches!
After the speeches Lee performed a 45 minute set of songs chosen by Christine and Martin including some great tracks such as: Everything I do I do it for you - Bryan Adams, Can you feel the love tonight - Elton John, Don't want to miss a thing - Aerosmith. He received some raucous applause for his performance throughout the Wedding Breakfast which was brilliant! I then followed with background music chosen by Christine and Martin for the rest of the meal.
The guests retired after the meal and the fantastic staff at the hotel changed the room around ready for the evening reception.
We started playing music again around 6.30 pm.
Christine and Martin performed their first dance at 8pm which was an acoustic version of Bruno Mars' Just the Way you are. I had to re-master the backing track for Lee to perform this song which was a track of simply piano and guitar, requested by Christine. It worked perfectly and the song was completely unique to them.
Christine and Martin also had our Low Fog machine as an extra for their first dance along with our Projected monogramme of their names and wedding date onto the dance floor which created some fantastic photo's.
After the first dance Lee continued with his first set of songs again chosen by Christine and Martin, for the second live song of the night they had our bubble machine as an extra to create a brilliant atmosphere. Our bubble machine is an industrial one so it creates a massive spray of bubbles which was so effective on their photo's.
The night went brilliantly with Lee performing some brilliant live cover versions of Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon, Human - The Killers mixed with some old classics like I am the one and only - Chesney Hawkes and Everybody - The Blues Brothers. We provided the entertainment with a mixture of live vocals form Lee and Disco and light show from me until 1am.
I think we arrived back home at around 7am the following morning after a very long drive.
We had a brilliant time performing for Christine and Martin and we hope they will be eternally happy together!
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