The things couples actually ask.

Send an enquiry with your date, venue and the package you are leaning towards. Abbey or I will come back with a quote covering exactly what you need. To lock the date in, you accept the quote, sign the contract and pay a booking fee. The balance is due a month before the wedding.

As early as you can. I only take one wedding a day and there is only one of me, so popular dates go one to two years ahead. If your date is close, ask anyway. It costs nothing to check.

Almost certainly. I am regularly at venues including Caversham House, Chapel Farm Estate, Mardella Meadows, Sandalford Wines and Brookleigh Estate, along with many more. Dunes Beach Resort has only just opened for weddings and I have five booked there already. If yours is somewhere I have not played, that is completely normal and not a problem. I will just ask a few more questions about power, space and where the ceremony sits.

Yes. However, if your venue is more than an hour from Perth there is a travel fee, which I fold into your quote so the number you see is the number you pay. Tell me the venue when you enquire and it will be included.

No, the hours in each package are performance time. I arrive well before I am due to start, set up quietly and get everything ready, and I pack down after the last song. Your runsheet sets the arrival time so it never eats into the music.

Not for your ceremony or cocktail hour. That set-up is battery-powered and wireless, so you can get married riverside, in a paddock or on a beach. The reception DJ set-up does need one standard powerpoint, and I bring my own leads and powerboard.

Everything. You supply nothing. That means a battery-powered PA for the ceremony, and for the reception a full powered PA with column speakers and subs, a DJ booth and controller, dance floor lighting, and a wireless microphone for speeches and MCing.

Yes. On the larger packages I bring more than one system. The battery-powered ceremony rig is small and quick to move, so it usually follows you from the ceremony across to cocktail hour. The reception DJ set-up is a bigger job: it takes about an hour and a half to build and stays put once it is up, so I normally have it ready before your ceremony even starts.

Less than most people expect. The ceremony set-up needs about one metre square, small and unobtrusive. The reception set-up needs around two metres square, ideally as close to the dance floor as possible. One request: try not to seat a table directly in front of the speakers, particularly older guests with hearing aids.

If I am with you over your meal service and playing for four hours or more, yes please, a vendor meal. I take about thirty minutes while your guests are eating, and a Spotify playlist covers the room so the music never actually stops.

Not as standard. Celebrants almost always bring their own microphone and small PA. My ceremony set-up only has the channels I need for live music. If your celebrant does not have their own, I can bring a separate PA and wireless microphone. That is an add-on, currently $330 including GST.

Both, which is the whole point. I work as a Perth wedding singer for your ceremony and cocktail hour, then as a Perth wedding DJ once the dancing starts, and I MC the night in between. Most couples book all three from one person rather than hiring three separate acts, three contracts and three sets of timings.

Announcements, introductions, and the quiet timing calls that keep a reception moving. Knowing when to bring speeches forward because dinner ran late, or hold the cake cut for five minutes. If you would rather a friend did it, I will sit beside them and make sure they never feel stranded.

Yes. Most Perth venues ask their vendors for a certificate of currency before the day. If yours does, tell me and I will send it straight through to them.

I bring a backup for everything. My equipment is of the highest standard and if something was to fail, it gets swapped out and the night keeps moving.

I have never once cancelled a wedding, and it would take something going badly wrong for that to change. If the worst did happen, you would not be left to sort it out. Between my own team at Wedding Music Perth and long-standing relationships with most of the good acts in this city, we would find you someone suitable.

Yes, over a video or phone call. Most couples find email covers everything and never need one. However, I am happy to have a call a couple of weeks out and run through your completed documents together.

A booking fee secures your date, and the balance is due a month before the wedding. If you would rather chip away at it in instalments, or pay it off early, that is completely fine, just let us know so we can send you a receipt each time. All payments are made by bank transfer.

Yes. One special request is included in every package, and it is genuinely my favourite part of the job. Tell me the song and I will learn it properly and perform it live. Extra requests can be added if there is more than one that matters to you.

Your Music Document is due three months before the wedding. That gives me time to learn your special request, prepare your DJ playlist and plan the rest of the day around the songs you have chosen.

Absolutely, I customise every playlist to suit you and your guests because I want you to have a great time dancing to your favourite songs. The Music Document has space for your favourite songs, songs to play if there is time and a do-not-play list. You can also tell me the artists, genres and decades you love. I take all of that and then read the room on the night. After DJing at 350+ weddings I have a pretty good idea of how to keep your dance floor full all night long.

If you want me to, yes. Some couples love it and some would rather the music stayed exactly as planned. It is your call, and we settle it before the day so I know where you stand when someone asks. If you ask for one on the night, of course I will play it right away. If it is a guest asking, I will play it when it fits, and if it does not fit I will tell them and see if they have another suggestion that will work better.