Who's Directing?

Who's Directing?

So you're considering hiring a Typical Wedding Band, but when it comes to managing the pacing and flow of your reception's agenda, Who's Directing? A Typical Wedding Band will be able to play music, and they might even make the announcements for you, but will they be able to play their instruments and guide and direct your reception events at the same time? Who will make sure the cake knife is at the cake table before your cake cutting is announced? Who will let your parents know in advance to be ready for their special dances with you? A good wedding coordinator might, and a Wedding Entertainment Director™ will for sure, but a Typical Wedding Band won't have the time, manpower, or skill to direct your reception because their job is all about playing the music.

Your reception can flow smoothly like a well directed stage play, or it can drag along with unexpected stalls that drain the energy out of the room and make your guests begin to think about leaving early. The primary difference between these two outcomes relates entirely to the question, Who's Directing? The Director is the person who understands your agenda better than any of your other vendors. It could be a professional coordinator, a friend or relative who has offered to help out, or it could be a Wedding Entertainment Director™ who specializes in creating reception agendas and checking the details behind the scenes to make sure that your agenda actually flows smoothly.

Ask any Typical Wedding Band how they manage the details of your agenda and if they say they will direct your reception's events, ask them to tell you how? If this is a service they regularly offer, then they will most likely have a detailed reception direction checklist to verify this. If they cannot produce such a checklist, then they are most likely winging it and hoping nothing will go wrong. Experience has shown us that those who "wing it" tend to run into problems a lot more often than those that are prepared and are double-checking the details.

Above all else, make sure that person you select to direct your reception events has a clear understanding of entertainment. A director who only knows the catering side of receptions, will not notice if the guests are getting restless because the agenda is lagging. A coordinator whose expertise is centered more around producing and decorating might be able to create a visually stunning reception that may also be rather boring. But a Wedding Entertainment Director™ will know how to make sure your reception will be entertaining all the way through.

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