Live music vs dj music

We are doing a live band. I personally love live music and the feeling it gives so it was an easy one for me. But keeping it intimate and small just a duo, guitar and vocals and I believe they have a system where they can incorporate different instruments in to liven it up for some dancing (looping)!

When I attend weddings I really take note of the entertainment/dance/music portion so this was important to us : )

The venue is set up with speakers and a plug to connect to devices, plus I got my friends husband as MC so he's in charge also very tech savvy

We are saving money on this department, I have spotify with the lists on my iPad and just going to plug it in and hit play.

It was and about 3 events they had him doing enteratainment.

We had a DJ for our wedding as most wedding attended the same. Some chose to have a live band and/or singer to make the events even more special. Indian culture is costly since the singer for the destination wedding came from India to Thailand. He had a blast when not performing.

We are having a DJ for both ceremony and reception.

We did DJ but for the ceremony, chose songs that made it feel like live music (a lot of sax and violin covers). We needed the DJ so run other sound cues that a band or musician wouldn't have been able to do so we opted to not go with live music to save money. Though in hindsight, having a live musician vs a DJ might have made certain things go a bit more smoothly on the day of.

I sang my wife down the aisle so I suppose that's "live music" lol.

We are going DIY with Spotify. I had been to a few that went this route and we had a blast so Im snagging those playlists and working with them to create our own. This can always be a fun way to remember the night, as I'll have this playlist for as long as I have a spotify account haha

We're doing a Spotify playlist and a family member to press play/pause. If budget and space would have allowed, we would have loved to have a live band.