Music advice

My advice would be to move dinner to 5:00 and cut the wait between the ceremony and dinner. We're having our ceremony at 3:00, open bar and appetizers at 3:30 when people can mingle and talk, and dinner at 5:00. We have a classical guitarist and wedding singer for the ceremony, guitarist for cocktail hour, and DJ playing soft music during dinner, and then dance music afterward.

No LOL. We are walking down the aisle to Jesu Joy of Man's Desire and Pachel in Cannon D. We wanted violins but part of the wedding package we are paying for has keyboard and sax. This is good since I did not know we had this as part of the package even though I read the package.

I figured the sax and keyboard can play that too but it would have been nicer with violins.

I wanted the cuban local band to play while guests are drinking cava after the ceremony and having appetizers.

Now I do not know how long this Will be. I am having a hard time figuring out what guests can do between 2:45 p.m and 6:30 p.m. as they will be at a resort but will be wearing suits, dresses and it will be 35C. Need to work more on logistical stuff.

Depending upon what music you've chosen, does a saxophone fit into your ceremony? I love the idea of violins during dinner, and a Cuban band during cocktail hour. Sounds like a lot of fun.

This is exactly what I was thinking too . I will have to get more details on why we cannot have any music at the cocktail reception immediately following the ceremony. As dinner may be hard to hear people speaking especially since we have many seniors who are hard of hearing to begin with.

I think that having a band play throughout dinner could make the noise levels increase significantly. People will be already talking and then trying to talk over the band as well. That might be something to keep in mind. I think having too many different types of live music might be distracting as well. I would say pick one and maybe just do it during the cocktail hour.