Half-Day & Full-Day Packages
Our half-day package is the perfect solution for couples who want professional live music for a defined, focused portion of their wedding without committing to a full-day booking. Spanning approximately three to four hours, this package is most commonly used to cover the ceremony and cocktail hour, or alternatively a shorter reception where the priority is quality entertainment within a compact timeframe.
Every half-day booking receives the same meticulous preparation as a full event. Our musicians arrive early to set up and sound check, confirm all cues with your coordinator, and ensure that every musical moment within the package window is delivered with the precision and warmth your wedding deserves. A shorter booking never means a lesser experience with Red Soda Band.
The full-day package is our most comprehensive offering and represents the complete Red Soda experience from first note to last. Beginning with a gentle prelude as your guests take their seats and ending with the final song of the evening reception, this package creates an unbroken musical journey through every stage of your wedding day — intimate, celebratory, romantic, and euphoric in exactly the right sequence.
Within a full-day booking, we manage the musical arc of your entire day as a single cohesive experience. The emotional tone shifts naturally from the ceremony's quiet tenderness to the cocktail hour's relaxed elegance, through the warmth of the dinner set, and into the full energy of the evening reception — and our musicians carry that narrative with skill and intention throughout.
One of the most underappreciated benefits of a full-day package is consistency. When the same team manages your music from beginning to end, there is a unified feel to the entire day that guests sense even if they cannot articulate it. Nothing feels disjointed, out of place, or like it belongs to a different event.
Both packages include a pre-wedding consultation, a fully customised set list, all setup and pack-down time, and a final planning call six to eight weeks before your date. You receive a detailed written confirmation of every aspect of your package so there are no surprises and no ambiguity when your wedding day arrives.
For couples whose needs sit between a half-day and full-day booking, we also offer flexible time-based extensions so you can add hours to your package with precision. Our approach is always to make sure you get exactly what you need — never more than your budget allows and never less than your vision requires.
Ceremony + Reception Combos
Our Ceremony and Reception Combo packages are the most popular choice among Red Soda Band clients, and it is easy to understand why. By combining two of the most musically significant parts of your wedding day into one seamless booking, you gain both a cohesive musical experience and meaningful savings compared to arranging each segment separately.
When your ceremony and reception music are handled by the same team, the entire day breathes together as a single, unified event. There is no jarring stylistic shift between your processional and your first dance, no communication breakdown between separate vendors, and no moment where the music feels like it belongs to a different wedding. Everything flows because one skilled, coordinated team is managing the full picture.
Acoustic to Full Band Progression
The most requested combo pairing at Red Soda Band places a solo acoustic performer or intimate string duo at the ceremony, followed by a full band for the reception. This progression from quiet emotional beauty to vibrant, high-energy celebration mirrors the natural emotional journey of the wedding day and consistently creates one of the most dramatically satisfying musical experiences we deliver.
Consistent Core Musicians
For couples who prefer sonic consistency across the day, we offer combo packages built around the same core musicians performing across both segments — adapting their instrumentation, style, and energy to suit each context. The familiar voices and sound carry a thread of intimacy through the entire day that guests often describe as the element that made the wedding feel most personal.
Our combo packages include coordinated setup and changeover scheduling, shared set list planning across ceremony and reception, a single consultation process that covers the full day, and one point of contact throughout. Simplicity and quality delivered together is what our combo packages are fundamentally about.
Because ceremony and reception combos are booked as integrated packages rather than two separate services, our team has the full context of your day when making every musical decision. Song choices for the cocktail hour are influenced by where the ceremony ended emotionally. Reception energy is built with knowledge of how the ceremony felt. That holistic awareness produces a better result than any two vendors working independently ever could.
Every combo package is fully customisable — down to the number of musicians, the genres represented, the specific songs performed, and the timing of every set. There is no template you are required to follow and no element of your package that cannot be adjusted to better serve your vision for the day.
Band Sizes & Options
The size of your band shapes everything — the volume of sound, the energy in the room, the range of genres you can cover convincingly, and the visual impression your entertainment makes on your guests. Red Soda Band offers configurations from a single brilliant solo performer all the way up to an eight-piece ensemble, giving you genuine choice across every style and scale of wedding.
Solo Performer
Our solo performer option delivers something no larger configuration can replicate — radical intimacy. A single exceptional vocalist, guitarist, or pianist creates a connection with the room that is deeply personal and emotionally direct. Solo performances are ideal for small ceremonies, cocktail hours, or dinner sets where the music is meant to be felt quietly rather than danced to, and our soloists are genuinely world-class at creating that atmosphere.
Duo
The duo configuration offers a step up in sonic richness while maintaining the adaptability that suits smaller venues and more intimate settings. Typically pairing a vocalist with a guitarist or pianist, our duos deliver melody, harmony, and genuine performance energy in a compact format that works beautifully for ceremonies of almost any size and for cocktail hours where conversation and music need to coexist comfortably.
Three-Piece Band
Our three-piece band adds a rhythm section to the duo's foundation, introducing drums or percussion and transforming the sound into something with genuine groove and drive. This configuration covers pop, jazz, folk, and light rock convincingly and is an excellent choice for couples who want a band feel without the footprint or cost of a larger ensemble.
Four-Piece Band
The four-piece band is our most popular reception configuration and consistently the best value for mid-to-large receptions. With full drums, bass, guitar, and lead vocals, this lineup delivers a professional, powerful live music experience that can fill a dance floor with confidence and cover an enormous range of genres — from classic rock to contemporary pop to soul and R&B — without compromise.
Six & Eight-Piece Ensembles
Adding brass, additional vocals, or keys takes the four-piece into six or eight-piece territory and produces a sound that is genuinely jaw-dropping in the right setting. These larger ensembles are built for ballrooms, large outdoor venues, and couples who want their live band to be the defining feature of the reception — a performance that guests talk about for years because it was simply that good.
Regardless of which band size you choose, every Red Soda musician is a professional with extensive wedding experience. We guide you toward the configuration that best serves your venue, your guest count, your musical vision, and your budget — and we are always honest when a smaller, better-executed configuration will outperform a larger, overstretched one.
Add-ons & Extras
Our add-ons and extras exist to fill gaps, elevate specific moments, and give you creative options that take your wedding music experience beyond the core package. Every add-on is priced transparently, delivered with the same professionalism as our main services, and available to discuss freely during your consultation with no pressure to include anything that does not genuinely serve your day.
Late-Night DJ
Our late-night DJ add-on is the most popular extra we offer, and for good reason. When your live band completes their final set, our in-house DJ takes over seamlessly — maintaining the energy, reading the room, and keeping your dance floor full right through to the end of the night. The transition from live band to DJ is handled by our own team, which means no awkward gaps, no style mismatch, and no handover anxiety.
Live String Overlay
For couples who want a showstopping reception centrepiece, our live string overlay add-on places a violin or string duo on stage during selected reception songs, performing live over the band's rhythm section for a cinematic, breathtaking effect that stops guests in their tracks. This is one of our most dramatic and memorable offerings and is particularly stunning during the first dance or a special dedication.
MC & Host
Our MC and host add-on integrates an experienced, charismatic emcee from within the Red Soda family into your reception programme. Having your MC connected directly to your band creates a polished, fluid evening where announcements, energy building, and entertainment feel orchestrated rather than interrupted. Your MC knows the music, knows the timing, and knows how to read a room — because they have been doing it alongside our musicians all night.
Sound & Lighting Package
A professional sound and lighting package is available for venues that do not have their own audio-visual infrastructure. We supply, install, and fully manage a high-quality PA system, atmospheric LED uplighting, and in some configurations, intelligent lighting that pulses and responds to the live music. The result is a visually spectacular reception environment that amplifies the emotional impact of every performance.
Ceremony Live Streaming
We also offer a ceremony live streaming add-on for couples with international guests or loved ones who cannot attend in person. Our technical team sets up a discreet, high-quality audio and video feed that allows remote guests to experience your ceremony in real time — including all the live music — without any distraction or intrusion to the ceremony itself.
Custom Song Arrangement
Custom song arrangement is available for particularly complex requests — an original composition, a deeply personalised mashup, or a multi-part arrangement for a larger ensemble that requires significant preparation time. We are always transparent about when a request falls outside standard repertoire learning, and any arrangement fee is agreed in advance and clearly documented in your quote.
Every extra you add to your package is fully briefed, rehearsed, and confirmed before your wedding day. Add-ons are not afterthoughts at Red Soda Band — they are carefully integrated into the full musical experience of your day so they land exactly as intended, every single time.
Pricing & Quotes
Transparency is the foundation of how Red Soda Band approaches pricing. We believe you deserve to know exactly what you are paying for, exactly what is included, and exactly why the investment reflects the experience you will receive. There are no hidden fees, no vague estimates, and no line items that require decoding — just honest, clear pricing built around your specific needs.
Our pricing is determined by four primary variables: the musician configuration you choose, the duration of your booking, the date and location of your wedding, and any add-ons or extras you select. Each of these is discussed openly during your initial consultation so you have a full and accurate picture of the investment involved before you make any commitments or sign anything.
Solo & Duo Packages
Solo and duo packages represent our most accessible price tier and are built to deliver a genuinely premium live music experience at a cost that works for couples managing tighter budgets without wanting to sacrifice quality. These are not budget compromises — they are expertly crafted, beautifully performed experiences that simply require fewer musicians to deliver.
Four-Piece Band Packages
Our four-piece band packages sit in the mid-tier range and represent the point where live music investment delivers its highest return for most couples. The combination of full-band sound, versatile genre coverage, and high dance floor energy at this price point is one of the most compelling propositions in the wedding entertainment industry, and our clients consistently tell us it exceeded what they expected to receive.
Premium Packages
Premium packages — including six and eight-piece bands, full-day bookings, and combo packages with multiple add-ons — are priced at the upper tier and designed for couples for whom live music is the centrepiece of the wedding experience. These packages deliver something genuinely exceptional and are priced fairly relative to the scale, preparation time, and performance quality involved.
All quotes are fully itemised and sent within 48 hours of your initial consultation. Your quote clearly separates musician fees, travel costs for destination or out-of-city weddings, equipment and technical fees, and any applicable add-ons so you can review each component individually and make informed adjustments. Quotes are valid for 30 days, giving you time to compare, consider, and return with questions.
To receive your personalised quote, simply contact us via the Red Soda Band website or call our team directly in Sydney or Toronto. A brief consultation — usually 20 to 30 minutes — is all we need to build you a quote that is accurate, specific, and genuinely reflective of the wedding music experience you are trying to create.
How to Customise Your Package
Customising your Red Soda Band package is a genuinely enjoyable process — one that many of our clients describe as one of the most satisfying parts of their entire wedding planning journey. We have designed it to be simple, collaborative, and creatively engaging from the very first conversation to the final confirmation call before your big day.
It begins with your initial consultation, a relaxed and unhurried conversation where we learn who you are as a couple, what you love about music, what your venue looks like, how your day is structured, and what feeling you want your guests to walk away with. We listen far more than we talk in this first meeting because the best packages are built on a deep understanding of the people they are designed for.
Following your consultation, we prepare a preliminary package proposal that outlines musician configurations, approximate timing for each set, suggested song directions, and relevant add-ons based on everything you have shared with us. This is a starting point built specifically for you, not a template pulled from a drawer — and every element of it is open to revision, refinement, and creative expansion.
Song selection is handled through our online client portal, which you gain access to after your initial booking. Here you can explore our full repertoire, flag favourite songs, submit special requests, and leave notes about specific moments in your ceremony or reception where certain songs feel meaningful. Many couples spend genuinely enjoyable evenings on this platform together, which we consider a lovely bonus of the process.
We schedule a final planning call six to eight weeks before your wedding to lock in all confirmed details — final set lists, exact timing for each segment, coordinator contacts, venue access logistics, and any last-minute creative additions. By the time this call ends, every musical decision for your day is agreed, documented, and in the hands of our full team for rehearsal and preparation.
On the day itself, our musicians arrive fully prepared but remain genuinely responsive to the real-time rhythm of your celebration. If your ceremony runs long, if the dance floor fills ahead of schedule, or if a spontaneous song request emerges from a particularly enthusiastic guest, we adapt with professionalism and ease. Preparation and flexibility are not opposites at Red Soda Band — they are what we deliver together.
The best wedding music package you will ever book is the one that was built around your actual wedding — your songs, your timeline, your energy, and your love story. That is the only kind of package Red Soda Band knows how to build, and we invite you to start that conversation with us today.