Photo by The Taylors
I often preach about how important it is to feel like you really know and love with the suppliers you've booked for your wedding day, after all it's a day full of emotions with a huge build up, and a day you'll look back on with great fondness. It's so important to surround yourself with people who will have your back, and you know will treat you and your wedding with the love and care it deserves. I love to find out about our couples, what makes them tick, about their love story, and how music plays a part in that, so it feels like it's only fair that you get to find out who we are, and our journey to being the musicians we are today!
For those of you who don't already know, or that are wondering, yes we are a couple. We've been together for 7 years, and met on our second day of university (studying music obvs). Although our story begins at this point, our musical journeys began many years prior.
We're both so lucky to have parents who are really into music, Josh was brought up on a mixture of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and The Grateful Dead, beginning piano lessons at the age of 7, before moving onto guitar, bass, and drums. When I first met him, and realised what a talented person he was, I knew he was someone I wanted to hang around with - haha! I've said my entire life that I wanted to be a singer, and had pretty much no goals in life other than that. I would recreate concerts in my bedroom, audition for every school production, and was obsessed with Hannah Montana. I took a year out between college and university whilst I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, and during this time I would gig at local pubs and festivals, and take part in am-dram productions.
After meeting for the first time, we ended up catching the same train home together, and I absolutely talked Josh's ear off, meaning he was forced to become my friend. It was actually Josh who first suggested we gig together, and we started out playing songs by all our favourite bands - Muse, Keane, Coldplay - and a version of Can't Help Falling In Love that I absolutely loved, and was insistent that we had to do. To this day it's still our most requested song. We did our first gig together in November 2016, which was terrible, as first gigs often are, but it could only go up from there. Throughout uni we performed anywhere that would take us - pubs, clubs, food festivals, charity events, and a handful of weddings. We also started writing and performing in an original rock band, performing at venues throughout Manchester, and releasing music on streaming services. Those were some of the most fun gigs we've ever played.
When I said waiter to wedding singer in the title, I was not joking. Although we were gigging throughout uni, we both had a variety of part time jobs - waitress, delivery driver, barman, shop assistant, zombie at an escape room (for literally one shift, but it was great) - anything that would work around doing music! We graduated in 2019 on our three year anniversary, both with degrees in Professional Musicianship.
With the handful of weddings we had already performed at being so lovely, we wanted to do more, and so 2020 was going to be our first proper year as wedding musicians. We had 10 weddings in the diary for that year, and felt super confident that this was what we wanted to do...well we all know how 2020 went. However, once we were all allowed to go out and celebrate again, our wedding bookings went through the roof, and we very quickly went from having nothing in the diary, to having a full diary, and traveling all over the country to perform - Josh had to quit his job as a delivery driver because he couldn't get the time off he needed for the weddings we had.
Now here we are, in 2024, having performed at hundreds of weddings all over the UK, and watched so many gorgeous couples celebrate their love stories. Every single wedding to us is special, every single song request has a story, and there is always something new to discover everyday. We've seen weddings of all variety of cultures and tradition, many a dog as a ring bearer, and many a guest moved to tears during the ceremony. It's such a unique industry to work in, and not something we even thought was possible to make our full time work, but we count ourselves lucky to be able to make a living doing what we've spent our entire lives doing, and to do it with each other ❤️
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