How to Become a Wedding Singer and Start Your Own Business
Business Overview:
If you love weddings and are a great singer, consider combining your passions by learning how to become a wedding singer and start your own business. Weddings are big business and brides always want to find the perfect flowers, the perfect dress and the perfect entertainment. Their options for entertainment typically include DJs spinning old standards and bands with questionable singing talent. Starting a business featuring your singing talents or that of singers you hire can turn a mediocre wedding reception into the talk of the town. It’s important that you (or your singers) know a wide variety of songs and know what songs are most popular at weddings. You will meet with the wedding party (usually this is the bride and her parents) to discuss a playlist well before the event. You should have a list of all the songs you know well but be open to learning new songs if the bride requests songs not on your list. For an extra charge, you can also offer to change the lyrics to a song to fit the bride and groom. When thinking about marketing, it’s a good idea to create a website featuring your song list as well as high quality videos of your singing performances. This will help speed up the interview process if potential clients know how talented you are before you meet. Next, you need to make contact with event planners and wedding coordinators in your area and ask them to refer their clients to you if they’re looking for a singer for their wedding. As mentioned above, if you are not the best singer but you do see the potential of a wedding singer business, you can hire talented singers to work for you. This would allow your business to take multiple jobs at the same time. Weddings typically take place on weekends so it’s possible, especially during the “wedding season” of spring, to have multiple events booked on the same day. Hiring singers with different singing styles will also help attract a variety of customers. Depending on your area, a singer who can sing in Spanish or French may be very marketable. As you can see, there are a variety of things that go into making this business idea a success. But with talented singers and excellent marketing, your schedule will fill quickly.
A Day in the Life of a Wedding Singer Business Owner:
Your day will begin by checking your schedule. You will meet with brides (or other members of the wedding party) throughout the day and you (or your singers) will sing for them. On the day of a wedding, you (or your singer) will arrive early and set up the equipment. After the wedding, you will pack up your equipment and collect your final payment from someone in the wedding party.
About Your Customers:
Your customers will be wedding parties looking for skilled singers to perform at their wedding receptions.
What You Need to Start:
- Excellent singing skills (or a staff of singers)
- Marketing materials
- Website
- Equipment (speakers, microphone, music player)
- Computer with finance software
The Good:
- Weddings will always need quality entertainment.
- The start-up costs are very low.
- You can hire singers to work for you.
- You can easily run this business part-time.
- It’s rewarding to provide lovely entertainment for a wedding party.
The Bad:
- Some brides and their families may be difficult to work with.
- Weddings tend to be seasonal so you won’t be as busy during certain times of the year.
Resources:
- Association for Wedding Professionals International
- American Wedding Association
- Bureau of Labor Statistics on Musicians, Singers and Related Workers
- Wikipedia on Wedding Receptions
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