Nate Hance Event Music

The one-stop shop for your wedding & event music needs

Flyer for Nate Hance wedding music services, featuring "Let's Party!" and "Chill Vibes" packages, ceremony music options, and contact information.
Flyer featuring three specialty bands: Champagne Mixtape, Giggle Water, and Cocktail Combo. Each offers customized music with pricing details: Champagne Mixtape from $2200 for a 4-piece band or $2700 for a 5-piece band; Giggle Water from $2200, with an optional sax player; Cocktail Combo starting at $2200. Services include sound system and DJ music.

Wedding Music

Collage with various musicians: top left is a solo pianist, top right features a cocktail combo with singers and an instrumentalist, bottom left shows a group called Giggle Water with a singer and instrumentalists, and bottom right displays a cassette tape with champagne glasses labeled 'champagne mixtape.'

Live music adds such a beautiful, elegant, and joyful energy to your wedding day.

For ceremonies, the most popular option is a pianist. If your venue doesn’t have a piano, our pianists will bring their own professional keyboard. Guitarists and harpists are also available to add class to your ceremony.

Whether you want traditional, contemporary, or a mix, the music will be customized to fit your desires. And we take any song requests (Nate has even played Star Wars weddings!)

For cocktail hour, most couples choose to have the ceremony musicians or a couple of musicians from the reception band. They will bring a joyful energy to your cocktail hour as your guests mingle and get ready to party!

Our musicians can also provide quiet, ambient music during dinner.

Finally, book one of our custom dance bands to keep the dance floor full all night! There is nothing like a live band for your reception. Champagne MIxtape will play all your favorite songs and give you and your guests the time of your lives.

Your One-Stop Wedding Music Shop

  • Ceremony Musician

    Add elegance and class to your ceremony with a pianist, or add a classically trained vocalist or violinist!

    Includes up to 30 minutes of prelude music and any song requests. Feel free to be creative!

    Need ideas for ceremony songs?
    Popular Traditional Songs Playlist
    Popular Contemporary Songs Playlist

  • Cocktail Hour

    Add live music to your cocktail to bring a joyful energy to your celebration.

    You may choose a solo pianist, or adding a vocalist or instrumentalist.

    Solo Musician: starting at $250

    Duo: (such as piano and bass): starting at $475

    Trio (such as piano, bass, and sax) starting at $625

    Discounts when booked with a reception dance band.

  • Dinner Music

    Ambient music to set the mood for your dinner, with a lower volume to allow for easy conversation.

    A solo pianist sets the perfect ambience. Or add a guitarist, sax, or violin for the cherry on top.

    Discounts when bundled with other services

  • Reception Dance Band

    Champagne Mixtape is a collective of the most versatile musicians in the Twin Cities., who will specifically tailor the setlist for your big day.

    Price includes sound, DJ music during breaks, and up to 4 song requests

    4-piece band (best for smaller weddings) starting at $2200

    5-6 piece band (most popular): starting at $2700

    7-8 piece band (add singer(s) or horn): starting at $3700

Add-ons

Travel fee: $0.65/mile for weddings over 50 miles outside of St. Paul, MN

Ceremony Sound System: $125 (includes 2 wireless microphones)

Ceremonies with no power source: additional $125

Basic Dance Floor Lighting: $225

Emcee Service: $125

Custom wedding song and professional recording: $300 (learn more here)

Specialty Bands

  • Cocktail Combo

    Cocktail Combo plays the classics you know, but with a twist. Whether it’s Uptown Funk as a ballad, Billy Joel as a tango, or ragtime Britney Spears, they shake up your favorite songs in new and exciting ways.

    Their signature ingredient is the "Wheel of Genres". They take song requests and invite people to spin the wheel, which determines how they play the song. This has led to such gems as "That's Amore" as hip hop, and "Bad Romance" as opera.

    Learn More about Cocktail Combo

  • Giggle Water

    Gatsby-Style Prohibition Jazz Band

    Giggle Water brings you back to the 1920s with their Gatsby-inspired jazz music. From the standards of Ella Fitzgerald and Sinatra to jazz takes on modern pop hits, Giggle Water will get everyone dancing and take you back to the days of Prohibition and speakeasies.

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