Wedding bands for international couples getting married in Amsterdam.

How it works

What "English-speaking" actually means here: It is not just that the singer can pronounce Sinatra lyrics. It is that the bandleader can run the timeline in English, brief speeches in English, hold a conversation with your wedding planner in English, and improvise when the schedule shifts. We have worked with planners from London, New York, Sydney, Berlin and Singapore, and the briefing process is identical, in English, end to end.

What we cover: Ceremony music, cocktail hour, reception party band, and the coordination between all three. One conversation, in English, with a bandleader who has actually played the venues you are considering, from the Conservatorium Hotel and De Duif to the Westergasfabriek, Felix Meritis and Kasteel de Haar.

Which act fits which part of an Amsterdam wedding

Which act we send

For the reception and the dance floor our most-booked act is Benga Band, a funk, Latin and pop band with its own sound and light. For a vintage soul and swing evening Savoy reads a mixed international room well. For the ceremony and cocktail hour Velvet Jazz plays jazz, swing and lounge at conversation level, and Dupa Trio keeps the dinner refined. Every act performs and hosts in fluent English, so the first dance, the toasts and the microphone moments all run in the language your day is already in.

Prices for an English-speaking wedding band in Amsterdam

A 4-piece reception band starts at EUR 3,000 with its own sound and light, and each extra musician adds EUR 500, so a 5-piece runs from EUR 3,500. A jazz trio for the cocktail hour or dinner starts at EUR 1,400, an acoustic duo from EUR 900, a soloist for the ceremony from EUR 600, and a DJ to close the night from EUR 850. Most international weddings we book combine a ceremony ensemble, a cocktail jazz trio and a reception party band as one package on a single invoice, which usually reduces the per-act cost. Send your date, venue and guest count and we reply within one business day.

Planning a wedding in Amsterdam from abroad

Amsterdam has a large international community, and a big share of the weddings we play are for couples who live elsewhere and marry here, or who fly guests in from several countries. The bandleader joins the video calls with you and your planner directly, so coordination never runs through a translation layer, and the timeline, the no-play list and the speech order are all agreed in English before the day. We play the ceremony at venues like De Duif and Felix Meritis, the dinner and reception at the Conservatorium Hotel, the Westergasfabriek and the Rijksmuseum, and travel to Kasteel de Haar and country estates outside the city on one transparent quote.

Common mistakes when booking an international wedding band

• Booking a Dutch-first band and hoping the English is fine on the day. It rarely is when the timeline shifts.
• Leaving ceremony, cocktail and reception music to three separate suppliers, which creates gaps and three invoices.
• Booking late. For a Saturday in the May to September peak, reserve 8 to 12 months ahead.
• Skipping the no-play list. Agree it in the briefing so the band never plays a song that means something wrong to you.

For a Dutch-language brief see our wedding band Amsterdam page, for the cocktail hour see jazz trio Amsterdam, for a costed breakdown see the cost of a wedding band, and to close with a DJ see wedding DJ Amsterdam. The full roster sits on our artiestenbureau, and everything for a wedding in Amsterdam comes through one coordinator.