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Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Carolyn & Christian’s Wedding at The Adler Planetarium

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October 31, 2015
Adler Planetarium

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Carolyn & Christian’s Halloween wedding began in the Cafe of the Planetarium with a candle-lit ceremony and beautiful classical romantic music by the Artistrings string quartet. Christian’s sister joined us during the ceremony and knocked everyone out when she sang Adele’s Make You Feel My Love. As we witnessed later in the evening, this is one talented family!

Here’s a little behind-the-scenes before we opened the Cafe back up for dinner service.
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When Carolyn mentioned that she’s a singer, she wasn’t kidding. We’re going to start with this video of Carolyn’s surprise song to Christian, because that’s exactly the way this amazing party started.

And then, we danced! Since it was Halloween, you’ll see some great costumes and beautiful masks.

Here’s Jae tearing up Empire State of Mind. Goosebumps, right?

Carolyn sent us this note after the wedding, and we’re blushing:

You guys were SO AMAZING! I have been recommending you to EVERYONE who will listen! I’ll make sure to leave reviews everywhere I can!

Thank you so very much! Your band literally made my wedding! Everyone was so impressed with every song! They said sometimes they forgot it wasn’t a recording of the artist because it sounded so spot on every time! I couldn’t believe how seamless your transitions are and everything! Just perfect!

We were honored to be included in this incredible wedding day. Flawless coordination from Tamar Westphal.

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Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Juliana & Tom’s Celebration at W City Center Hotel

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W Hotel City Center
September 12, 2015

Juliana & Tom planned such a fun wedding day, from start to finish….beginning with the Artistrings string quartet playing a mixture of romantic classical music and the most current pop hits. They recessed to On Top Of The World by Imagine Dragons, and guests enjoyed cocktails on the Plateau.

Dinner was New York style, with dancing between courses. Tom’s dad is a fantastic drummer, and even agreed to sit in with us on a couple of tunes!

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We’d like to take this opportunity to showcase our newest conversation-friendly dinner music option, featured while guests are enjoying their meal. Dayna, Jae, Tim, and Barry sound amazing on these tunes that we’ve specifically arranged for our vocal team, along with acoustic guitar and cajon. If you’re looking for something unique that will impress your guests, check this out:

Tom & Juliana, it was such an honor to celebrate with your families again. Can’t wait to see you soon!

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Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Ashley & Joe’s Wedding at The Museum of Broadcast Communications

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Museum of Broadcast Communications
August 22, 2015
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When a family invites you back for a third wedding, it’s truly the ultimate honor. We were thrilled to celebrate with Ashley & Joe at a space that’s new to us, the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
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What a great venue! With seamless coordination by the team of BCR Events, this was a celebration that made us smile all night long.

Ashley, a million thanks for the kind words on yelp! It’s always such a pleasure to play for your family 🙂

The Chris Sarlas Orchestra is THE BEST. Our priority for our wedding was a fun party with a packed dance floor, and the band absolutely delivered. The band kept our guests dancing all night long until closing, and we had numerous compliments during (and they’ve kept coming after) the wedding about how great the band was. The band played two of my sisters’ weddings as well, and we loved them so much we actually chose our wedding date around the band’s availability! And we are so happy we did. Chris is a pleasure to work with – he’s professional and accommodating to our requests and our wishes. We also had the band’s string quartet play our ceremony music. They did an amazing job too, and Carol was extremely helpful in recommending music to fit with our taste. I wouldn’t hire any other band!

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Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Meredith & Clay’s Groove at Independence Grove!

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Independence Grove
August 1, 2015

It was so amazing to get to know Meredith, Clay, and both of their families as we planned their wedding day. The celebration began at Hope Lutheran Church in Long Grove with the Artistrings Quartet for their ceremony, and then transitioned over to their reception at Independence Grove. Artistrings switched gears to 100% pop string quartet music for dinner entertainment, and then The Chris Sarlas Orchestra took over for dancing. WHAT A PARTY!!!

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Check out this special surprise version of Uptown Funk, sung by Meredith and Clay’s friend. An amazing gift to them!

Clay’s mom left us these kind words on Wedding Wire:

The Chris Sarlas Orchestra was the highlight of my son’s wedding reception! Besides the amazing talent that we all enjoyed, they have the timing, and professionalism to create an amazing party. People danced all night! One week after the wedding, we are regularly being asked how we found them (word of mouth) and told how amazing they were. You can’t go wrong with this band! We also used the string quartet for the ceremony and dinner music and they were just as wonderful. They have a huge selection of music to choose form. Chris worked with the Bride & Groom in advance to choose music and discuss everything from the introduction of the wedding party to how to do toasts.

Thank you Tia! We had a blast celebrating with your families!

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Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Natalie & Chris’s Celebration at Chicago History Museum

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April 25, 2015

Natalie & Chris, you guys threw one hell of a party last week, and we were thrilled to celebrate with you! Artistrings quartet began their wedding ceremony with elegant classical music. For cocktails, we went with 1920s speakeasy jazz. After everyone enjoyed a feast by Jewell Catering, we danced the night away!

We’re loving this new tune from Meghan Trainor:

Some more highlights from the evening – what a night!

Natalie, many thanks for sharing your thoughts on yelp:

The Chris Sarlas Orchestra was FANTASTIC for our wedding and I highly recommend this group to anyone looking for a wedding or event band!!

We used both the string quartet and full band for ALL of the music for our entire day. The ceremony music was incredibly beautiful and the band got everyone up and on the dance floor and kept them there all night. We had many many many guests provide us with incredibly positive feedback – “I felt like I was at a concert for a super awesome band!” – My favorite comment 🙂

Working with Chris and Carol was as easy as it gets. They are priced VERY reasonably and accommodating for meetings. They take care of every singe detail from band set-up to mics and volume (important for ceremony especially) to MC’ing for the entire evening.

I interviewed several bands before deciding upon the Chris Sarlas Orchestra. Chris and Carol are super nice, down-to-earth folks and I felt 100% sure that my MC for the night wouldn’t make it about him or the band but about US. I did NOT get this sentiment from the other bands I interviewed (who also charge about $1000-$2000 more).

Long review short: BOOK THEM NOW FOR YOUR EVENT OR WEDDING!!!! Such a fantastic band!!!