{"id":2693,"date":"2017-08-28T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2018-04-16T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:33:25","slug":"chicago-wedding-band-performed-kate-brett-rustic-farm-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/chicago-wedding-band-performed-kate-brett-rustic-farm-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Kate &#038; Brett&#8217;s Rustic Farm Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 26, 2017<br \/>\nSeymour, IL<\/p>\n<p>The day that Kate &#038; Brett got engaged in Washington, D.C., they prioritized their band and the location for their wedding celebration. Within two weeks, the decision was made to host the celebration at Kate&#8217;s family farm in Seymour, IL, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/chris-sarlas-orchestra\/\">Chris&#8217; Chicago wedding band<\/a> would be making the trip down to keep everyone dancing. The one sure thing they told us right away was this: &#8220;it&#8217;s not going to be a black tie affair, we can tell you that much!&#8221; &#8220;Think country chic, Chris.&#8221; We love it! <\/p>\n<p>When our Chicago wedding band performed for Kate &#038; Brett&#8217;s rustic farm wedding, their machine shed was repurposed into housing the best country-chic evening celebration you can possibly imagine.  Of course, this also meant that we could drive our van right in and unload. This, my friends, was the easiest load-in of our 18 year career\u2026.so far. (Can you hear the sound crew applauding?) What a refreshing change from the congestion of the city. You feel peaceful just looking at these next two pictures, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3525\" width=\"1038\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3525-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3527\" width=\"1038\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_3527-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andy sounded fantastic on All The Way\/David Nail for Kate &#038; Brett&#8217;s first dance. Their Goldendoodle, Lincoln, was the sweetest first dance bomber we&#8217;ve ever seen. This video makes us smile, every single time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/258154846\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Guests enjoyed our unique &#8220;Unplugged&#8221; option for dinner service:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/257079540\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then, we danced the night away!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/257078544\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brett&#8217;s words on Wedding Wire mean the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We found Chris and Carol on WeddingWire and immediately found Chris&#8217; responsiveness and attention to detail very comforting. He took the time to get to know us as a couple and what we wanted from our wedding band. They crushed it! Guests of all ages were dancing for hours. We also appreciated the band&#8217;s willingness to learn a new song for our first dance. Also &#8211; the acoustic dinner music was incredible and something we&#8217;d highly recommend to anyone else. We gave Chris and Carol five stars all around &#8211; we had a blast and our guests are raving about the music at our wedding. Thanks to Chris, Carol, and the band for everything!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kate &#038; Brett, your party was a blast, and we were thrilled to celebrate with you both! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 26, 2017 Seymour, IL The day that Kate &#038; Brett got engaged in Washington, D.C., they prioritized their band and the location for their wedding celebration. Within two weeks, the decision was made to host the celebration at Kate&#8217;s family farm in Seymour, IL, and that Chris&#8217; Chicago wedding band would be making the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/chicago-wedding-band-performed-kate-brett-rustic-farm-wedding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Kate &#038; Brett&#8217;s Rustic Farm Wedding<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-wedding-band","category-chris-sarlas-orchestra","category-unplugged-dinner-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}