Wedding Entertainment Sydney
Wedding Entertainment: Sydney | Hunter Valley
Sydney wedding entertainment is offered by a broad range of highly talented individuals, duos, trios, performing groups and experiential services. Wedding bands, singers and DJ's are among the most popular wedding entertainment in Sydney, but the city also offers plenty of other unique ways to keep your guests entertained and make your special day unforgettable.
Wedding entertainers in Sydney offer a wide range of things for guests to do, see, hear, watch, interact with and experience. There are ambient forms of wedding entertainment such as lighting, special effects and music, and interactive experiences such as photo booths, lawn games and food stations.
Sydney entertainment includes celebrity wedding singers, Hollywood film actors, some of Australia's best wedding bands, well known magicians, flash dance groups and hilarious personalities who can be hired to DJ and MC your reception. You can even hire an entertaining wedding reporter to interview your loved ones as an alternative to having a guest book.
The best wedding entertainment in Sydney is the one that creates the perfect ambience for your vibe. From string quartets to self-pour Kombi Kegs, here are 38 awesome Sydney wedding entertainment options.
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Best Wedding Entertainment in Sydney
1. Sydney Live Music Band
- Location: Sydney CBD, NSW 2000
- Service Area: Greater Sydney & Blue Mountains
- Wedding Music: Jazz, rock, disco
The Sydney Live Music Band are an all-in-one wedding entertainment solution offering strings, jazz trios and acoustic ceremony music through to large party bands for your wedding reception. The crew is led by multi-instrumentalist Hayden Dalton who plays everything from trumpet and guitar to strings, and with his versatile team cover 70's disco to relaxed jazz and rock & roll.
Ceremony packages include the option for a classical string quartet, jazz trio, acoustic covers and everything in-between. Wedding entertainment for receptions ranges from jazz trios to specialist party bands with 3 - 11 pieces. Song requests and a play list are welcomed.
2. In An Instant Photo Booth
- Location: Balmain, NSW
- Service Area: New South Wales
- 5 Star Reviews: 100+
- Hire Cost: $900+
In An Instant is an interactive mobile photo booth service that comes with hilarious props and two mischievous attendants who cause a riot of fun helping your guests create photo masterpieces with their unabashed "art direction".
This highly entertaining addition to your wedding reception comes with high quality prints and digital images that let you instantly share via email & text and can be uploaded to socials. Not only are your guests entertained but you get keepsake images too.
3. Kombi Keg Sydney
- Location: North West Sydney
- Service Area: Sydney, Penrith, Blue Mountains
- Hire Fee: $850+
Kombi Keg Sydney is a unique wedding entertainment option that serves several functions. The Kombi elevates rooms and outdoor spaces providing a stylish focal point where guests can gather and pour their own drinks. She's a wonderful talking point, is an interactive and low key style of entertainment, comes fully licensed and does not require bar staff.
Kombi Kegs come with 6 taps stocked with your choice of beer, wine, cider, cocktails or soft drinks and hire packages include drop & go (self serve) with drinks delivered pre-chilled. You can either hire or BYO drinkware.
4. Wedding Chats
- Location: Newcastle
- Service Area: NSW wide
- Packages from $3,000
A fun alternative to a guest book is having Wedding Chats recorded with your loved ones. Wedding Chats are video interviews with your wedding guests by Tommy Casha, a fun guy from Newcastle.
Tommy will ask your guests questions about you as a couple and you'll get a gorgeous hour-long video of your favourite people explaining why they love you and why they're proud of you, invariably involving a great deal of hilarity. Packages typically include 15 - 20 interviews over a two hour period after your wedding ceremony. MC options available.
5. Maple Creek Music Sydney
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Sydney, Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands
- Covers Wedding Band
Maple Creek Music are a Sydney-based live wedding band who bring the acoustic sounds of Thomas Rhett, Dragon, Frankie Valli, Bon Jovi and Shania Twain. Cassie and Blake are a down to earth duo offering a complete package of live wedding music for your ceremony and reception, DJ'ing to get the dance floor jamming and MC services throughout the night.
Maple Creek Music can also be hired as a 5 piece band with packages starting at $3,600. Cass is also a fully qualified celebrant and can sing you up the aisle before getting you married.
6. Slide McBride Band
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: NSW
- Covers wedding band
Slide McBride is a talented wedding musician who plays a wide range of instruments from the trombone and trumpet to the ukulele and guitar. The incredibly versatile wedding singer can be booked as a solo artist or with his 3-piece and 4-piece bands that come with guitar, bass and drums.
Slide McBride have a broad and versatile play list covering musical styles from 1920's jazz to hip hop and classic rock. As one of the most experienced Sydney wedding bands, Slide McBride have the tunes of most cultures covered from traditional Jewish music to the Greek Zorba.
7. Sydney Jazz Collective Band
- Location: Edgecliff, NSW
- Service Area: Greater Sydney, Hunter Valley
- Wedding Music: Covers
The Sydney Jazz Collective plays a range of contemporary and popular music mixed with jazz tunes, soul sounds, blues and funk. Among the most popular wedding entertainers in Sydney, the group play at around 100 receptions every year, pumping out tunes by James Brown, Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Amy Winehouse.
Song lists are tailored to match your preferences and generally include relaxed background jazz during drinks & canapés at the start of the wedding reception, then sophisticated jazz with slightly more vibe through dinner. Then the party cranks up with popular music that gets everyone dancing.
8. The Piano Man
- Location: Double Bay, NSW
- Service Area: Australia wide
- Solo Artist
The Piano Man is Scot Finnie, a vocal wedding entertainer who plays piano and electric keyboards at sophisticated events throughout Australia. Scot is the resident pianist at elegant venues in Double Bay where he has performed in front of many A list movie stars and personalities including Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Andrea Bocelli and Pink.
The Piano Man is popular wedding entertainment for elegant receptions with packages available for 3 - 5 hours starting at $1,500. Scot will match songs to the moment and plays to a wide range of generations and genres including music by Michael Bublé, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys and Lionel Ritchie.
9. Uptown Funk Band Sydney
- Location: Southern Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Wedding Music: Charts
Uptown Funk can be hired as a 5 or 6 piece wedding band that comes with drums, bass, guitar, keyboard and vocals. The popular band regularly play at pubs and clubs around the Sydney CBD and suburbs, booming out soulful tunes, funk, R&B, Motown, rock and all the favourites from the 80's and 90's.
10. Aniella + Simon
- Location: Northern Beaches, NSW
- Service Area: NSW
- Wedding Music: Soulful
The soulful sounds of Aniella and Simon bring an incredibly romantic atmosphere to wedding ceremonies. This musical duo are all about paired back acoustics that work well for wonderfully intimate and personal moments. Aniella will sing you up the aisle while Simon plays tailored arrangements of cover songs on his guitar.
Play lists include Roll Up Your Sleeves by Meg Mac and by Stevie Wonder; For Once In Your Life.
11. Ben Fox Band Sydney
- Location: Sydney, NSW
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Wedding Music: Covers
Ben Fox is the ultimate covers band playing a huge list of classics and top 100 hits from Adele and Amy Winehouse to Beyonce, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran. You can book this Sydney band as a 3 or 4 piece band for your reception with optional MC packages.
Ben can also be hired as a solo musician for live music during your ceremony as well as the canapés and dinner section of your reception. If you're not opting for the full band, Ben can then DJ your dance floor.
12. Undercover Waiters
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- By: Series of Events Australia
A waiter falls over and drops a tray clattering loudly to the floor. All of your wedding guests gasp in horror. And then as the music suddenly kicks in, Dauntless Movement Crew hit the dance floor.
This energetic hype squad offer an incredible waiters stunt show featuring synchronised acrobatics, gravity-defying circus stunts, fire routines, breakdancing and balancing chair routines. The crew's amazing athleticism, special effects and audience participation creates a highly memorable and entertaining show.
13. Sydney Fireworks & Pyrotechnics
- Location: Bass Hill, NSW
- Service Area: Greater Sydney, Australia wide
Sydney Fireworks & pyrotechnics create impressive visual spectacles for wedding receptions including for the entrance, cake cutting, bridal waltz and couple's exit. Effects are available for both indoor and outdoor weddings and include fireworks, dry ice and CO2 jets.
14. Original Gelato Sydney
- Location: Sydney City
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Mobile Gelato Carts
Original Gelato is a mobile gelato service with ice cream carts to hire for weddings throughout Sydney. Gelato carts add a fun, unique and tasteful element to weddings and provide an interactive form of entertainment and a talking point for guests.
Ice cream carts are suitable for both indoor and outdoor weddings and come with packages including your choice of 2 - 4 flavours from a pick of 40. Cart hire starts at $595 for 45 minutes of service including up to 60 scoops and is around $100 per 30 scoops thereafter with increasing service and flavour options.
Wedding Bands
15. Sydney Live Music Band
- Location: Sydney CBD, NSW 2000
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Wedding Music: Jazz, rock, disco
The Sydney Live Music Band come with strings and acoustic ceremony sounds to jazz trios and large party bands. The team is managed by multi-instrumentalist Hayden Dalton who's musical talents include playing the trump, guitar and strings.
The band offer an all-in-one entertainment option for weddings with strings and acoustic for ceremonies and jazz trios to 11 piece party bands for wedding receptions. Play lists include everything from relaxed jazz to rock'n'roll and 70's disco.
16. The Whisky Brothers
- Location: Eastern Surburbs
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Wedding Music: Covers
The Whiskey Brothers are a personable wedding band featuring Jamie on acoustic guitar and vocals and Cam on backup vocals, keys and the electric sounds of bass and percussion. Together, the pair harmonise across a range of cover songs from classics like April Sun in Cuba to the lesser known.
The Whiskey Brothers take song requests, love to welcome talented guests on stage with them and will learn songs specifically for your wedding at your request.
17. The Juno's
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Sydney, Hunter Valley, Southern Highlands, South Coast
The Juno's are a wedding duo, trio, 4-piece band and DJ that come with guitar, vocals, percussion, keys and horn on request. The duo is ideal for ceremony music and background reception music. As a trio, you can either opt for an electric arrangement involving upbeat floor fillers or a classic trio with double bass for a more Jazz tunes vibe.
If you book the duo package for your reception you can then have vocalist Tash take over as your wedding DJ to keep the dance floor pumping for the rest of the night.
18. Acoustic Autograph
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Covers wedding band
Acoustic Autograph are a lively wedding band that come as a duo and trio right up to a 5-piece reception band. They're a high-energy group of friends who ooze on-stage chemistry and bring a great fun vibe to weddings.
Acoustic Autograph play all the favourites from the 60's to now including a huge variety of artists such as Cold Chisel, Bruno Mars and Stevie Wonder. You can book acoustic sets for your ceremony and pre dinner canapés followed by dinner and dance sets with a fuller sound.
19. Blue Velvet Jazz Sydney
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Wedding Music: Classic Jazz
Blue Velvet Jazz is a lounge wedding band that create a laid back, sophisticated atmosphere playing tunes such as Come Away With Me, I've Got A Crush On You, It Had To Be You and Fever. The string band trio are regularly spotted at Sydney's most intimate and elegant venues bringing an old world glamour vibe to wedding receptions.
20. Kirsten Allison Jazz Band
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Blue Mountains, Hunter Valley, Southern Highlands
- Jazz Band
The Kirsten Allison Jazz Band are versatile wedding entertainers who play new and old jazz sets at reception venues throughout Sydney. The band comes as a solo act with Kirsten herself, a trio, quartet and 4 to 6-piece band. Music options include everything from the 50’s through to the 90’s and up to date pop songs.
Wedding packages start at $680 for a 3 hour soloist call out, $980 for a trio and $1,280 for a quartet with bass, keyboards/guitar, vocals and saxophone.
21. Spicy Margaritas Music
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: NSW
- Wedding Music: Wide genres
Spicy Margaritas are a funky wedding band who play groovy party beats that get dance floors up and shaking. The band offers a versatile mix of wedding musicians including soloists on piano & vocals to guitar, bass and drums with up to 8 members.
Bass rhythms are the band's main vibe, filling dance floors with tunes from the 40's to 90's with jazz and RnB funk. Expect tunes from Ed Sheeran, Chaka Khan and Bruno Mars.
22. Double Shot Music Sydney
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: NSW
- Covers wedding band
Double Shot Music are a lively 2 - 6 piece band who specialise in high energy dance tracks and cover songs. The band's repertoire includes sweet serenades and cocktail hour jazz before moving into classic rock and dance floor anthems.
Wedding entertainment packages include ceremony music, 20 minute acoustic sets to welcome guests to the wedding reception, live music throughout drinks & canapés, and then 4x45 minute party sets. DJ options available.
23. Victor Valdes Mexican Wedding Band
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Australia
- Wedding Music: Latin
The latin music expert Victor Valdes offers an utterly unique option for Sydney wedding entertainment. He is a virtuoso Mexican harpist who comes with singers, dancers and versatile range of bands. As a lead harpist he can be hired as a solo entertainer or you can have him play alongside his rock band, blues band or in a folk music group.
Wedding Singers
24. Kristina Reitsma Music
- Location: Sydney, NSW
- Service Area: NSW
- One Woman Band
Kristina Reitsma is a solo acoustic artist who puts her own spin on classic hits as well as playing original tunes. Kristina's sound is easy listening, mellow vibes that bring a chilled out vibe to relaxed, outdoor weddings.
Wedding packages start at $800 including ceremony & canapés music. For the full reception including dance floor component of the evening Kristina will play your preferred spotify playlist.
25. Big Love Music
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Sydney, Blue Mountains
- Wedding Music: Classics
Big Love Music is a creative musical duo with an extensive repertoire. Sam & Joel play everything from pop and RnB to classic party hits putting their unique flair to tunes by adding on-the-spot twists. They play up to audiences and are particularly good on the feet working with spur-of-the-moment happenings.
The Duo + DJ is the most popular wedding entertainment package providing all day live music that includes ceremony, canapés and wedding reception. For couples wanting a bigger sound, the duo transforms into a trio or 4-piece wedding band incorporating instruments of your choice.
26. Jamieson Postle Wedding Music
- Location: Sydney, NSW
- Service Area: NSW
- Covers wedding band
Jamieson Postle is a wedding singer, guitarist and loops artist who offers a comprehensive wedding entertainment package at an affordable one-man-band price. Integrating vocal harmonies into live loops in the same way as Ed Sheeran, Jamieson delivers all your favourite classic songs in an all inclusive live music and DJ set.
27. Singing Drag Queen
- Location: Inner West
- Service Area: NSW wide
- Drag Queen Shows
Kara Zmatic is a pitch perfect wedding singer who brings her absolutely fabulous entertainment to weddings throughout New South Wales. The iconic performer received a standing ovation on Australia's Got Talent and has appeared on countless TV and radio shows.
Kara Zmatic brings glitz and glamour to your wedding with mesmerising costumes and her powerhouse 'counter-tenor' vocals. Minimal call out fee of $750.
Wedding DJs
28. The Vintage Stylus
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains
- Wedding Packages: 3 - 9 hours
The Vintage Stylus is a vintage wedding DJ booth that features two burners and comes with a huge collection of vinyl records with music from the 50s to today. Stylised to your wedding, the booth makes an attractive centrepiece at your reception and oozes nostalgic vibes.
The Vintage Stylus is also an interactive MC and offers a thorough pre-wedding consultation process to create a personalised play list for your run sheet. An exhaustive song list spans all genres from hip hop to disco to sing along classics.
29. Star DJ Hire
- Location: Western Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- DIgital Wedding DJ
Star DJ Hire offer personalised DJ playlists that take you from your reception entrance song, through dinner, your first dance to the end of the night.
Wedding DJ packages come with a dedicated event manager who is able to recommend songs for key moments and who will work seamlessly with your other wedding vendors including MC's, venue managers and wedding planners.
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Sydney Photo Booths
30. In An Instant Photo Booth
- Location: Balmain, NSW
- Service Area: New South Wales
- 5 Star Reviews: 100+
- Hire Cost: $900+
In An Instant Photo Booth is a fun entertainment option for wedding receptions that comes with party-starters Jess & Seb who cause mischief & hilarity while dressing your guests in props and providing "art direction" for photos. Booths come with a choice of backdrops & props to suit your wedding theme and photos & GIFs are available for instant download along with traditional printed strips.
31. Mr Wigley Photo Booth
- Location: Redfern, NSW
- Service Area: Sydney & NSW wide
- Hire Cost: $990
A Mr Wigley photo booth is a fun wedding entertainment option that brings hilarity and laughter to wedding receptions. The interactive booths include fun background selections like neon jungles and pineapple flamingoes and come with a wide range of props that'll have your guests up to all sorts of shenanigans.
With instant sharing all photos can be uploaded to your phone and booths come with GIFF creation and unlimited prints. All hire packages start at 3 hours and include flattering lighting (no filters required), all props and an assistant to set up & pack up.
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Audio Guest Books
32. Frankie Rose Audio Guest Books
- Location: Greystanes, NSW
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Hire Cost: $549+
Frankie Rose is a mobile hire business that specialises in providing photo booths and audio guest books for weddings. With the Frankie Rose audio book you pick up the phone and hear a pre recorded message from the couple then have 1 minute to leave your message. Messages are provided in a gallery of MP4 files.
Sydney Magicians
33. Magician Neo
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Roving Magician
Magician Neo is a master wedding magician and formally trained theatrical artist who performs roving magic while mingling with your wedding guests. Having received a SAGA nomination for his work on films, you can expect Neo's magic tricks and illusions to include a sophisticated performance with his own unique material.
34. Magician Dare
- Location: Sydney CBD
- Service Area: Australia-wide
- Roving Magician
Dare is a professional Sydney magician with 20+ years experience specialising in close-up illusions and tricks with cards and mobile phones. He is the resident magician at the Sydney Opera Bar and comes with several package options.
You can book Dare for magic entertainment during canapés or at cocktail receptions which is great for breaking the ice between guests as they arrive. Extending Dare's presence throughout dinner allows magic to be performed to guests waiting to be served food, and to tables who have finished their meals. Twenty minute stage shows are also available.
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Lawn Games
35. A Game Of Love
- Location: Illawarra
- Service Area: Macarthur
- Giant Lawn Games
A Game Of Love hire out giant, hand-crafted lawn games in the Macarthur region of Sydney. Packages start at $220 for a set of 3 lawn games and go up to $420 for any 9 games.
Available games include connect 4 hearts, scrabble, kerplunk, heart hookey, badminton, hearts & crosses, giant jenga, wedding cornhole, chess, ring toss, snakes & ladders, tug of war, skittles, boules, bocce, finska and more.
Wedding Entertainment Agencies
36. Event Entertainers Sydney
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Entertainment Agency
Event Entertainers have a range of Sydney wedding bands that you can hire through their books. Many of their wedding entertainers are featured on this list and include vocalists, guitarists, acoustic duos and 3 & 4-piece wedding bands.
The Sydney office is managed by one of the main bands and caters for both large weddings and elopements offering packages for ceremonies only, receptions only or both.
37. Tillee Music
- Location: Australia-wide
- Service Area: Australia-wide
- Entertainment Agency
Tillee Music are an entertainment agency that provide acoustic live music duos for weddings throughout Australia. They have multiple artists on their books with 8 - 10 duos located in the Sydney region including many that are listed on this page.
Tillee Music offer wedding packages for ceremonies only through to all day live music. Reception packages include 4 x 45 minute sets.
38. Fine2uned Music
- Location: Sydney
- Service Area: NSW
- Wedding Music: Covers
Fine2uned is a small wedding entertainment business in Sydney that specialises in providing personalised live music for weddings. Operated by wedding musician Chris Rulewski, booking options include solo artists & DJs, a musical duo and larger wedding bands.
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