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I hired Franco and his team for my wedding in August 2017. I found them through a random Google search, so I was a little anxious that I hadn't heard them live before. It was my mom's one and only special request to have an orchestra at my wedding, so I was also nervous about making sure she was happy.
From the very beginning, Franco was professional and super easy to work with. Very responsive to emails and willing to accommodate all of our (many, often last minute) requests. We asked him for a lot -- we had the group play prelude music, different music for groomsmen, bridesmaid, parents and bride processions, recession and a bunch of hymns in between. We also had him come to our wedding rehearsal, for an extra fee.
For the prelude music and processionals, I gave him a list of song requests from group's extensive repertoire. For our recession, I really wanted something that was not on his list -- "Sky Full of Stars" by Coldplay. I found sheet music online and a recording of another brass band playing the song. The sheet music wasn't written in an easy key for brass instruments, but I took a chance and forwarded it to Franco. He went out of his way to find better sheet music for his team. It ended up sounding wonderful!
The hymns were the most important thing for my mom. She loves big, loud, grand church music. The week of my wedding, I sent Franco a number of long-winded, frantic emails with sheet music for the hymns, tips about how to play with my church's (very slow singing) choir, my mom's instructions to play very dramatically, etc. One of the songs they had to play wasn't even in English (the verses were in Malayalam, my native language). It was very last-minute-bride of me, but Franco took it all in stride.
He showed up exactly on time for the rehearsal and discussed cues, etc. with our organist. I didn't have to worry at all!
And on the day of, everything went perfectly! It gave me so much joy to listen to The Chamberlain Brass play during our service. The hymns especially were marvelous and so grand -- exactly what I was hoping for! I was smiling ear to ear the whole time they were playing, they sounded so heavenly. And my mom loved it so much, I swear she listens to a recording of our wedding hymns every single day.
From beginning to end, The Chamberlain Brass was definitely the vendor that was easiest to work with for my wedding, and they absolutely delivered on the day of. Thank you for making our service so beautiful!