Setlist planning for wedding and function bands
A wedding is really four gigs in one night: drinks, dinner, the first dance, then the party. The order has to carry the room through every one of them without burning out your singer before the dance floor fills. Set List Creator builds that arc for you, then hands the whole band a clean gig pack for the night.
The problems this solves
The night has four moods, not one
Cocktail jazz, dinner background, the first dance, then full party. Sequencing all of that by hand, for every booking, is a guessing game.
Your singer has to last until midnight
Stack the big ballads and power numbers early and there is nothing left for the last set, when the dance floor needs it most.
Every booking has special requests
First-dance song, parent dances, the do-not-play list. They have to land in exactly the right slot and never get bumped.
How Set List Creator helps
Shape the whole reception
Start from the Dinner-to-Dancing or Wedding Reception flow, background early, dance-floor energy later, then fine-tune. The energy graph shows the arc of the night at a glance.
Protect the voice for the last set
Rate each song for vocal intensity. Auto-generation never stacks more than two demanding vocal numbers in a row, so your singer still has the range for the closer.
Pin the must-plays
Pin the first dance, the parent dances and any special requests to their exact slots. Regenerate the rest of the set around them and they never move.
One gig pack for the band
Load-in, soundcheck and set times, the venue on a map, the dress code and the contact, emailed with the setlist and every chart to the members who have confirmed.
Keep residencies fresh
Freshness weighting favours songs you have not played recently, so the function band that gigs every weekend never plays the same wedding twice.
Questions
Can I lock the first-dance song to a specific spot?
Yes. Pin any song to a set and position. Auto-generation and reshuffles build around pinned songs, so special requests always land where you put them.
Can different members see the final running order?
Yes. Every band member gets a read-only login to see the finalised setlist, charts and reference tracks for the next gig, and can confirm whether they can make it.
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