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Northamptonshire wedding, Crockwell Farm, October 10th 2015

Wedding Band performing in Northampton Northamptonshire

Small but perfectly formed with Musical Orphans!

When we think of wedding celebrations, we typically think of big, bright gatherings full of friends, family, and colleagues, lively music ensuring everyone gets up on the dance floor, and is kicking their heels and strutting their stuff well into the early hours.

For Gaby and Tom, however, things were going to be a bit different.

Both Gaby and Tom are wheelchair users, as are several of their friends. They had always planned for a small, intimate celebration that would include friends and family of all abilities. There wouldn't be dancing in the traditional wedding sense, but the couple wanted a lively musical accompaniment that, as Tom put it, “We, and our friends, can move around to if we feel like it.”

It was a new experience for Adam and Musical Orphans, as much as it was for Gaby and Tom, but, for both parties, it was a genuine exchange of enthusiasm, energy, and ideas, that culminated in an afternoon of mostly light music, perfect for mingling and chatting to, interspersed with a few songs that were tweaked to give them a rhythm that invited wheels and rolling.

Part of Adam Chandler's ethos is to help couples create a wedding that is all about them, and that works with the way they live on the other 364 days of the year. For Gaby and Tom, this was a wedding that acknowledged the different ways they, and some of their friends, moved around, without putting those differences front and centre. With music that was lively but not intrusive, those who wanted to take a spin – whether on two legs, or four wheels – around the dance floor could do so, while those who preferred to simply observe weren't made to feel awkward.

Gaby: "We were more than impressed with the way Musical Orphans played; they helped us have a wedding that felt completely 'us', and that we'll remember for a lifetime. The fact that we had a very small guest list really didn't matter – the music made it feel as though the room was full of people celebrating with us and enjoying themselves, so we didn't feel that our wedding was any less impressive than one with a hundred or more guests."