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Picture your ceremony ending and the music carrying your guests right into cocktails. The mood is there but it's not competing with the conversation. People are relaxed, drinks in hand, the evening is just getting started. Then the band grows. More musicians step in. By the time dinner wraps, the dance floor is full and nobody had to be dragged out there. You're not managing anything. You're out there with them.

Your cocktail hour has a jazz trio and the conversation is flowing. By the time dinner is winding down, there are more musicians on stage and the energy is different. Your maid of honor is pulling people onto the dance floor. Nobody told the band to turn it up — they just knew. That's what it sounds like when the musicians are actually paying attention to your wedding instead of running through a set list. You're talking to one person the entire time — Matt Hill, the bandleader — from your first message to the last song of the night.