The Wedding Prank Guests Never Expect | Singing Waiters Explained

In this episode of Totally Absolutely Engaged, hosts Isla and Paul sit down with Marcus and Nathan from Your Singing Waiters, one of the UK’s most experienced wedding entertainment acts with over 20 years in the industry.

Marcus and Nathan reveal how the famous “singing waiters” concept works at weddings and why it has become one of the most memorable entertainment choices for modern couples. From surprise performances during the wedding breakfast to hilarious staged arguments, fake cake drops and even police interruptions, they share how the element of surprise turns an ordinary reception into an unforgettable moment.

The conversation dives into how the act first started, how the team pulls off the illusion by blending in with venue staff, and the acting skills required to make guests truly believe the chaos unfolding in front of them is real. With hundreds of weddings under their belts, they also share incredible behind-the-scenes stories from weddings across the UK and overseas.

For engaged couples planning their wedding, Marcus and Nathan also offer expert advice on choosing wedding entertainment, booking suppliers early, and making sure guests stay entertained throughout the day.

In this episode we cover:

• What singing waiters actually do at weddings
• How the surprise element works during the wedding breakfast
• The acting and planning behind the performance
• Funny and unforgettable wedding stories from real events
• Why entertainment is one of the most important parts of a wedding day
• Advice for brides, grooms and engaged couples planning their wedding

If you are newly engaged, planning your big day, or looking for unique wedding entertainment ideas, this episode is packed with insight, laughter and behind-the-scenes stories from the wedding industry.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Totally Absolutely Engage.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Hello, and today we welcome Marcus and Nathan from the Singing Waiters. Over 20 years of experience providing unique entertainment for weddings and many other events, I assume. Yeah, isn't it? And our paths have crossed occasionally, but you mainly met Isla, I think, at the was it the Petferton wedding show. So shall we just get straight into it basically? Um obviously you own the company. Most people want to know how how does a surprise element work when you're at the wedding.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

There's a number of ways you do it, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Yeah, so over the years we've thought of constantly trying to think of different and innovative ways of doing it. So the main ethos is for us to come into the wedding day and the part that can get a little bit lethargic towards the end of the meal, cause a scene and kickstart the party. So we've done everything from policemen, um, the singing waiter argument scenes, the last day scenarios, we've dropped wagging cakes. Oh, sort of. Just coming up with new ideas all the time.

SPEAKER_03 1:11

Well, the actual wedding cakes.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Yes, yeah, well, yeah, there was a cake on that one, really good.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

So the bride floor, yeah. The bride was actually uh a cake maker um for events, and she said, Look, we want to do the end of the speeches, and we want to do the cake cut towards the end of the speech, and I want Nathan as a trainee in my trainee badge to bring it in and fall over. He's gonna look dead real. Everyone thinks it's real cake, so I did a came in. This cake went over the morning. I'm like, oh my god, guys, I'm so sorry. He's like the manager looking at the code.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Everyone's watching this cake going across slow motion.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

I think it's I think we do have slow motion video. And he was like, What have you done? I'm like, oh my god, I'm sorry, let me go and get it. I'm gonna clean it up coming bang with a microphone into song. Like, you've just been pranked by the pride.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

So do they choose what scene they want? How does that work?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

It's funny how the concept started because when we first started doing it, me and Nate, our very, very first job was in a place called Carden Park, and we we we'd never sang together before. I run I was running the agency at the time, and Nathan was looking for work, yeah. And we sort of come up with this idea of the singular, and I said, Are you up for this? And he's like, You know what? Yeah, definitely, like you know. So we didn't really know, like in the early stages of how it was gonna work. So that very, very first gig, I mean it was a cracking gig, it was Callum, wasn't it? It was a footballer who was playing for Buttersfield or somewhere like that at the time, Scouse lads, big party, scouse wedding. So we knew it was gonna go off anyway. So I knew someone that was on video, and and and I said, Look, can you film it? We'll give you a couple of quid for it. So we we we literally like winged it, we didn't know what we did, but we did a little sound check, didn't we? And we had a best sound, yeah, yeah, we're gonna be able to do it. We did like an Italian accent, and we we sang a couple of songs together, and we were like, ah, this sounds good, you know what I mean? Straight away. So we knew straight away it was gonna be good, so we were like, let's just build on it. And we literally like we were going around sipping wine on tables, where we just played silly waiters, we didn't really know where it was going, yeah, but it worked, and we were like, Wow, you know, after that gig, we were like, This concept is brilliant, it's it's so different because no one at the time was doing it, wasn't it? No, nobody heard it. So, when was this?

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Was it how many years ago was it?

SPEAKER_00 3:23

2008, wasn't it? Something's a long time. Whatever that was.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

And we I said it at the time, it was just the guys in London, the company called the Three Waiters, and they're still going, but the massive big international, and it's like they're sort of tennis, they're like operatic singers, and they come in and they sing you know the Cornetto song, and then and it was cool, but it's quite niche, you know. You have like at the big high-end weddings, all the corporates. We're like, how do we bring this like down to earth? And then we didn't even know it was gonna go. We started off with them Italian things, and then and then we thought these different scenes, and that's where honest to God. I think I didn't we never saw anybody do the argument before.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

No, no, we I mean that came that came about what happens when you're working on an act like this, you sort of start picking characters out. Really funny. It was going back a few a fair few years ago, and there was one particular character that we seen in the wedding. Uh we I won't mention the venue, I won't say he was, but he was a legendary, yeah. And he ran this really strict, like he was a toastmaster, and he was like so straight down the middle it was unreal, but he was like military, and he was like he was shouting at people and bringing them in, and you know, we want you sitting down now, we're gonna do this this time of the day. We're gonna sit down, we're gonna do the meals, and we're gonna do this, and and everything was regimental. And me and him were like, We're sitting there, go flip neck this guy, he's full on his, you know, and we after that gig, we were like, We've got to use this, we've got to use this guy in the act, yeah. We've got to use this guy in the act, and and it that's where the whole scene, the big scene, the manager where the manager and the trainee came from, and the trade drop thing came from, because that's the original concept came from us, and that's where it came from. So I was basically playing this like sergeant major, like I've worked for the queen, this is where I've been, you know, and all the messages. So you were the hard manager. He was playing like a nice guy, yeah. And you know, it just went down so well, didn't it? And we just built on that whole scene, and then as time went on, different when you're speaking to the brides and grooms, they all want something different, don't they, Nate? I mean, you know, I mean, we found over the years they don't necessarily always want the hard sort of manager and trainee scene, they sometimes want something a bit different, and we we love it because it gives us a challenge, doesn't it? Every time we've done like the policeman scene, the manager scene, the last day scene, builders coming in and doing work in a venue. That was very good. I've not seen that one myself, yeah. We're we're up for like, and like Nathan mentioned there, the cake scene. Uh, anyone, if we get a bride and groom that really want to sort of engage in us and come up with ideas, we love that because we're we bounce off that. They're like, Have you ever done this before? And we're like, No, we haven't, but you know what? Sounds great, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

Because we're because we're lucky and we're quite niche in what we do. Yeah, you get a certain type of client, so you're lucky, you get to roll with it, you're getting quite imaginative people. You were getting the clients to want something different for their wedding day. So it gives you a bit of freedom to explain. Yeah, yeah, so you're niche. I mean, less, I mean, certainly in the early days, because no, you used to do a wedding show and you used to have to explain what singing nobody nobody had heard of it. What so what is it? What do you do? So you you wait on and you sing, but now obviously it's completed. I mean, it's post-COVID, it's just blew up. I mean, everyone that's ever been a singer in the last now that's how many of us singing wedding. It's it's stock, I think, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Oh, yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Yeah, we haven't concentrated on that, we just concentrated on doing the way we done the whole the whole concept was at wedding shows, you know, and we we we we knuckled down at that and doubled down on wedding shows, and again, no one else was doing that. Uh we we let everyone else take the the TikTok route and all the rest of it, but for us, it was always meeting the people in the shows, engaging with them there, finding out if they're the right of because again, it's not for everybody. This it's it's it's it is a bit like Nate said, it's a bit of a niche act, it's a little bit more. It's Mama even more, so now it's mainstream. What we've found when we do wedding shows now, you'll either get someone walking past your stand and go, Oh, that's not for me, or you'll get people go, Oh my god, it's the signal. This is what we're gone for always, yeah. So, in some ways, although there's lots of groups out there doing it now, it's actually spared it on for us. It's actually been a good thing as well because we're not having to sit there and explain to people what the singular, because there's so many other groups doing it. Yeah, but it comes.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

I mean, that's why competition is good sometimes. Yeah, yeah, it is in your field. It's annoying, isn't it, that other people do it.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

But I mean, to be totally honest, when we set it up, we thought this is gonna have like two years, three years, max everyone's gonna be onto it. Um, and then yeah, here we are like so many years later, we've had loads of brilliant performers from all over the place. Because you have other people working for you as well, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we have up to like six teams available that can go out, right? Oh wow, and we've just worked for them for years, dead lucky, yeah. From shows that we've been involved in in the past, or friends of friends. You know, if we brought a team in, they go, Oh, we've got we know so and so that's down. Like you said about doing the Manchester and the Midland shows, you can travel around because we could have teams of people, you know, London-based, or and you vet them, so they are your standing basically.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

They've always got to have like Nathan's comes from a sort of a theatre background at a very young age, he was playing a big part in in the West End. Right. Um, I've done TV work and stuff and acting over the years. So for us, it was about finding people that could one sing and perform, but equally the biggest part of the act is pulling off a coronation scene, you know what I mean? Making people believe that, like, oh my god, is this real? Is this really happening?

SPEAKER_01 8:43

And that must be getting harder.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

But it is, and the thing is, I think that's what makes it quite different for us because we're very careful on the big performers that we pick. You know, they've got an acting background. One of our big performers, Claire Pritchard, she's got a major background, she's done stuff on coronation teeth and stuff on various different soaps over the years, truck side, she had a spell on that for me.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

I was gonna say I recognise the name, I just can't.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

So for us, it's always been like you know, doubling down on the fact that they've got to be able to act as well. Because again, you do hear if you have a story of like you know, people coming in, carrying a few plates around for five minutes. We get it all the time in venues, yeah, dropping them and and performing, and everyone's like, Oh, what's going on here? There's no backstory to it. For us, it's gotta be believable. So when we're when we're doing this particular act, we don't just come in like an hour before, we're there like two or three hours before. We're serving on the drinks reception, we're we're we're looking like we're part of the team. We're very much like the venue take advantage. Do you get the crap done? Very much shit, yeah. Do you have to clean the toilet or we've had we've had time?

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Stories, I mean, not like your big powerhouse venues that we're like you guys are being old time as well. They're they're slick. Yeah, you know, you have like don't want to call them out, but you like a golf club that might do 10 weddings a year. Yeah, on the back of the city. And they love to just don't know how to run weddings, and we've actually gone and ran the show. This is our fourth wedding this week.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

We can't just turn around and saying, Thank God, you guys really carry plates. We're carrying them up our arm, like we're carrying them, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

That's so good. But yeah, it is um, yeah, it's it's fun, it's because you get to bring the fun part of the day. Yeah, I mean, there's definitely the stories that stick out. I mean, we've done loads of weddings overseas, and that was awesome. We went through a spell of doing quite a few, and we've got some really funny stories with that, with this the scenarios that we created at like over there are brilliant, and just take it to a next level again. Yeah, and it's mad because we we'll meet we'll meet brides and grooms and clients that we've done weddings like over ten years ago, and they say, honest to God, whenever we get together a family function, what they talk about is your pride. Yeah, that is the first thing.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

You are the part that people would remember, definitely. Yeah, especially from a guest. It's a takeout part, and yeah, and it's um and you think it works best at the end of the wedding breakfast, that's pretty good. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

Yeah, I mean, I go again, you've got to work as a team with everyone on the wedding day, so you've got the venue, so you you hear companies that are going, we need to do it, it's gotta be then, it's gotta be then, and it's like doesn't suit the day where we work with the venues and we'll say, Look, when works best for you, here or here, and they'll go, Oh, that'd be great if you could do that. And straight away you're working as a team. Then I mean, I know this was never the case earlier, but now there's a lot of companies, you hear a lot of quite combatitive stories where they've come in. It shouldn't be like, you know, you've got to be there, you're all there basically to deliver the best day possible for client.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Yeah, it's been quite tough for us because that's one of the things that we have noticed after COVID was it did blow up, and there's a lot of people doing it, but again, there's a lot of people doing it not necessarily the right way. Like it's about communicating with the venue, yeah. So we're having to try and explain ourselves a little bit sometimes when we're going back into some of these venues and saying, Look, this is we're here to work with you as a team guys, you know what I mean. We're almost taking it back to the beginning a little bit. Yeah, because you were getting perfor some performers and some groups going in and you know, sort of upsetting the apple cart a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Well, I mean, I know some, I won't obviously name them, but they they do come sort of 20 minutes before they're meant to come on, and it's like they've not really discussed it with anyone. Yeah, no one knows what's going on, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

Yeah, yeah, and it's yeah, and that is the one thing that we've we we'll probably touch on later on, but the one thing through Ton that you found we in the early days the venues would be absolutely buzzing about it. Oh wow, this sounds wicked. Like, can we can we get involved? And and then now you go in, and every venue's got like some sort of horror story, and like and they're like, Thank god, it's you guys, and we're all right.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Do you know what I mean? I mean, the ones that have known us for years, and I they they they they love it when they when we get when we turn up, it's like, oh, you guys are great, you know, yeah, you're here this time round, not the other one. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, but like Nate's, I mean, touching back to like like the stuff abroad and things like that, and when we were doing that, a lot of planning has to go into that. I mean, one that I springs to mind is the Rome one that we done, and and and that was a funny one, wasn't it? Because she uh I mean Nate will tell you the story because I think there was we had to go in disguise almost, didn't we? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

So she ran, she like sort of rang me up a week before we were due to fly out, and we were coming, we we'd we'd been down to make louestaw, I think, and we were travelling from from the Midlands. So went to the wedding in Gloucester, went to the Midlands, she said, Look, we've got made a bit of a cock-up, you're gonna be sitting like two rows away from all our guests, and the plane's full and we can't move you, right? So I'm like, Oh right, okay, Sam. This is the day before the wedding, and we're flying over to Rome, beautiful venue opposite the Vatican. Like, it's gonna be like awesome clients. Like, I always yeah, you'll have it as well. You'd have clients that stick in your memory, you know, you know, you just have the rapport with and because you have to have this more planning because it's not your average wedding, you know, down the road. Yeah, you have to sort out your flights accommodation, blah blah blah. Uh, so we literally turned up, and I think it's when we very first started vlogging it like years ago before COVID, it must have been 10 years ago. We was like, we're gonna have to video this because it's funny. People want to watch this, and we just thought I had like a whole of a calf, and we're like walking into the airport, like we're ed shearing or something with guitar chase on the back, and we're like doing this whole thing of like talking to the camera, like the wedding guests are literally in the like two rows. They haven't got a clue, we're gonna come and mess up this qued in the room.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Literally, but it's in the same hotel. Oh, it's just different. We had like two days before the wedding, so we're thinking we're gonna have to be careful here. Yeah, so every time we were going in the pool, we were gonna make sure that we were in the pool of the guests dead. We go out in the evening, we make sure we were nowhere in the town, you know. Paranoid about them spotting us because obviously, you know, we were going in then and they were saying on that particular one, we we played uh um the scene where again you was it you'd just travelled over to uh to Rome, yeah. I said I got on the first flight out, didn't I? Um proper method on it, yeah. And then because you see what it is, you've got to make them believe it because, like, well, why is it why would you say why is all these foreigners here? And we've got this English guy who's playing the meet today, which was me. And I was telling them, well, I was like head hunted from the Hilton Hotel because, like, you know, I've got a standard here, and you know, because obviously you know, um the the UK, the UK, they've got so many UK brides now coming to this particular venue. Yeah, the communication breakdown was there, so they're bringing me in. So it was deadly justified. Like, oh yeah, this guy's great, yeah, but this guy used to be working in Hilton, and this lad from the Midlands has turned up, like you know, he's just just landed, you know what I mean, and I'm just training a badge, like a watch tunic. It worked that that would that was another one of the stories.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

So one of the best venues, and the best thing about our story is so we were there, and then you have the crack of them. So we do the waiters in a day, then we do the live band sets in the evening, and then you sort of you're in it, then you know what I mean. You've had a few beers, we've done the set, you've part of the party, you know, you're in the wedding group, and then they were like, So this particular wedding, as often happens overseas, they come back and have a party at home. So they were, I think they were up in the U2 or somewhere and sort of asking, but we'd already planned that we're gonna prank these guests twice. So we'd done the singing waiters, and they're like, Are you guys coming to the party next week in Leeds? I'm like, I'm gonna do it, I'm just gonna sing it, a DJ, but Marcus is at an event, so we can't do it. And I was like, ah, so we come fast forward, we do the wedding over in Rome, it's amazing, get some of the best shots ever. Like really got to know these people. We had a thing we had like a day or two after we met him afterwards, after fighting school, and then fast forward a week you're in Leeds. I'm there singing it's like um, I think it was a golf course, actually. And then I've set up for the evening, and then and then we're like, do the first dance. Halfway through the first dance, police turn up, and they're like, Where's the license? You've got no licence to do this, it's not you haven't got a license. So everyone's kicking off. This is happening to the bride and groom, like, are you serious? It's like this isn't our fault. And then Marcus is like, right, come on, we need to go, he's dressed as a car, he's a police, he's a police, and they haven't got a clue. He wore his mustache, pair of glasses, completely changing food. So the bride and groom and buzz, they come out there, and then and then I was sort of like, I'm I'm like, Look, guys, don't worry, the vent they'll sort it out. I'll just play some music and we'll come back, we'll cut the cake and it'll be fine, and then boom, they burst back into the room, like we've just got just five times.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

So many people coming up to us and saying, You've been just prankers in Rome. How can it happen to us?

SPEAKER_02 17:23

We've never done that.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

We do all the DJing and everything as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh no way.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

When it's me and Marcus gigging, probably 80-90% of when we're out now, we'll do the full package where we do the waiters. That's probably one of our USPs with what we do. Um, I think one or two are probably starting to do it now. After this, they will be really good. You said about people now realizing see someone falling over a singing waiter, but that we have to keep things to ourselves. We can't market or put a side to keep it so it's not that way. Yeah, to make it different. The element that's right. Because people always say we've seen singing waiters, but we didn't have a clue you were gonna do that. Yeah, and that's the key. That that's the biggest challenge now for us moving forward.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

And a compliment if we put it.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Yeah, big compliment because you'll have like photographers that you work with, videographers, all the or you haven't worked with, and they'll go, Oh yeah, you just walk in, and it's probably this might be one of the questions you've got to post to us. People walk in now and they go, Oh, singing waiters straight away, and there's no the surprise element's gone. Where if you put these backstories in and you do the extra work and you'll get out of it that the surprise elements that we are still it's gotta be, it's way less than five percent of weddings that we ever get anyone say oh we knew the only time we get we knew you were singing waiters if they've seen us either online or at a previous event.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

That makes sense. What is your biggest piece of advice then to your couples? Um like definitely plan ahead is the big one. And if you want a particular supplier, and you've probably heard this before on the on the podcast, is you know, there's only one of us of me and Nathan. Okay, we have got other teams as well, but a lot of people when they meet us in the shows, and that they won't be with me and Nathan, so definitely a good advice to book it in as soon as if it's something that you want to book. I think also on top of that, it's just like the biggest advice is entertainment, I would say, is a massive part of a wedding day, and a lot of brides don't you know don't think about that sometimes, you know. Uh they'll sometimes think about their dress and their cake and their cars and the venue and everything else, but it can be a really, really flat party, and then and not even necessarily singing waiters, I'm just talking about entertainment in general. You're entertaining the guests, aren't you? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

If you invited a hundred people to a room, you've kind of got entertainment.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

100%, and you'd be surprised how many people forget that. I used to use the analogy you can sit in a 20-grand venue in a 10 grand dress with a five grand cake, but if everyone's bored, like what's the point?

SPEAKER_01 19:57

All you do is it so who does book you though? It is it always the bride and groom pranking the guests, or do you get them pranking the bride and groom?

SPEAKER_02 20:06

We get occasionally, and if we do get that, like if we yeah, I we always get a bit nervous with that, but then with the beauty of it is you can we always we always compare it to going through the gears. So if you we have clients that will say we want it to be prank, we want it to be extreme fifth gear. So we're gonna say, right, that's a fifth gear wedding. Or if you've ever got a wedding where the bride and groom are not involved in it, you say, right, you've got to have the element of surprise, but like you can't upset, you're gonna be in second gear, like we haven't having the bride like absolutely no way.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Do you ever get people like trying to get involved and getting Aggie about anything? And we have in the past, um, but again, it's just about it's gauging it, it's gauging it. I mean, if you are in, let's say, for instance, Nathan Day, let's say you're in fourth gear or third gear and you're taking up a notch, yeah, and you do find it's maybe not going down as so well, there's there's ways that you can flip that around, and there's ways that you can change that. And again, you do it around tables where you know it's appropriate, you'll tend to find a lot of young people that are up for it, you'll tend to more the elderly, they don't get it. So we we stay away from it. It is about gauging it and it's about it's been about being able to turn it at any point as well. Because if it you if you're going too hard on a particular scene, you've got to know to pull it back a little bit. Yeah, or equally the same, you know, if it's not working as much, then let's let's ramp it up a little bit. You know, in all the years that we've done it, we're we've we've pulled, I remember pulling one guy aside once in Newcastle. Only ever had to tell one person once, yeah. It was down in Newcastle because he was getting a bit high rated, wasn't he? It was like a cage fire or something. He wasn't fancy a chance to get it.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Yeah, and you knew you know, we all say you get away with it because no one wants to cause a scene at a wedding, but then this guy he he would have liked to cause he weren't so.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

We pulled him in the kitchens, told him what was happening, and and and he was completely on board, so it was great because. when he went back to the table he was like I've had a word with them and I don't like talking about gears there. I'm interested one that strings to mind and that was Tony Belly's wedding. And that was definitely 100% fifth gear wasn't it? Yeah I wonder whether that was because um I'm not a big sports fan but Nate loves the sports and he follows all the boxes so pretty much everybody in this room was at the time and uh you know we we moved into it because like Tony was like Tony was like you know listen lads you know I've seen what you see online and all the rest of it and then I I think one of his mates had booked as well uh Coxie wants to be cocky and uh it came from that and we was like I want you to take this like to like the next level and I'm like and like I had guys big guys in the car park pulling me off and saying this was you know you're gonna have to back off a little bit you know we don't think it's appropriate the way you speak into that you want to train like you know I'll go off you know what I mean I was going back in a bit I'm gonna say it's just gonna put down I think you might get to my things under us for the role we do is just like uh a manager of a training it's a good cop that cops say it just totally immerses everyone in the room it's always you do these things totally and you laugh like totally this thing about someone do it often I'll give it a list of people and I'm just gonna love and they want this big reaction I don't think it's funny just got some fixing because it takes a while to do that.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

If you knock him out I'll give you job a monitor we have we quite like to get involved as well don't we?

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Yeah probably sometimes when we try and pick too many of the songs because you have a set song set songs that you know always work you know you don't you don't stick to them me and if we've got a big playlist we've just been doing this for a long long time we've probably got about 250 songs that we we can sing together but there's definitely songs that spring to mind the big ones and you've probably seen them on a lot of the Witchweek lines or that some more type of songs they just work you know they work and that's why we do them in the real chat you sometimes get them saying oh we want you to sing this song and that song and this song and we're like it's not gonna work we always encourage like um to make their wedding individual day any songs in particular you like to add especially if we're in a full day it's brilliant because then we can pop which set it can go in the acoustics afterwards it can go in the evening band start set the DJ set I'm I'm all for you know it's your special wedding day it's just when they like I I remember she's like I would love it to start with um Tomadell and love a love I got more extreme to be like we cover your one that's pretty talking about the girl at the thing in the head she wants us to come up with a bon Jovi song which is a bit cheap got a perfect range got a big pair long I mean you know we have a big song to think we changed the lyrics to it because the song was I think the lyrics in the song was I used to work on the dock every time we had to change it around because you did work on the dock and it was all changed around and it we have to drink because because again it's a back and that particular song is going to work another one. I will take a look you know that's not gonna work like let's look at something else just adapt you never have to adapt actually within the show in an example if I be singing with us or we do a joke we did a lot we are and even with my solo stuff and Mark is yeah I don't think you can have a set you've because you've you've got a lot of different music moving past yeah well we're lucky so because we don't we don't well over a thousand fifteen hundred we can figure out really but I mean well we've done over a thousand wordings for sure um based on the crowd it's a bit like a good DJ in a way yeah a really good DJ will read his audience right we're gonna get the Motown people up and it'll stream into maybe more poppy more 80s and that's gonna keep them on the floor it's about reading who's up on the floor at the time who's dancing who's engaging in that song that you're singing and then you tend to normally know okay that one work that 80s track work that we've just done let's let's move into another 80s track do you know what I mean and that will stem on then to something else and that's that that comes with experience I guess it's many many years of doing it and and in the early years we were working that one out weren't we I mean