Replay

Replay's own homepage doesn't just mention that it belongs to a booking network called Bandscape, it names the other acts by city: Flugmodus in Basel, Random in Zürich, Ahead in Bern, PRIME also out of Basel. That is an unusual thing for a wedding band to publish about itself, since a couple searching for live wedding music can rarely tell a 5-act agency roster from 5 independent businesses. Bandscape's own site explains what it thinks separates it from an ordinary booking agency: it says it grew directly out of one working musician's own practice rather than a portfolio built from online research, and that "the agency owner still regularly stands on stage with these bands to this day." Nobody outside the company can check that claim booking by booking. What can be checked is that 3 separate reviews on Replay's own site thank someone by first name only, Michel, for running everything from the first enquiry to the wedding day, which lines up with the band's own FAQ answer that a couple deals directly with the bandleader rather than a booking office.

From three songs at the altar to a quintet by the last dance

Replay changes shape across a wedding day rather than sending one lineup for the whole thing. For the ceremony and the apéro it plays as an acoustic duo, a singer with a guitarist or a pianist; for the party, a 5-piece takes over with vocals, guitar, bass, keys and drums. The ceremony itself typically runs 3 to 4 musical entries, per the band's own FAQ: one song for the entrance, 1 or 2 during the ceremony (a ring exchange, a reading), and one for the exit, arranged on request rather than picked from a fixed list. The FAQ says it will play a couple's chosen first-dance song live if it suits the band's own instrumentation, and recommends the original recording instead when it doesn't. Standard playing time at the party runs about 3 hours, split into sets of roughly 45 minutes; a 4th hour is available for CHF 750 if the floor is still full. It plays in churches, once the parish agrees, and outdoors, where the only stated requirement is "a power connection nearby and protection from direct weather for the more sensitive equipment," its own phrasing rather than a blanket claim of an all-weather rig.

Three prices, printed, on a page that says it doesn't sell packages

Replay's own pricing section opens by saying it sells no off-the-shelf packages, only a tailored quote, then immediately lists 3 of them with numbers attached: a duo for the ceremony and apéro at roughly CHF 1'800, a full band for apéro and party at CHF 3'500 to CHF 4'500, and a combination booking, duo at the altar while the rest of the band sets up at the party venue, that adds only CHF 800 to CHF 1'200 to the full-band price rather than a second full fee. That's more pricing detail than most acts in this category publish at all. It's also not fully consistent with itself: the same page's FAQ answer states a complete wedding evening typically runs "CHF 3'500 to CHF 5'500," a higher ceiling than the itemised package above it actually charges for the same booking. The site doesn't reconcile the 2 figures, so a couple pricing this out should budget from the itemised table rather than the FAQ's rounder summary. What both agree on: no hidden costs beyond travel past 130 km from St. Gallen, and the quote covers musicians, sound, lighting, setup, teardown, soundcheck and break music with nothing added later.

What Replay shares with the rest of the Bandscape roster, and what it doesn't

2 of Replay's most quotable numbers turn out not to be Replay's alone. PRIME, the Basel act on the same Bandscape roster, publishes an identical travel-fee formula on its own homepage, 130 km free from its own base, CHF 0.60 per kilometre per musician beyond that, worked through the exact same example: an event 180 km out costing CHF 240 for 4 musicians. Only the anchor city changes, Basel for PRIME, St. Gallen for Replay. PRIME's wedding page also states the same 45-minute set structure and the same 4-by-3-metre stage footprint (2 by 2 for a duo) as Replay's, and its homepage names the same 3 of Replay's 4 headline corporate references, Novartis, Roche and Swisscom. None of that makes either band's claims false, but it does mean a couple comparing acts on this roster by their stated logistics and clientele is partly comparing the same paragraph twice. What isn't shared: PRIME's own wedding page carries no equivalent of Replay's itemised 3-tier price table, only the single CHF 3'500-to-5'500 range, so the specific duo-alone and combo-add-on figures above appear to be something Replay's page adds on top of the network's shared boilerplate rather than copies from it.

Named clients past the 4 in the marketing copy

The homepage's short version names Novartis, Roche, Swisscom and ABB. The dedicated wedding page runs considerably longer, crediting performances for 31 named companies from Planzer and Sika to Richemont, Komax and Coop, alongside a separately listed set of hospitals (Kantonsspital St. Gallen and Inselspital Bern among them) and organisations including the Schweizer Alpen-Club and HotellerieSuisse. The repertoire list reads the same way, specific rather than generic: Dancing Queen, September, Uptown Funk and Shut Up and Dance for the floor; Hallelujah, All of Me and Can't Help Falling in Love for the ceremony; Three Little Birds and Happy for the apéro. Whether every one of those bookings was Replay specifically, rather than another Bandscape act on a shared reference list, isn't something the site lets a reader check from outside, given the overlap already found in the travel and pricing copy above.

German only, and a first name that keeps coming up

The site runs entirely in German, marked de-CH in its own page code with no English version anywhere and no language switcher in the navigation. Nothing on the site states whether Michel, or anyone else on the team, plans, contracts or MCs a wedding in English. A separate site in the same network, run for the sibling act Flugmodus, names a real person called Michel Argast among its own musicians. Replay's own site never gives its Michel a surname, so whether it's the same person is worth asking rather than assuming; either way, 3 independent reviews describing the same first name handling everything personally is a consistent signal, even without a surname to confirm it. Practically, the FAQ promises a reply within 1 business day of an enquiry and recommends booking 9 to 12 months ahead for a Saturday between May and September, after which availability, date, venue, songs and a written, binding contract get worked out directly with that same point of contact.

Replay is worth a look for a couple who want the ceremony-to-party structure and the actual numbers before they ask, not after: the duo-to-quintet split, the 130 km travel formula, and 3 price points that are unusually specific for this category, even with one internal contradiction between the FAQ and its own package table. The catch for a foreign or destination couple is squarely the language: there's no published route to planning this in English, and the personal, one-contact booking style that Replay's reviewers clearly value only works if that contact can run the conversation in a language both sides share. Ask before assuming either way.