The problem every wedding band knows
Every wedding is different. Different crowd demographics, different couple preferences, different energy requirements for different parts of the night. Building the right setlist for each event takes time, guesswork, and experience — and even then, you won't know if it worked until the dancefloor tells you.
Setlistly removes the guesswork and replaces it with data. Before the event, during it, and after it.
What Setlistly does for wedding bands
Pre-event crowd voting — your biggest differentiator
One week before the reception, share a voting link with the couple. They send it to their guests. Guests vote on songs from a curated list you control — you set the options, you set the vote limit, you make the final setlist decisions.
What you get: real data on what this specific crowd wants to hear before you've played a note. What the couple gets: a wedding that feels tailored to their guests, not templated. What you get in return: mentions in every testimonial, a differentiator no competitor can replicate, and a booking confirmation tool for couples who are still deciding.
No other wedding band app offers crowd voting built directly into setlist management.
Song library management for large repertoires
Track every song in your wedding repertoire with key, tempo, and readiness status — Solid, Needs Practice, Learning, or New. Tag songs by decade, energy level, and suitability (first dance, cocktail hour, peak floor, last dance). When you're building a setlist for a specific wedding, filter by tag and build from songs you know are ready to perform.
Never accidentally include a song someone's still learning. Never forget a reliable floor-filler because it wasn't top of mind.
Setlist templates for every part of the night
Wedding receptions have distinct phases — cocktail hour, dinner, early dancing, peak, wind-down, last dance. Build a template for each phase and adapt it per booking in minutes. Your starting structure is always right; you're just personalizing the song selection for each event.
What actually fills the floor, by venue and event type
After every reception, log crowd reactions per song. Over time, Setlistly shows you which songs reliably fill the floor in the first 20 minutes versus which ones work better once the crowd is warmed up — and which ones consistently underperform regardless of when you play them.
Venue Intelligence builds a profile for every room you return to: what worked there, what didn't, average crowd demographics, setup notes. Return bookings become informed rather than relearned from scratch.
Real-time sync when last-minute changes happen
The couple changed the first dance song two days before the wedding. The set time got cut by 15 minutes. A band member flagged a song as not ready. Make the change once in Setlistly and every member's view updates instantly. No group chat confusion, no one walking on stage with wrong information.
Stage-ready on the night
When it's time to perform, Gig Mode gives every member a full-screen, distraction-free view of the setlist on their device — key, tempo, and notes visible for each song. Last-minute order changes sync across all devices. No paper setlists getting stepped on, no squinting at a phone screen behind a monitor.
The wedding band commercial case
Crowd voting changes how you win bookings, not just how you run events.
In your initial pitch: "We offer pre-event crowd voting so your guests can influence the setlist." This is specific, memorable, and demonstrates a level of personalization most bands can't offer.
On your website: A brief section explaining crowd voting positions you as a band that invests in the experience — not just the performance.
In testimonials: Couples who experienced crowd voting mention it specifically and unprompted. "They let our guests vote on the songs beforehand" is the kind of detail that sells the next booking.
As a follow-up: If an enquiry has gone quiet, mentioning crowd voting in a follow-up message reopens the conversation. It introduces a differentiator they hadn't considered.
Built for wedding bands specifically
| Setlistly | Generic setlist app | Spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-event crowd voting | |||
| Song readiness tracking | Manual | ||
| Wedding setlist templates | Manual | ||
| Per-venue floor-fill data | |||
| Real-time band sync | |||
| Stage Gig Mode | Some | ||
| Earnings tracking per event | Manual |
Pricing
Free plan: Up to 3 band members, unlimited songs, 5 shows. No credit card required — enough to test the full workflow before your next booking.
Pro plan: $25/month or $250/year. Unlimited members, songs, and shows. Unlocks crowd voting, Build For Me, full analytics, venue intelligence, and earnings reporting.
One additional wedding booking from a crowd voting mention in a testimonial covers a year of Pro.
Ready to make every wedding feel like theirs?
See exactly how crowd voting works: Crowd voting for wedding bands