Wedding DJs & bands in Manawatū-Whanganui

Palmerston North

Arena Discos is a Manawatū DJ service for wedding receptions, corporate events and other social occasions across the central and lower North Island. Travel within Palmerston North and Feilding is free, as is an early setup at the venue before guests arrive.

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Palmerston North

DFresh runs full-day and reception-only wedding packages, covering ceremony and reception on separate sound systems for the full-day option, built around QSC speakers, a Pioneer DJ controller and Chauvet lighting. The Palmerston North business will cover a ceremony and reception in different locations on the same day.

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Palmerston North

From its base in Palmerston North, Easy Street plays live sets drawn from every decade at weddings, parties and corporate events around the Manawatū. The band plays without backing tracks, brings its own sound, lights and break music, and can also perform as an acoustic duo.

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Palmerston North

Des Lynch, known as DJ IDL, runs Entertainment Sorted from Palmerston North, building each set around what the couple and their guests actually want to hear rather than a fixed playlist. The business covers weddings across the Manawatu-Whanganui region.

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Palmerston North

Flip is Brian and Des, playing danceable pop and rock covers spanning the 1960s through to the 2000s for Palmerston North weddings. Beyond the main set, they will also supply a microphone and speaker just for speeches or a ceremony, and aim to keep covers close to the original recordings rather than reinterpreting them.

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• Pop

Palmerston North

Forevamore is an all-female acoustic covers trio from Palmerston North, booked for weddings, reunions, parties and markets as well as bars, restaurants and cafés.

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Palmerston North

Roxy Jones runs Spectrum Discos out of Palmerston North, having started out behind the radio mic and now hosting a regular disco-themed show on MPR. He sources first-dance songs that are not in his standard collection when a couple requests something specific, and covers Manawatu, Rangitikei, Woodville, Bunnythorpe and Ashhurst.

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Palmerston North

The Winsome Lost plays covers with a folky, Americana twist across the lower North Island, from the Kapiti Coast to Palmerston North. Alongside the main set, they throw in dance-calling for barn-style group dances, and can scale down to a duo for earlier in the day or a trio for a lower-key booking.

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• Country / folk

Palmerston North

Trio Bella plays cello, harp and keyboard for weddings across Palmerston North and the lower North Island, or scales down to Duo Bella, a flute and harp pairing, for a quieter ceremony or canape-hour sound.

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• Classical

Gisborne

Annabelle and Ash are a husband-and-wife duo offering live acoustic music, a DJ set, or a combined live-and-DJ booking for the reception. Together they have played weddings, corporate events and conferences around New Zealand and overseas, moving between live performance and DJing within the same event.

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Christchurch

DangerBaby scales from an acoustic duo up to a full band lineup, playing pop, rock, retro and Kiwi classics with dual male and female lead vocals. The band also runs a dedicated 80s tribute show alongside its regular wedding sets, and travels throughout New Zealand for events.

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• Pop
• Rock

Christchurch

Headrush is a Christchurch covers band fronted by Antony Pickard, Luke Smillie, Stephen McDaid and Andy Genge, moving across country, soul, blues, jazz, rock and pop depending on the room. Each member doubles on multiple instruments, and the band plays corporate events, functions and weddings throughout New Zealand, tailoring the set to suit the crowd.

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• Rock
• Pop
• Country / folk

Tauranga

Homebrewed DJs is based in Tauranga and plays weddings across a wide stretch of the North Island, from Northland and Auckland down through Hawke's Bay, Taranaki and Wellington. The business is active on several social platforms, including a dedicated SoundCloud page of past sets.

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Auckland

Kiwi DJs runs indoor and outdoor PA systems with a cordless microphone and takes requests throughout the night, letting couples build their own song list rather than a set playlist. The team plays weddings nationwide, with dedicated pages for Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch, Wellington and Tauranga.

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Hamilton

My Event DJ bundles ceremony sound, MC duties, reception sound and dancefloor lighting into a single booking, with a photo booth, 360 video booth or audio guestbook available as add-ons. Based in Hamilton with reach across the North Island, the team has played ceremonies at L'Orangerie and receptions at Mills Reef in the Bay of Plenty.

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Hamilton

Sounzgood DJs supplies LED dance floors and photo booths as hire add-ons alongside its DJ sets, plus a standalone MC hire option. The business has worked events at Napier venues including the Crown Hotel, Brookfields Vineyards and the Napier War Memorial and Conference Centre, and covers Napier, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Rotorua.

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Wellington

The Wedding Crashers combines DJ entertainment with sound and lighting equipment hire and event planning support in one booking. Based in Wellington, the business has expanded its coverage into the Horowhenua, Manawatu and Rangitikei districts alongside the greater Wellington region.

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