Wedding band website design that puts the date, the price and the sound first

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

In Great Britain, HSE's guide for employers describes public liability insurance as generally voluntary. Employers' liability insurance is different: it is compulsory once you employ someone, unless an exemption applies, such as an unincorporated family business, and HSE says whether a player counts as an employee depends on the real working relationship, not on the label or their tax status. A venue can still make a public liability certificate a condition of booking you, so if you hold cover, the website can say so with the amount your policy gives. Northern Ireland has its own employers' liability law. Our guide on sole trader or limited company covers when a company needs employers' liability cover.

Not in Great Britain. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 require employers and self-employed people to keep electrical systems maintained as far as needed to prevent danger, but HSE says they do not make inspection or testing a legal requirement, or testing every year, and labels and records are not required by law either. HSE's leaflet for entertainers advises a visual check of your kit, preferably before you use it at a new venue, and says regular tests by a competent person may also be appropriate; as a starting point, it suggests electrical testing every month would be reasonable until a risk assessment sets a suitable interval. Northern Ireland has its own 1991 regulations placing the same kind of duty. A venue asking for a PAT record is setting its own condition; the site can say when your kit was last tested and by whom.

Usually the venue. In the UK, PRS for Music licenses the songs and PPL the recordings. PRS's tariff for mobile and limited uses says the owner of a premises will normally arrange the licence for all the music played there, and TheMusicLicence that PPL PRS sells to businesses covers a venue that hosts live music. PRS also says it makes no charge for private family parties such as wedding receptions, where guests come by personal invitation only, the room is privately booked and closed to the public, there is no admission charge and the host makes no money from it. PPL's mobile DJ tariff says no PPL licence is required for domestic events such as weddings. These are the two bodies' own policies, so for a ticketed or public event, check who holds the licence before the night.

It depends whether an exception applies, and your terms have to say which. Across the UK, the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 give a 14-day right to cancel most bookings made by phone, email or online. One exception covers services related to leisure activities where the contract fixes a specific date, and the government's guidance on the Regulations gives wedding venues and theatre tickets as examples. A band booked for a wedding date may fall within it, although the Regulations do not name bands. Either way, before the booking binds the couple you must tell them: that they will not have a right to cancel, if you rely on the exception, or how to cancel, if they do. You can still choose to offer a cooling-off period.

Two things, set out before the couple is bound: the deposit and its conditions, which the Consumer Contracts Regulations list among the information you owe them, and what happens on each side if the wedding does not go ahead. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 names as potentially unfair a term that lets you keep money when the couple cancels without giving them the same when you cancel, and one that charges a disproportionately high sum for music you never played. The CMA's guidance says terms are more likely to be fair if a band that pulls out refunds what the couple paid and, when they are not at fault, cancels only for reasons genuinely outside its control. When the couple cancels, any charge should reflect what you can do to cut the loss, such as taking another booking for that date. These rules apply across the UK; our guide to writing a quote covers deposit wording in more detail.

Build the travel into the price wherever you can. For an advert that invites a booking, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 counts any charge a customer will necessarily pay as part of the total price, and where part of it cannot be worked out in advance, you say how it will be calculated. So a guide price can include travel up to a set distance, as the demo does within 30 miles, with the quote adding mileage beyond that on a basis you state. Extras a couple can choose, such as an extra set or a later finish, sit beside it with their own prices. The same rules apply across the UK.