Find the right Wedding Choreographer for your wedding, within your budget
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The sangeet performances are frequently the most fun part of the whole wedding, and they are the part with the most preparation behind them — weeks of rehearsals with family members of wildly varying ability and commitment.
A choreographer's real skill is not the routine. It is getting eleven relatives to the same room on the same evening and making all of them look good.
Typically there are several: the bride's side, the groom's side, the cousins, the couple, and occasionally the parents. Each is a separate routine with separate rehearsals.
Agree how many before you get quotes, because choreographers price by routine and by rehearsal hours. Adding a fourth performance in month two changes the fee.
Tell the choreographer the truth about the group: ages, ability, who has danced before, who is flying in two days beforehand and will attend exactly one rehearsal.
A good choreographer designs around that — simpler formations for the relatives who will not rehearse, harder sections for the cousins who will. One who designs a routine assuming full attendance is setting up a bad night.
Somebody has to book a space, set a schedule and chase attendance. Usually that ends up being the couple, which is a real time cost on top of the fee.
Ask whether the choreographer provides a rehearsal space or expects you to, whether remote sessions are offered for people out of town, and whether they attend the sangeet itself to run the performances on the night — which is worth having, because that is when it falls apart.
No published Canadian figures for wedding choreography are specific enough to quote, and inventing a range would be worse than leaving it out. What sets it: number of routines, number of rehearsal hours, group size, whether they provide a studio, whether they attend on the night, and travel.
Ask for the quote as a rate per rehearsal plus a fee per routine rather than one number. It is the only way to compare two choreographers, and it tells you what happens when you inevitably add rehearsals.
Six to eight weeks out for most groups, longer if relatives are flying in and can only attend the final few. Starting earlier does not help much — people forget choreography over a long gap, and attendance drops when the wedding still feels distant.
Many now teach remotely and run a final in-person rehearsal before the wedding. It works well for relatives flying in, provided somebody local anchors the group rehearsals.
It is popular and it usually lands well, partly because expectations are low. Keep it short and rehearse it more than you think you need to — it is the routine everyone films.