About this vendor
CBSQ regularly plays at weddings and special events at some of the DC area's most distinctive and iconic venues, including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as at numerous churches, synagogues, hotels, and wineries. While the players' roots are in classical music, CBSQ's ever-expanding repertoire list spans from baroque music to the latest hits of today's popular artists. The members of CBSQ enjoy all aspects of managing the quartet, from booking gigs to arranging special music requests. For more information about CBSQ, please visit cherryblossomstrings.com.
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Instruments
- Cello
- Violin
Music Genres
- Classical
- Country
- Folk
- Jazz
- Pop
- R&B
Music Services
- Live Music
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- Rehearsal Dinner
- Wedding
- Ceremony
- Cocktail Hour
- Reception
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We loved having the Cherry Blossom String Quartet at our wedding ceremony and cocktail hour! We selected the variety of popular music, and our guests were complimenting the quartet the whole time. The quartet created a really unique and fun atmosphere for our wedding. They were very easy to work with and helpful in the planning stages. Thank you!
Cherry Blossom did a great job playing at our ceremony and cocktail hour. I really enjoyed their repertoire, and it was so special that they learned a song for me to walk down the aisle. Their music added a beautiful touch to the day, and we appreciated having them as part of our wedding!
The Cherry Blossom String Quartet was the “cherry” on top of a beautiful wedding day. They sounded great and allowed us to use their large repertoire to make our ceremony and cocktail hour music custom and very special. They were professional throughout the process, showed up early, and gave a great performance. Thank you!
Highly recommend! Booking with CBSQ was easy because they were quick to respond, transparent with their prices and services, and answered all of our questions, which ranged from will they need mics (they don’t) to how does the flow of this song to that song sound? CBSQ had us fill out a brief questionnaire and provided us with lists of their repertoire, which allowed us to either choose each individual song we wanted played or feel comfortable knowing what sort of songs they would play under a category and just go with the category. We did a mix of the former and latter. Their website has many samples of them playing different songs, which was very helpful for choosing individual songs. On the day of our 70 person outdoor wedding, the quartet arrived promptly and looking dapper and didn’t miss a single cue. The classical ceremony music greeted the guests and seamlessly flowed into our chosen processional and recessional songs. The pop cocktail music provided an upbeat backdrop to the guests’ chatter. Overall, a terrific job and many thanks for sticking it out in the DC summer heat!
I really wanted to have some live music at our wedding, but we didn’t want to go with a full band all night. We had been to a friends’ wedding that had a jazz trio for the ceremony and cocktail hour and had really enjoyed the warm ambiance it helped create to have musicians there at the start of the evening. So, we started looking into string quartets.
Cherry Blossom String Quartet stood out to us because of their incredibly large and varied repertoire (and the high quality sound files they had on their website for us to listen to). We were able to choose songs from movie scores and video games for before the ceremony (to welcome guests) and then a fun mix of pop music covers and jazzy or motown classics during the cocktail hour. One wedding guest who is a professional violist complemented the quality of the music!
We had a very particular song that we wanted as our processional that was not in their repertoire. Cherry Blossom worked with a composer to arrange the piece custom for us and it was so well done it really made the ceremony extra special.
Not only did they have a great selection of music played to high quality, but they were also very easy to work with and comparable in price to other options that we looked into. All in all, a wonderful experience!
I highly recommend the Cherry Blossom String Quartet! Kristen was very responsive and helped us throughout the entire process. Their selection of music was very expansive and diverse, which our guests really enjoyed. We continue to get comments about how amazing this quartet was at our wedding.
CBSQ went above and beyond for our intimate wedding ceremony, including calmly working with us day of when the city forgot to block off their reserved parking, as well as being kind and responsive throughout our planning. By far the highlight, though, was the cellist performing alongside my husband’s best childhood friend in a Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper duet… our favorite special touch of the day and a stellar performance. Our guests adored the music selection of CBSQ and we continue to get rave reviews. Cannot recommend CBSQ highly enough, and would give them six stars if we could.
We recently had the good fortune to have The Cherry Blossom String Quartet play at our wedding in November and they were phenomenal. Our guests were blown away by their talent and enjoyed them thoroughly. They have a fairly extensive repertoire of music and gave me the opportunity to select the music I preferred. While I did provide some guidance on the genre I preferred, I asked them to play music that brought them the most joy which just amplified their awesomeness. They were incredibly easy to work with especially in the midst of a pandemic and are wonderful to listen to. I highly recommend them and hope to use them again in the future.
What a beautiful addition to our small October ceremony. The quartet did a wonderful job weaving together an eclectic choice of music for our ceremony and it was the perfect elegant touch to the day. Erin was extremely responsive and professional throughout our correspondence as well!
We hired CBSQ for both our ceremony and cocktail hour. Absolutely amazing!! Everything we planned with them as far as song selection was executed perfectly. Not to mention they sounded wonderful! We received compliments during the reception, literally 10 minutes after they stopped playing! And for weeks after our wedding.
Thank you so much again!
CBSQ was phenomenal! They were responsive, helpful, and so professional! I wish I had time to thank each one of them on my wedding day. They really made it so magical!
We hired Cherry Blossom String Quartet for our ceremony and cocktail hour at Airlie, VA. They were absolutely amazing! The music was so beautiful and Sinbat was so responsive and helpful in answering all of our questions. They have such an extensive repertoire that most songs you might want to choose from, both popular and classical, they already have an arrangement for. I had always wanted to include Can't Help Falling in Love as part of our ceremony and their arrangement was perfect and made the ceremony so special!!
Did an amazing job playing our ceremony and cocktail hour at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We received so many compliments. They arrived, setup, played, moved from room to room seamlessly, and were so easy to work with. Erin responded to my emails immediately. Helped me make all of the best music selections. Very organized and professional. I highly recommend.
CBSQ was absolutely wonderful. I can't tell you how many people complimented the ceremony music. Nothing but professional AND they accommodated a special request that I found sheet music for. Great selection of music, easy to communicate with, and one less thing for you to worry about on your wedding day. Highly recommend.
CBSQ was so great. The memory of their playing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik as I walked down the aisle will forever be seared in my memory as one of the top 10 moments of my life, and their beautiful playing helped make it that way. They were fantastic to work with - Erin always replied to my emails in a very timely manner, and was very helpful when I had questions. As another reviewer mentioned, I unfortunately did not get to spend much time around their music, as I was taking pictures during cocktail hour, but my guests were very impressed and I think it helped to set a wonderful, romantic atmosphere for the wedding. Their prices were also very reasonable and competitive with others in the market.
What I especially loved about CBSQ was that they were their own company. A lot of the string quartets we reviewed when we were searching were hired as a part of a larger wedding vendor company, and that wasn't what we wanted - it just felt too corporate. CBSQ is their own thing, and working with them felt very homely and comfortable, because I was able to speak with one of the musicians herself.
Additionally, I loved the selection of clips they had on their website, as well as their large repertoire of classical music. They had so many beautiful options to choose from to make our wedding sound as perfect as we wanted. If you are searching for a string quartet in the area, you cannot go wrong with CBSQ. Just talk to them, listen to some of their clips, and browse their website - you'll be very much impressed and very lucky to have them be a part of your wedding.
The Cherry Blossom String Quartet is very accommodating and has a great range of music to select from. We enjoyed working with April.
I loved having the string quartet play for our ceremony and lunch afterwards. They were responsive, thoughtful, and offered a wide variety of music, including a lot of songs currently on the radio. And they even wrote us a thank you note after the ceremony thanking us for including them in our ceremony!
Cherry Blossom String Quartet was very easy to communicate with and played beautiful music for our ceremony. They are very reasonably priced. They send you a CD with 40+ songs to help choose your music.
Everything! They were professional very talented and made the ceremony a beautiful event. My husband liked them because they had Journey in the playlist. :)
They were WONDERFUL and so easy to work with!
They sounded amazing. Because our cremony was moved at the last minute due to a power outage these folks were able to be flexible and play a little longer since our schedule was altered due to the move. They did not bat an eye and were completely professional
Just wow. They sounded amazing at the ceremony. While the bridesmaids and I were in the bridal room getting ready at the church we heard classical music come over the speakers in the room. After a minute I realized it was the prelude music being played! It sounded so good I thought it was off the radio :). They played all of the music perfectly and even arrived at the church early to practice with the cantor!
They played all of my requests and were very flexible on the day of the ceremony.
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