If you want to be stressed and distracted at your reception, do not hire this band. If you don't read on for the details here is the moral of the story: they play good music, but are a total nightmare to work with the night of. After all the ha...rd work, planning, and more importantly the true meaning of the day, the last thing a couple should have to do is to give them step by step instructions that were already set weeks ahead of time, have the lead singer at your head table multiple times during dinner, have someone ensure that they don't drink at the bar, remind them of your names when they forget them during introductions, have a band that takes triple (no exaggerations) the amount of breaks than scheduled, and loses personal property that they required to begin with.
I cannot express enough how much of a cloud was put over our reception because of the behavior of this band.
We chose Nik and the Nice Guys based on the samples of music and shows we viewed prior to booking. After hiring them, the process was easy and organized- which all changed dramatically the day of the wedding. It began at the time of announcements, just minutes before we were to be announced, when the lead singer came out to gather the names of everyone he would be announcing and what songs we wanted him to play. When I reminded him that we already gave him this information he pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and walked away. The groom's parents and the first couple walked out to no music at all. Then, during dinner, the band attempted to take a break at least five times (they are only scheduled 2, 20 minute breaks total. One was to be half way through dinner, the other during a dance performance). My husband had to stop them each time and remind them of the timing on the contact. Several times during dinner the lead singer was at our sweet heart table asking us what we would like him to do next. Again, we pulled out our phones and pulled up our contract and suggested maybe he right down the information. We next had a 20 minute dance performance, which doubled as their second break. After the performance was over the band was supposed to start again to get the dancing and party portion of the night started. However, instead the band then began to leave the room. My husband again stopped them and they said they still needed to take a break because they "weren't able to get out of the room because people were in the way". He again pulled out the contract and insisted that they play. Another point in the night the band were trying to hype up the party by saying things like "let's hear it for the Newlyweds, Chris and........" they forgot my name. The evening proceeded with a few of the band members at the bar getting drinks while on breaks or when the rest of the band was playing. This was disappointing in so many ways, but also because we hired a 12 piece band, and only 10 people were present. The cherry on top of this all is that they required us to provide them an iPod for songs for the announcements and first dances, but then left it behind at the venue "in a zip lock bag behind the stage" because their policy is "to never take anything from a venue". The iPod is of course still missing because instead of if being given to the event coordinator or someone present at the time of tear down (including the bride and groom, our parents, and other venue staff), they left it on the floor, or one of them decided to take it home as a souvenir.