Entertainment

We love live music. Not a playlist, not a laptop — a room full of people and a band loud enough to make standing still feel like a decision. So we booked The RUSH.

They're a Manchester showband fronted by Gavin Jones, backed by players who've toured with the likes of Take That, Michael Bublé and Beverley Knight. Brass, guitars, and a repertoire that rakes across six decades of songs everyone in the barn knows the words to.

They'll open with our first dance and play through the evening. If there's something you need to hear, put it in on the songs page — we're building the requests list from you.

The bit we built ourselves. There's a QR code on every table: scan it and you're playing for that table.

How it works. Take photos, upload them, earn points for your table. Occasional prompts appear — someone laughing, the best-dressed guest, something blue — and matching one is worth more. The leaderboard and a live mosaic of everything you've shot run on the screen in the barn all night.

Why. Every photo app we looked at was a passive dumping ground. We wanted the photographs we'd never get otherwise — the table you were on, at the moment you were enjoying it — and the fastest way to get those is to make it a competition.

The prizes. There's collective prizes on the night, including drinks tokens. Tokens appear on your phone — show the screen at the bar. Top of the leaderboard at the end of the night takes the bragging rights, and every photo comes back to us afterwards.