A wedding band plays three different jobs in one day. The ceremony and the speeches need clear voices at low volume. Dinner needs background music people can talk over. The dance needs bass and volume for a full floor. The PA has to cover all three, fit in a car, and go up in the half hour between dinner and the first dance.
Prices below are Thomann's on November 3, 2026, without cables, stands and DI boxes, which add a few hundred dollars to any of these.
The duo: one or two columns
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 × Electro-Voice EVOLVE 30M column | $1,391 |
| 2 × Shure SM58 | $258 |
| Total | $1,649 |
Electro-Voice EVOLVE 30M, $1,391
A column with a 10-inch woofer, six small tweeters, an eight-channel mixer built in and app control, so a duo needs no separate mixer. It's number one of 33 column PA systems in our ranking. #2 of 33 column PA systems.
Column systems suit duos because they spread sound evenly across a room and set up in minutes. For a duo, one column behind you doubles as your own monitor; a second one for a bigger room brings the total to about $3,000. LD Systems' Maui 11 G3 Mix, with its own mixer, costs $1,310. Our guide to column PAs vs speakers on stands covers the trade-offs.
The trio: two columns, a mixer, monitors
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| 2 × Electro-Voice EVOLVE 30M | $2,782 |
| Yamaha MGX12 digital mixer | $672 |
| 3 × Shure SM58 | $387 |
| 2 × Yamaha DBR10 wedge monitors | $896 |
| Total | $4,737 |
Electro-Voice EVOLVE 50 G2, $2,186
The step up for bigger rooms: a 12-inch woofer, eight 3.5-inch tweeters and a digital mixer built in. #11 of 44 DJ PA sets.
Two EVOLVE 50 G2s instead of the 30Ms put the trio at about $6,300. We looked at the G2 line in our EVOLVE G2 special project. With three players a separate digital mixer like the MGX12 pays off: you can save a setting for each part of the day and recall it in a second.
The five-piece: tops, subs and in-ears
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| 2 × Yamaha DXR12 MKIII tops | $2,152 |
| 2 × Yamaha DXS15 MKIII subwoofers | $3,136 |
| Behringer X32 Rack digital mixer | $886 |
| Shure PGA Drumkit 7 drum microphones | $739 |
| 3 × Shure SM58, 2 × SM57 | $637 |
| 2 × Sennheiser XSW IEM in-ear sets | $1,164 |
| 2 × Yamaha DBR10 wedges | $896 |
| Total | $9,610 |
Yamaha DXR12 MKIII, $1,075
A 12-inch, 1,000-watt active speaker with app control. On stands over two subwoofers, a pair covers the dance floor of a typical wedding hall. #135 of 256 active full-range PA speakers.
With drums in the room, the band needs subwoofers for the dance and a mixer with enough inputs: the X32 Rack has 16 microphone inputs and runs from a tablet, so the sound person, or the band, can mix from the dance floor. In-ear monitors keep stage volume down, which matters in restaurants and small halls.
How to save
- Buy one size bigger rather than two speakers more: a pair of good columns beats four weak boxes.
- Start without subwoofers and add them when the band books bigger rooms.
- Wedges are cheaper than in-ears; in-ears are quieter on stage.
- A digital mixer replaces outboard effects, EQ and compressors you would otherwise buy.
Where the numbers come from. Prices of the named products at Thomann on November 3, 2026, from its partner feed, in US dollars. The setups are our suggestions for typical wedding venues with 80 to 200 guests; specs are from Thomann's descriptions. Places are from our rankings.
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Denis Kataev runs AudioFu. Every night the site records the prices of more than 38,000 instruments and studio tools at Thomann, and he writes about what those numbers show: what got cheaper, what just arrived, and which discounts are real.
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