Lobby wedding planners with press kits, put display and classified ads out, offer free entertainment or leave a CD to play at bridal shops, get a gig (any gig) and mention doing weddings as you intro a special wedding-ready love song, do a special business card in a wedding theme, ask friends to pass the word (especially friends of an age to have marrying-age children).... most fun-- do a promo and get press as you do all-day free wedding music at City Hall (need a permit most likely).... Get the first wedding gig any way you can and start generating word of mouth.

Oh and as well as wedding planners, wedding videographers and photogs, see if any of them would do referrals or leave business cards.

Since Hardi pastors the most popular wedding church in town, I can tell you this-- at a church wedding the regular organist is pretty miffed when s/he is not asked to play, so the churches tend to steer couples in that direction. Now, receptions-- there's a market you could try, ask the local clergy if you could come give a free sample during a worship service and discreetly let it be known about the interest in receptions.

In short, it's nice to want to do this over a summer, but like the rest of the music biz it requires hard marketing work with plenty of lead time. If they are not already playing for parties in the area, so there is a word of mouth feature already in place, it sounds like uphill work to me.

~Susan