didn't the gold jackets tell you it was going to be a "function" band?
Something about the whole "weddings/bar mitsvahs/corporate" bands (over there in particular) that just leaves me cold; pub cover bands* in the UK are not, IMO, much better.
Yes they can play the songs well (sometimes) but give me original material played maybe not so well any day – that's where the real soul of music is.
*we had a bass player for about 4 weeks in 2009 who decided that the original material we were playing was not for him, even though he'd heard it & learnt it before his audition. Found his pub-covers band on Myspace the other day – embarrassing doesn't even touch it