Lisa and James Reception - 01/12/08
01/16/08 17:48 Filed in: General
Lisa and James were
planning to get married in August of 2008. James is
in the Navy and when duty called they changed their
date to January 12th, 08. Luckily we still had that
day open and could still DJ their wedding reception.
Lisa did most of the planning and did a great
job especially since she had such a little time to
work with. They had a photo booth at the reception
and the videographer had created a lovely montage and
love story for the guests to view. The videographer,
Jeff Fuchs of Northern Lights
Video whom we have worked with
before had also interviewed guests during
the evening for a video guest book which I thought
was a wonderful idea. They also used the photos
from the photo booth to make another guests book
and guests got to keep copies too.
We arrived early, so early we couldn't get in. The bingo was still rolling. When bingo finished up we hurried in with our gear and got all set up in about an hour. We were on a stage. The guests showed up around 4:45. We were playing some nice jazz and classic pop (Sinatra, Martin, Fitzgerald, Armstrong, etc...). We welcomed guests and got acquainted with Amanda Ling and Julia of Premier Planning Services and venue staff. Everyone was very professional and did their job well. Then the wedding party arrived! We got them all lined up before they even entered the reception. It took a little time. We were going to introduce the ushers and parents as well as the rest of the wedding party. The groom is a huge fan of WWE Wrestling and so we introduced each person as if they were entering the ring of a match and they each had their own snipet of a song. The guys were entering from one side of the room and the ladies from the other. We read like wrestling announcers and the wedding party danced in like superstars. Lots of energy and fun in the air. We received lots of good comments after this entrance and lots of people asked for our business cards.
After the entrance Lisa and James went right into their first dance. The song, "At The Beginning" by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx. Beautiful song! Then Lisa and James took the mic and thanked everyone for coming. After that we had a blessing by a member of Lisa's family. He was kind enough to introduce himself prior to the arrival of the wedding party and I told him I would be sure and get him a mic. After the blessing salads were served. There was a vendor table for dinner and Lisa and James gave us dinner. Very kind and generous of them. We enjoyed talking to the Wedding Planners, Photographers, Videographer and Photo Booth Operator during dinner.
The food was good and during the serving of cake the Video and Love Story were played. It was very lovely and there were a lot of oohs and ahs. I loved hearing more about how James and Lisa met and fell in love. I did sample the cake which was from Queen of Cakes and it was fabulous. I make cakes so I consider myself a cake snob, but this cakes was delicious.
The whole wedding party toasted Lisa and James. This wedding party was pretty funny. They brought up many humorous events but they were never inappropriate.
Then we had the Father/Daughter Dance. This was a little different, we invited all the fathers and daughters out after a moment, to dance with Lisa and Bob. The song choice was Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. That was a nice song to lead us into open dancing with other songs from that era.
This was a large reception and the dance floor was quickly packed. We took requests and did a Dollar Dance but no Bouquet and Garter. The Brides family really liked Polkas and the Grooms father asked for a few waltzes so we fit those in nicely and they were received well by the other guests.
We also ran into an old Bride and Groom at this wedding. This Bride and Groom, Ben and Angie, had actually been the reason we were DJing Lisa and James' reception. Lisa had been in Angie's wedding. They are best friends. It is always great to see past Brides and Groom. We asked for their current address so we could be sure and send them anniversary cards in the future.
One thing I forgot to mention was instead of clinking for kisses during dinner is we set up a putting green in the horseshoe area that the head table created. People were encouraged to putt for a kiss or wave their red napkins for a kiss. Lisa is a teacher of deaf students and this is a deaf culture tradition at weddings. She called it visual noise. There was a signing interpreter there for the guests that were deaf and two people that Lisa works with are deaf and came up to sign about the napkin tradition and Lisa interpreted it. It was very cool. The people had a blast putting, even if they weren't getting the ball in the hole, and continuously waving their napkins. I think Lisa and James did more kissing than eating. It was really nice to see the guests having so much fun with the Putting for a Kiss. We have lots of great ideas for this event and it is always fun to do them. We have the Bowling For A Kiss with the WII and we have the Sing For A Kiss and much, much more.
Songs like The Chicken Dance, I Knew The Bride and Wipe Out were big hits at this reception. They definitely liked all the interactives and the Oldies.
Wedding receptions like this are a blessing to me. Everything went so well and the people were so nice and kind. The guests were definitely happy to be there together. Being that the wedding had to be moved up the Bride herself commented on how thrilled she was by the spectacular turn out of guests. Lisa and James are wonderful people and make a wonderful couple. They have big hearts, great sense of humor and obviously love each other very much.
I wish them happiness and success and I hope I will see them again in the future.
Carol Morgan
www.collsound.com
We arrived early, so early we couldn't get in. The bingo was still rolling. When bingo finished up we hurried in with our gear and got all set up in about an hour. We were on a stage. The guests showed up around 4:45. We were playing some nice jazz and classic pop (Sinatra, Martin, Fitzgerald, Armstrong, etc...). We welcomed guests and got acquainted with Amanda Ling and Julia of Premier Planning Services and venue staff. Everyone was very professional and did their job well. Then the wedding party arrived! We got them all lined up before they even entered the reception. It took a little time. We were going to introduce the ushers and parents as well as the rest of the wedding party. The groom is a huge fan of WWE Wrestling and so we introduced each person as if they were entering the ring of a match and they each had their own snipet of a song. The guys were entering from one side of the room and the ladies from the other. We read like wrestling announcers and the wedding party danced in like superstars. Lots of energy and fun in the air. We received lots of good comments after this entrance and lots of people asked for our business cards.
After the entrance Lisa and James went right into their first dance. The song, "At The Beginning" by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx. Beautiful song! Then Lisa and James took the mic and thanked everyone for coming. After that we had a blessing by a member of Lisa's family. He was kind enough to introduce himself prior to the arrival of the wedding party and I told him I would be sure and get him a mic. After the blessing salads were served. There was a vendor table for dinner and Lisa and James gave us dinner. Very kind and generous of them. We enjoyed talking to the Wedding Planners, Photographers, Videographer and Photo Booth Operator during dinner.
The food was good and during the serving of cake the Video and Love Story were played. It was very lovely and there were a lot of oohs and ahs. I loved hearing more about how James and Lisa met and fell in love. I did sample the cake which was from Queen of Cakes and it was fabulous. I make cakes so I consider myself a cake snob, but this cakes was delicious.
The whole wedding party toasted Lisa and James. This wedding party was pretty funny. They brought up many humorous events but they were never inappropriate.
Then we had the Father/Daughter Dance. This was a little different, we invited all the fathers and daughters out after a moment, to dance with Lisa and Bob. The song choice was Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. That was a nice song to lead us into open dancing with other songs from that era.
This was a large reception and the dance floor was quickly packed. We took requests and did a Dollar Dance but no Bouquet and Garter. The Brides family really liked Polkas and the Grooms father asked for a few waltzes so we fit those in nicely and they were received well by the other guests.
We also ran into an old Bride and Groom at this wedding. This Bride and Groom, Ben and Angie, had actually been the reason we were DJing Lisa and James' reception. Lisa had been in Angie's wedding. They are best friends. It is always great to see past Brides and Groom. We asked for their current address so we could be sure and send them anniversary cards in the future.
One thing I forgot to mention was instead of clinking for kisses during dinner is we set up a putting green in the horseshoe area that the head table created. People were encouraged to putt for a kiss or wave their red napkins for a kiss. Lisa is a teacher of deaf students and this is a deaf culture tradition at weddings. She called it visual noise. There was a signing interpreter there for the guests that were deaf and two people that Lisa works with are deaf and came up to sign about the napkin tradition and Lisa interpreted it. It was very cool. The people had a blast putting, even if they weren't getting the ball in the hole, and continuously waving their napkins. I think Lisa and James did more kissing than eating. It was really nice to see the guests having so much fun with the Putting for a Kiss. We have lots of great ideas for this event and it is always fun to do them. We have the Bowling For A Kiss with the WII and we have the Sing For A Kiss and much, much more.
Songs like The Chicken Dance, I Knew The Bride and Wipe Out were big hits at this reception. They definitely liked all the interactives and the Oldies.
Wedding receptions like this are a blessing to me. Everything went so well and the people were so nice and kind. The guests were definitely happy to be there together. Being that the wedding had to be moved up the Bride herself commented on how thrilled she was by the spectacular turn out of guests. Lisa and James are wonderful people and make a wonderful couple. They have big hearts, great sense of humor and obviously love each other very much.
I wish them happiness and success and I hope I will see them again in the future.
Carol Morgan
www.collsound.com
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