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Woodlands Lodge Hotel

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Woodlands Lodge

Here’s another one of my reviews that I’ve posted recently on the For Better For Worse website’s venue pages …

Situated a few miles out of Southampton, just off the A35 and easily reached from the M27, The Woodlands Lodge Hotel is brilliantly located for couples who want a New Forest Wedding.

I’m a DJ and Master of Ceremonies/Wedding Host, so I get to visit dozens of venues across the region and gain a unique behind-the-scenes insight and The Woodlands Lodge is among the most friendly hotels I’ve visited. Imogene and her team have created a really welcoming atmosphere that only a privately owned/run hotel could hope to achieve.

The venue has two rooms licensed for civil ceremonies and offer various options to accommodate different couples’ requirements for their wedding breakfast and evening reception.

If you are looking for a venue where you’ll feel at home, valued and relaxed I suggest you drop in for a chat with Imogene.

Woodlands Lodge Wedding Disco

Here’s a couple of pictures from a year ago today (10th December 2011) of my last wedding at The Woodlands Lodge for Matt & Kirsten’s Wedding.

Woodlands Lodge Wedding DJ

For more information about weddings at The Woodlands Lodge CLICK HERE.

You can download their current Wedding Brochure HERE Or you could just pick up the phone and give Imogene a call on 023 8029 2257.

Woodlands Lodge Wedding Brochure

Steph & Danny’s Wedding Party

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New Forest Wedding DJ

Here’s a very quick video from last Saturday’s wedding party for Steph and Danny at the New Forest Lodge Hotel in Lyndhurst. Their whole day was full of fun with casino tables after their wedding breakfast and then a photo-booth and me for their evening party. It was really a fun day for a lovely couple with lots of very special moments.

Something Borrowed Magazine

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I’m very excited to be working with Sam and Eleanor from Something Borrowed magazine which has just launched in Hampshire.

If you click on the image below you should get a larger version open up on your display.

If you’d like a copy of the magazine please email me at paul@thepartydj.co.uk with your postal address and I’ll send one to you.

Winslowe House

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This is a review I posted recently on the For Better For Worse website’s venue pages …

Rachel & Gareth’s wedding at Winslowe House

As a DJ and Master of Ceremonies/Wedding Host I get to visit dozens of venues across the region so I gain a unique behind-the-scenes insight and I’m delighted to offer this review of Winslowe House.

The ceremony table Winslowe House

I’ve performed here twice this year and I can honestly say the service and attention to detail Jane and her team offer is exceptional.

Ceremony at Winslowe House

There are no “conveyor belt” weddings at Winslowe House, every couple receive the individual treatment that their most special of days deserves. The Barford Room which is licensed for civil ceremonies is beautiful, the driveway and grounds are very well maintained and perfect for photos and drinks, and the range of marquee options that can be so cleverly built onto the back of the house means that the reception space is always just right for the number of guests. I love the fact the marquee incorporates the borders around the terrace and so flowers and lavender are growing in the space creating a fragrant atmosphere.

Wedding Breakfast in the Barford Room at Winslowe House

Winslowe House is Jane’s home and she treats every wedding like it’s for a member of her family. Both of the weddings I performed at were totally different from each other, both couples had a fabulous day. Before you book your wedding venue I recommend you check out Winslowe House.

Mandy & Justin’s first dance at Winslowe House

For more information about Winslowe House visit their website CLICK HERE.

Paul acting as Wedding Host for Mandy & Justin’s wedding at Winslowe House

Have You Thought About A Marquee Wedding?

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Marquee weddings can be the perfect solution to the reception venue question. You can have any size you want and the range of options and looks available is enormous. I have two very good contacts and one of them is holding an open day this coming Saturday.

I’ll be there all day so why not drop in and have a look. Michelle and Mark will be also be available to answer all your questions about their marquees, you can find out more about their company at www.finestmarqueehire.co.uk

There is also a charity event in one of the marquees the same evening. I’ll post more about this soon.

Ceremony Music

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Another of the services I offer is providing the music for the wedding ceremony. Great production of the music for your ceremony can set the tone for the whole day. Before I returned to DJ’ing I’d actually been asked by several friends to play their ceremony music for them at their weddings ~ it was a really nerve-racking thing to do, I was pushing buttons on machines that I didn’t know and although I managed it was far from ideal.

Many venues provide a sound system, usually a domestic portable cd player or iPod doc, and usually expect you to provide the music to play and the person to control it for you. Is this the right way to start the most important ceremony in your life?

Here’s a document one of my colleagues, DJ Terry Lewis, developed. I’ve adapted it slightly and I hope it will give you food for thought.


Here’s a picture another colleague took at a local hotel recently.
You can see a small domestic CD player has been provided

Here’s our system at New Place last Saturday, set up discreetly at the rear of the room using professional sound equipment ~
Pioneer DDJ S1
MacBook Pro
Bose Compact speaker system

For more information about ceremony music please get in touch email paul@thepartydj.co.uk or call 023 8086 1715 or 07973 617 153

Mood Lighting

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Maybe you’ve heard it called uplighting, maybe you’ve never heard of it before, but mood lighting is very popular and is the basis of my current light show. Basically we just use lights to throw colours up the wall to create the atmosphere. Usually the evening starts with the lights on one colour, for example the wedding theme colour, and then once the party gets going they all start to flash or change colour in a display.

Here are a couple fo pictures from last Saturday’s wedding at New Place

This first picture shows the room as it was seen by the guests when they were invited in for the evening party. The colour I used matched the sashes on the chair covers. Please note the booth on the right of the picture – that is my play-out stand, no nasty big pile of boxes, all very tidy and complimentary to the decor in the room.

In this picture you can see the lights on the wall had all gone to a lighter blue green at the moment the picture was taken. If you look back through my posts here and check out my website you will see pictures with lots of different colours.

This can be taken to much greater lengths and whole rooms can be lit in this way. If you’d like to know more just let me know 🙂

Music For The Bridal Party Entrance

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One of the services I offer is music for the Wedding Ceremony. By using a professional quality P.A. system we can move emotions and create a far more dramatic moment than just by pushing the play button on a c.d. player or an iPod. We plan the timings for the various members of the Bridal Party to enter so that when the Bride finally appears in the doorway, and makes her way to the registrar’s table and her Bridegroom, the song is at it’s peek ~ this can be really powerful.

You can have any music you want at a civl ceremony as long as it doesn’t mention God. I can talk you through the process of selecting your music and I can edit your songs to make sure they have the maximum effect ~ it’s all part of the service.

Saturday was a prime example where everything was planned and the family and friends were visibly moved by Bridal Party entrance. What a beautiful, powerful song …

Why not give me a call and we can have a chat about making your wedding really unique, elegant and fun!

023 8086 1715 or 07973 617153

www.thepartydj.co.uk

New Place ~ Today

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Just a quick reminder that today is the New Place Wedding Fair, so set your sat-nav for SO32 2JY and come and see us 🙂