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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

What A Great Weekend!

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Saturday was Sarah and Tim’s wedding at New Place. I’ll post properly about this later, but for now I just want to say it really was a lovely day.

For the first time Ce, my wife, came along to help and we arrived at the venue at about 11am to set up for the ceremony and were on site until 4pm Sunday when the wedding fair finished! From the moment we arrived everyone on the team at New Place was really helpful and their attention to detail and customer service was exceptional.

We stayed overnight as we had a table at the wedding fair on Sunday and had breakfast with the wedding guests in the morning – again, it was top notch.

If you are looking for a venue New Place is well worth a visit.
CLICK HERE for more information about weddings at New Place.

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 🙂

My Last Wedding Fair Of 2012

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Sorry, I’ve been a bit quiet this week … man-flu 🙁

I’ve also been very busy preparing for this weeks wedding at the fabulous DeVere New Place, which coincidentally is the venue for our last wedding fair of 2012 on Sunday.

The event is staged by our friends Paul and Karen from PMN Wedding Fairs. Doors open between 11:30am and 4pm and Ce and I will be in the Arden Suite so please come and say hello!


Katy & Mike

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You may well remember I posted a few weeks ago about Katy and Mike’s wedding, well here’s my quick video of the day.

They were married in church and I was waiting at their reception venue with music and hosting right through to their brilliant party They had included some brilliant touches in a truly unique day.

Katy has just emailed me her permission to share the video with you – she added this comment ~

Thanks also for doing such a great job on the day – a lot of people said they couldn’t remember the last time they saw a dance floor so full for so long!!

Abba’s Angels

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Here’s the first exhibitors post from Thursdays Wedding Fair 🙂

During the fashion show Louise and Sam gave us a brief showcase of their Abba’s Angels tribute act.

The girls were an absolute joy to work with and we were very impressed with their performance. They are just one of the many tribute and party bands available from Planet Tribute CLICK HERE for more information.

For bookings please call Louise at Planet Tribute on 07931 350642 or e mail louise@planet-tribute.com

Thursday’s Wedding Fair

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Yesterday was the Autumn Southampton Guildhall Wedding Fair.

It was great to see lots of our friends exhibiting – I’ll talk more about them tomorrow. This time we were joined by my good friend, fellow Party Host and DJ, Gary Evans. Gary brought his Bride and Groom chairs along and here are one of our happy couples – Charlotte and Simon, who are getting married next year.

I also hosted the fashion show which this time not only featured some fabulous gowns but also tribute act Abba’s Angels – more to follow 🙂

FREE tickets!

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Please let me know if you’d like FREE tickets for the Southampton Guildhall Wedding Fair on Thursday 27th September ~ email paul@thepartydj.co.uk 🙂