Wedding Disc Jockey

The facility that you are having your wedding at is beautiful. The thing is - once it gets dark, it takes on a whole other look. It's kind of dark and not really romantic. White holiday lights on the fake ficus trees just don't cut it. What can you do? Candle light is great, but it only goes so far in setting the mode.

Dance floor lighting is one way to bring a new feel to a facility, but if you're not into making your wedding look like a night club, then maybe a more theatrical feel to the lighting is in order. How about some simple color changers or slowly rotating white lights? What about a custom gobo that creates an evening sky on the ceiling? All these things are possible.

A lighting scheme is a great way to liven up the venue. With 8 or 16 color changers, we can slowly transition from one color to another or set different tones for specific events at your wedding. When it's time for dinner, a soft blue shade can illuminate the walls and columns. When it's time for cake cutting, the room all of a sudden becomes pink. When it's dancing time, the lights start flickering and a deep purple fills the room. This is possible throught the magic of LED driven lighting effects. Ask your lighting professional or contact us to learn more about how we can bring your event to light.

Rob Alberti, After Hours DJ, Lighting, Sound

And so goes another technology shift at your wedding. Gone are the days of using expensive disposable cameras on each table for your guests to use. The photos were never that great anyways. It got expensive processing all those cameras only to find a couple shots that you really wanted out of 100's.

What do you do? Setup a digital photo station at your wedding - have someone bring a laptop with a digital card reader. At the end of the wedding, you ask all your guests that brought digital cameras, to stop by the station and download all their photos.

Now you have instant access to all the photos that all of your guests took. You can look through them and decide which ones you want to print and you can just archive the rest onto a CDR. It's simple to do. Forget the disposable cameras and bring your laptop instead. (Hey, even my 70 yr old mother has a digital camera now!)

If your wedding or party is being held in a unique facility with specific acoustic issues (multiple rooms, indoor/outdoors, echo issue, broken up ceiling surface, in a tent, etc.) then you need to educate yourself. Normal placement of your DJ’s speakers – on speaker stands, may not be the correct thing to do for your given room layout. Your professional disc jockey should be able to offer you knowledgeable acoustic solutions to your needs.

For example, if your DJ is located at the corner of the dance floor v. located along one side of the dance floor – they may suggest to “point-source” their speakers. This would place all speakers at the corner of the dance floor and they would fan the entire room.

With rooms with known acoustical echoes (hard surfaces, such as marble), they might suggest using remote broadcast speakers and using a time delay on one set of speakers. They might suggest placing their speakers on the ground pointing upward at a 45 degree angle v. on stands.

The real problem you will have is if your DJ sets up their system the same way regardless of the acoustical situation. If they do not know the difference between near-field and far-field speakers (far-field speakers throw their sound further and work well for larger rooms or outdoor areas) they you need to find a qualified professional DJ that does.

Why such a concern? If you want everyone to hear the best man’s toast or introductions and if you want something better than “boom box” sound at your wedding, then it becomes imperative that you educate yourself prior to hiring a DJ just because they are the cheapest quote that you’ve received. Quality comes at a cost.

Rob Alberti, After Hours DJ