The Mountains Will Be Alive With the Sound of Music
August 18th, 2008 @ 10:54 am by Miss Espresso
We’re less than 50 days away from the wedding and we just booked our entertainment. Who’s been procrastinating? But in this instance, we had to wait in hopes of getting our top choice.
You see, back in June, I was researching entertainment and came across the musical awesomeness that is Mike and Brian. I emailed them immediately requesting a quote and their availability, but the price came out to be way over our budget. Insert frowning Espresso faces. I emailed them a couple times afterwards trying to figure out how we could cut the cost down and herein lies why we had to wait. Brian informed me that if I could wait a little over a month, and if nobody booked them for that date, he would perform at our wedding as a soloist and for a much cheaper price. So we waited, and waited, and waited. We wondered and prayed.
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Hey Mister DJ!
July 1st, 2008 @ 6:50 pm by Miss Pomegranate
We originally planned on having an iPod wedding - but anxiety got the best of me after lots and lots (and lots) of people told me that the DJ is the one thing that most brides wish they had spent more on. Well, that anxiety, teamed up with the fact that NOT ONE of my friends wanted to be the emcee, (come on people, normally you all are hams and show-offs!) pretty much cemented my decision to try and find an affordable DJ.
I had a few rules for said DJ, including the following:
- No wardrobe of shiny silver sequin vests, top hats or funky DJ wear.*
- The option to allow a couple of friends to “spin” a pre-determined short set during our wedding day dance-fest.
- A pleasant speaking voice - and no habit of interrupting or fast-talking.
- A music catalog that didn’t expire in the 80s or that contains mass amounts of country music or cheesy dance songs.
- Some form of lighting package for ambiance (this was Mr. Pom’s request).
- Under $1,000 for 5 hours.
You’d THINK this would be easy, right? Apparently, to-be-married peeps in the Sacramento/Bay Area area either love the chicken dance or like to spend loads of money on their music slingers. We interviewed a few folks, but nobody really grabbed us.
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That’s What It’s All About!
June 20th, 2008 @ 2:16 pm by Miss Candy Corn
I just realized I’ve never posted about our fabulous dj! At first, we were planning on DIY-ing our wedding music with an Ipod, but I knew I would end up freaking out about the music on the wedding day if we did it ourselves. I have this image in my head of me hauling a boombox around for backup. I was also scared there’d be a lot of this going on:
Music Options In Cancun, Mexico
April 23rd, 2008 @ 3:40 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
When I thought only a few people would come to our destination wedding, I was fine with the idea of having an ipod wedding and dancing barefoot on the beach. When the numbers started climbing towards 90 and beyond, we threw that idea out the window.
An Ear For The Bump BA Bump
January 17th, 2008 @ 12:29 pm by Mrs. Cherry Blossom
When we started searching for a DJ, the choices were unlimited. We had tons of friends who got into the DJ’ing business from HS, and continued it into a growing business from the club scene to weddings and social events. Finding one that fit our budget and had the ear for some bad-ass beat that makes you want to rip the floor up and shake your bon bon like no tomorrow was a different story.
Special Wedding Touches Part 3: Our First Dance
August 9th, 2007 @ 4:55 pm by Mrs. Hibiscus
So far, I’ve already blogged about our photobooth and our slideshow. Another special aspect of our wedding (and Mr. Hibiscus’ favorite) was our first dance.
Now, we worked really hard to come up with a routine after a couple of lessons from Arthur Murray. I think we did a good job considering we had no previous training. It wasn’t “Dancing with the stars” by any means, but we were very proud. We recommend taking dance lessons to help relax you for your first dance. Shockingly, my hubby wants to continue our lessons. He loved it and it was his favorite part of the wedding because he had put so much work into it.
Dance All Night To This DJ…
May 30th, 2007 @ 4:56 pm by Mrs. Bell Pepper
There was much debate whether or not we should have a band, DJ, or an iPod playing our music for the reception. My fiance’s mom liked the idea of having a band. The look of having a band at your reception is very classy and the sound is so much better live. The cons for having a band is that it’s very expensive and you really have a limited song list collection to choose from. I contacted most bands in the Philly/South NJ area and the minimum cost to book one was about $2000, which is way out of our price range. Read more…
EBE Entertainment
April 9th, 2007 @ 2:16 pm by Mrs. Snow Pea
Live bands at a wedding were a new thing to me. In high school, a cool DJ was the most desired part of a Sweet Sixteen, was it not?
For Mr. Snow Pea’s birthday, we went to see Harry Connick Jr. in concert. He was amazing and his band was phenomenal! We love big band music and hearing them in person, so we knew a DJ couldn’t substitute the musical quality we were looking for. We compromised many things in order to book a live band for our wedding, but we’re so glad we did.
We looked into many bands including Slippery Band (who was booked), 747Orchestra, CTO World Entertainment, Chaser, and Ariel Entertainment. All of which are incredible bands and I personally highly recommend all of them. We went with EBE because they were recommended by Slippery Band (incredibly friendly service) and were willing to work within our budget.
Our Music Man
February 2nd, 2007 @ 4:31 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
Mr. Kiwi was given a few jobs to do - music, officiant, and his suit. So far, I’ve made appointments to visit various officiants, and ripped out suit ideas. And as of yesterday, we kinda booked a music guy.
He is Mr. Kiwi’s (wait for it…) assistant coach. Who is still in college. And who doesn’t know a thing about actually MC’ing a wedding. Since I honestly don’t care about the music so much, I told Mr. Kiwi we can agree to it, but I get complete input on the playlist.
So, how did we manage to hire him? At their game last night, we were groaning about how hard this planning thing is, especially finding a DJ. Then Mr. Kiwi jokingly asked Brandon, “How about you do it?” Heh heh heh. Oh, how I laughed and laughed. Then Brandon said, “Why don’t you just use your ipod?” Which began a discussion of speakers, amps, mics, and those things. That led to Mr. Kiwi saying, “Dude, can you do it? We’ll use my ipod! I’ll give you a hundred bucks?” The smile on my face was replaced with my shocked open mouth.
Light Show Dilemma - To Have Or Not To Have?
November 30th, 2006 @ 7:03 pm by Mrs. Peach
Alrighty folks… I need your opinions!
The DJ I’m considering offers a motorized light show for an additional $75 with his services. Have any of you been to a wedding where they had a lightshow along with the music? What did you think?
My initial thoughts: could look cool, maybe it will really liven up the dance floor? But on the other hand it could look tacky - maybe a little too prom-y or club-ish??
