Wedding DJ, Uplights and Gobo ( Monogram) at NTC Promenade

  This was a LONG party, they danced for like 3.5 hours.  But that's the key word, they Danced the entire time.  We only stopped for Cake Cutting and few other formalities.  I provided 16 Uplights and their monogram in light in the center of the dancefloor.  The room looked great and the night was a lot of fun.  There is another Video on my blog by Videographer Joe Park that shows some other great shots away from the dancefloor

Tracy & Ben's St Patrick's Day Wedding DJ & Uplights

March 17th I had the pleasure of being the DJ & Emcee for Ben & Tracy Tong at Maderas Golf Club in Poway. It was a little rainy that day so on short notice the Ceremony was moved indoors into half of the ballroom. These two were all smiles though and the rooom looked great thanks to the Florist and Uplights it made the rain outside melt away.

Here is a video clip from Catch Motion Productions who filmed the whole day.

"Can You Stand The Rain?" from Catch Motion on Vimeo.

The Ceremony really set the pace for the rest of day. Tracy walked down the aisle to a family friend singing "If I ain't Got You" originally by Alicia Keys. She sang it so well and in such similar style to the original that I noticed people looking toward when they finally figured out that it wasn't the prerecorded original song.
Reverend Deborah Young delivered the Ceremony for them and when they read their own vows Ben, the Groom went first and really did well. Tracy, the Bride was next and she had arranged with me in advance a special cue to start her music track of "The Way I am" by Ingrid Michaelson,, but she had rewritten the words to fit her Lyrics to a Cheesy Love Song reference in her vows. The crowd erupted in applause when she finished.
Once the Ceremony had finished the Maderas staff invited the guests to the foyer and the tented area outside for a few minutes while the room was converted back to Dinner seating for the reception. You should've seen it, they were amazing, 160 chairs and half a room full of tables, fully set for dinner in just over 15 minutes. I provided music during the break but guests were anxious to get back in and get started.

The room looked great all set and ready, my 8 Amber uplights really gave the room a nice warm touch to make the rainy day quickly forgotten. Dinner was wonderful, if you've never had the food at Maderas you have to go have lunch or dinner there. The chef is amazing and the staff is 5 star quality without a doubt. We finished Dinner with a Video Montage on the 7 ft screen and projector that I provided.

On to the PARTY! You may have noticed in the video clip but at some point, 2 guys in Leprechaun suits showed up.... not just green clothes, I mean full suits, with formal button up vests and jackets and knickers. I don't know where they came from but they were dancing and everyone enjoyed them being there.


The group was really into a lot of top 40 dance with some of the party song classics mixed in from time to time. They really seemed to have fun as they danced the night away, they even extended the party to have me stay longer.

Disco Themed Video DJ Party at Maderas

This was like an explosion of color! This Annual corporate party selects a theme each year and the attendees go all out, dressing in costume and acting in character - it was a lot of fun.


I Video DJ'd all Disco for the first 4 hours (yes, I have that much Disco on DVD)and they were INTO IT. maybe it was the wigs but no matter they were having a great time. The last hour as the planning committee and I planned we started to break out of the disco theme and give them some 80s and top 40 which by that time of night they were ready for and only added to the excitement.
My team brought in an 8 foot screen for the videos, plenty of dance and stage lights, 8 hot pink uplights and a disco ball - because let's face it what's a disco party if there's no disco ball!

December Wedding

I'll try to post more on this wedding later but I wanted to get this video posted ASAP. Joe Park is an awesome videographer, one of the things I like best is that you can have him create a teaser video for the wedding. Since the full Wedding Video takes weeks and weeks to edit in some cases, the teaser video just shows some of the highlights at a quick glimpse. As usual, he hit another homer with this one from Dec 3rd.

Nina & Andrew Highlight Teaser from Joe Park on Vimeo.

DJ & Uplights for a 18 yr Birthday

DJ and Uplights with a completely PINK theme. This party was for a group of people some of which were under 18, so to protect their privacy the video only shows shots of the uplights from before the party began.

It was great though, a few uplights and the rest were carefully placed area lighting. These Full Color LED lights that we use are so versatile and are some of the brightest available.

Peter & Candice' Wedding and Uplights - Park Hyatt Aviara

Peter & Candice were great, they had so many different pieces of entertainment. Best Man-Bruce strummed guitar lightly as toasts were given. Another played the Clarinet, Cindy gave what I can only describe as the best live variety show act I've seen in quite some time and Peter the groom played a song on violin that he dedicated to Candice. Later the first dance was preceded by about 30 seconds of a skit by the Bride & Groom. the guests absolutely loved it and that's the best thing. I Emcee'd the evening, did 10 Deep pink uplights and DJ'd the dancing at the end.

After dinner we watched 2 short video clips shown on the 7 ft screen and projector that I brought and finished the night with some dancing.

The rest of the A list vendor team was amazing designer Thomas Bui and the Photo and Video was done by Visual Masterpiece they did this video recap, check out their blog post (nov 8th) for some really incredible photos.

Candice + Peter {NDE} Highlight from VisualMasterpiece on Vimeo.

Wedding DJ and Uplights at the Park Hyatt Aviara

The Park Hyatt Aviara is such a great resort. They are a true 5 star resort and it shows in everything they do. I DJ'd and provided 14 pink uplights for this wedding in the Aviara Room. It really came out looking great. The Wedding Coordinator was Susanne from Crowne Weddings and she's absolutely one of the best around.

Wedding and Uplighting at the Hotel del Coronado

I recently DJ'd a small wedding at the Hotel Del in Coronado in the Windsor Complex Room. I provided 8 uplights (RGBA LED full Color of course) which is perfect for that room since the ceiling isn't really tall enough to put up raised dance floor lighting. Sabrina Cadini of La Dolce Idea was the Wedding Coordinator and always does a great job, Photographer Tim Otto was capturing the night and I emcee'd and played the music for the night.

I know the dance floor doesn't look that full in most of the clips, but there were only about 35 guests at the so I was rotating the crowd pretty well throughout the night.

Wedding & Uplights at the Santa Luz Club

The Santa Luz Club is a secluded club in the private community of Santa Luz, they have a tented pavilion in the back of the club that is really great. This wedding was a raging party. I provided 8 Amber LED uplights to give the tent some color. The grand entrance went flawlessly, dinner was perfect too, then when dancing started this group got to their feet and didn't stop. We danced for almost 3 hours that night to a really diverse set of music. I worked in some of their requests but reading the crowd was how I came up with most of the music for the night. Check out the video for a sample of the music.



At one point the tent had gotten a little hot and I noticed that 8-10 people had gone outside of the tent to dance out on the lawn under the stars. As long as they dance, that's why I'm there.

Wedding DJ and Uplights at the Prado

This wedding was Rockin'! From the first dance to the Last song of the night the floor was packed with Dancers. I provided 10 Amber uplights 1 on each Column and 4 on the stage lighting the Stage Curtain. It was really great. The Prado and their team are great, the food is ALWAYS incredible and they have built in mini spot lights to light the tables in the main ballroom.
The wedding all went off without a hitch thanks to Susanne at Crown Weddings one of the best wedding planners in Southern California.

Here's a few clips of the action.

Video DJ & Karaoke Wedding and uplighting at Tom Hams Lighthouse

A fun little September wedding reception in the small room at Tom Hams Lighthouse in Point Loma for Joe & Jean. I don't think they thought their family would cut loose, dance and have a good time. That was one of the main reasons they selected Video DJ for the reception so that the guests would be visually entertained even if they didn't dance a lot. As the wedding date got closer, they asked to add Karaoke entertainment since they had some singers in the family. The room was a little crowded with their 60~ guests. The (2) Video Screens, Karaoke lyrics monitor and the (8) LED Uplights along with the dancefloor didn't leave much extra space.

They had several really good singers to start off and then the dancing started...

Brazilian Wedding at the Hotel Del Coronado

Todd & Gisele's wedding was awesome. Gisele is originally from Brazilian so they brought in a Brazilian band complete with 2 dancers. It was a huge hit and was like Carnival right there in the Coronet Ballroom at the Del. I brought in (2) 42" Video Screens to show their video montage and then video Dj'd with Music Videos after the Brazilian Band finished their short appearance. I even included a few Brazilian Pop Music Videos. Before the night started, I set 8 LED uplights that were set to rotate between blue and violet every 10 minutes throughout the night.

Chinese Wedding at the Four Seasons

This was a great reception with a full lighting
package including a Chinese symbol gobo, spotlights
for the cake and 20 uplights inside and out. The
Four Seasons is a great hotel for a reception its a
bit more than some of the other venues but its a
true 5 star hotel from the facility to the service.
This wedding ran like clockwork thanks to the
great coordination of Anseth Richards of Creative Occasions .

Video DJ Wedding

From the first time I sat down with Russel and Charlotte, they were really into the idea of having me Video DJ their wedding reception. They were a really nice couple and pulled out all the stops for their big day. Everything from all out floral arrangements and the "Mad Dash" video montage (the videographer shoots footage of the ceremony and then edits it to make it a part of the video montage to be viewed after dinner at the reception) to Dual Spotlights on the First Dance and a Jazz Trio for the Cocktail Reception. Red LED uplights really helped transform the room and compliment the red roses in the florals, the Party Donuts station (http://www.partydonuts.com/) and Photo Booth in the foyer were both a big hit as well.

Video DJ was perfect for this party, the 220 guests were mostly in their 20s and 30s with the 40+ group making up only about 30% of guests. Video DJ delivers that trendy, fresh interactive entertainment that fits that group perfectly.

The night started with a big grand entrance of 52 people, the guests were really riled up by the time the Bride and Groom came in. On to dinner and a performance by the Samahan Philippine Dance Company (Authentic cultural dances). Dual spot lights were set and ready for the Mother/Son and Father/Daughter Dances, the groom then cut in to begin their first dance.

By the time the dancefloor was opened, they were ready. They were on the floor in seconds...

The only thing I would have changed is we had so much to do in such a short time, we didn't really get to do a lot of dancing until later after the Mad Dash Video Montage, the Cake the Bouquet Toss, the Garter Toss and Money Dance.

(Sorry about all of the camera operators in the pictures and video clip, this wedding coverage is being submitted as a feature for an upcoming issue of Exquisite Weddings Magazine, as an article in San Diego Style Weddings Magazine as well as being considered for a wedding TV show - more info later.)

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