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30Jan/120

Wedding Lighting Options At Your Reception

Many people ask what the differences are in lighting packages. I wanted to try and answer most of your questions with this blog post. There are three basic kinds of lighting at a wedding reception. There are dance floor lights, table lighting and architectural lighting of the room.

Dance Floor Lighting:

Basic Dance Floor lighting consists of 2-3 light fixtures that move, change color and shape of the beam based on the music. This is a great way to give some energy to your dance floor.

Club Lighting takes your basic dance floor lighting and brings it to a larger level. We bring more light fixtures. The style and complexity of the fixtures rivals what you’d see in a typical night club. This style lighting creates more of a dance party atmosphere. We can control the lights and adjust them based on fast v. slow music.

Table Illumination:

Table lighting can come in a few typical styles. You can illuminate your tables with candles. You can use LED glow fixtures in vases or in your floral arrangements (talk to your florist about lighting options). You can also pin-spot your table centerpieces. Each table centerpiece would have 1-2 white pin-spots pointed at it from high above (ceiling mounted or 11’ in air well above people) to make your table glow. We can do all guest tables or just your head table, cake table and maybe even your parent’s table. We can even make a table GLOW from underneath.

Architectural Room Lighting or Up-Lighting:

Up-lighting is a huge wedding trend. Something so simple can dramatically change the overall feel of your venue. Dark wood tones? We can warm it up with an Amber LED or Par Can. Want to turn the room blue or pink? We can do that too with our 3 watt LED high intensity LED up-lights (~10,000 lumen output). These up-lights can remain one color through the entire reception or we can wirelessly control color scene changes for your entrance, first dance, or the lights can change based on the music over the course of the evening to add to your party atmosphere.

You can use wash LED lighting OUTSIDE to change a tent or even the ENTRANCE of your venue.

Texture lighting normally requires high vaulted ceilings or tents but can be projected on divider walls, behind your head table or on the ceiling or dance floor to add yet another dimension to your space.

Dance Floor Lighting

Club Lighting

Table Illumination

Architectural Up-Lighting

Texture Lighting

8Apr/10Off

Waveny House, New Canaan CT

I had the opportunity to do a site inspect this week at the Waveny House in New Canaan CT. What is a site inspect?  It is when we have a facility that we have not performed at or if we have an event where we need to do a walk through to check logistics for an upcoming event.

We have an upcoming event lighting job this fall at the Waveny House and I wanted to walk through and view the space to see what we can do for lighting the area.    It is a gorgeous building - very dramatic event space.  It will be great to light this venue.

If you would like to have us at your upcoming event or wedding, please checkout our website at www.robalberti.com or request further information and we can check our availability and put together a formal quote for you.  CONTACT US NOW FOR FREE INFORMATION.

Remember, we offer wedding disc jockey entertainment, iphotography, photo booth rental, Sweet 16 and Prom DJs, Wedding uplighting, architectural event lighting, up-lighting and a/v rental services including ipod wedding rentals for all types of events in the New England areas including Newport, Providence, Boston, Western Mass, The Berkshires, Hartford, New Haven, CT Shoreline, & Fairfield County.

Rob Alberti, event director & lighting designer
Rob Alberti’s Event Services, DJ & Lighting
Serving the Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island areas
800 782 3033 or Email Us at info@afterhoursdj.net

Check out our other websites:  www.audiovideorental.net , www.budgetentertainment.net , www.afterhoursdj.net , www.weddinginsider.net

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12Dec/09Off

Turning an otherwise boring room into something amazing with light

There are some amazing wedding venues in the New England area.  Sometimes the spaces that people try to have receptions in are just a bit big and something needs to be done.  Lighting can be an amazing thing in a large space.  You take a stark white cavernous space and simply add some of our custom gobo light patterns and the space is instantly transformed.  Check out the picture below:

Cavernous Hall

If you would like to have us at your event, please checkout our website at www.afterhoursdj.net or request further information and we can check our availability and put together a formal quote for you.

Remember, we offer wedding disc jockey entertainment, photography, photo booth rental, event lighting, up-lighting and a/v rental services for all types of events.

Rob Alberti, event director & lighting designer
Rob Alberti’s After Hours DJ Service
Serving the Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island areas
800 782 3033

Check out our other websites:  www.audiovideorental.net , www.budgetentertainment.net www.weddinginsider.net

26Aug/09Off

Lighting Your Event

Many times we will get calls from people that have already booked another DJ, but are interested in our lighting options.  The answer is YES.  We do lighting separate from our DJ services.  Need a custom gobo/your name in lights?  Need our full venue architectural wash lighting?  Or our club lighting system?  Give us a call or drop us an email.  We'd love to talk with you regarding your lighting needs.

3Aug/09Off

Gershon Fox, Hartford Connecticut

Our wedding Saturday was at the Gershon Fox room in Hartford, CT.  Cocktails were in the uppper lounge, dancing in the atrium and dinner was in the ballroom.   Congratulations to Candice & Mike for a wonderful wedding.

Gershon Fox Room in Purple

Gershon Fox Room in Purple

Gershon Fox b

Gershon Fox c

20Jul/09Off

The Barney Estate at Forest Park

Ellen & Scott had a very intimate family wedding this past weekend at the Barney Estate at Forest Park.  They had friends and family play the keyboard and sing during the ceremony.    Both had children from previous marriages so this was a blending of 2 families.  They chose wisely for the music for their cake cutting - The Brady Bunch Theme.  Thanks for letting me be a part of your celebration.

Barney Estate Lit Up Dancing

24Jun/09Off

Hartford Society Room

Society Room

Society Room

Custom uplighting at wedding this past weekend at the Hartford Society Room.  This is just an amazing space to hold an event.

Courtesy Troy Photography

Courtesy Troy Photography