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
How Many Up-Lighting Fixtures Do I Need For My Wedding Reception?
How Many Up-Lighting Fixtures Do I Need For My Wedding Reception? This is a question that we get asked all the time in the lighting industry. As a wedding lighting expert, there is not a single answer to this question. It depends on whether there are specific things or objects in the room that need to be highlighted. Is the room symmetrical? You want your lighting to be symmetrical and fit the space as well. Too many fixtures can be just as bad as too few.
If your wedding venue has beautiful columns all around the room – this might be the architectural feature that you want to highlight with a light on each. Maybe there are dramatic arched windows that need to be lit on each side (or on each window sill). Do you want lights on each side of your entryway? Maybe there is a need for lighting just outside the room to light the entry from that side? A lighting professional will walk with you and do a site inspection prior to your wedding date and you can discuss your lighting needs with them.
I can tell you, that we always bring more lighting fixtures than we expect to use at any given event. Extras always come in handy when you find out that the cake was moved on the floor plan and you now need a special light for behind it or that the room was shifted so the head table is now on the opposite side of the room or maybe just as spares if the room just doesn’t look symmetrical once we are done setting up.
Lighting is all about the look of the room. We will setup and then step back and look. Are there dead spots in the room or does a light look out of place? We will tweak our lighting setup to give you the best possible impact. Do we charge by the fixture? No. Our fees are based on the overall size and complexity of any given event. Do we need to bring all our gear up 2 flights of stairs? Is your venue in a downtown area that is hard to reach with truck & trailer? How long do we have to setup? Will we need 1, 2 or 3 assistants for setup and tear down? All these factors go into deciding fees. Will we charge more for more complex events that require twice as much gear? Yes.
A lighting company that charges based on a per fixture basis is not really interested in the wow factor of your room. We might recommend PAR cans or our new 3.0 watt LED systems with Red-Green-Blue-Amber color mixing. We might suggest a single color v. color scene changes to save you money on your lighting budget. It’s all about creating the right effect for each one of our clients. Give us a call and let’s talk about your lighting needs.
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If you would like to have us at your upcoming event, 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 SAMPLER CD AND PRICING INFORMATION.
Remember, we offer wedding disc jockey entertainment, iphotography wedding photography, photo booth rental, Sweet 16 and Prom DJs, Specializing in Lighting Your Wedding Reception, architectural event lighting, LED wash up-lighting and a/v rental services including ipod wedding rentals. We can provide entertainment and event services for all types of events in the New England areas including: Massachusetts Wedding Djs, Weddings in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Connecticut Wedding DJs, Hartford Connecticut Weddings,
Rob Alberti’s Event Services is the former “After Hours DJ Service” – an Entertainment company with a new name to better reflect our new array of event and entertainment services. Looking for unique wedding lighting ideas?
Rob Alberti, event director & lighting designer
Rob Alberti’s Event Services, DJ & Lighting
413 562 2632 or 800 782 3033 or Email Us at rob@robalberti.com
Transforming space, light & sound…
Check out our other websites: www.audiovideorental.net , www.budgetentertainment.net , www.afterhoursdj.net , www.weddinginsider.net , www.robalbertieventservices.com , www.robalbertieventlighting.com , www.unique-wedding-lighting-ideas.com , www.connecticut-wedding-djs.com , www.massachusetts-wedding-djs.com
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Berkshire Hills Country Club in Pittsfield, MA – Kahla & Samir’s Wedding
Kahla & Samir held their reception at The Berkshire Hills Country Club in Pittsfield, MA. Samir was a Grateful Dead and Phish fan (he was refered to as a "Dead Fish Head" during one of the toasts). Kahla was more of a Top-40 fan. Add in some Arabic music and three hundred guests and we had quite the party. Guests arrived around 3pm and the party did not break up until after 11pm.
We provided DJing services, Master of Ceremony as well as some up-lights and custom name in lights on the dance floor (later moved to the back wall during dancing).
Introduction Song: Tweezer V3 - Phish
First Dance: Then - Brad Paisley
Cake Cutting: Farmhouse - Phish
Kahla & Her Grandfather's Dance: My Wish - Rascal Flatts
Samir & His Mother's Dance: Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Bridal Party Dance: I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Bouquet Toss: Single Ladies - Beyonce
Here are some photos from the evening:
If you would like to have us at your upcoming event, 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 wedding photography, photo booth rental, Sweet 16 and Prom DJs, Wedding up-lighting, architectural event lighting, LED wash up-lighting and a/v rental services including ipod wedding rentals. We can provide entertainment and event services for all types of events in the New England areas including: Newport, RI - Providence, RI - Boston, MA - Western Mass - The Berkshires - Hartford, CT- New Haven, CT – Connecticut Shoreline - Fairfield County CT as well as destination events as far away as Mexico. Rob Alberti’s Event Services is the former “After Hours DJ Service” – an Entertainment company with a new name to better reflect our new array of event and entertainment services.
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Rob Alberti’s Event Services, DJ & Lighting
Serving the Massachusetts Wedding, Connecticut Wedding, and Rhode Island Wedding DJ Market
800 782 3033 or Email Us at rob@robalberti.com
Transforming space, light & sound…
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New Architectural Up-lighting and Lightscape Possibilities
Lighting has become such a large part of most weddings thanks to TV shows such as Platinum Weddings and My Fair Wedding with David Tutera. Lighting can take a boring reception hall and turn it into a masterpiece.
We offer both full wireless control LED wash lighting and traditional static/single color (Halogen Par Cans). This allows us to fit into most client's budgets and still provide a great visual effect for your wedding.
We can even pin spot each table at your wedding to highlight the centerpiece and really upscale the entire wedding experience for you.
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.
Remember, we offer wedding disc jockey entertainment, iphotography, photo booth rental, event lighting, up-lighting and a/v rental services 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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