Ahhh...the fab life of being a wedding dj

I love my clients! After this past weekend, I’m pretty convinced that Platinum Mix gets the coolest jobs. Friday’s groom, Thomas, learned how to speak Chinese and actually recited his vows in Chinese during the ceremony (and his Chinese bride, Shannon, said her vows in English). If that wasn’t cool enough, they also built a robot to carry the rings down the isle. That was just the ceremony. The creativity continued at the reception, where they had a cake that was made to look just like the planet Mars. They both performed a beautiful waltz for their first dance and to finish the night off, what else but some good old Chinese Karaoke. Platinum Mix did their wedding videography, so I’m going to try and upload some clips to youtube as soon as our editing team is finished with their video.

My Saturday job (wedding of Kristen and Brian), at the Kensington Court was totally rockin’. I wish all wedding guests were as fun as Kristen and Brian’s friends and family. These people really knew how to have a good time. It was a little different set-up then I’m used to at Kensington Court. Instead of being next to the dance floor I was initially setup behind a couple guest tables. We needed to set-up a video screen for their slideshow and there was no room for the screen in the spot I was given. Kensington Court actually has a nice screen built in, and they said I could use it, but running a video cable through the front entrances didn’t seem like a great idea to me, plus I was concerned that the guests sitting in front of my speakers were going to get their ears blown off by the end of the night. Long story short, I moved to a corner of the hall, and put the speakers at the ends of the head table. I guess it worked out okay, the only problem was I couldn’t hear very well all night so I had no idea if it was too loud or too quiet. Evis was working with me so he would run around the room and signal me to turn it up or turn it down all night…lol. Kristen and Brian are such a nice couple and their wedding turned out beautiful and a total blast! A few pics can be found here:::
http://picasaweb.google.com/platinummix/KristenAndBrianKensingtonCourtAnnArbor

And then there was my Sunday gig….. I needed to provide sound for Amanda and Frank’s wedding ceremony which was happening outside on the deck at the Roostertail, plus music and sound for the reception which was being held inside. I walked in for set-up and was totally confused because I kept bumping into women wearing white. None of these women looked like Amanda, and I was beginning to think I was hallucinating and there was a tribe of brides about to attack me or something. Hmmm…. Later I figured out that ALL of the 20 bridesmaids were wearing white dresses. The bride, Amanda, wore a navy blue dress. Sweet! Things got cooler when I got to play “Sweet Child of Mine” for Amanda when she walked down the isle (the instrumental piano version). I loved watching the reaction on people’s faces when they all eventually figured out what song was actually playing. I overhead some guy saying to the girl he was with “isn’t this guns n’ roses? Oh my god that’s so cool!” haha Frank and Amanda started the reception off with a soul train line for their grand entrance and then to kick off the actual dancing part of the night, they had some coordinated dance moves for their first dance. You can check out the video of their first dance, just make sure you watch the hip hop/breakdance routine during the last minute of the video. It’s so awesome! Check out their first dance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIk-F9W2Ki0
Frank and Amanda had selected some of my all-time favorite tracks so I had an absolute blast dee-jaying their wedding, but I had to share the duties with Evis who I brought with me to play the Albanian music. (they wanted like a 75% American 25% Albanian mix) Albanian music is really good, I’d never really listened to it before and Evis has got some great tracks that people really seemed to get into.

I think I worked about 40 hours in 3 days. I’m exhausted, but it was worth it. Great weekend of weddings!!