Friday September 11th and Saturday September 12th
On friday we were the chosen entertainment for Craig and Charlene’s wedding at the quaint winery Six Mile Creek in Ithaca:
A tricky place to be a DJ service in as it is very small but we worked it all out and had a wonderful time!
I was glad to receive this review from the couple for the Six Mile Creek Vineyard Wedding Reception
Review: The evening was full of many pleasant surprises, the lighting during our indoor ceremony being the first of those. Colors of soft, fluid light, grazed the walls of the intimate tasting room of the vineyard, which is where our ceremony took place. We were counting on an outdoor ceremony but moved indoors due to rain. Of all the visits my fiance and I had made to the location during the planning of our wedding, I had never seen it look so majestic!
A great deal of this was due to the artistry and expertise of Kevin and Co. We were actually quite thankful that things worked out as they did, which leads to another satisfying point of the evening: The decision to move the ceremony indoors was rather last minute, yet Kevin adjusted everything accordingly and comfortably. Guests were saying of the ambience everything from, “It was awesome!” to “It looked like heaven in there,” The after-rain mist creeping in the vineyard outside the huge windows played a part as well, but it was incredible the way the weather and the lighting/mood accentuated one another.
Kevin made every effort to inform myself and my husband of the events that were to take place, things that we spoke about/planned before such as the first dance, toasting, etc., as the night went on. And I can only imagine the challenge of grabbing our attention as well as our guests, amid all of the excitement of the night! I feel he succeeded in doing that.
My father even mentioned the next day that he really appreciated the playlist. I agreed that it was a balanced, energetic, fun array of songs; our”picks” from the on-line planner were often woven in as well, much to our appreciation.
Kevin and his assistant were working with a space that was perhaps not as open as many weddings/events are. Rather than having a central dance floor with tables all around, the tasting room had several partially divided sections. This I presume posed a challenge at times to get the maximum number of guests involved in the dance floor-oriented events. Then again with this set-up, guests had the option of mingling, enjoying their coffee, etc. without an imposing sound system complicating things. For those of us who wanted to boogie – the wedding party, my folks, some great aunts and uncles, the bride and groom- it was fabulous! We had a blast.
All-in-all, we were pleased and even ecstatic at times, over the course of the evening. We realize the impact that the DJ has on the smoothness of such an event, after working with Kevin Colangelo’s DJ services.
Saturday September 12th 2009 Mansion on Delaware, Buffalo
Saturday took us to Buffalo and the Mansion on Delaware where high end events are a regualr feature there and a unique layout where dining is above and dancing below…we up lighted the lower room and received comments from hotel staff who had not experienced the effect before – we hope to return there in the future!
Mark and Heather’s wedding was class class class with none of those hokey songs or typical dance routines like chicken dance or YMCA -these songs are so overplayed now its getting to be worse than a broken record as they say so it was refreshing to stay clear of those typical DJ Service songs;
Unfortunately there are no pictures on these events..I forgot to pack my camera but did take my toothbrush!
