Yesterday was a good day. I had an event on Keuka Lake and an equipment rental on Keuka Lake as well. Jason and Schuyler provided Karaoke for an Anniversary Party in the area as well.
My equipment rental was cake (as always). I dropped the system off at Hunt Country Vineyards and met Ben who was the groom and the person renting the system. They entertained their guests with an Ipod and invited other guests to help with music input. The DIY or Ipod wedding is the "new thing" and we are happy to accommodate couples looking to save money or who are looking to Do it themselves. We've happy to provide them with professional sound equipment and support and so far this year our rental system has been quite busy! I wish I snapped a few pics, but forgot the camera. For the rental I use a 4U gator amp case and it has a Rolls RM74 mixer,
Shure PGX SM58 wireless hand held and a wired Shure PG 48 mic. I provide a pair of Mackie SRM 450's and cabling and the ability to plug 2 Ipods, or other media devices in. In and out in about 1/2 hour tops. Picked it up this morning and it sounded like they had a too be expected time for an Ipod wedding.
My wedding was at a private residence on Keuka Lake. Beautiful view and home. I'll describe it with pics.
My main setup on the porch looking onto the lake.
My view from my setup.
A view from one side of the porch to the other. This area and the lawn served as our dance floor.
From the lake and dock back to the house. Nice place!!
I ran a wireless speaker on the other side of the porch for coverage of the entire porch and party area. The couple came down stairs directly in the party and immediately to their first dance lakeside. It sounded full and we had many compliments on the level of the music and the fact that it was a nice volume through out the party area. My only regret is that I didn't have a speaker inside the house as that is where the cake was cut and it made that announcement challenging and getting guests back outside for parent dances tricky but it worked out great none-the-less.
Dinner was catered and buffet style in the boat house. This boat house was great! It was a little warm but it cooled off nicely for dinner time. There were power/electric drops at the base of just about every support and that goes for outside on the porch as well at the main house. After their grand entrance and first dance I helped the photographer organize a group picture that was taken of everyone there on the lawn from the upper balcony. Went smooth.
Couples First Dance.
Cocktail Hour. Overall only about 65-70 people in attendance. Nice small party.
The Boat House for dinner.
I used my ceremony/backup system for dinner. Cortex 1000, Denon DNX500, Shure PGX SM58, 1 Mackie SRM 450 for sound for dinner. I use and 8GB thumb drive for the cortex loaded with a dinner play list.
Fireworks Display after first set of open dancing. Sorry no pics of display but heres the setup.
Totems after dark.
The cake was inside the main house. We moved all the guests from the boat house to the main dining room for cake cutting then back outside for parent dances, fireworks, and open dancing.
Dancing.
The catering was phenomenal! The company was called
Fiddlehead Concepts out of the Rochester area and the food was excellent and probably the best event meal I've had this year. All-in-all this was one of the more unique and fun events of the year.
In retrospect I wish the client had budgeted a little more for us (don't we always). The porch and exterior of the boat house would have looked amazing after dinner with up lighting and accent lighting. Bummer. I had a great time and a shout out to DJ Laces for helping me setup and tear down. Luckily we didn't have to deal with stairs but we did have to truck all the gear quite a ways from where we parked. It could have been worse as he said.
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