It is not every year that July 4th aligns with a Saturday.  Plus the weather that day was perfect, not overbearingly hot and not too cool.  One can not complain about the location either. Right next to Lake Mendota, 2,000 people outside overlooking the lake and our wedding ceremony and reception inside.  Yes, that is correct, we performed at The University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Union Building with a wedding ceremony and reception in the Great Hall. It was an exciting day!

As we are a Premium Custom Service company, we pride ourselves in the fact that we are able to accommodate almost any request from a customer.  And for this customer, Jeff & Maria-Elise, it was not different. Below, I will provide a quick summary of some of the services we provided last weekend to Jefft & Maria-Elise on their special day:

  • Wedding Ceremony – Not only did we provide the music for their ceremony we recorded the event and produced a nice CD for Jeff & Elise to archive now and remember later. Additionally, we also were able to provide lapel microphones and execute their special production.  By the way, if you are wondering they both said yes and are not Mr. & Mrs. Endres. Elise was not sure if she would be taking Jeff’s name or going the hyphenated route at our last meeting.
  • Photography Services – Our great friend, Karen Beard, provided her expert skills throughout the evening to enact our “Live Photo Montage Display”.  This is much different than a static montage, rather, it is dynamic and occurs through out the evening as we mixed in special effects.  For example, we provided transitions from picture to picture, information slides and let us not forget the firework slides.  It was the 4th of July after all. Karen does a really nice job of capturing photos during the ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner and dancing and at the end of the night we provided Jeff and Maria-Elise a copy of our product.
  • Cool Video Presentation – About 2 months ago, we obtained pictures of family, friends and Jeff & Elise together.  We worked our “magic” and produced them a static Cool Video Presentation that we played during dinner synced to music.  This is not the average presentation that one might see, instead one which is produced in four separate movie and graphic design programs fully integrated with our sound system.  And at the end of the evening we delivered two DVD’s for our couple to enjoy later.
  • Audio Recording – Jeff & Elise wanted to capture special moments of time throughout the day.  For a minimal price, we provided them copies of the ceremony, special speeches by their Best Man – Joel, Maids of Honor Sarah & Amy and their parents speaking throughout the evening.  I wish this technology was available when I was married as my sister-n-law and best man gave great speeches and that is all I can remember – they were great.  Now, Jeff & Elise have physical copies and can cherish them forever.
  • Video Productions – Our staff that evening was a bit larger than normal.  Just this 2009, we have rolled out an HD video production service. Want to catch excerpts throughout the evening?  Give me a call and we can go over this service more in detail.
  • DJ / Entertainment – Dan Beard headed up our emceeing, event coordination and entertainer services that evening.  He played a variety of songs that evening which kept a mix of guests on the Great Hall’s floor while always integrating our Must Plays, Do Not Plays and our guests requests.
  • Child Interaction – The UW Great Hall was really set-up well for a lot of guests including children.  DJ Magic helped provide supervision and some games for all the children at the reception.  This all occurred in a room next to our main reception hall.  One of the nice items I liked about Jeff & Elise’s planning for the children was that they had separate meals in a fun environment for the children.  Plus the meals were appropriately chosen to be different than the adult meals so that the kids would be excited about having their own room with different food and lots of games to play.  (Games included coloring books, Nintendo Wii and some other interactive games led by DJ Magic).
  • Party Props – Our main focus that evening was not only to ensure a great time for Jeff, Elise and all of their guests, but also create a FUN environment.  We brought our party prop expertise and handed out over 125 props including glow sticks, air guitars, air saxophones, air rock guitars and a few other props.  This was a nice way to keep people engaged and reinforce the fun environment we had established.

All in all, a huge thank you goes out to Greg & Jennifer Larson for the referral (see our blog entry on their wedding or their satisfaction survey from their wedding last October).  And we wish Jeff & Maria-Elise nothing but the best for their new marriage.

Here is a list of the vendors we worked with from that evening:

+University of Wisconsin Great Hall
+Appletree Images – Lori Ronspiez
+DJ Magic Photography – Karen Beard
+DJ Magic Entertainment – Dan & Matt (That’s Us!)