Steve & Laura Messineo (March 12, 2010)

Well in this edition of my wedding blog we had a fantastic time with a bride whose family happens to be very close friends of both myself and my wife and these weddings are typically the best because you get a very friendly, relaxed, and intimate environment out of them. I had the chance to work with my favorite photographer D. Bryant Photography and this time it was my second special treat in the past 6 months in working with my wife as the officiant Rev. Stacy M. Canaan.

This reception took place on a little bit of a rainy day but that literally stopped no one from having fun. The ceremony & the reception happened over at this water front venue called The Podickory Point Yacht Club and we started right on time with a ton of party time to look forward to. I acted as the ceremony coordinator since we had the gift of live acoustic guitar accompanied the bride's sisters beautiful voice who also happens to be Don's wife, Mrs. Jill Thompson.

Laura & Steve were the best couple in the sense that they wanted something fun, romantic, a little contemporary, but overall a really great time for everyone in attendance. When you have a smaller wedding sometimes disc jockey's will get intimidated by a hard to please crowd that has a little more direct access to the person spinnin' the music, but for me it's a no brainer because like I've always said no matter the size of the function, the amount of pay I honestly only know how to "DJ" one way.

So for the 36 people that were in attendance I probably had 29-30 of them on the floor the entire time. It's just a matter of doing exactly what the bride & groom want in this case because when you have such a small wedding like this -- those two (your clients) will totally know what the entire group wants or the theme of music they want to have. We could've just called this the "mini club" for the day because other than throwing down the classics that people always dance to (not cheesy music) but the straight up classics and rolling through the decades I threw down a nice dance set that just gave everyone some really nice beats to keep the floor going and giving everyone the time they came for. I know by the end my clients were really tired after the dance sets that I handed their crowd.

The bride & groom chose some really neat songs for their ceremony into the reception. I can't honestly remember what Jill was singing for the processional because I was working on giving the men their cue as well as coaching the ladies and Laura on when it was time to come out. Now that I think about this, it might have been a Shania Twain song? The recessional is where my cue came in (although little DJ Jack to the left wasn't on to spin his set yet because he was in the wedding). The ceremony recessional actually ended up being something quite entertaining because they went with a dance track that will probably be etched in time forever that DJ's can play... they chose "Boom Boom Pow (Black Eyed Peas)" which pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day. Once the family and bridal party pictures were complete we did a nice introduction of the party with one of my custom loops using the intro beat to "Shook Me All Night Long (ACDC)" and just a little bit more that even set the tone for the party. Laura & Steve took their seats with a huge smile on both of their faces and then with class Steve's Step-Father Mr. George Cornell gave a really fun loving toast that kicked off meal service. After dinner we started things off with their first dance which is hands down a classic they chose "Everything I Do, I Do It For You (Bryan Adams)" followed up by our first mixed up dance set of the night. We took a short break for cake with "How Sweet It Is (Michael Buble)" and then had some fun removing the garter to "Oh Yeah (Yello)" then throwing the bouquet to an instrumental version of "Sexy Back (Just Timberlake)." 


The grand finale of this part of the evening is something I've been wanting to do for about 10 years, Don has been wanting to do, and the best part is we didn't even coach Steve into doing this because it was totally his idea when he threw the garter to "Down With The Sickness" by Disturbed! Man that drum kick off and everything associated with that song is the perfect "MALE" way of saying-- "GIVE ME THAT GARTER" and it went directly like a heat seeking missile right into none other than "Little DJ Jack's Hands" and that was a keeper! 


We capped off the night with the last dance being "I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas)" and this was once again another fantastic wedding.
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NEXT UP: Unless something changes with my booking schedule I've got another wedding with D. Bryant Photography again over at Kent Manor Inn. We will be working with a really cool couple: Meagan Boyce & Eric May (April 24, 2010)