Weddings

Weddings

Congratulations on your engagement!!!

We are so glad you stopped by to see what Elite Party DJ can do for you on your very special day. We have been in the DJ business for the past 20 years and the Master of Ceremonies/Disc Jockeys for hundreds of weddings!

In addition to playing the music that you want played at your wedding, We will make all the important announcements and coordinate with the caterers and photographers to insure that all the right people are in the room to capture the special events such as the cake cutting, first dance, etc. prior to announcing that the events are taking place. It is our job to do all the work and make your wedding run smoothly so that you can enjoy yourselves on your special day!

We work with our clients in designing a personalized playlist for each wedding so that we play the music that you want played at your wedding. If your venue has Wifi, or if we get reception to be able to use our hotspots, we can have QR codes ready to go so that your guests can send their requests to the DJ Booth straight from their phones!

We have two professional looking truss systems each of which fly a flat screen TV on them so we can show pictures of the Bride and Groom throughout the reception. Club Style lighting for the dance floor is also included and we have plenty of lighting to transform your reception and give it that night club feel.

Uplighting can give your reception hall that extra wow factor and for weddings we throw the uplighting in at no extra cost. All of my uplights are wireless and can be placed anywhere in the reception hall to accent the walls with color. The trick with uplights is to place them about 6 to 10 feet apart from each other because the idea is not to change the entire room but instead to accent the room with color. My uplights are set from a color pallet allowing you to have complete control over the color for the uplights. Once you select your color it can be saved for your wedding!

The day of the wedding, our goal is to show up at least two and a half hours prior to the event to get set up and run all my checks so that we can have music playing as your guests arrive. We run two wireless microphones for toasts and can set up a wireless lavalier clip-on microphone for your wedding officiant so that everyone can hear your vows. We also have the capability of setting up a second system if the ceremony is in a separate location than the reception at no extra cost.

The wedding reception timeline linked below will show how we organize the events in a wedding so there is a nice flow to your wedding with very little downtime. The sample timeline is just a suggested order of events and everything can be adjusted to your liking.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Wedding Timeline Template

Pre-Ceremony/Ceremony

Music will be playing 30 minutes prior to the ceremony so music is playing as your guests start arriving. You can send us a list of pre-ceremony music that you want played for this portion of the wedding or just give us a genre and we will select the songs. We will also need your Ceremony Music Selections.

Cocktail Hour

Following the ceremony, music for the cocktail hour will play while the two of you go with the photographer and take pictures.

Grand Entrance

We will need a list of the names of the bridal party participants with phonetic spelling in the order in which you want them announced. (This is usually in reverse order of how you walk down the aisle starting with your ring bearer and flower girl, through the bridal party and ending with the guests of honor, our bride and groom.) We will need to know how you would like to be announced. We will need a song for your bridal party as well as one song for the two of you for the grand entrance.

First Dance

Dinner

We will check with the caterers and check to see when dinner is ready and when they say they are good to go. We will go around and release each table individually so we can introduce ourselves, explain the QR Codes for song requests, and keep the line from getting extremely long at the buffet table. The typical order of releasing tables is the Bridal Party, immediate family, and finally through the rest of the tables.

Toasts

Following dinner, we will have the toasts (Best Man, Maid of Honor, Parents???, etc.)

Father-Daughter/Mother-Son

Following the toasts the Father/Daughter, and then the Mother/Son Dance will happen.

Shoe Game

This is a fun little game where two chairs are placed in front of the sweetheart table back to back for our bride and groom to sit down while each holding a shoe of both the bride and the groom. There are a series of questions asked to see how well the Bride and Groom actually know each other. Questions like who is the better driver, who made the first move, who said I love you first, etc. You both answer by raising the shoe of the person you think best suits the question. IT is a fun game that get some good laughs.

Pictures in a Minute

With the two chairs already in front of the sweetheart table, we will announce that we are going to all the table pictures in a fun and quick manner by calling each table to run up and strike a fun pose with our bride and groom. We will explain that we are going to get through all the tables in one song so this event gets everyone up and moving and we get some awesome pictures for our bride and groom!

Group Photo On the Dance Floor

We will invite all your guests to the center of the dance floor for one final group picture with the Bride and Groom. We will have a step stool for the photographer so that they can get up higher to take the picture from a slightly different angle.

All Dancing

Since We were able to get everyone on the dance floor with the group photo, now is the perfect time to throw on a great dance tune and open the dance floor!

Anniversary Dance

After about 30-45 minutes of dancing, an announcement for the Anniversary Dance will be made and all the married couples on the dance floor will be invited to the dance floor and we will have them sit down in reverse order of length of marriage.

Anniversary Dance Toast/Cake Cutting

When we get down to the last couple, we will ask them to give you a toast on what it takes to make a marriage pass the test of time right before we cut the cake!

Bouquet/Garter

Following the cake we will do the Bouquet toss and we will have the best man meet me at the dj booth and we will instruct him to get a chair for our bride so that once she is done tossing the bouquet she can sit in a chair in the center of the dance floor and we can transition into the garter toss.

Money Dance? If you want to do one this is the perfect time to do so!!! All of your guests are still present at the reception and this would be the last event before we just go into all dancing for the remainder of the night. If you choose to do a money dance, you can have two envelopes and hand one to the best man and one to the maid of honor. We will announce that if the guest wants to dance with the groom, they must pay the best man. If the guest wants to dance with the bride, they must pay the Maid of Honor. We can play songs referencing money, love songs, or anything else that you would prefer.

All Dancing for the Remainder of the Night

Following the money dance, We will announce the floor is open and that we are taking requests through the QR Codes around the rooml. Any lists of music that you give us, we will make sure that we play through the songs and mix them based on the feel of the crowd to keep as many people on the dance floor as possible. If the dance floor starts to empty because people are getting tired, we can transition into a slower song to try and get couples and older family members out there dancing so that everyone can enjoy the music and the dance floor. We will use the Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, Electric Slide, Wobble, etc to get the most people out there and then depending on the requests that come in and what songs have been working to keep the most people on the floor, we adjust the playlist accordingly.

Farewell Dance

This would be your last dance of the evening if there is a special song request just let us know.

We will need any music lists you intend to send us at least two weeks prior to your big day in order to ensure we can get every specially requested song.

Michael J. Gagnier
www.elitepartydj.com
(951)202-0553

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