[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Weddings today give couples an opportunity to express who they are which is why entertainment has become so quintessential in wedding planning. What’s your theme? Creating a wedding style can help you decide on what entertainment to book. Whether you’re having a relaxed outside country fair or an all out glam fest you can find the right entertainment for you.
Why not walk into your very own fairy tale by hiring a florist to decorate your venue entrance with trees, flowers, lanterns. This can create a style and atmosphere from your very entrance! Follow this through into your venue with interior decor. Hiring a vendor to decorate your room means you can design and completely transform a room. From light up, dance floors, glitzy centre pieces, chair covers, table overlays to heavenly fairy lights.
Walking down the aisle is the moment you have dreamed about and maybe even been terrified off, tripping on the dress and falling flat on your face is not ideal so some calming entrance music can make all the difference. Choosing a solo singer or choir can create a wonderful ambience which added with your grand appearance in the shadow of the door invites “oohs” and “ahhs” from your captive audience. Some couples like to change things up during the drinks reception, opting for a jazz or acoustic set band but why not use the same music entertainment from your ceremony and just have them use a different style or set of music. You can often get a deal for both the ceremony and drinks reception which is cheaper than booking two different bands. Your choice of entertainment for the evening is endless. You can choose to have a band or DJ or both with a DJ after the band, this all depends on your number of guests and your budget. Choose your type of music carefully, while your husband and yourself may be classic Cream fans or die-hard country fans this may not go down well if the majority of your guests are not interested in that music. Have a mix of music that suits all of your guests from kids to grandparents. A word of warning about music sound levels, sometimes the band sound system is so loud that it actually drives people out of your room to side rooms or outside which clears your dance floor. So match your band size or sound to the size of your room and how many guests you have.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar-1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”25043″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Every bride and groom want their guests to enjoy the wedding day as much as they do so keeping guests entertained for the day and night has become essential to most weddings. Again this depends entirely on your budget and the amount of guests you have. You want your wedding to be memorable and one excellent way of capturing the moment is a photo booth. The photo booth entertainment has stepped up a gear recently with the introduction of selfie mirrors and selfie pods like that of the digital group Lumina. The mirror is a full-length mirror with a hidden camera that allows your guests to interact with the touch screen while dressing up with props.
Guests receive an instant print of photos with a personal message from the bride and groom. Wedding mirrors also offer a guest book option too which is a photo album with fun and kind messages from your guests alongside funny photos of them enjoying your wedding. This digital photography is a scream a minute with Granny Annie dressed as a punk rocker to Uncle Eddie getting his pick of wigs to relive his youth!
Dinner entertainment has become popular too with ideas like guest appearances or singing waiters popping up. The singing waiters come into your venue and look perfectly normal serving dishes until flash dance takes over and suddenly Frank Sinatra is belting out New York New York beside your guests. It’s thrilling and great entertainment as your guests are so surprised. Perhaps you want to fill the gap just before dinner with a caricature artist who captures the best features of your guests while giving them a gift they can keep forever.
Flash dance!- The are many dance schools around now which offer live entertainment for your guests before or after dinner. From contemporary pieces to soloists to Irish dancers, you can go as big a dance group as your venue allows. Alternatively, you could BE the entertain yourself with a choreographed dance with bride and groom- many hours spend in dance lessons or a bridal party entrance piece choreographed by a local company. Your guests won’t see it coming and screams of delight will ring at the sight of the groomsmen twerking to Beyoncé’s single ladies.
When bringing in live entertainment you have a wide choice of options depending on who is coming to your wedding. If there are a lot of children at your wedding opting for a magician can be great fun. Why not have a nanny or designated person to oversee this entertainment so as to give parents a little bit of me time to socialise and have fun. Magicians can be fun for everyone though and if you’re brave enough maybe even one that is also a hypnotist. However, if that’s not your thing and you have a young guest list you could book a professional cocktail maker with first class mixing skills that get your guests involved in creating and mixing drinks. With the rising popularity of specialised Gin vendors, this is something that would really be hitting the wow factor with your friends.
Weather can make a difference to your entertainment choices with a summer wedding adding the option of having a gin reception outside to a vintage style ice cream vendor to keep everyone cool and happy. A vintage sweet cart is a reliable choice for use either indoors or outdoors. With a sweet cart, you can have personal messages printed on the sweet bags for your guests to take home, another way to personalise your wedding. Summer weddings also give you extra room as you can have some of the party outside before you move in like having the drinks reception outside or creating an afternoon of fun games with lawn games. You can rent or even collect yourself different games like skittles, giant jenga, giant snakes and ladders and hit the can. Organising a summer wedding in our lovely unpredictable weather system can be tricky so be careful when choosing entertainment for outside as there are no refunds for getting wet. Opting for vendors that can be moved inside if grey clouds appear will ensure your entertainment continues.
Let your food entertain you!- Choosing your venues has a lot to do with the quality of the food and most venues can provide a light buffet late in the evening with chicken gougons and chips or fish and chips coming out as the most popular choice. However, why not try something a little different and hire an alternative vendor for the buffet like the portable stone –oven pizzas carts or food trucks that specialise in tasty treats from France, Jamaica , Australia – kangaroo burgers are pretty tasty! A well fed guest is a happy guest and one less problem you have to stress about on your wedding day. Just don’t forget to enjoy the food yourself!
Brides and grooms spend so much time making sure they at least try to spend a few minutes chatting to every guest that you can often miss out on the fun things you have paid for. Eat the food and the cake, drink the wine, dance with your friends, get a picture at the wedding mirror and spend time with those you love. – Why shouldn’t you enjoy your own party?!
Finish with a bang- Depending on licensing and permissions you could finish your night on a high with a fantastic firework display to wow your guests and send them off to bed with stars in their eyes.
With your wedding you have so many amazing options for you to personalise your day that you can be as traditional or as alternative as you like with celebrities paving the way with the weird and wonderful. You could always decide to follow in Aussie Actor Margot Robbie, who married in secret last year, and tattoo your guests! Robbie supposedly booked a tattoo artist and branded some of her guests with the number 19 in roman numerals so they won’t ever forget her wedding date. Now if permanently scarring your guests isn’t the theme you’re going for then prosecco flavoured ice lollie cart are just as fun an idea to creating a lasting memory of your wedding day in your guests’ minds.
However, you choose to celebrate your day make it about you. Choose styles that reflect who you both are as your wedding day is like a debut of you as Mrs and Mrs. Don’t go overboard if it’s not in your budget as you don’t want to be still paying for your wedding years down the line. Most importantly take the time to enjoy your day. The entertainment vendors know what they are doing and by maintaining good communication with them leading up to your wedding you won’t have to worry about them on the day and you can light up the dance floor with all your favorite people in the world. Congratulations on your wonderful day![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
