07/09/2025
Check out this elegant castle wedding I did at the beginning of July, with 170 guests! 🏰
Ceremony:
This took place in the lower croquet garden. I had my table set up at the side/back, with my speakers deployed 5-ft away from the front corners of the first row of chairs for optimal sound, while minimizing their appearance in photos. I put a high-quality omnidirectional mic on the officiant, which did an excellent job of picking up the sound of her voice, as well as the clients’. I also provided a handheld mic for the clients to use during their vows to each other, so that the officiant could step aside. AC power for my equipment was supplied by a silent Li-ion battery generator, which gives my ceremony setup enough juice for several hours.
Cocktails:
This took place on the castle terrace. I had two smaller self-powered PA speakers set up on flat-base dual speaker stand, to cover the narrower rectangular shape of the terrace for cocktail hour. Music was streamed from a mobile device with a preset playlist of the clients’ requests.
Reception:
This took place in the Quarterdeck Ballroom, which is a separate building from the castle. The head table and dance floor were in the middle of the room, with guest tables on either end, and my DJ booth in one corner. In order to provide adequate sound to the dance floor, I put my speakers on either side of the head table, and ran 70-ft of cabling along the wall to my DJ booth. I provided four moving-head lighting fixtures, split between two 8-ft. flat-base stands, on the opposite side of the dance floor, with a wireless lighting control connection due to the sheer distance between the lights and my DJ booth. I also provided my uplighting, focusing it on some of the decor around the dance floor.
It was an elegant wedding, a fun party at one of my favourite places (with the sweetest venue coordinators ever) and a definite highlight of the summer!
