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Kayla & Joe’s Wedding – Superior Shores Resort, Two Harbors MN

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This was an AMAZING wedding!  It was a smaller reception, with only 60-70 guests, and they had the ceremony out on the shore of lake superior.  I always love doing weddings at Superior Shores Resort, the staff there are awesome, and it is normally a very beautiful venue for a wedding ceremony and reception.  I set up the sound system and microphones out by the lakeshore, and everything goes well… 99% of the time.

This time, it was a very windy and chilly october day, but the Bride & Groom are both very outdoorsy and insisted that we still do the ceremony outside by the lakeside.  So that’s what we did!  I threw a garbage bag over the speaker to protect it from the water that was spraying up from the lake, and the officiant trimmed his message so everyone didn’t have to stay out in the wind and cold for too long.  But even with the weather, it was a lovely ceremony, and it was truly a wedding that those guests are never going to forget.  Looking back in 30 years time, Joe & Kayla will be able to tell their children “back in our day, we got married and it was windy, and wet, and cold, but we LOVED it!”

After an amazing dinner, we then danced the night away.  This family was so much fun, and it was really a blessing for me to be able to be a part of their special day.  I told Joe how much I appreciated his service for our country, and even joined everyone upstairs at the resort bar for an after-party drink before heading home.

Video Log: Settlement Hill Farm Wedding DJ

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Wedding #2 of a back-to-back wedding weekend near the Metro… This one was at Settlement Hill Farm over in Hudson WI.  This venue is great!  The owners were amazing to work with, and the Barn is renovated into a nice rustic wedding venue.  My clients: Peter & Jessi were equally amazing, and we had the time of our lives dancing the night away!  If I remember correctly… their parents home-brewed 160 bottles of wine just for the wedding!!!

2013-10-12 Peter & Jessi

Peter & Jessi’s Wedding – Settlement Hill Farm, Hudson WI

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Yay! Another barn wedding!  Having grown up on a farm raising horses, I really like the idea that many of these old barns are being turned into beautiful wedding venues, and Settlement Hill Farm in Hudson WI is no exception.

When I did my client call with Jessi (the Bride) ahead of time to go through the details, I became very excited for this wedding.  It sounded like it was going to be an awesome group of people, and I was not disappointed.  I showed up early to the venue like I normally do, and I was amazed to find that the parents of the Bride had home-brewed over 170 bottles of wine of various varieties.  I wasn’t able to partake in the wine during the reception (I never drink while DJing), but they did send me home with 2 bottles of wine at the end of the night and they were DELICIOUS!

The downstairs dining room of the barn was BEAUTIFUL, and they had some gorgeous woodwork done around the bar, it was a very “rustic chic”.  When we brought the party upstairs to the loft for the dancing, we rocked the house!  I can’t believe we fit that many people into that hayloft of the barn, but everyone was dancing, and partying, and no one wanted to stop at the end of the night.

 

[Video Log] Bayview Event Center Wedding DJ

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My first time at Bayview Event Center in Excelsior MN… and it was a blast!  Tony & Sara have amazing family & friends and those sorority girls knew how to dance!  I look forward to doing more events at Bayview Event Center, the staff were great to work with, and the venue is beautiful!2013-10-11 Sara & Tony

Tony & Sara’s Wedding at BayView Event Center, Excelsior MN

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This is my first time at BayView Event Center, and it is an awesome venue, the staff were wonderful and the ceremony down by the docks was beautiful.  Tony & Sara were married on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, and then we had an excellent dinner and this crowd really liked to dance.  Instead of doing a typical garter toss, they opted to do a garter auction, and I was the auctioneer.  We had a bit of fun with that as the sorority sisters and fraternity brothers got into a bidding war against each other for the garter.

I played pretty much non-stop guest requests all night and the crowd was loving it.  The energy on the dance floor carried through until the very end when the lights came on and we had to stop.

Video Log – Superior Shores Resort

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It was a blustery October day on the shore of Lake Superior, but by golly we still had the ceremony by the crashing waves and in the wind… and it was great!  Then we came back inside to warmth, fun, good food, good friends, and DANCING!

2013-10-04 Joe & Kayla

ADJ WiFly Bar RGBA and WiFly RGBW8C Review

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I picked up an ADJ WiFly Bar RGBA and WiFly RGBW8C Controller to add to my DJ System.  Here is an overview of the light fixture, the controller, and some of the DMX programs.

Enjoy!

Video Log – Back to Back Weddings

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I had back to back weddings this past weekend.  Here’s a video featuring both of them.  The first was in the Twin Cities at the Marriott in Brooklyn Park on Friday, and then Saturday’s was at Giant’s Ridge Ski Resort in Biwabik MN.  It was quite the weekend!

2013-09-27 Darrin & Burgundi

2013-09-28 Shannon & Wayne

Shannon & Wayne’s Wedding – The Lodge at Giants Ridge, Biwabik MN

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After DJing down in the twin cities the night before, I drove all the way up to Biwabik MN to DJ Shannon & Wayne’s weddding at The Lodge at Giants Ridge.  It was a beautiful drive, with the trees turning their fall colors.

It was raining all day, and they were going to have the ceremony outside, but due to the rain, we relocated the ceremony inside, right where we were going to have dinner.  So with all of the guests seated at their tables, they said their “I do’s” right in front of the head table.   After a wonderful dinner, everyone filled the dance floor and we danced the night away.  This was an incredibly fun family, and I had a blast being a part of their day.