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Reception Management
By Ted Chamberlain
Ted's Tunes DJ Service
www.tedstunes.com
1) Book with an
experienced DJ at least 1 year in advance.
2) Don’t pre script the party with dozens of song requests. (excel
spreadsheets). Your guests will also be making requests.
3) Request Genres as well as specific songs. Do not plays are very
important.
4) Dinner music is for ambience and meant to facilitate socializing;
not to sing along or dance to therefore there is no requirement to
choose specific songs.
5) Dinner music and intros can’t be done effectively from behind a
stage curtain.
6) Music can be utilized to create an atmosphere of interactivity
re: the bride and groom kissing or giving away centre pieces.
7) Allow plenty of time between ceremony and meal for Photos and
cocktail hour.
8) Cocktail hour music not absolutely necessary (in house systems in
most venues)
9) Relax, enjoy and go with the flow. Visit with your guests and
tell them how important they are to the success of your celebration.
10) Speeches between courses don’t speed things up and many guests
miss them as they’re outside smoking. The servers are slowed down
and your guests can’t socialize at the table.
11) Don’t try to micro manage every detail, it’s too late for that.
12) The bridal party take their cue from the bride and groom so it’s
important to stay in the reception hall. They go where you go.
13) You’re a couple now which means that the days of the groom doing
his own thing with the boys is pretty much finished. He needs to
stay with the party also.
14) Keep from leaving the reception to smoke to an absolute minimum.
It has a negative impact on the party.
15) If the bar is in another room get a drink and return to the
party. Staying to socialize at the bar is not good for the dance
floor.
16) The guests take their cue from the wedding party and if they’re
dancing the guests are dancing.
17) Encourage spontaneous photography by placing throw away cameras(
$4.00) at every table. It facilitates interactivity with your guests
and if they’re strangers at the beginning of the night, they aren’t
at the end of the night.
18) Focus on the fun, forget about glitches, we all do our best to
make your event memorable.
19) Outdoor events have another variable (weather). If it’s bad
forget about it and keep dancing.
20) Don’t allow your speeches to turn into a roast. It can turn a
positive event into a negative one.
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