I bought the best dry ice fog machine on the market just for you! Your guests will be amazed at how beautiful you will be!
This is the type of fog that stays down low, so you don’t have to turn off the fire alarms. It is nothing but condensation from dry ice placed in hot water. It is odorless, dissipates quickly and is breathtaking enhancement of for your first dance as husband and wife.
It is a 175 dollars of breathtaking awesomeness that will make your first dance unforgettable! Ask me about my introductory price and you will be very glad you did!
I can’t wait to see to how amazing your first dance will be!
This was a beautiful fall-themed reception complete with uplights to compliment the colors that Michelle and Mike had chosen. My projector and flat screen filled out the visual effects.
We used a slide show on the elevated flat screen to enhance the impact and memorability of the parents’ dances. Pictures of the bride growing up were shown during the father-daughter dance and pictures of the groom growing up were shown during the mother-son dance.
The flat screen was high enough and strategically positioned so that the guests could see the slide show just above the dancing couple’s heads. That way, family and friends could enjoy them both simultaneously.
Seeing memories of the past on the flat screen while watching the couple dance in front of it drew oohs and aahs of appreciation along with laughter and a few tears.
The Binghamton Club has a perfect wall space for the projected monogram, but the monogram can also be projected on the dancefloor by mounting the projector on a light stand up high and pointing it down to the dancefloor per the following photo. A projected monogram on the dancefloor.
As far as the music selection, Michelle and Mike left it up to me to read the crowd which is where a DJ’s experience and skill level really shows. The guests loved it! I am equally comfortable with couples who give me a list of favorites to work in for maximum fun and dancing spontenaity.
At this reception, there was a pretty good mix of ages, so I worked hard to choose songs that the majority of them would know and enjoy.
“DJ Johnny Only, Thank you so much for making our reception a blast. You kept everyone on the dance floor all night. You even picked great intro songs for us, since we forgot to pick some! The Photobooth was perfect! Our guests loved it and left us with some funny pictures. The Album you made for us to keep is wonderful. Thanks again for your hard work, we really enjoyed it!” ~Tim & Shannon
One of the ways to personalize your wedding reception is to put more of YOU into it.
The biggest ‘YOU’ is who you decide to invite as your guests; your family and your closest friends.
So, the best way to further personalize your reception is add things that include and involve your family and closest friends.
Choose things that help them to socialize. Help them to celebrate with you and with each other.
Take food for example: The bride and groom personalize the menu, but every person is included in the meal and every person can get involved together. Dining with the bride and groom is a personalized celebratory experience for everyone alike.
I believe that a photo booth can provide a similar personalized experience for both the bridal couple and their guests. It helps people to socialize while giving each person the freedom to celebrate in their own way.
Below are 9 of the ways I see this happening.
#1) A photo booth is something that your guests can DO instead of watching!
Yes, your guests love to sit and watch you do all the things you do on your wedding day! (That is because they love you!)
But gosh, wouldn’t it be fun for them to DO something too?
Like take pictures and write things in your scrapbooked photo guestbook that you receive at the end!
#2) Guests get to see their own picture right next to your name and your wedding date!
Yes, your guests love to sit and watch you get your picture taken all day long! (That is because they love you!)
But hey! Don’t you think they’d like to get their picture taken too?
And not with a cell phone – that is too every-day-ho-hum-ishy.
They want to get their picture taken in your official instant-printing-out-on-real-photo-paper-wedding-day-photo-booth!
It helps that their photo strip is customized with your names, wedding colors, and wedding date.
Afterall, you are the celebrities and everybody wants to be with you on your wedding day!
#3) Your guests get to see their own picture in lights!
Our photo booth has a feature that allows us to export the pictures it takes to a flat screen or projector as they are being taken.
This is a way for you to share some of your spotlight with your guests, offering each of them their own 60 seconds of fame at your reception.
#4 People start laughing behind that curtain!
It is amazing how much fun people have with a camera behind a curtain! Spontaneous fun!
They forget their problems and become like kids again -just having genuine FUN!
There is nothing more personal than that!
#5) Your guests get to use their own creativity to pose for their pictures and to write their own well-wishes to you!
They also write unrelated, funny and/or unexpectedly sweet things to you in your photo guestbook (that we provide) – I am always surprised how creative people become as the evening progresses!
People really ‘get into it’ and that is the ultimate personalization!
#6) Our photo booth helps your guests to socialize by delivering a uniquely personal experience!
Not only do guests connect by getting in the photo together, but we also supply props with our photo booth that help people to drop their guard and be more … human.
What could be better to help build new family ties and to help solidify old ones?
#7) You can personalize a placecard that fits in a photo booth frame.
The placecard can be in the frame that is going to hold the photo strip and it can include instructions about the photo booth.
Most couples choose 2 x 6 photo strips, but our booth can be set to print out 4 x 6 as well, so you could do 4 x 6 frames if you wanted.
All dressed up for a wedding? What better time is there for a couple to get a photo?
#8) Your Guests get to take home a photo strip as a highly personalized wedding favor.
My favorite idea is to offer them a protective sleeve with a magnetized back for the photostrips.
Your wedding favor to them is going to stay on the refridgerator and be talked about everytime they open the door -for decades! It has your names/date with their picture.
What could be better than that?
They will keep it forever and like your love for one another, your wedding reception will never be forgotton!
#9) You get a kick out of emailing their high resolution photos afterwards.
You receive all of the digital images on a flashdrive at the end of your reception.
Email them to your guests or post them on their facebook timelines as blackmail photos, renewed connections, smiles, laughter and things to talk about long after your reception is over!
All of those benefits, just because you added a photo booth!
“Thank you so much for being at our wedding! Johnny, you were an amazing DJ and Master of Ceremonies. Everything from the lighting, to the music, and the newlywed game was perfect and better than we could have ever imagined…” “…The photobooth was also epic…” “…Thank you again! We love you guys!” Michelle and Raymond
I was the DJ for the first wedding reception in the Carousel Ballroom of the Binghamton Holiday Inn last weekend. Enhanced by uplighting and a projected monogram, the reception was as elegant as it was fun!
Uplights near the cake help to bring out the wedding colors.Green on one side, yellow on the other for balance.The uplights behind wedding soloist Hannah make her even more beautiful than usual!
Notice how uplighting brings life to the room even while sunshine is still streaming in through the windows.
From the guests veiwpoint, the monogram is right side up:
Looking even more striking during the dancing!
Groom’s name highlighted on the bride’s dress
Absolutely radiant shining through the brides dress!
Projected monograms look awesome even with a full dancefloor
Added visual excitement during the dancing as the uplights change color to fit the mood. Made possible because my uplights are wirelessly controlled from my computer.
In short, a wedding DJ has all of the different demographic groups together in one audience.
Therefore, a wedding DJ needs to know old trends, new trends, how to work with young people, old people and all people in between. They need to know how to work with large weddings, small weddings, elegant weddings, casual weddings, personalized weddings, traditional weddings and radically non-traditional weddings.
A DJ develops the ability to meet your unique needs by working in varied environments.
The more variety a DJ is capable of, the more fun and personalization they can bring to your reception.
Here is me DJ’ing for a pre-awards gathering in 2013. Organizers told me there were around 2500 people in the room at the time. I decided to lead an impromptu Harlem Shake bit.
What can you learn about me as a DJ, just by looking at this 30 second video?
You want a DJ that can do more than just weddings. Cutting edge music and entertainment styles emerge from outside sources. If your DJ does nothing but weddings, they are not being exposed to those newest trends, so they are not able to bring as much cutting edge excitement into your reception.
You want a DJ who can come up with an idea and follow through. I did not plan on doing this routine, nor did anyone else. It just came to me as an idea that would be fun. Thirty seconds before I played the song, I gave instructions to the crowd and look at the response!
You want a DJ that can lead crowds of different sizes and get results. Do you want guest participation at your reception? Do you want your reception to be the first time your DJ has tried it? No, you want them to be practiced and polished in front of live audiences.
You want a DJ that has different speakers for different room sizes. Obviously, my speakers here are filling a huge space. I don’t bring those speakers to your wedding reception unless you are having 450 guests. But you want your DJ to have different options available for you.
You want a DJ that can step outside the box and do what is fun for your guests in that moment. With the same group at a different time in the event, this may not have worked. Similarly, that trend was for 2013. I would not try it today. But I keep track of the latest trends, so it would be something different for 2015 and beyond.
Being a quality DJ is a skill that needs to be practiced. A DJ that only works 30 or so weddings per year will never be as smooth, polished or as effective as a DJ that works 150 or more major events per year.
The more time a DJ spends in front of live audiences, the more skill they will have with Master of Ceremony work, with both new and old music, with dance-floor trends and of course, sensitivity to your guests.
Lastly, tastes in entertainment change over time, it is the DJ that is out there working all types of events that will pick up those changes first and bring them to your wedding.
Choose a DJ that that puts in the hours and your reward will be guests talking about your reception years later and saying they still remember how awesome it was!
If you plan to decorate your reception room with some sort of gossamer or sheer wedding material, the uplights can create a stunning visual impact by shinning through that material. These are some examples that I did last season to help you see what it might look like for you. A perfect accent makes the cake pop!
Check out the uplights behind the head table. This gives the room a focal point. Uplighting shining through fabric makes stunning backdrop for your head table.
Now see the effect complete with the bridal party colors. Of course the uplights would be different to match your colors and your Maid of Honor toast. Adding color to compliment the Maid of Honor toast to the Bride and Groom.
Even during your first dance, your uplights will still be working to help make a magical moment. Uplights create a beautiful backdrop for your first dance as husband and wife.
The uplights are wirelessly controlled from my computer, so I can change them in order to highlight certain events during the night and keep the party hopping. Uplights can change color to highlight your special moments, like this perfect catch.
These photos were taken at the Owego Treadway by Jeannette Hampp of Captured Emotions. (She does an awesome job!)
My dancing lights are in the foreground of this picture. They liven up the dance floor by moving, changing color and ‘dancing’ to the music.
The uplights are in the background. You can see the plasma screen on the left.A photo of Johnny’s dancing lights. Uplights in the background and plasma screen on the left.
This was the Maine Endwell High School Prom. We showed photos of the seniors, courtesy of the yearbook committee, on the plasma screen and projected their “Spartan” mascot emblem on the dancefloor.
The uplights ran patterns of blue and gold to match the school colors. The Maine Endwell High School Prom used their mascot emblem as the projected monogram
It was huge success! Administrators told me it was the best prom they’d had in years.
The class president was so pleased, he wrote me this note of testimonial below:
Johnny Only did a fantastic job as the DJ and MC for our High School Prom. He played a great mix of both our requests and popular hits. Johnny Only knew his audience and kept the Prom rocking for hours with music that we really wanted to listen to and dance to. His speaker system is very powerful and easily filled our large venue with sound. His system has an excellent range, with crystal clear vocals and deep pounding bass. It was everything that one would expect out of a professional DJ and more. As an MC, Johnny did an excellent job of announcing our Prom Court and kept the Prom flowing smoothly all night. His up-lighting synchronized with the music and created a really cool unique atmosphere that changed for each song and served as the perfect backdrop to our simple decorations.. The projected monogram and TV picture slide show were cool additions that also really helped to personalize and commemorate the event.
Thank you Johnny Only; you made our Prom night the best that it could be.
Anthony Taylor, Maine Endwell Class of 2014 Officer anthonytaylor@college.harvard.edu
Projected monogram on the wall with uplights
Wow your guests by personalizing your reception with uplighting and a projected monogram that reflects your unique tastes and personalities.
