Getting Married? 25 videos you should see
Posted by Chris | Filed under Wedding Planning
We found this fun collection of wedding videos on the web at www.mahalo.com below is the article.
Weddings can be tense affairs, can be drunk affairs, can be fun affairs.
In this Youtube collection there are 25 wedding video classics waiting for you from all types of wedding video footage.
- Dancing, lots of variety to famous songs, some good and some not so good dancing, but all the fun of a wedding and all adding to the occasion
- Fall into pools – inadvertent and deliberate pool bathing
- Strippers – unannounced and expected strippers
- Bouquet toss – The classic scramble for the bouquet
- Garter removal – Various methods including teeth, how high does the garter go?
- Animations – Some animated wedding scenes too
- Bride in the bathroom – To show men how hard it can be for the bride to go to the toilet
- And even guests dancing to Michael Jackson’s thriller.
- Best man speech, the usual jokes, gags and humor
The videos are all good clean fun and designed for family enjoyment and viewing together. Feel free to leave comments or links below if you have funny wedding stories or videos.
Top 200 Song Requests For Weddings and Parties
Posted by Chris | Filed under Announcement, Wedding Planning
The link below will take you to the list of the top 200 most requested songs in 2009.” It represents song requests from thousands of events ranging from Weddings to Birthday parties and is dynamically created by Gigbuilder. which is software created by WEDJ.com
We won an award: Winner of the Bride’s Choice Award for Mobile DJs!
Posted by Chris | Filed under Announcement
Los Angeles, CA – 1/19/10 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Elegant Event Entertainment has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Mobile Disc Jockey Service!
The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.
Elegant Event Entertainment is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.
“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”
We are happy to announce that Elegant Event Entertainment is among the very best Mobile Disc Jockey Service within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.
For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/elegant-event-entertainment-inc-newbury-park/df911e0875c68ff5.html
The Importance of Loving the Wedding Vendors you hire
Posted by Jason | Filed under Event Planning Tips
Our Event Planning Intern, Leslie has been very eager and excited to learn all about Weddings. Recently I assigned her the task of researching other Wedding related Blogs and telling me about some of her favorites so I could re-post those articles on our site, for our clients to read and enjoy. Here’s one article she found and what she said about the article:
From Leslie, Elegant Event Entertainment Event Planning Division–
“I found a great Blog on Planning that caught my attention…’Planning…Forever Events Blog‘, . The blog is titled, “love your wedding florist“, and it’s from the site’s special series, “loving your wedding vendors.” I am quite knowledgeable on how a wedding DJ gets their “amazing” title due to working with Elegant Event Entertainment’s DJ division, and reading all of the blogs on the EEE site; however, I didn’t know many of the details about other wedding vendors. Reading this blog gave me a better understanding that the wedding florist is just as important as any other planned detail of the wedding. I now know that one should trust their wedding florist, due to the simplest fact that being a florist is their chosen profession and it’s what they do week in and week out, they are a Professional in their field, they make it their business to know a zillion kinds of flowers.
This article’s “behind the scenes” was a great story.You see that a well trained florist can work under any amount of pressure. When problems occur at the last minute, they get worked through and fixed versus simply saying, “too bad, the bride is going to have to deal with these arrangements, and like it.” The florists in this article showed how important it is to put the bride’s needs first by giving everything they had to the event and rearranging the flowers to the bride’s highest expectations. This also showed dedication and professionalism, which is a necessity in the wedding industry.
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A Wedding DJ’s personal journey: A special message from our President.
Posted by Jason | Filed under Announcement
Today is my 32 Birthday and I was thinking about my life and our business this morning, reflecting on the successes I’ve enjoyed and especially those as a Wedding DJ and business owner. I just wanted to take a quick moment and share with our clients and readers (past, present, and future) the happiness and joy that I have gotten and continue to get from being a Wedding DJ. I can’t say enough about the great feeling I get from working with Brides and Grooms, and for working with so many talented and driven people in our company as well as our long list of wonderful colleagues in the Wedding and Event Industry.
We are 1 of many Los Angeles Wedding DJ companies, we serve much of Southern California, and every week we have a chance to entertain at events for people from all walks of life. I personally started my career as a DJ in Asheville, NC in 1999, I was 20 years old. I’ve had the opportunity to share so many wonderful memories with my clients, whether it was a child’s birthday party, a bar/bat mitzvah, a corporate holiday party, or my personal favorite, a wedding. My list of clients has reached over 500 individuals that I have personally served, and since the inception of Elegant Event Entertainment, inc. in 2007, our company has added over 200 more satisfied clients to that list. I cannot imagine how many tens of thousands of people we have performed for in our careers, how many people have left an event that I was DJing and said to me “thank you so much” “you were amazing!” “I’ve never had so much fun!” 
It’s a joy to be a part of this company, to be it’s visionary leader, to be it’s biggest fan, and to cheer it on, over and around every obstacle and every victory. I just wanted to share my thoughts with you, because I don’t believe that a company like ours is just “another DJ company” I believe we are vastly different. Our passion is built on more than just some nice sound and lighting equipment and a love of music. Combined with my co-founder Chris and all of our DJs, Jon, Raul, Matt, and whoever the next great “EEE DJ” might be, we currently have over 65 years of experience as “mobile DJ’s” and we all truly love our “jobs”, our clients, this industry, and this company.
I look forward to the many years of success that I know we will continue to have, to the thousands more happy clients that will come into our lives, and to helping build the careers of future DJs and Event Planners who have a similar passion for the Wedding and Event Industry. Thank you for all your continued support of our business and please, keep coming back, keep in touch, keep dancing, and keep having fun!
All My Best,
Jason Jones
CEO and Co-Founder
Elegant Event Entertainment, inc.
Elegant Event Entertainment DJ Jason Jones
The photos in this post were provided by www.photographybycharise.com and mi belle photography
The Importance of Making Your Wedding Unique and Memorable
Posted by Chris | Filed under Wedding Planning
This blog is for all those brides and grooms trying to plan a wedding and dealing with all the stress of making it unique. I came across an informative article that I think will help some of you. Below is a quote from this article with a link to the original – hit the link if you’re interested in the rest of the story.
“Each and every wedding is unique in its very own way. Thus, every single detail related to it must carry a persona that truly reflects this sense of uniqueness and exclusivity that will contribute to the whole blissful wedding experience. Having personalized wedding items and novelties is definitely one of the best ways to achieve this. Not only these items depict the distinctiveness of your wedding reception, they also act as meaningful mementos for you and your guests as a remembrance of a beautiful wedding.” -Rene Lacape
Here’s the link to the excellent article: The Best Wedding To Remember
A Wonderful Wedding at The Westlake Hyatt
Posted by Chris | Filed under Ventura County Wedding Venues
Well, it was another perfect day for a Wedding DJ in Thousand Oaks, California. I was the DJ for Antoine and Yolanda’s wedding atWestlake Hyatt Even though other talent at Elegant Event Entertainment have done weddings and events there in the past, this was the 1st time I have actually DJ’d a wedding there. I’ve been to the hotel numerous times, our company has exhibited for the bridal shows held there 2 times each year, and I have attended a few weddings there as well. Being on the other side I must say I was quite impressed with the hotel and staff, which was led by Jessica Haik, a true professional in the hospitality and event industry. Along with the help of Rose Ortega of Rose Petal Events,Antoine and Yolanda’s wedding planner , together Jessica and Rose turned one of the restaurants at Westlake Hyatt into a very elegant room fit for a perfect wedding. One of my favorite touches was rose petals placed throughout the room. Paco Arias ofPaco Arias Photography provided the photography services, and I am sure he captured the event with style and professionalism. I look forward to seeing the photos.
I was raised in a family that was very close and it was nice to see the closeness of the family and friends of Antoine and Yolanda, who came together to celebrate this great occasion. Even though I was hired to be the Wedding DJ, both families and their friends made me feel like family.
Starting out the afternoon reception, family members toasted with loving thoughts for the Bride and Groom. To cap off the toasts, Antoine’s Mother sang to both of them. I know they’ll remember that moment forever.
The Hotel did an excellent job in making sure you felt like they were at home and helped capture the essence of family and tradition for this beautiful couple. I hope to provide Wedding DJ Services in Westlake Village many more times in 2010 and beyond, and the Westlake Hyatt will be on my list of places to recommend to Brides and Grooms.
Bride and Groom’s First Dance Idea: A Candlelight Dance?
Posted by Chris | Filed under Wedding Planning
A few weeks ago I was the DJ for Tony and Niya’s wedding at Hartleys Botanica Gardens, one of our most frequented Wedding Reception sites in Ventura County. This couple had several unique ideas at their wedding, but most impressive was their very different approach to the Bride and Groom’s 1st dance. Everything was prearranged with me, the Master of Ceremonies, so I knew how to organize this special moment to make it easy for the guests and perfect for the Bride and Groom. We had all the guests, 150 in total, come up to the dance floor and make a big circle around the floor where the Bride and Groom would soon bask in this beautiful limelight. Then, the guests were given candles to light from the unity candle. The end result was truly moving. This was one of the prettiest 1st Dances I have ever seen in over 17 years of working as a Wedding DJ. If you’re having an outdoor wedding, you may want to consider this idea. You will need to check with your venue first, and most likely you’ll need some type of fire permit. I can’t offer much more advice on that but I can tell you that a Candlelight First Dance is stunning and truly unforgettable! Just take a look at that photo again.
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Wedding Ceremony Music: Does It Have to be so traditional???
Posted by Chris | Filed under Wedding DJ Advice
So being a DJ for 20 years now, I’ve done my fair share of wedding ceremonies and receptions. It’s got me thinking about ceremony music, when provided by the DJ. I always seem to get the same question time after time. “What type of music should we play for our ceremony?” “We have no idea what to choose for the ceremony, Help!” I can remember 5-10 years ago it was a no brain-er DJ’s would always suggest the following:
“Bridal party can walk into Canon in D by Pachelbel, the Bride must walk into some sort of Bridal March and the exit as Husband and Wife should by Wedding March by Mendelssohn or a second choice of Spring (From The Four Seasons) by Vivaldi.
Flash forward 10 years now, and that’s not the case anymore. Of course you’ve probably seen the video on you tube of The Best Wedding Entrance Dance Ever – Chris Brown – Forever when the bridal party is walking down the isle to Chris Brown’s pop song-Forever. AND WHY NOT??? Read the rest of this entry »
Our Wedding DJ’s in San Diego at The Dana Hotel
Posted by Chris | Filed under San Diego Wedding Venues
From the moment the guests arrive at your wedding, they will know they’re attending something really special.
The Dana Hotel on Mission Bay is one of the most romantic settings for San Diego weddings. I’m thrilled to have worked there a few weeks ago as the Wedding DJ for Kimberly and Hugo.
Click Here to Use our Free Wedding Reception Venue Map to locate The Dana Hotel
They have a great website which lists prices, menus options, and lots of other important details. You can see that a Wedding can be done for a reasonable budget within or below the National Average.
You can have your Wedding Ceremony here, which offers a picturesque waterfront location that’s perfect for your special day. The elegant reception site has a spectacular ballroom with 18-foot floor to ceiling windows overlooking the water.
Additionally, the catering team led by Robert and the finely tuned staff will work hard to ensure that your event is highly personalized and completely perfect.
The Dana Hotel on Mission Bay is definitely the place for a magical wedding or special occasion. Our DJs in San Diego offer the perfect options for music and entertainment for all types of events at the Dana Hotel.
If you are an experienced wedding DJ who loves working to serve the needs of your clients,