All Around Raleigh DJ was lucky enough to DJ for Stephanie and Mike’s wedding at Parizade in Durham, NC. This event was an absolute blast and the bride and groom were such a pleasure to work with. We are very proud to say that this wedding was an absolute success! The very talented Jessica Arden from Jessica Arden Photography took these amazing photos that you see below the timeline. Enjoy!
Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding by All Around Raleigh DJ Company
3:30 pm – DJ Set up with 1 mic for the officiant and 1 mic for the readers
4:00 – Wedding Ceremony Begins Outside
• Prelude music is appropriate style of DJ’s choice
• Family Members song is DJ’s choice
• Bridal Party enters to ‘Appalachia Waltz’ by Mark O’Connor
• Bride enters to the same song as the Bridal Party (no change)
• Recessional Song is ‘Fisher’s Hornpipe’ by Mark O’connor
4:30 – Ceremony Ends and Guests Move to Cocktail Area Outside
5:30 – Dinner Service
• Blessing/Welcome by Stephanie’s Uncle
6:30 – Toasts Inside by Best Man and Matron of Honor
6:45 – Kids’ Dance Outside
• Bring everyone outside during this time
7:00 – Grande Entrance
• Announce the bride and groom
• Follow with ‘Higher and Higher’ by Jackie Wilson (timed steps!)
7:05 – First Dance
7:10 – *Father/Daughter Dance* play La Grange to brink up Stephanie’s Dad
• Song is ‘Chanson pour Tommy’ by BeauSoleil (fade out after 2.5 to 3 min)
7:15 – Mother/Son Dance
• Song is ‘You’ll be in my Heart’ by Phil Collins
7:20 – Party Time!
10:00 – Expected end of Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Spectacular
• Last Song is ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’ by Blues Brothers
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
Photos By Jessica Arden Photography All Around Raleigh DJ Stephanie & Mike’s Wedding Parizade Durham, NC
Allison & Andy’s Wedding by Jamie Blow Photography
We recently had the pleasure of providing music and photo booth for Allison and Andy’s awesome wedding at The Rickhouse in Durham, NC! DJ Jim Unger loved working with these two and the incredible team of vendors who made it all possible!
At the ceremony, Allison and Andy chose a selection of Vitamin String Quartet covers and The Lord of the Rings songs which are always fun to play. For their cocktail hour, they chose some great classic crooner style songs from Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Darin and Nat King Cole.
At the reception, we played “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars for their introduction song which really brought up the energy! After dinner was over we packed the dance floor for the rest of the night until we played a great mix of James Taylor, Ray Charles, Swing to Temptations . Once the dance floor was really going strong, we brought in artist from their playlist like Beastie Boys, 50 Cent and 69 Boyz.
If this wedding was any indication of the years ahead for them together, Allison and Andy are in for a lot of fun! Our best wishes to an awesome couple.
5.0/5.0 “All Around Raleigh DJ was absolutely fabulous! The DJ (Jim Unger) played all the songs that we liked and was able to read the crowd to determine the perfect next song. The dance floor was packed the entire night and the DJ helped to make it an amazing wedding.”– Allison
Talk about a beautiful, amazing wedding and a couple that were even more amazing to work with! Jennifer & Wade had their dream wedding at The Cotton Room in Durham on a perfect spring day. We got to provide audio for their wedding ceremony and their wedding reception. We were very excited to work with with some of very favorite photographers from Kivus & Camera. Thanks so much Wade & Jennifer and best wishes!
Photographer is Kivus and Camera, Coordinator is Heather at The Cotton Room
6:00 – DJ set up for the ceremony w/mic for officiant and mic ready for use
Prelude music is All of me (John Legend), The Luckiest (Ben Folds), Life on Mars (Bowie), Thunder Road (Springsteen from Born to Run), John Mayer, Beatles
Bride Entrance: I’m Yours (Jason Mraz)
Recessional: On Top of the World (Imagine Dragons)
7:00 – Cocktail Hour
8:10 – Grand Entrance
Song is ‘Happy’ by Pharrel
Jennifer and Wade!!
8:12 – First Dance
Song is ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ by Bruce Springsteen (Lucky Town album)
8:15 – Dinner
Blessing by Perry (officiant)
Billy Joel, DJ’s Choice
9:10 – Father/Daughter
Song is ‘Delaney Talks to Statues’ by Jimmy Buffett
Jennifer and Don
9:15 – Mother/Son
Song is ‘In My Life’ by The Beatles
Wade and Lisa
9:20 – Dancing begins!!
Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran), Here on out (Dave Matthews Band)
10:00 – Cake Cutting
Song is ‘Cake by the Ocean’ by DNCE
12:00 – Expected End of Jennifer and Wade’s Wedding
Last song is ‘Shut Up and Dance’ by Walk the Moon
DO NOT PLAY: Country, Taylor Swift, Boy Bands, Nelly
Songs/artists we like: Lady gaga, The Killers, Wagon wheel – Old Crow Medicine Show*, Born to run, Elton John, Outkast (Hey Ya), Michael Jackson, Black Keys, Avicii, Galantis, Silence (Marshmello), Take it Easy (Eagles)*, Africa (Toto)*, Drake, Mike Posner, Walk the Moon, Take on me (A-ha), Where are U now (Skrillex, Diplo), All Star, (Smashmouth), Eastside (Halsey), Dave Matthews Band, Jackson 5, Don’t stop believing*, Billy Joel, Sweet Caroline, U2
How much did we love working with Lauren & Renato?! Soooo much! We met Lauren & Renato at small event in Lafayette Village about a year before their wedding and we immediately noticed and appreciated how excited they were to get married and they just seemed to smile all the time. They ended up working with a few of the members of the NC Wedding Ring: Watkins Flowers of Distinction, Kevin Seifert Photography and us of course. Brier Creek Country Club hosted their wedding and looked perfect as always! Their on-site coordinator was Shannon and she was such a pleasure to work with and really catered to the clients on their wedding day.
Lauren & Renato’s music choices were a mix of very contemporary and casual like Haley Reinhart and Ed Sheeran to classic wedding music and great Latin dancing music. Their wedding day was upbeat, emotional, incredibly fun and even better than they ever expected! You’re going to love seeing all the happy smiling faces in the great photos from Kevin Seifert Photography below.
Enjoy married life and best wishes to Renato & Lauren!
We loved reading this review from Lauren & Renato
“Having All around Raleigh DJ was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding. Eric Hodgden was our DJ and he did an amazing job. He was always willing to help and answer all of our questions we had during the planning of our wedding. He met with us a couple of times and followed up with emails fairly quickly. The day of the wedding, Eric did an incredible job by keeping everyone entertained with great music and announcements for our events in the reception. We couldn’t have been happier how our wedding turned out, thanks to the music provided by Eric. As some people said, our wedding was lit! We highly recommend booking All around Raleigh DJ for your wedding day! Thank you so much, Lauren and Renato”
We were so incredibly lucky to be a part of Karen & Dean’s wedding! Our friend Emily with Events by Emily connected us and we are proud to work with her and her clients. Dean & Karen were married at Sarah P. Duke Gardens on a beautiful early Fall surrounded by their friends and family. This was actually a follow up to their wedding in China a few months back! Karen and Dean are really amazing people and met in grad school while at Duke.
The chose to have a live harpist playing as the Mothers, Wedding Party, and the Bride and her Father came down the aisle with us providing microphones so the harp and the vows were nice and clear for everyone to hear. Immediately after the ceremony, the guests enjoyed a perfect cocktail hour which included some of their favorite artists like Bruno Mars. We brought Karen and Dean into the reception to a roar of applause and had their first dance to Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran which they had choreographed together and was amazing! Dinner was accompanied by some light Jazz music of they choosing and allowed for great conversation between new friends. They chose to cut the cake to Everything by Michael Buble and which we transitioned into a packed open the dance floor. Everyone had a blast and celebrated the couple to some of Karen & Dean’s favorite music. As their wedding reception came to an end, they chose the song Good Life by One Republic as their last song of the night and we saw these two wonderful people off to start their new life as a married couple. It was an honor to DJ for you Dean & Karen and best wishes!
Katie & Jon were married and had their wedding reception at The Cookery in Durham, NC on a perfectly beautiful Spring day! The very talented Shane & Lauren Photography captured every details in the incredible photos below. Katie was kind of enough to share her review of our DJ service with the world and that is also below (thanks Katie!). Their wedding was a true celebration with their family and friends from all over the country. We met this couple as a referral from one of our past clients so we also got to catch up with them a few years after their own wedding. Enjoy the photos of this perfect night and congratulations Katie & Jon!
“I know their slogan is “you’re gonna need a bigger dance floor” and I get it, it’s catchy….but it is SO TRUE. Eric was our DJ for the evening and our dance floor was overflowing the whole night. To start from the beginning, he provided a lapel mic for our officiant and handheld mic for our reader during our ceremony. He also played light music in the background for cocktail hour and during dinner…these were in two separate spaces and he had the appropriate equipment to set up for both. He was phenomenal as an MC for Jon and I, as well as for the toasts and during the reception. Now to the good stuff…we literally couldn’t have kept people off the dance floor even if we wanted to. We were a bit worried as our reception was scheduled to run until 11:30 and neither of us are huge party-ers, so we got the creeping thoughts of “oh no, will people even want to stay that late?” came to mind but that was NOT the case with Eric. He had a helpful planning process, and had lots of ideas when we didn’t have a ton of “we absolutely havveeeee to play this” songs…he did what a true professional does and read the crowd, and did a dang good job of it too. While a little pricier than some other local DJs, it was worth every penny!” – Katie
Katie & Jon’s Wedding
The Cookery, Durham, NC
5:00 – DJ set up for the ceremony w/mics for readers on bride’s side and officiant
All music to be played by live musicians
6:00 – Cocktail Hour
7:20 – Grand Entrance
Song is ‘Voodoo Child’ by Jimi Hendrix
Katie and Jon!!
7:30 – Dinner Begins
Welcome by Katie and Jon, Blessing by Jon’s Dad
8:45 – Cake Cutting song is ‘How Sweet It Is’ by James Taylor
8:55 – Toasts
Katie’s Dad, Best Man and Bridesmaid
9:05 – First Dance
Song is ‘Parallel Lines’ by Keith Urban
9:10 – Father/Daughter Dance
Song is ‘Return to Pooh Corner’ by Kenny Loggins
Katie and Ken
9:15 – Mother/Son Dance
Song is ‘Never Alone’ by Jim Brickman
Jon and Kim
9:30 – Dancing!!
11:30 – Expected End of Katie and Jon’s Wedding
Last song is ‘Come and Get Your Love’ by Redbone
DO NOT PLAY LIST: 24K – Bruno Mars, Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke, Electric Slide, Chicken Dance
Definite Play List: September – Earth/Wind/Fire, Groove Tonight – Earth/Wind/Fire
Play if Possible Song: Backstreet boys – (literally anything lol) Everybody/Larger Than Life/I Want it That Way
Kara & Bryant’s Wedding at The Cloth Mill by Chelsea Collins Photography All Around Raleigh DJ
Kara & Bryant got married in style at The Cloth Mill at Eno River! Their original wedding date lined up with Hurricane Florence so the amazing team of Kristin and Stephanie with Viva L’Event pulled the wedding vendor team listed below together and got a new date set up within a few days of the original date. We couldn’t be more proud to work with the team below to overcome a lot of craziness to throw Kara & Bryant a spectacular wedding. A special shout out to Chelsea Collins Photography and Jon Warlick Media for the great photos and videos, respectively, below.
Join us in congratulating this amazing couple and wishing them the very best!
Red Bridge Photography – Vivian & Edward’s Wedding at Museum of Life and Science – Dinosaurs!
Vivian & Edward’s wedding at the Museum of Life and Science was really amazing and special in so many ways! This was a really unique venue that we didn’t know too much about but, as you can, it is pretty obvious why this great couple chose this spot. Where else can you have your photos taken with a T-Rex on the Dinosaur Trail and with butterflies in the Magic Wings Butterfly House!
As you’ll see in the wonderful photos from Red Bridge Photography below, the couple went with a very pretty green accents which really brought in the lush scenery surrounding the museum. The newlyweds got time to take their photos in the butterfly house and had their ceremony out on the grass right in front of the building. Very stunning!
The vendor team below was spectacular to work with. Everyone pitched in and worked so hard to make this wedding seamless for Vivian & Edward and their friends and family. Please visit them and tell them that they rock!
Here is Vivian & Edward’s Amazing Wedding Vendor Team!
We’ve put together a this list of 30 father/daughter slow dance songs for your wedding. Some of these are very unique and I’ve never actually seen used while some are obvious but you’ll hear why when you listen to them.
1. I Loved Her First – Heartland
2. Daughters – John Mayer
3. Keeper of the Stars – Tracy Byrd
4. How Sweet It Is – James Taylor (Marvin Gaye too)
5. Butterfly Kisses – Bob Carlisle
6. Father and Daughter – Paul Simon
7. Because You Loved Me – Celine Dion
8. My Girl – Temptations
9. In My Daughter’s Eyes – Martina McBride
10. Unforgettable – Natalie & Nat King Cole
11. Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
12. I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack
13. You Are So Beautiful – Joe Cocker
14. Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
15. Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
16. Lullabye – Billy Joel
17. In My Life – John Lennon
18. All You Need Is Love – Beatles
19. Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
20. Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch – Temptations
21. Sweet Child of Mine – Guns n Roses
22. You’re My Best Friend – Queen
23. Stand By Me – Ben E. King
24. Through the Years – Kenny Rogers
25. Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
26. My Little Girl – Tim McGraw
27. Darius Rucker – It Won’t Be Like This For Long