Dressing up your hall!

How Can I Make My Reception Hall Stand Out?

Make your Reception Hall Stand Out with Uplighting and Monograms



Uplighting Diamond Jo

One of the hottest trends is weddings is uplighting.  With the use of uplighting you can add elegance to your reception hall.  You can design a customized wall or hall to match your wedding colors.  The options are endless with these lights.  You can set them on a static color or run them via a computer to make any combination of colors.  Using my computer I can set the lights to fade through an array of colors.   This is my favorite setting for adding elegance to your dinner or social hour. 



Monogram Projection

Another contemporary option for your wedding is a monogram projection.  There are many great websites that offer awesome wedding monograms.  With a monogram you can put your names, wedding date, and a decoration that best describes you on a metal disc.  That disc is then installed in a monogram projection light and can be shown most anywhere on the dance floor or walls.  My monogram projection light also allows for different colors to be displayed throughout the night and the ability to move the monogram around the hall.

Whatever your decoration thoughts might be consider uplighting or a monogram projection to take your hall to the next level.  Please see the photos below of some of our best uplighting and monograms at venues all over the tri-state area. 

Uplighting at Day Inn Dubuque
One of my Favorites!

Uplighting Around a Cake Table



Farley Memorial Hall

Monogram on a Ceiling

AJ Imhof

Music With Styles

Web: www.musicwithstyles.com

Email: musicwithstyles@gmail.com

Phone: 563-599-9964

WHY IS ENTERTAINMENT SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUR RECEPTION?

WHY IS ENTERTAINMENT SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUR RECEPTION?

MUSIC WITH STYLES / AJ IMHOF

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There are many memorable moments during the course of your wedding reception.  The two most memorable points that guests experience at a wedding reception, according to research, are the food and the entertainment.  There are many receptions that can be remembered as the time of our life.  Staying out later than we had anticipated and dancing the night away.  On the other hand, there are those receptions that turned out to be a huge disappointment and drug on and on and on.  This being said, it is very important to create a night not only for you to remember, but for your guests to remember as well.  Think of your entertainment as an investment and the opportunity to give your guests something more – the night of their lives.

A sample budget for a 5 hour reception may be $10,000, meaning each hour costs $2,000.  If a DJ is hired for $500, and he or she can't keep the crowd entertained on the dance floor and guests leave, the last couple hours of the reception could potentially be a poor investment. Overall, a lot of money is invested in the dress, flowers, decorations, and a variety of other wedding aspects.  What is the budget for flowers? Is it more than the entertainment budget?  Can they play music and/or entertain your crowd?  Can they keep the night’s events flowing smoothly and take care of the small behind the scenes details that good entertainers do with ease?  The grand question is this...is your entertainment worth more than the flowers?  What if the DJ decides not to show up at all, would anyone even notice the flowers?

Good entertainment does come with a price.  You pay for what you get.  I understand the value of entertainment.  Many people disregard the value because they are accustomed to the same old DJ that just plays music and doesn’t add to the entertainment value of the evening!  You, as the consumer, have all the right in the world to have an amazing wedding reception with AWESOME entertainment.  I can take your reception to that next level.

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Thanks for reading and your time,

AJ Imhof

Owner / Music With STyles

www.musicwithstyles.com

Welcome to Dubuque & Tri-State Area Weddings Blog

Hello and Welcome,

This is AJ Imhof with mobile entertainment company Music With STyles.  We have been serving Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin with top notch entertainment for nearly 10 years. I built this blog to provide some helpful event planning hints and hope to have many area vendors provide posts from time to time.  As of right now we are just getting started but hope to provide you with many information posts over the next days, weeks, months and hopefully years.

Welcome and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask the expert vendors posting on this blog.  If they don't have the answer they will for sure find them for you. 

AJ
Music With STyles
musicwithstyles@gmail.com
www.musicwithstyles.com