Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Review: Cool Pro DJs – Mark Benson and DJ Randolph

Ok, you know you have a great party going when you get party crashers! According to Desiree, in her years of doing weddings for the Marriott, she has never had to deal with wedding crashers. And this for a party where we weren’t even sure we’d have anyone that would dance!
We met with Mark Benson [...]

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Wedding CD Label

Here is my first pass at creating a CD label for the CDs I plan to put in the guests’ welcome bags. My idea is to include music that will help them remember the trip. In particular it will include some bhangra music many won’t be familiar with. I’m also hoping to include some “Island” [...]

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Finally – a first dance song!

Woo-hoo! We finally have a “First Dance” song we can both be happy with. We’re selecting Van Morrison’s Someone Like You. In a moment of desperation I made a plea for ideas on Facebook and sure enough my girlfriend chimed in within 5 minutes with the perfect song. The pressure has been on because we [...]

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Reception Saga – DJ search continues…

You may have read a bit about my quest to have some Bhangra music at our reception. If you’re not familiar with it, we often think of it as “Bollywood” music. My fiance is Punjabi and has grown up with this music. I’ve loved it for a long time but don’t really ‘know’ it that [...]

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