Great savings on wedding packages this season, for example, hire mood lighting, ceremony PA; wedding DJ with disco with 5ft LOVE letters and save up to £100.  The option to have the wireless speaker system with the PA or disco offers fantastic flexibility when it comes to large venues, odd shaped rooms, or venues where the DJ setup is far away from the dance floor area.

The old grammar school in Middleton is a hidden Gem in the Boarshaw area of the town, although the venue is a fantastic and interesting place to work, it presented a real logistical challenge, it was a challenge that was finally solved with some innovative thinking and technology. Here’s a short description of the issues faced and how I solved them.........When the venue is at full capacity, the DJ has no choice but to setup on the upstairs mezzanine, which introduced a though provoking dilemma. Firstly, the speakers would be projecting sound above people’s heads, secondly, and more importantly, the main dance area was on the ground floor on the opposite side to where the DJ’s setup was positioned. Naturally, if the volume was low in this area, people would lose interest in dancing, but to hype the volume up would infringe on the tables near the DJ setup where people are having a social chat. The obvious answer was to have the speakers located in the dance floor area, however, it was impractical and too time consuming to run very long cables down and over to this part of the building from the mezzanine but I had an Ace up my sleeve! To solve this problem I used a professional wireless audio system and the result was surround sound and excellent volume on the dance floor area, yet a pleasant listening volume where people was seated socialising. I used a total of six speakers, four of which was used in the dance floor area; two sub bass speakers and two full range speakers. The result was amazing audio quality and a packed dance floor all night as shown in the picture below. If you have a wedding or function booked at the Old Grammar School in Middleton, please feel free to call me to discuss this solution for your event. - The picture was taken by Kyle Hasshall who is an amazing photogragher, to find out more about his work, please visit his website www.kylehassall.com

The BEST WESTERN Broadfield Park Hotel in Rochdale is slightly of the beaten track but a grwat place to hold your event. The venue is a 8th-century redbrick building located in the centre of Rochdale and almost instant walking distance from behind Rochdale Town Hall. It's a wedding venue which I really enjoy working, the staff are fantastic and it’s very easy ground floor access for bands and DJ's, which means I can roll the heavy bass bins and larger equipment without breaking my back. The picture shown above shows the main function room. The up-lighting was also supplied my me.

Most wedding venues already have a PA and microphone that can be used, predominantly, Brides and Grooms are usually more concerned about background music and don’t feel they need a microphone, but it’s easy to overlook the fact that people absorb sound and children are rarely behaved when it comes to being quiet on your big day speeches. Therefore, I highly recommend having the PA system ready to use, even if you don’t think you will need it, ask the venue to have it ready if they have a PA, just in case you change your mind. Projecting ones voice to the back of the room, especially over the occasional distraction from children often proves fruitless and leaves the guest at the back of the room struggling to hear every carefully thought out word that is spoken on the day. As regards to background music, some venues will already have some music to play or invite you to bring your own CD, or if the venue is well prepared, they may even have the facilities to plug in your iPad. Some people will choose to bring their own stereo If there is no PA system available at the venue, but in a large room full of people, the acoustics will not be very good and music will not be projected very well, plus most home stereos do not have the option to plug in a microphone

There is off course a perfect way to play background music and project the human voice evenly throughput the room with impressive sound quality, and that is to hire a professional PA and music system. Our PA system is extremely adaptable and can even be setup to distribute surround sound in awkward shaped rooms, for example ‘L’ shaped rooms, or even have sound in more than one room at the same time f your venue is full to capacity and not everyone can fit into the main room where the all important speeches will be held, not to mention the various announcements throughout the day. As regards to the music, our system comes with wedding breakfast music to suit, every song has been carefully selected and comes pre-installed and ready to play through our digital media player, no skipping CD’s, or windows updates and reboots to worry about. However, if you prefer to play a CD, the system has that facility too. Songs can be loaded using SD card or USB stick if you prefer to bring your own music, but we have the music covered to help make your day run perfect. The PA is also setup so that a simply flick of a switch will enable the microphone which comes complete with it’s own stand. The system is simple to use, but we can arrange to have someone control it for you at the key announcements if you prefer

For ceremony PA hire, we have a white DJ Booth and use a wireless speaker system which has proved very useful when compared the traditional wired system. It has helped us avoid placing speakers where they may obstruct the registrar, vicar or photographer and even enabled us to place speakers where normally it would have been impractical Before we started using the wireless system, we was presented with all kinds of issues, for example, the use of duck tape is not allowed in listed buildings, time to setup often takes up a great deal of time when cable is involved, or issues with hazards creation by trailing audio cables across busy walkways. Our wireless speaker system saves lots of time and avoids all the above-mentioned issues.

Our 5ft L O V E letters for weddings, engagements or anniversaries are ideal for creative photography or simply adding some extra pizzazz and elegance to your special day or celebration. Our LOVE letters have dimmable lights which is ideal for setting the scene for those all-important pictures. The dimming feature is also ideal if the letters are next to a star lit dance floor or other lighting effect and the letters are overpowering the LED;s in the floor or lighting fixture. For no extra cost, we are also happy to supply some up lighting behind the letters to add even more elegance to this wonderful effect, simply ask us to provide this extra free service and let us know the choice of your colour preferred. A Discount on hiring the LOVE letters is available when booked with disco and/or room mood lighting. This particular picture was taken in the Fisherman’s retreat which is one of my favorite wedding venues