I tagged along with Charles Casiano to the Don Vicente in Ybor, Tampa, to get some video footage of him for our main site: My Dream Reception. He suggested a tag-team DJ combo which was a lot of fun!

The Don Vicente is a beautiful location that really shows the historic side of Ybor. Charles took care of handling the ceremony in the main room and set up a cocktail hour system downstairs. Rumors say this place is haunted and people see ghosts all the time… yeah, basement.. great idea. (You can, without a shadow of a doubt, tell this place used to be a speakeasy.)

The reception room is diveded into dining and dancing areas, but sound easily went from one room to another. The Don Vicente has a VERY unique layout– if you want an unforgettable place for your wedding, this is a MUST SEE!

We adorned the dance hall area with LED flood lights and stars across the ceiling!

As usual, Charles rocked it Spanglish style mixing a bit of American and Latin music. Check out the pics and video below!

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A New York themed Sweet 16 has 4SO written all over it!

Shawna from 2 Sisters Events & Design created a STUNNING Sweet 16 for her niece, Taelor. Hosted at the Preservation Hall, formerly Lillian’s Nightclub of downtown Lakeland, the room’s ambiance matched the theme perfectly.

Our lighting system, suspended over the crowd, created the perfect touch! Check out the pics and video below!

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WOW! This was one heck of a party!!

Paul and Hope Jackson are one of the coolest people I’ve met. They wanted to have a good time and incorporate some simple party elements: 1) Hope and her friends LOVE to dance. 2) Paul’s a member of Sigma Chi 3) Detroit, Michigan is in THE HOUSE.

Awesome. But they didn’t prepare me for the amount of energy that would exude from their friends and family.

The location was the Cheval Golf and Country Club in Lutz. The ceremony was stunning, but because there’s NO power and I didn’t want to run extension cords where people are walking, I brought out a battery powered system and set it up in a discreet location. Everything went off without a hitch, though the massive winds prevented the microphones from being used. No worries, as the officiant was loud and clear.

Monica helped coordinate the ceremony and reception lineup as Alex of Alex Gilliard Photography took some amazing shots!

The reception had our basic lighting package, but it filled up the entire ballroom nicely and saturated the room with their wedding colors.

It’s hard to describe the night… I wish you all could have been there. There were so many great moments that I had to do two videos and that was after hours of debating which clips to keep or delete! It seemed that every song had a “flash mob” moment where someone or a group of people came up with a routine. Every song was a sing-a-long and brought many funny moments. Watch the videos and see what I mean.

Check out some of our pics and video below… there are two videos, a Part I and Part II and then a video of a traditional Sigma Chi song called “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.”

Oh, and playing the Live Trucker version of Kid Rock’s “Cowboy” became an intense moment!

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I love this school so much…. even with a small crowd, they still rock all night long!

Woody (Howdy Howdy Howdy) and I tossed the mic back and forth as we chilled with the awesome students at Cypress Creek! It was a small dance, but the energy never left the room. Check out the pics and video below!

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Erin and Seth have been to a couple of weddings we’ve done and wanted their wedding to have a similar vibe. Hosted at the beautiful Lakeland Yacht and Country Club, they wanted an elegant light show that will enhance the venue but also turn it into an inviting dance atmosphere. Uplighting and stars on the ceiling (including blue stars) gave a whole new new look to the Yacht Club while the dance floor lighting flooded the room with vibrant colors.

We used our scanning lights to create a spotlight dance and highlight the head and cake tables for the toast and cake cutting.

Check out some of the great pics and video below!

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After the FSC Pep Rally, we prepped to convert the Roux Library into a hot rave spot. At first, the librarian came up to me and asked “will this be loud?” Uhoh! I told him it would shake the books off the shelves…. hey, I wasn’t going to lie!

He said “Good. I like it loud.”

Awesome!

And so the Roux was trasformed. With a three story room that had a circular balcony, this was the perfect layout for a rave. No haze could be used, so we focused on bright, bold colors that were immediately contrasted by black lights. Our SnapYourselfSilly Photobooth gave everyone a bit to take home, and the sound annihilated the shelves.

AWESOME!

Though called “Rave at the Roux” the students wanted to hear a bit of everything… and thus they got so! Check out the pics and video!

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Eddie and Amber saw us TWO years ago at a bridal show and said “we HAVE to have you… and the BOSE… and that sub!” They are a young, Christian, enthusiastic couple who had MANY ideas about an exciting New Year’s Eve wedding celebration with their closest friends and family.

So the challenge? The location was a church gym; A gym with a balcony that allowed some of the lighting to have a higher vantage point.

The easy part? I worked with Joette from Party People Celebration Company and Marilyn with Flowers by Marilyn. EASY WORK! These two ladies, coupled with Monica (my lead lighting designer) and Derek (senior tech) made the gym transformation super easy. I promise you won’t even recognize that it’s a gym!

Oh yeah, and there was a WICKED COOL balloon drop!!

So what did the lighting include?

• Well, we had 4 totems around the dance floor lit in a cool white (camera didn’t show it as cool) with a moving head on top of each one.
• Baby blue uplights adorned the entire room, even warming up the swag and drapes that Joette set up
• White trussing held scanners (which were used as spotlights), special requested effects lights, and dance floor floods. Trussing was lit up in wedding colors.
• The balcony held two leikos which projected a really nice pattern on the wall. The pattern rotated super slowly!
• The balcony also held floods which lit the entire area where the tables were placed. A couple of blacklights gave the white décor a very subtle pop. We didn’t want to saturate it.
• Blue and green stars grazed the area between the balloon drops.
• A blue liquid sky made a special appearance that transformed this beautiful wedding into a chic night club!

LOTS of beautiful pics and three videos… two timelapses and an event recap! What an AMAZING New Year’s Eve!!!!!!!

Oh yes, and a Snap Yourself Silly Photobooth added to the perfect ambiance!!!
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Sometimes, simple looks better! Keith and Areej hosted their reception at the Winter Park Farmer’s Market (past Orlando). This is a former train station surrounded by brick, adorned sparingly but the charm is certainly visible.

They requested all white uplights and an all white light show, which blended perfetly with the venue.

Their family and guests were big partiers, dancing to everything from Top 40, club, oldies, and a large array of Arabic music, especially Dabke. Monica and I had a great time! Check out the pics and video below!

Package chosen:

Entertainment Coordinator
Uplighting
Dance Lighting
Under-Table Lighting

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I gotta admit, this was a wicked cool wedding. Sean and Jennifer are an awesome couple who love to have fun and wanted to have a wedding celebration that reflects just that. With a very diverse playlist (Soulja Boy to Steve Earl), they were open to all ideas I had for them.

The Huntington Hills Golf & Country Club (Northside Lakeland) looked beautiful thanks to swags and drapes by Flowers by Marilyn. Our lighting décor also gave the perfect touch. Both Sean and Jennifer were awed by how beautiful the room looked!

Package chosen:
*Entertainment Coordinator
*Ceremony System
*Dance Under Stars
*Dance Lighting
*Full room uplighting
*Under-table lighting
*Pinspot Lighting (to highlight the cake cutting)

See the awesome pics and video below! Thanks to Tim Hicklin from Storybook Weddings for encouraging my wife to piggyback the camera behind his so we can take advantage of his camera light!

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Parkway Middle is a longtime 4SO client, and every year is even more exciting! They host an end of the year dance for the 8th graders, and I swear it feels like a prom! The school goes out to decorate their cafeteria, students dress up in their best, and the energy is adrenaline-pumping!

This year, two students got on the mic to perform one of their favorite Pitbull songs. They were natural-born performers! Check out photos and video below!

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