Michelle & Jason had their wedding reception in Cary NC
at Prestonwood Country Club with photographers Melissa & Paul from Wake Forest Portraite Shoppe
handling the pictures and Island Sounds capturing video. Tre
Bella had beautiful centerpieces everywhere and the cake by Prestonwood was
fantastic. They had a live pianist for the cocktail
hour, so I only provided music for the dinner and reception.
The wedding party entered into the room from the side hall
to “I Gotta Feelin’” and Michelle & Jason entered from the top of the
stairs. They came down the stairs and
went to the dance floor for their first dance of “Fly Me To The Moon” by my man
Frank Sinatra. Michelle’s Father, Amos, gave a heartfelt welcome and Father Mike came up to say the blessing.
Michelle’s family is Venezuelan and Jason’s is American, so
the music was a mix of both all night long and I loved the challenge of keeping both families out on
the floor. The dinner music was a mix of
standards, soft rock and some classic salsa.
The 3 courses included shrimp cocktail, salad and the entrée’s. After dinner was the cake cutting to “Viva La
Vida” by Coldplay and then Michelle joined her Father on the floor for their
dance to “Butterfly Kisses” and Jason escorted his Mother to the floor to dance
to “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life”.
The toasts by Michelle’s Father, The Maid Of Honor and Jason’s Father
followed and it was time to open the floor.
I opened the floor with a short Motown set and mixed into
some latin dance and merengue. It was
great to see both groups having a blast dancing to both american and latin music! The highlights for me were seeing a HUGE
circle made to “We Are Family” and doing a Rockettes kick that was only topped
by Michelle and her bridesmaids leading a choreographed dance to Michael
Jackson’s “Beat It”.
The only bad part of the night was that it had to end. What a fun group and Michelle and Jason could
not have been nicer. The night ended with Chris Brown’s “Forever”.
Randy was such an AWESOME DJ. He had the seemingly impossible task of playing a wide variety of music because my family is from Venezuela, Cuba and Spain and my husband's family is from eastern North Carolina. We weren't sure if we would be able to find a DJ that would play music to keep all sides of the family happy and dancing! But Randy did it and he did it fabulously. From classic oldies to country to Spanish merengue and Top 40, he played it all and everyone had a blast. I knew we had picked the right DJ when I saw my husband's family bopping on the dance floor to Suavemente by Elvis Crespo. Thanks Randy for an unforgettable night!
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