Plan the Perfect Restaurant Wedding With These 7 Tips

Restaurant weddings offer another big advantage: cost. A restaurant wedding can be turnkey. Most restaurants will have everything you need, from furniture and tableware to linens and glassware. This will bring a huge amount saved in terms of rentals.

1. Finalize your guest count.

2. Book well in advance.

3. Make sure you have a private event.

4. Personalize your wedding.

5. Customize your menu.

6. Consider the little guests.

7. Accent with flowers.

7 Tips for Shooting Awesome Wedding Video

Shooting wedding video can be extremely stressful. Here are some tips to help you focus on getting all the right shots.

1. Communicate with the couple, venue, and vendors.

2. Stay fast while carrying as little gear as possible.

3. Audio is crucial, have backups ready.

4. Always capture the traditional wedding shots.

5. Keep the camera stable.

6. Be sure to capture enough B-roll.

7. Prepare for low light situations.

Our Top 5 Reasons Why We Love DJ’ing

Being a professional Montreal wedding DJ is truly an exciting and fun career. It has allowed our DJs the opportunity to experience a wide array of wedding ceremonies and receptions from traditional weddings to multi-cultural infusion weddings. Over the past twenty years, our DJs have provided entertainment at over a thousand weddings. We want to share with you our top five reasons why we love DJ’ing as we look forward to thousands more weddings in the future.

1.  Different and Original Dance Routines

2.  Meeting New People and Making New Friends

3.  Traveling Throughout Canada and Abroad

4.  Different Types of Love

5.  Wedding Cake

9 Wedding Reception Slideshow Tips

Have you been to a wedding that featured a photo slideshow of the bride and groom?  Perhaps something with some cute baby photos, then the ‘growing up’ and ‘dating’ or 'engagement' photos?

1. First and foremost – start well ahead of time!

2. Arrange for, and test, all equipment ahead of time.

3. Balance

4. Don’t be afraid to use humour, but keep it tasteful.

5. Dig out the old photo albums.

6. Try to use sharp, good photos.

7. Keep it short.

8. Consider having copies made

9. If you are a bride reading this, PLEASE – pass the job on to someone else!

8 tips for officiating a wedding

Couples are increasingly choosing to have a friend or family member officiate their wedding ceremonies instead of a religious leader or civil servant.

1. Get ordained.

2. Step into your role and take charge.

3. Write the liturgy.?

4. Email the couple’s friends and family members for inspiration.?

5. Interview the couple individually a few weeks before the wedding.

6. Encourage the couple to write their own vows.

7. Write your reflection.

8. Have fun and keep it real.

"The main principle remains exactly the same

"The main principle remains exactly the same, and that’s the ability to read an audience and make the right selections... I maintain that the primary skill that sets the best DJs apart isn’t necessarily their mixing ability, but their programming nous. A combination of both is obviously the ideal."

5 Wedding Photography Posing Tips Every Couple Needs

Let’s face it, most of us aren’t actors or models, and being in front of the camera can be mega-weird. Any photographer worth their weight will guide you through lots of poses on the big day, but there is wedding photography posing tips you can keep in mind just to make extra sure you’re looking your best.

1. Get close

2. Bend the knee

3. Kiss beautifully

4. Two hands in your pockets

5. Master the fake laugh