WHEN YOUR SPECIAL DAY MUST BE ORGANIZED PERFECTLY

Music at your Wedding Reception is just as important as the cake and food you have selected and with that they should both look good and leave a great taste in everyone's mouth. Once you contact DJ Manny R he will go over all the details about your wedding day and he will provide you with all the appropriate paper work to be filled out by both the bride and the groom. At your first meeting he will gather all the names of the bridal party and go over the proper pronunciation of each person's name. DJ Manny R will be sure to go over all time lines and important announcements to be made during your reception.

DJ Manny R will Introduce the Musical Highlights at Your Reception and Sequence of Events. The following is a condense version of what takes place at a wedding reception.

Dinner Music:
While the guests arrive, we are playing either a light, popular jazz, classical, or a light, rock-soul and oldies mix. Because your guests are spending this time conversing with friends and relatives that they may have not see in a while, we try to keep the music low-key and our volumes unobtrusive.

Bride and Groom Arrive:
Usually the photographer will take the birde & groom along with the bridal party for pictures after the ceremony. After the photographer has completed the photo session with the bride and groom at the reception hall, DJ Manny R will line the bridal party up for proper introductions and the grand entry.

Bridal Party Introductions:
At the meeting you will have had the opportunity to meet with DJ Manny R to discuss the proper name pronunciation of your bridal party, and the proper order of the attendants for the introductions. Once at your wedding venue DJ Manny R will line the bridal party according to what had been discussed prior to the wedding day. As your bridal party make their way into the main room, it may have been decided that they form a receiving line, or go to the head table.

Receiving Line:
In most receptions the receiving line is done at the church as the guests leave, but this can also be done in conjunction with the introductions or alone. The bride, groom, and parents will line up and greet the guests as they go through the line. This is a great time to say "thank you" to all of your guests for attending your special day. Blessing Once your bridal party attendants are at the head table, DJ Manny R will ask a guest (someone selected prior to reception - parent, friend, grandparent, uncle, priest, etc.) by name to say the blessing. Once the blessing is complete, we will now draw the attention to the person who is proposing the toast.

Toast:
The best man usually does this before dinner is served or just as the salad is served. We will announce the toast several minutes before it happens to insure that all of the guests have a full glass. Option of toast timing: It's is our professional experience that the toast to the Bride & Groom be done before dinner is served, Why you ask? Take a moment to think of the perfectly set tables and all the surroundings, while the toast is happening the photographer and Videographer are taking pictures/video of the person giving the toast and they are usually standing by the Bride & Groom at the head table, Now if they take these photos/videos after dinner you will see messy food plates, dinner napkins, drinks, and usually the guys will have their tux coats off hanging behind their chairs, now all this will be in disarray and messy looking in all the photos/videos that the Bride and Groom will most likely not like. Now.. if all this is done prior to dinner everything is nice and tidy perfect for pictures and videos that the Bride and Groom will love!

First Dance:
The bride and groom select this song prior to their wedding date. This song should be well thought out, and define something special about the two of you. This dance can take place after dinner, or it may have taken place when the bride and groom were introduced for the grand entry. (Royal Grand Entry)

Father Daughter & Mother Son Dances:
After the bride and groom have danced their first dance as husband and wife, we turn are attention for the bride and groom to dance with their parents. If these dances are occurring the bride will first dance with her father, and then the groom will follow by escorting his mother to the dance floor for their special dance together. At times their have been instances where someone else has danced in the place of either parent.

Wedding Party Dance:
Once the father& mother dance has been completed, the bride and groom may want to have the entire wedding party come to the dance floor for the wedding party dance. This dance can also take place during the bride and groom's first dance, where the bride and groom's first dance will be split 50/50, and the wedding party will be asked to join our bride and groom on the dance floor.

Bouquet and Garter Toss:
At this moment DJ Manny R will ask the bride and groom to make their way to the dance floor for the Bouquet & Garter toss. Your photographer will probably pose you prior to the music beginning for this event. DJ Manny R will announce that all the single ladies please make their way to the dance floor for the tossing of the bouqute, Once we have a winner of the bouquet it is time for the groom to toss the garter, once again DJ Manny will announce that all single men please make their way to the dance floor, DJ Manny likes to have some fun with the groom but we can go over the details at our meeting. The photographer will ask for the winners to pose with the bride and groom.

Cake Cutting:
This takes place after the Bouquet & Garter Toss. Your music selections for the cake cutting can either be background music or traditional (That's Amore). We will ask the birde and groom to head over to the cake for them to cut the cake as husband and wife, the DJ assistant will let the DJ know the time to begin the music for this traditional moment. DJ Manny R will play the music and will ask everone to participate in a countdown for the bride and groom to feed each other a piece of delicious cake.

Anniversary Dance:
(Optional) Now it's time to give something to a very special married couple. This is a special dance that has been done in many ways. The way we like to do this is we invite the bride and groom to the dance floor, and in doing so we also invite all of the married couples in attendance to join the bride and groom on the dance floor. Once every married couple is dancing to a slow song we ask for anyone who has been married for one day or less (usually it's the bride and groom, unless one of your guests got married that day & we didn't know about it!!) to please make their way to the side of the dance floor, so that we may form a circle around the dance floor with other guests who will soon be eliminated. Other guest's will be eliminated by five year intervals, until we end up with the couple that has been married the longest, and then we ask the couple to give the bride and groom the biggest piece of addvice for staying married so long. A nice touch to this dance is have the bride and groom present the couple with a roses and bottle of champagne (the bride and groom may know who this couple will be through their invitations).

Centerpiece Giveaway:
(Optional) The centerpiece giveaway may be approached in many different variations. Please note that not at all receptions are able to give away the centerpieces. Sometimes the centerpieces are property of your florist, or catering facility.

Let's dance:
After the formal dances have been completed, we will invite everyone to join in on the dance floor. In the beginning of the reception, we usually play a lot of popular music to get everyone involved in dancing, usually a mix of oldies works best, but we are always open to requests and suggestions. A list of your ideas and suggestions usually works best, as we are not only interested in what you would like to have played, we are also interested in the songs that you do not want to hear, but please take into consideration the music preferences of your guests when eliminating song titles.

Back to Dancing and Group Dances:
(Optional) As the reception progresses, so will the music that will appeal toward the bride and groom's friends. However, we still mix in a few popular oldies to keep everyone involved. If requested DJ Manny R will teach and play songs that will be good for everyone to enjoy, like the all time favorite "Electric Slide" along with many other group dance songs such as

Get Down Tonight
Step In The Name of Love
Electric Slide
Cha Cha Slide
The Hustle
YMCA
Conga Line
Dollar Wine Dance
Cotton Eye Joe
Do Si Do
Hokey Pokey
The Chicken Dance
Macarena
The Cupid Shuffle
Watch Me (Whip it/Nae Nae)
The Wobble
Teach Me How To Dougie
The Twist
Horah
The Hustle
The Time Warpand more ...

Bride and Groom Farewell Dance:
Prior to this dance DJ Manny R will ask all guests to form a circle around the dance floor for which our bride and groom can dance within. A wireless microphone will be passed around the circle and each guest will have approximately 15/20 seconds to say a few nice words to the new couple. We can close this dance by forming a tunnel of guests for the bride and groom to exit the reception from, or we can close the circle, and have the guests give the bride and groom a great big hug from all of their friends and family.

Thank you for choosing Bay City DJ's for your Wedding Reception.