Notre Dame School held its annual school fundraising gala at the Rockwood Women's Club in Santa Barbara on 2/6/16. We were honored to once again provide lighting, draping, audio and visual services. Please check out the photos of our work! Gobos, Plasma screens, wall draping, LED uplighting, speakers systems inside and outside the building, generator power, auction item lighting, pathway and area lighting.

Alexandra and Jack were married in September at the beautiful San Ysidro Ranch, in Montecito, California. We were honored to work once again with uber planner Rebecca Gigandet of Imagine SB. 

Their ceremony was held on the main lawn, and we had our Singing Guitarist Mike play for their prelude, ceremony and the cocktail hour that followed. Ceremony music highlights, as sing live by our guitarist:
Processional Line-Up: Wonderful World (made popular by Louis Armstrong)
Bridal Party Processional: Here Comes the Sun Instrumental (made popular by the Beatles)
Bride's Processional: Here Comes the Sun (made popular by the Beatles)
​Recessional: How Sweet it is (made popular by James Taylor)

DJ Gavin Roy was their MC and DJ for the evening. Here are the important songs for their reception:
Bridal Party Introduction: Beyonce's "Crazy In Love"
Bride and Groom's Introduction: Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
Cake Cutting: Natalie Cole "This Will Be An Everlasting Love"
First Dance: Jason Mraz "I Won't Give Up"
Father/Daughter Dance: Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey

We were honored to provide lighting for their event - String Lighting of the patio, Uplighting in and around the Cottage, a Chandelier at the tree, and a breakout gobo pattern on the dance floor.

One of our favorite venues in beautiful Santa Barbara - the Riviera Mansion. Here are some photos of our lighting at this gorgeous venue! 

Just some marvelous photos of past events at the Rockwood Women's Club, featuring our lighting! 

Here's one of our favorite venues in the Santa Barbara area - the Montecito Country Club. The versitility of the space allows any combination of lighting elements (gobos, uplighting, draping and more) to create yor dream design for your event! 

Alexy and Michelle were married at the beautiful Riviera Mansion in downtown Santa Barbara on Saturday November 15, 2014. Their planner was the amazing Emily Louise Jacks of Louise Georges-Yves. 

We were honored to have provided our string trio (flute trio) for ceremony, pianist for cocktail hour, and DJ Spencer for the reception.
Here is our string trio (flute trio) at the wedding ceremony:

Here is our pianist at cocktail hour:

We also provided uplighting for three of the rooms in the reception space (dining room, dining room annex, bar/dance floor). We also provided pinspots (magnetic LED remote controlled lights) that we installed on existing chandeliers. An area wash in the garden and uplighting at the front entrance (not pictured) was also installed by our team. 

Here are some of the formal songs at the reception: 
Bride & Groom Intro Song: Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Bride & Groom's First Dance Song: Blue Suede - Hooked On A Feeling
Bride and Father Song: Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Groom and Mother Song: Yuri Shatunov - Aetctbo (Russian)
Bouquet Song: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 
Garter Toss Song: Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Kelly and Justin were married at the Montecito Country Club last weekend and we had the pleasure of providing DJ Bennett, Event Lighting (Uplights, Custom Gobo, Cake Light) and Draping for their unforgettable event. Their planner was Cate Parnin of XOXO Bride and the photographers for the event were Emma and Josh of emmaaandjosh.com. Below are some beautiful photos of Kelly and Josh's wedding courtesy of emmaandjosh.com.

Here are some of Kelly and Justin's song choices for the important events throughout their day:
Bridesmaids Processional Song: Piano tribute to Train - Marry Me
Bride Processional Song: Pachelbel - Canon in D (Piano)
Recessional Song: David Guetta - Memories
Cocktail Music Ideas: Lounge Music - Kaskade and similar artists
Dinner Music Ideas: Lounge Style
Bridal Party Intro Music: Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get it Started
Bride & Groom Intro Song: Michael Jackson - Love Never Felt So Good (Fedde Le Grand Remix)
Bride & Groom's First Dance Song: Sam Smith- Nirvana-Latch (Acoustic)
Bride and Father Song: Temptations - My Girl
Cake Cutting Song: Jason Mraz & Colby Caillat - Lucky
Bouquet Song: Pat Benetar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Garter Toss Song:Kelis - Milkshake

Katharine and Christian had their amazing wedding at the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara on Sunday 4/14/13. We were very happy to provide them with DJ services and lighting (up-lights and a dance-floor gobo - see pics).

The ceremony was held at the Mariposa Garden, where the magnificent Aurora Ensemble performed as a string quartet. Their cocktail hour was on the El Mar patio, and the quartet played a mix of pop and classic favorites. Our amazing wedding planner was Rebecca Gigandet who made sure the entire day went perfect for Katharine and Christian. 

During dancing, our couple made special song dedications to guests and special groups of friends and family - fast ones, slow ones, and even outrageously fun ones. We also played the Canadian National Anthem for the arrival of the late night snack - Poutine!

Here are some song highlights from their wedding:
First Dance: Jack Johnson - "Angel"
Parents' Dance: Louis Armstrong - " Wonderful World"
Bouquet Toss: Divinyls - "I Touch Myself"
Garter Toss: Michael Buble - "Feeling Good"
Last Song: Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline" + Etta James "At Last"

Congratulations Katharine and Christian!!

Destinee and Seth were married on October 6, 2012 at Villa Camino Cielo, a private estate in the mountains off the CA-154, overlooking beautiful Santa Barbara. We did their lighting set up and also provided DJ services for their entire event.

Lighting: String lighting over the pool and reception area in an "M" formation. A customized Gobo projection of their initials in the pool. Chandeliers in the oak trees at the cocktail and bar area. Up-lighting on the surrounding oak trees. Area Lighting for Shuttle Pick-up/Drop-off area. Restroom Area Lighting. Kitchen and Scullery Lighting. We also provided two generators, all necessary cabling/fixtures/labor and a standby technician for the duration of the event. 

Our DJ for the event was the incomparable DJ Spencer, who in the end, had the crowd partying in a frenzy with some even jumping into the pool! We were fortunate to work with Destinee and Seth's amazing wedding planner, Frieda Niemann, who made sure everything was picture perfect. And speaking of pictures, all the spectacular shots you see above are courtesy of the fabulous Wendy Kalom. Please visit her blog and check out more pictures from this wedding, as well as her story on Destinee and Seth - she also has their engagement shots here.