Danielle and Devin at Trust

We recently did a lighting and production job at Trust for our friend Leigh of La Petite Fleur.

Here's more about the event straight from Leigh.

What a couple! What a venue! What a wedding!

Danielle and Devin’s big day at TRUST in historic Philadelphia was filled with romance, style and, of course, great lighting!

Synergetic’s Dan and Ed teamed-up with myself and the design team from La Petite Fleur, weddings and special events, to create a stunning atmosphere for this July wedding. White draping enhanced the entryway and added dimension to the ceremony, lounge and dancefloor, while lemon-yellow up lighting gave the space a warm glow. Pin spotting played its part — perfectly complementing La Petite Fleur’s cocktail lounge décor and reception tablescapes, which included soft melon and lime linens and unique centerpieces.

Whether you were upstairs or down at this grand location, the look of the event was amazing (as you’ll see below courtesy of SAS Becker Creative Photography for La Petite Fleur). Thank you to all the great professionals we partnered with on this elegant event.

Best wishes Danielle and Devin!

Thanks so much Leigh! Sounds like it was a wonderful event and we're so glad to have been a part of it!

-Becky

Michelle and Tim

Michelle and Tim were married in may and had a beautiful reception at Knowlton Mansion. Kurt and Ed kept the dance floor packed all night and enhanced the beauty of Knowlton with amber up lighting and a dance floor wash. We received an extremely nice, thoughtful thank you from them and are excited to share it.

"Dear Becky,
I've been meaning to write for some time now to say a HUGE thank you to Kurt and the whole Synergetic Sounds team. My husband Tim and I were married on May 22nd and held our reception at Knowlton Mansion. We could not have asked for a more perfect way to start our life together. Aside from Knowlton being an already amazing venue, the amber up lighting and dancefloor lighting you provided really added that extra special wow factor. Furthermore, Kurt (and his assistant) were outstanding! From the cocktail hour, to the introductions, to our first dance, cake cutting and music selection, Kurt orchestrated everything perfectly. The music was awesome and the dance floor PACKED all night long - I think every single guest was out there at some point during the night (you'll notice in the pictures that even the "old" folks are really getting down). Guests continuously commented on what a great play list we had made, and we had to confess that we hadn't made a play list at all, in fact, we had only requested 4 songs; the rest of the music selection was entirely thanks to our DJs! Even to this day, two months after the fact, our guests are still raving about how much fun they had at our wedding, and i think much of that has to do with the services provided by Kurt and Synergetic.

I wanted to send along a few pictures just to show you how gorgeous the venue looked with the lighting, as well as give you an idea of just how much people enjoyed the music. There are so many great pictures of our guests going crazy on the jam-packed dance floor that i couldn't just pick one (so i chose a dozen or so, eek, sorry). You'll notice that everyone, I mean everyone, from our 5 & 6 year old nieces to our 80 year old grandparents, were out there having fun.

I really hope you enjoy the photos and can use them to show other couples why they should, no, NEED to choose Synergetic Sounds for their own wedding or special event. Thanks again. Your professionalism, expertise and services were more than we could have ever wanted or expected. We know we made the right choice and will forever recommend Synergetic to anyone looking for a high quality, experienced lighting and DJ company.
Best,
Michelle and Tim"

Michelle and Tim, we are so glad you were happy with our services and had the wedding of your dreams. We wish you all the best and are truly grateful for your kind words!

Here are some images Michelle sent to us.


-Becky

Erica and Dan

Erica and Dan had a beautiful wedding at the Marriott in Conshohocken. Kurt and Justin kept the dance floor packed and added to the warmth of the room with some up lighting. They also lit the chuppa for the ceremony.

Thanks so much to Valentin of Jean Valentin Photography for the images!


-Becky

Vicki and Brad

Vicki and Brad were married last fall in a beautiful wedding at Glen Foerd Mansion. We had the pleasure of working with our friends at Glen Foerd and Proud to Plan.

Photos by Shooting Stars Photography.


-Becky

Synergetic is happy to welcome Kelly Devlin to the team!

Well we can finally say it! We are so happy to announce that Kelly Devlin has joined our team. For the last 6 months, we have been looking for the perfect person to add to our DJ/Lighting sales team. We didn’t want to just hire anyone, so we took our time and made sure that the person we hired would be a perfect fit, and Kelly was.

Kelly brings a lot of event experience to our team. She started at Conroy Catering in 2004 as a sales person and then a few years later, the sales team took over the planning as well, so she worked with her clients from before they booked until the week of their wedding. We have worked with Conroy catering for a long time so Kelly knows well what we do and who we are as a company - she also knows most of the key players in the company. And on top of that, she has been recommending our company for over 4 years now, so she knows what our core beliefs are.

All of our clients (past and present), prospective clients and fellow industry professionals will be better served now that we have Kelly on our team. We can’t wait till she is fully up to speed and ready to go. Make sure to email her to say hi at kellyd@synergeticsounds.com.

We are excited to be growing as a company and have the ability to expand our team, especially in a time when so many jobs are being cut. We are able to do this thanks to you our clients (past and present), our fellow industry professionals and friends. Thank you for supporting our company and allowing all of us to do what we love!

A little about Kelly-
Kelly started at Conroy in 2004 with no background in catering/events. She was unhappy with the direction her job at the time was going and decided she needed a change. She kept thinking about what she loved to do and what she could see herself doing – and it involved events/weddings! She lived in the neighborhood where Knowlton Mansion is located and just loved it. She started to talk to her boss at Knowlton, Jenn, not to look for a job, but to get some insight into the industry. They met a few times over the course of a year, and then Jenn called one day out of the blue and said they had a position open and offered her a job.

Kelly met Jason within the first 6 months of working at Conroy. She saw Jason and the Synergetic team working events and knew they rocked! Jason also did a few of her friend’s weddings - she knew that Synergetic was a company she could recommend not just to her brides, but to her personal friends.

Kelly was born and raised in Philadelphia – went to Cardinal Dougherty and LaSalle University. She is obsessed with the Phillies, she loves to shop, she loved the beach and she loves to read.

Make sure to say hi the next time you call the office. We're so glad to welcome Kelly to our team!

Alicia and Derek

Alicia and Derek had a beautiful reception at Brookside Country Club. Mark and Ed were the DJ's and they kept the dance floor busy all night! They also added to the warmth and ambiance of the room with some lighting. Mark said Alicia and Derek were one of the most laid back and easy going couples he has worked with!

We received this wonderful thank you from Alicia.
"We just wanted to write a note thanking Mark, Aaron, Matt, and Ed. When Derek and I were trying to find vendors for our reception we were totally overwhelmed. The only vendor we knew we wanted to book was Beth from Artistic Imagery. When I met with her she asked if we had chosen a DJ yet and when I said we hadn’t she immediately recommended Synergetic Sounds. She gave me one of your promotional DVDs and sent me home with it. When I got home Derek and I watch the DVD and checked out the website. We immediately liked what we saw and I called the next morning to set up an appointment.

From our first meeting with Mark we were super excited to work with him. We were thinking of doing some lighting and draping but we weren't sure exactly what we wanted so he suggested that we attend the upcoming Open House. At the Open House Mark sat down with us and went over everything we wanted to do. We added up lighting, draping - to section the cocktail hour off from the ballroom, and a breakup pattern for the dance floor. We couldn’t quite decide on a color for the up lighting so Mark told us he would bring the amber and the purple and we could make a decision that day.

About two months before our wedding Derek and I decided that we wanted a short saying projected on the wall above the head table. I called Matt asking if this was possible. He said he thought it would be okay but that he would check with Aaron and to send him the quote. We went with the quote “Two Hearts, One Soul” which was also engraved into our cave server. Aaron and I emailed back and forth getting the design just perfect. Aaron was so patient and knowledgeable. I couldn’t wait to see it.

The day before the wedding I spoke to Mark and confirmed our music selections. We weren’t very picky about the music played for some of the night’s events so I just wrote DJ’s choice and let Mark pick. We also weren’t sure what song we wanted to walk in to so Mark said he would have some selections for us when we got to the reception and we could decide then.

When we arrived at the reception the draping looked amazing. It gave us the definition we wanted for dividing the two spaces. We stepped through the draping to see the room and we were speechless. It looked absolutely stunning!! The quote on the wall looked beautiful and the up lighting looked great on the wood. Mark had some great songs for us to choose from for our entrance. His selections for the events that we hadn’t picked music for were awesome and the dance floor was packed all night.

It’s been a month since our wedding and people are still telling us how beautiful it was and how much fun they had. I think a lot of this is due to the great staff you guys have there. We absolutely loved working with you guys and we wouldn’t change a thing about our day. Thanks again for everything you did!!"

Alicia and Derek, we are so glad you were please with our services and your day was everything you wanted it to be! We wish you all the best!

Thanks so much to Beth at Artistic Imagery for the images!


-Becky

Double the pleasure, double the fun ...

One of the questions we get asked on a daily basis is why we suggest two DJs for each event. It may seem like a bit much to you. You might wonder, can't one person do it? And that’s a great question. So whether it’s our competition saying that you don’t need two DJs or it is your own instinct, we want to show you why having two DJs at your event can be a huge advantage.

I would imagine that many of you have only been to a handful of weddings, and since most of the people that we talk to have had poor experiences with DJs, I would be willing to bet that most of those weddings were just OK in the entertainment department. But the ones that were really good, I'd be willing to bet there were two DJs. So, why does that matter?

We have done a little shy of 2000 weddings as a company. And with all of that experience, we have learned how to make your event the best it can be. And the easiest way to do that is to have two DJs there.

Let’s take the wedding that I did on July 3rd as an example.This wedding would have been tough to do on my own if I didn’t have another person with me to:
-Gather the missing bridal party members to be lined up
-Control the music while I was lining up the 15 person bridal party for introductions

-Adjust the volume for introductions, toasts, the blessing, and the music, since our system was set up in another room
-Monitor the volume so guests weren’t blown away
-Handle the extraordinary amount of song requests that came in while I was mixing (we do beatmix almost every single song)
-Coordinate with the maitre d, photographer, videographer, fireworks company, parents of the bride and groom, the bride and groom and appropriate guests to make sure everything happened when it was supposed to

Now, this might not seem like a lot, but you have to trust me on this. One of the main reasons we have two DJs on your event, is for every reason I can’t tell you right now, but will be able to tell you 10 seconds after your wedding is over. Not only does that second DJ help with coordinating the evening and making sure everything runs smoothly, but their presence and help on everything mentioned above buys you and your gusts more dancing time.

You see, my job is to manage about 15 different things at once. Number one, I have to pack your dance floor. I have to think of the perfect song to play next to keep everyone out there. That by itself takes concentration. Then I actually have to mix it. That requires talent and skill, as well as focus. I only have about 1-2 minutes to do all that, and that happens about 50 times in two hours. Now add into the mix the guests wanting to make a request, the itinerary that needs to be adhered to, the maitre d who needs us to make an announcement and the bride and groom who need you to do something right away. Then all of a sudden dad wants to talk to you about a song he really wants to hear. Wow! All that in as little as 5-10 minutes. Ask any DJ that has done 100 weddings and he or she will tell you that this happens all of the time.

Imagine one person doing all of that, it's a lot of pressure. Now, we are certainly not saying that it cannot be done - it certainly can - we do it, but we much prefer to have two DJs on each event. A two person team allows things to run much more smoothly. It allows us to do more then just DJ. It allows us to make the event better by doing the little things -something as small as taking 5 minutes to talk to dad about this special song and how important it is. Having another DJ there means I can talk to him without worrying about the music and losing people on the dance floor because the other DJ has that under control. Or maybe something as small as making sure the grooms mom is ready to go by the dance floor when we announce the mother son dance, so we aren’t all waiting and wondering were she is. Or having the time to hunt down the toss bouquet - you know, the one that was left upstairs in the bridal suite that was specifically made to be tossed. I could go on and on, but you get the point.

The most important thing to us is that everything is perfect for you. When there are 47 things being thrown at us and we are being pulled in 5 different directions at once, it is up to us to manage it all. And we will. And you can bet that with two people at your reception, we will get it done and get it done with a packed dance floor.

-Jason

Synergetic Staff- Dana

One of the many things we love about what we do is that we can give people the opportunity to learn about business and what it is like in the “real world." Okay, so were not the biggest business and probably don’t have the most “real world" experience, but for a high school student, we're not a bad place to start.

Each year, we hire a high school junior or senior, who wants to learn more about business, to come in and do all the little things that we need done. In return, they get to be a part of our weekly meetings, planning sessions and watch us run the business. It is a great learning experience for them and allows them to see how a small business operates.

This past year, we had Dana. She just graduated from Nazareth Academy and has helped us out tremendously. From small data entry tasks to bigger, more complicated marketing concepts, she has been a part of our team that we will surely miss. Dana will be attending the University of Scranton next semester and we wish her well!

Thanks for all of your hard work Dana! We hope you enjoyed your time with us at Synergetic and we hope you will come visit us!

-Jason

House Lighting

When hiring a company to do lighting for your event, it is important to let the facility know that you have a professional lighting company coming in. In order to maximize the look of the lighting, we will need to turn the house lights (the lighting already in place) down as much as possible. When you let the venue know this ahead of time, it makes things a little easier on the day of your event when we get there and start setting up the lighting - the coordinator at your facility already knows that we need to turn the house lights down and why.

Now, we always call a facility before we work there to let them know what we have planned, but it means a lot more coming from you, the client, that has paid to be there. The last thing we, or you, want is to have a carefully designed lighting plan be washed out because the chandeliers are turned all the way up and the wall sconces are as bright as the sun. That will hinder us from providing you with the look and feel you wanted and paid for.

Uplighting was placed around the perimiter of the room - you can see it, but it doesn't warm up the room and stand out as much as it should with how bright the house lights are on.

At almost every event we do, our crew sets the house lighting to the right level before they leave. We always let the on site management team know what we are doing and why. But when we leave, we can’t help it if the management turns it back up. This is where you (or your planner) need to step in and let them know the importance of the lighting being turned down.

We did wall washing and pin spotting for this beautiful reception, but you can"t really tell because the house lights are on so bright.

So no matter what type of event you are having, remember to let your sales associate know, as well as the banquet manager, that we are coming and what your vision is. When we call to confirm the details, they will be on the same page as we are and everything will look gorgeous!

-Jason

Working for other industry professionals

One of the things that makes us feel really good is when other industry professionals hire us for their own personal events. As you can imagine, as professionals in the event industry, they have seen a number of DJ and lighting companies over the years - but they trusted us with their special event. That means a lot to us.

When Ashley Rhine, a sales associate for the Mendenhall Inn, was planning her wedding, she knew she wanted to hire us to do the lighting from the very beginning. She loved the way we lit the ballrooms at the Mendenhall and that is what she wanted for her wedding at Appleford.

When Liz Stout, sales associate at Holly Hedge Estate, was discussing DJs with her daughter for her upcoming wedding, she told her daughter that she just had to meet with us. How many DJs has she seen over the years? Hundreds. But we stood out!

When Denise DiSilvestro got engaged she knew she had to hire us. We worked with her a number of times during her years at Celebrations and now at The Merion - she has probably heard hundreds of DJs, but she wanted us for her reception.

Or how about almost everyone at Knowlton Mansion! We have done so many private events for the sales team, event day servers and bartenders. We have a wonderful relationship with the staff at Knowlton and love working with them - on client events and their own.

And how about one more. Natalie of Go Festive was married this past January and she knew she wanted to enhance the look and feel of the room with some lighting. We were the first company she called. Her company does about 5 weddings a weekend, so you can imagine how honored we were when she called us to up light the ballroom, provide a dance floor wash and pin spot her centerpieces. Click here to see more from her wedding.

All of these professional friends made us feel so good - it is a huge compliment to be hired to work on an event for another industry professional, especially with so many companies to choose from. So, thank you. Thank you for trusting us with your event. And thank you to the other professionals that we didn’t mention - this would be quite a long post if we mentioned everyone.

-Jason