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Make your walk down the aisle ultra-memorable with our comprehensive list of processional wedding songs.
Walking down the aisle on your wedding day will be one of the most incredible experiences of your life. Maybe you'll forgo tradition and walk down together, or put a fun twist on things and each make your own separate entrance. Regardless of how you do it, you’ll want to choose a song to walk down the aisle to that reflects the unique bond you and your partner share. Whatever speaks to your personality, we are here to help!
Putting together a trendy, rustic affair? Check out our country songs to walk down the aisle to. Getting married in a gorgeous cathedral? We’ve got some amazing instrumental songs to walk down the aisle to. And if you’ve chosen to say “I Do” in laid-back, casual style (or even at a courthouse!) we’ve got you covered with some fun songs to walk down the aisle to, and some super-unique selections too!
Fashion shows are a great idea for groups trying to fundraise for a cause, organize community events, or to promote local fashion designers and businesses. The key ingredients to a good fashion show are a general theme, a well-coordinated team, and a well-designed program. It is important that you come up with a plan for your show: theme, location and date, music and decorations. You will also need to organize a team of people to run the show: designers, models, hair and makeup stylists, show coordinators, and lighting and sound professionals. All of these people need to work together to make your plan succeed. Finally, you will need to come up with a detailed program of featured designers, order of models and styles, and music and lighting.
Part 1 | Putting Together a Plan for a Fashion Show
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Decide on a theme. All fashion shows are centered around a general theme.
A theme could be fall fashion, beach fashion, lingerie, or costumes.
Alternatively, the theme could focus on a particular color or fabric.
The music, lighting, and decorations will have to go along with this theme.
If you are doing the fashion show as a fundraiser, you might pick a them in line with your cause.
For example, if are doing a fashion show to raise money for a breast cancer charity, you might choose to showcase the color pink.
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Decide on a budget. If you are coordinating a fashion show to raise money for charity, you may want to keep costs as low as possible.
See what kind of money you can expect from donations. You can use these funds to defray the cost of a fashion show.
Decide on a price for ticket sales. These will be the primary means of getting a profit or money for a charitable cause.
The price of tickets should be enough to cover costs of the show plus enough to reach a desired profit or donation goal.
You might see if local designers and professionals will volunteer their time and services for the show to offset some of the costs.
Take a little pop, throw in some R&B, mix it with some soul and add a touch of jazz and the result is the electrifying sounds of Blair Clark. We used our Concert Sound System, which includes two JBL PRX speakers, two JBL PRX subwoofers, four QSC K12 Monitors, and a PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 Digital Mixer. Also included were eight LED PAR64 lights and a followspot.
Blair is a powerful entertainer out of Indiana who we loved working with!
Equipment Used:
- PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 Digital Mixer
- JBL PRX715 15" 2-Way Speakers
- JBL PRX718XLF Powered 18" Subwoofers
- QSC K12 Powered Monitors
- Shure SLX4/SM58 Wireless Handheld Microphone
- Shure SM58 Microphones
- Shure PG 6-Piece Drum Microphone Kit
We had a great time at the Gilbert Days Parade and Marathon! A total of five separate sounds systems were set in place along the parade route to announce each group or float as well as to provide some background music. It was a beautiful morning and everything sounded great!
We have also provide sound for parade floats at the Fiesta Bowl Parade and Phoenix Gay Pride Parade!
Equipment Used:
- QSC KLA12 Powered Line Array 12" Speakers
- QSC K12 2-Way Powered 1000 Watt Speakers
- JBL PRX715 15" 2-Way Speakers
- Shure SM58 Microphones
Make your float for your upcoming parade be not only seen, but heard too! Whether you are singing, dancing, talking, or rocking, we have the perfect sound system to rent for your next parade appearance! The systems we provide are incredibly versatile, portable, and sound great.
We provide an inexpensive and affordable way to provide music and amplification for your upcoming parade in the Phoenix AZ area. If you're on a budget for your parade float or just want to save money, we offer an easy solution that allows you to provide your own music, using the same equipment as a professional disc jockey. Renting high-quality, professional DJ equipment may be your best solution -- and it's completely user friendly!
The largest study of US couples married in 2015 by the #1 wedding resource, The Knot, finds that to-be-weds are spending more--and The Knot Concierge, a digital-plus-human service, helps couples select the right wedding pros for these high-consideration purchases
NEW YORK, April 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Knot, the #1 wedding brand and marketplace, today released the results of The Knot 2015 Real Weddings Study. The ninth annual comprehensive report, the largest of its kind, surveyed nearly 18,000 U.S. brides and grooms married in 2015 to uncover the financial spending habits and trends of real weddings in America. This study includes national and local statistics including the average cost of a wedding, who pays, how couples budget and plan for their big day, the average number of wedding guests and other key statistics related to weddings in America.
Belief, an international wedding planning network, announces the results of the 3rd edition of an exclusive online contest for wedding professionals
Winning a Belief Awards is one of the highest honors a wedding planner can receive. "We are excited to celebrate such a top-notch group of professionals for the Belief Awards 3rd edition. Each of the wedding planners recognized is committed with quality and expertise," says Giovana Duailibe, executive director of Belief.
Meet the winners by continent
A leading consumer advocate, Beyond4Cs.com, has presented awards to honor the best wedding bloggers of 2016.
NEW YORK, May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond4Cs.com is pleased to announce the winners of "The Best 105 Wedding Blogs" in the industry. This award recognizes the world's top wedding bloggers who had created compelling content to inspire couples and facilitate wedding planning.
Over the course of four weeks, thousands of bridal related blogs were carefully curated before the final list of 105 winners emerged. The selection criteria included factors like originality of content, inspirational ideas, up-to-date information, community engagement and usefulness of tips/advice.
New Survey Reveals Similarities and Differences Between Same-Sex and Heterosexual Couples
CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- WeddingWire, Inc., Community Marketing & Insights (CMI), GayWeddings and the Gay Wedding Institute, released today the results of the 2016 Survey of Contemporary Couples & Current Wedding Trends, the definitive overview of today's quickly evolving wedding landscape. Conducted by the leading industry brands, the groundbreaking study sheds light on how all couples, especially same-sex couples, have planned their weddings since the Supreme Court's historic ruling in favor of nationwide marriage equality on June 26, 2015. Over 1,400 respondents who married since 2013 or are currently engaged were recruited from CMI's proprietary research panel and the client databases of WeddingWire, GayWeddings and the Gay Wedding Institute.
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
June Weddings
Profile America — Thursday, June 16th. For centuries, the month of June has been the most popular choice for weddings. One of the purported reasons was that some hundreds of years ago, this time was just after May's annual bath, so the happy couple and the guests were about as clean as could be hoped. With the ensuing advances in plumbing and overall hygiene, dressy weddings are readily staged year round, from simple civil ceremonies and backyard or back-to-nature vows, to elaborate church functions. Each year, there are more than 2.1 million weddings across the nation. Americans are marrying at older ages — the median age at first marriage for women is now 27.6 years old — up five years since 1980. Men are now an average age of 29.5 when they first take their vows. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Study of US married and soon-to-be married LGBTQ couples by The Knot and Logo finds couples feel more pressure to marry, are spending more on their weddings plus participating in more wedding-related events.
NEW YORK, June 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Knot, the #1 wedding brand and marketplace, and Logo, a leading entertainment brand inspired by the LGBT community, today released the results from the fourth annual The Knot LGBTQ Weddings Study. The study surveyed 979 LGBTQ respondents in the US who were married or are engaged to be married to reveal the average cost of a wedding for LGBTQ couples, how couples are proposing, wedding spends, family acceptance and support, traditions, and other key statistics related to LGBTQ weddings in America.
One year after the Supreme Court ruling to recognize marriage equality in the US, The Knot LGBTQ Weddings Study 2016 found that wedding spend has increased 85% among LGBTQ men and 56% among LGBTQ women. The average cost of a wedding for male couples is $33,822, and $25,334 for female couples. In contrast, wedding spend increased by a mere 1% for men and 15% for women from 2014 to 2015, and the average cost of a wedding prior to legalization was $18,242 for male couples and $16,218 for females. Couples are now inviting more guests to their wedding, and participating in more wedding-related events than ever before, from engagement parties to showers and more. For the first time, LGBTQ elopements are down.
Findings reveal the trends behind the bride-to-be's planning process, from the something old to the something new
STAMFORD, Conn., June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Philips Zoom, the #1 professional teeth whitening brand, and a favorite among brides, conducted a recent survey to explore the emerging trends that couples are incorporating into their weddings and the preparation that goes into them. While new trends have emerged in the day-of festivities, the key to a bride's confidence is often attributed to the preparation behind her wedding look.
- When it comes to her photo, the top stresses shared by brides focus on their personal appearance: ◦1 in 5 brides is worried about the appearance of her teeth.
- When it comes to diets and physical activity, 67% of former brides and brides-to-be admit to working out four or more times per week in preparation for their weddings, with 61% cutting out specific foods – like cheese, sugar and pasta, e.g. – from their diets.
- 2 in 5 plan to or have done a cleanse.
Despite the amount of attention that couples seem to pay to their appearance in preparation for and at their weddings, most are not totally satisfied when they reflect back on the photos taken on their wedding day (70%).
When we started planning our wedding, one of the first decisions my husband and I made was to handle the music ourselves via our trusty iPods. Music is integral to both of our identities, something we’ve always shared—we were writing, exchanging mixes, and going to concerts together long before we realized we were something more than friends—and we wanted to extend that to our wedding. The key word that we both seized on when describing the music for this important night was “personal”; the unspoken expectation was that the right combination of the right songs, through some kind of alchemy of sentiment and aesthetic, would converge into a perfect expression of ourselves and our relationship, infusing each moment with meaning, like the best movie soundtrack of all time.
Nobody cares about the playlist as much as you do. As important as music is to us, thinking back to the weddings we’ve been to over the years we remember very few of the specific songs that were played—even for iconic moments like first dances. The songs that do stick in our minds don’t tend to be the coolest, the most gushingly romantic, or even the ones we like the best; they’re the songs that were playing when we looked over and realized the bride’s dad had happy tears streaming down his face, or when the newlyweds started shouting along, bouncing in each other’s arms, murdering all the lyrics and laughing so hard. Choosing the playlist for your wedding can be an incredibly personal expression of self—of history, meaning, aesthetic—but in the end it’s really just background music. It’s the wedding that infuses the soundtrack with meaning, not the other way around.
Don’t be afraid to break your own rules, either. We included my in-laws’ request, “Hey Jude,” in our dance playlist, and yep, it cleared the dance floor. But seeing them swaying blissfully, alone and completely oblivious to the world around them, is a memory we’ll both treasure forever.
Included in the PGDMK6-XLR mic kit you get: three PG56 snare/tom mics, two PG81 small-diaphragm condenser mics, and one PG52 kick drum microphone, that doubles as a killer bass cabinet mic.
Shure PGDMK6 Drum Microphones are included in some of our Live Music PA Systems.
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