Vert/Plante Reception 5/25/08
May 27th, 2008
Sunday started with me dj’ing the ceremony of Elizabeth and Trevor at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill in the Bryan Courtyard. They were very laid back about the ceremony and let me pick the music. The first three were pretty standard, but I chose the instrumental of the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” as the recessional. It worked out great. I had a short break after the ceremony to break down my ceremony rig.
They let the guests into the ballroom a little before 8pm and we used a Spanish track from the Pet Shop Boys for the introduction music. It sounds odd, but actually it was really cool. They went right into their first dance which was “The Book of Love” by the Magnetic Fields. I have played Peter Gabriel’s version a couple of times, but this was the first time I had played this recording. It was a nice first dance.
Now, I have to talk about the really unique things at this reception. First, Elizabeth’s dress was truly one of kind. Yes, it was white, like all brides wear, but the cool part was that it had what can only be described as pink sparkly flames up the side. It was actually really cool. The Art of Cake designed a multi-layer cake with sugar crystals and shapes to match her dress. The room flowers were done by Twigs & Sprigs. It was a super unique look in a very traditional wedding venue. The back story is that both Trevor and Elizabeth are car nuts and I think the flames were like “hot rod” flames. In fact, they met in Michigan while arguing for their respective companies Honda and a spark plug manufacturer…it sounds like Elizabeth won the argument. What a great story.
Kristin with KPO Photo sent me some photos so you can check out all of this stuff yourself.


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