Recently Dupage County DJs Ameritune played at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle for the wedding of Rebecca Nowell and Madison Beresford. The ceremony was right there on the grounds, and it was a beautiful place to get married. Neither the banquet room, or the ceremony location wereeasy to get to, as far as a roady’s point of view, so I would advise anyone working here to allow for at least an extra hour and one half for set up. Fortunately, that’s what I allowed for and I needed every minute of it. For me, this was not a regular ceremony, I was really running sound for their very talented musicians. First there was an Uncle playing Classic Guitar for Prelude, followed by a keyboard and vocal (brides sister) duet before the processional, back to the Uncle on Guitar, then another guitarist/singer(groomsman) during the ceremony, and I provided a couple of songs on CD for the recessional, and we all beat the rain by about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, I left the camera in the truck for the ceremony, so I can’t show you how beautiful it was.
After the ceremony, I had just enough time to pack everything away and schlep it the 1/4 mile or so back to my truck, while the guests had cocktails indoors at the visitors center. The dinner and dancing room was gorgeous and overlooked one of the many ponds at the Arboretum. During the day it is a cafeteria style restaurant, but it really transformed well to a beautiful venue for the reception.
- Dancefloor was packed all night
There were several touching, and funny toasts and dinner moved by at a slow pace, it took a little too long to finish so we started dancing before everyone was done with desert. Wow did these people come to party! When a Bride and Groom are so deeply in love, it seeps through every nook and cranny at the reception- a great feeling of joy was buzzing in the room. It wasn’t the alcohol either, because this was a Christian wedding and there really wasn’t a whole lot of drinking. There were many highlights, but one especially funny moment was when the grooms’ sister got even with her brother when she had me play “Like A Virgin” and dedicate it to her brother on his wedding night. I played it right after the serious song that he wanted me to dedicate to her, so it really was quite funny. Apparently, he did something similar at her wedding, lol….
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- Everyone stayed till the end
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