Event Lighting - an important consideration

Pulling together a beautiful wedding or any event requires extensive time and effort, research, meticulous attention to detail, and money.  It seems that we start with the main ingredients:  the venue, the tables, chairs, linens, the food, drink, entertainment and the beautiful flowers that make a wedding memorable, and often times think...voila!  We're done!   Not so fast!

After you've invested your heart and soul into designing the perfect wedding, don't forget to light it properly.  Just like Oprah won't go on her stage without the perfect lighting to make her look great, your decor and floral arrangements shouldn't be left in the dark either!  Washing a room in color provides drama for sure, but those floral arrangements are in a whole new realm when properly lit.  So much so that I know some top notch floral designers who will not agree to provide their services without a lighting agreement in place - meaning they don't want their work to look anything less than spectacular!

Floral art by Brenda Abbott Floral Design  www.brendaabbott.net

Our lighting professional recommendations:

We recommend the professionals at Intelligent Lighting Design (who provided the lighting for our floral arrangements at the event shown above).  www.ildlighting.com 

We also recommend the professionals at Midnight Lighting www.midnightlighting.com

In addition to washing walls with color, and pin lighting your centerpieces, consider gobos.  As shown above, the in-house lighting team at the beautiful Hyatt Lost Pines Resort and Spa, transformed the ballroom walls into a cityscape backdrop with the use of multiple gobos.

Notice the gobo on the all white dance floor.  (Dance floor provided by Brenda Abbott Floral Design)

For a laid back, Texas country atmosphere with an upscale ballroom wedding reception option, check out our venue recommendation:  
The Hyatt Lost Pines Resort.   www.lostpines.hyatt.com