You almost never see it anymore but a traditional way to do the dollar dance was to pin the money to the Bride and Groom. On a recent Rececption I DJed the Bride and Groom went old school and had the money pinned on them. The only down side is that you will probably be putting some nasty holes in your wedding dress. It was cool to see though.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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One of my favorite places to DJ at was the Mr C's outdoor garden. Before they closed I had DJed many Wedding Receptions there. This photo was taken from the outdoor balcony looking down at my DJ system set up in front of the dancing area. I really miss Mr. C's and I'm glad I had the chance to DJ as many Wedding Receptions there that I did.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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In this photo I had just set up for a wedding reception and decided to snap this photo. The reception facility (Legacy Hall) was very clean, spacious and has a great layout for a wedding reception. This venue is located on 90th and Military.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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When your daughter gets married and you have spent your life savings for her party sometimes the only thing left to do at the reception is to have a few drinks and then leap up onto a table and dance. It's a good lesson for us all. When life seems overwhelming sometimes you've just got to bring on the boogie.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
www.bandstandmusic.blogspot.com

I am getting very excited for the next Bridal Show. It will be at the Mid America Center on January 3rd, 2010 from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. I will be the MC for the event for the 5th year in a row and I can't wait. If you are planning a wedding this is the show you won't want to miss. Plan on attending the Bridal Showcase on January 3rd, 2010.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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It's always cool when a couple has their wedding ceremony at the same place as the reception. The big benefit is that the guests don't have to drive to two separate locations the day of the wedding. In addition there are no long gaps in between the ceremony and reception. This helps with momentum. You can also have the DJ play your ceremony music. This picture is of a Wedding/Reception that I DJed at the Club Convention Center here in Omaha.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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There has always been a place in my heart for the youngsters at the Wedding Reception I DJ. During dinner, dancing or whenever I love to take some time to do something special for the kids. The fact is that there just isn't much for kids to do at Wedding Receptions and I am happy to provide them with some entertainment.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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I have been blessed over the 2009 Wedding season to have been working for some wonderful Brides and Grooms. Friday nights reception was no exception. Adam & Nicole were wonderful and so were their family and friends. Ceremony and reception were both held at the Sokol Auditorium and this is a photo of Adam & Nicole during the Bride and Groom dance.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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Whenever you are having a party and your expectations are for people to dance the night away it helps when you put your entertainment in the center of the action. In other words you should never jam your DJ in the corner and then expect people to be excited about dancing all night. I took this picture at my last reception of the set up. As the DJ I was right in front of the dance floor which was located right smack in the center of the room. This encourages participation and dancing and helps the DJ to facilitate all the activities. By the way, once the dancing got underway this reception rocked. Thanks Leanna and Ray for a great night.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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Over the years I have learned that as a DJ you have to ease into getting the dance started. I always start the dance at every reception by dedicating the first song of the night to the Bride, Groom, and all the happy couples in attendance. It always packs the floor. This is how to get em' out there. Starting off the dance with a fast song rarely works. This was the dance floor on the first song from my gig last Saturday at the Patriots Club at Offutt.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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After my reception Saturday night I walked out to see this... The Brides car had been T-Peed and to make things even more messy it rained a little bit too. I always love seeing the cars decorated and athough some Brides and Grooms find it annoying I do feel it's all part of the rite of passage. It must be done!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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I DJed a reception on Saturday night and had never met the Bride and Groom. Thier names were Leanna and Ray. The whole theme of the reception was Salt and Pepper shakers. They had salt and pepper shakers on every table as the centerpieces and even on the grooms cake that you see here. I took this picture before anyone had arrived at the reception. As I took this photo I was stumped as to what the Salt n' Pepper theme was all about. I did eventually find out but I want to know what your guesses would have been. Any thoughts?

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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Every year I DJ the party for the employees of the Hilton Hotel Downtown. This years party was an absolute riot. In this photo some of the upper management including the GM we up on the stage doing a crazy dance routine. I've got to tell you that the Hilton really knows how to take care of their employees. The give away some pretty cool stuff at their parties.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com
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I've got to tell you that I am having a blast with these photo booth rentals. Last weekend we had 2 out including one at Anthony's Steak House and the other pictured here at the Livestock Exchange Building. WOW! Great participation and I want to thank our fun clients for their business last weekend.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

I would like to take a moment to give props to one of my competitors / mentors. This is a photo of Johnny O. John is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. He is what I like to refer to as the Godfather of all Mobile DJ's in Omaha. John was the first in Omaha to start this Mobile Wedding DJ thing back in the early 70's and I am proud to call him a friend. I was working one of our Photo Booth rentals on Saturday and John just happened to be the DJ for the reception. It was great seeing him again and he is still as good as ever. Thanks John for plowing the road for all of us Mobile DJ's out there. I also want to thank you for playing Stairway to Heaven for me back in 1985. You DJed one of my dances when I was in Junior High.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Bandstand Music is currently working on it's You Tube Channel. Everything should be up and running in just another day or two. Lot's of Videos on the way. Stay tuned...

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

You know we've been renting the Bandstand Music photo booth like crazy. One of our biggest selling points is that compared to our competitors who can fit 1 or 2 people in their photo booths we say we can fit up to 7 comfortably. Last week we snapped this photo of 11 people fitting in our photo booth. WOW! As they exited it was like watching the old 15 clowns piling out of the little car gag.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

So after a 7 hour reception the Bride and Groom were ready to leave the reception for some R & R. Problem was that it took them 10 minutes to get into their car. The best man and a few of the groomsman we nuts with a jumbo roll of plastic wrap.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Hi everyone! If thinking of putting together your own video slide show and projecting it at your party or wedding please take my advice. If you produce these videos yourself then TEST TEST TEST everything beforehand. I can't tell you how many of my clients who have put together their own shows have had nothing but trouble with them the night of their party. There are a lot of reasons why but unfortunately I don't have time to cover them all right now but contact me anytime if you have questions. This photo shows people scrambling to get the video to play at one of my receptions I DJed. The video never played because they did not have the proper cable to connect the laptop to the projector.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

We have been experimenting lately with our new Kiosk version of our De Luxe Photo Booth. This unit is cheaper to rent for our customers and comes with everything our De Luxe Photo Booth comes with except for the privacy surround. This unit is not yet available for rent but will be very soon.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Man... what an awesome Bride and Groom from last Saturday. I snapped this photo during the cake cutting. Bride was absolutely beautiful and the groom a perfect gentleman. Bandstand Music DJed 13 wedding reception last Saturday as well as the Fremont Homecoming.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

One of the first things I always do when I arrive at a wedding is checkout the groom's cake. Some are very creative. I remember a wedding from two years ago when the groom cake was in the shape of a Nintendo Game Cube. It was perfect down to the last detail. I wished I had gotten a picture of that. This is the cake from the wedding I DJed last Saturday. "Go Panthers"

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Just this week we shot some video footage for the Photo Booth video demo. It is in the editing stages now and should be ready to post on my website by the middle of the week. Had a ton of fun shooting the video and I hope it will be helpful for my customers. Tons of Weddings to DJ this weekend. I personally will be at the Oak Hills CC to DJ a reception and I'll post pictures on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Last weekend was another successful photo booth rental weekend. Tons of participation during the wedding reception in Omaha. This is a photo of some of the pages guests were signing as we put the scrapbook together. Great fun!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Wow, Jim was awesome! I had such a blast and that seems to be the consensus. (As if someone would tell me if they didn't...LOL) The mansion as well was very complimentary to Jim in how he got it all set up and played throughout the night in such... a small space so comfortably. Thank you so much for all of your help to get that set up! There are some great pics on my page of us dancing fools that night, feel free to copy any of them for your page if you like. :) I think there is a picture of the grooms cake too...in case you are curious!

Way to go Jim...

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Bandstand Music DJ Jim Morrison whipped it up at the Renaissance Mansion last Friday night for a friend of mines Wedding Reception. Looks like things were rockin'. Love DJing at the Renaissance. It's a beautiful historical home and always proves to be a unique venue for any Wedding Reception.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Wedding Reception from last Saturday had an awesome horseshoe shaped Grooms cake. This particular wedding had a huge country theme with all the groomsmen in western style tuxes with cowboy hats. Reception rocked!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

One of the perks of being a DJ is that sometimes (despite being 39 and covered in freckles) you can still get a pretty girl to pose with you. Actually this lady caught me off gaurd (not that I'm complaining). I was behind my DJ table at a reception when she suddenly grabbed me and had her friend take this picture.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

The Bandstand Photo Booth has been rockin'. Here is a photo from one of the events. Just some people having fun which is what the photo booth is all about.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

The question I often ask my new DJ's is to imagine youself at your first gig and you are behind the DJ table facing a room full of guests. It is now time to start the dance and so my first question to the rookies is "what are you going to do?" Meaning, how are you going to start the dance off. So my question to anyone reading this blog is this: As you look at this picture if you were the DJ what would you do to get the dance kicked off? Remember the bride and groom are counting on you.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

After 9 years of dating, the bride and groom last Saturday finally tied the knot. I took this picture right before the groom removed the garter. I love seeing all the people gathering around and nothing beats seeing the huge smiles on the bride and grooms faces.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Well another monster busy weekend in the DJ biz gone by. This is a photo of one of my best DJ's David Nihsen taken during his gig at Karen's Fireside. I want to thank Jeff Lonowski with Affordable Photography for taking this photo and sending it to me.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

This is a photo that was taken by Megan Hammond with Something New Productions. It's one of my favorite pictures of one of my DJ's Mark Kirlin during one of his gigs. I want to thank Megan for sending over the picture. It just proves that Black and Whites are still cool.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Throughout the years I've seen a lot of dinner set-ups at receptions. Here is one I found to pretty cool. The room decor was a black and pearl color scheme and the place settings at the table were very elegant. Each guest as they sat had a folded napkin with a menu and a tasty cookie for desert. Very nice...

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Last weekend we had a riot with the photobooth that we rented. It was a huge hit and at one point we had a line 20 people deep waiting to get in. In this photo a lady comes out holding her photo strip. What's cool is that the Bride and Groom get a copy as well. All photos are put on a disc for the Bride and Groom to keep at the end of the night.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

I always love DJing wedding reception that present traditions I've never seen before. For the first time ever I had a front row seat to a tradition in which the Bride and Groom hold hands with their family as the circle the head table. Directly after the guests all line up and greet the Bride, Groom, and their family by offering them money, well-wishes, and partaking in a drink. In this photo you can see the drinks for the guests laid out in front of the bride. This was a really neat experience to be a part of.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

During the reception last Saturday the guests on the dance floor went into an impromptu conga line led by the groom. Sporting his "crazy hat", the groom leads the bride and the rest of the guests around the dance floor.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Saturday night I DJed for Adrienne and Scott. Just for the record they were the nicest couple ever. In this photo Scott and Adrienne were watching their slideshow during the reception. I think the photo says it all when it comes to the emotions Adrienne was feeling. How Sweet!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

The wedding I DJed last Saturday was awesome. The Bride and Groom (Kris and Kylie) were great and I'll be posting a few pictures from this reception throughout the week. The reception had a live band (Acoustic Groove) for the cocktails and they were great. All classic singer songwriter type of music. You can go to their website at www.acousticgroove.org.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Last Saturdays gig was a blast. It was a 7 1/2 hour reception. Guest went through 3 kegs in the first 90 minutes and 2 more before 10:30. WOW! Anyway this was a shot of the dance floor with everyone out doing the Cupid Shuffle.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Friday nights gig was a blast. Nicole and Adam were a super duper Bride and Groom. The location was the Fremont City Auditorium and after 22 years of being a DJ this was my first time there. Awesome reception!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Okay... this might be the coolest tux shirt I've ever seen. And not just because I'm a huge Boston Red Sox fan. This photo is from Matt and Leslie's reception that I DJed a couple of weeks ago. The big Boston fan the bride is dancing with here is her dad. Way to sport the gear dad!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Hey at least if the Jammed Packed 3 DVD isn't any good you can feel great knowing you got a free fishing license out of the deal. P.S. I've had a few complaints about the shipping price but I think it's quite reasonable.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

I just love these slide shows that Brides and Grooms are showing at their receptions. So far this year Bandstand Music has put 27 of these video together for our clients. This is just one trend that I don't see ever getting old.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

At a recent wedding reception this guy took over the mic and did some solo "beat boxing". I've got to tell you that this guy was pretty good. The crowd loved him and it added a nice piece of variety to the evening. I'm telling you that you can never go wrong with self entertained guests. Well Done!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

This guy at my latest reception was really gettin' down. This is a photo of him busting out a move during the MC Hammer song 2 Legit 2 Quit. This was a great group of people and you can tell by the photo that the night was all about just letting go and having a great time. (From Matt and Leslie's Reception)

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Saturday nights reception was awesome. It was at Ironwood Country Club and the Bride and Groom were out on the golf course before the reception taking some photos. This picture is of the Bride (Leslie) arriving after those photos. Love ya Leslie!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

One of my favorite parts of a reception is the traditional Garter toss. Trying to get the single guys to come out and look excited is always a huge challenge and can be like pulling teeth. At this particular reception I DJed last Saturday you can see the single guys that came out actually looked excited and eager to catch the garter. It goes without saying that based on this picture that this reception ROCKED!

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

Here's a photo from behind the DJ table at a reception we DJed a week ago. In case you can't tell by the SR71 hanging above the crowd this was at the SAC Museum. One of my DJ's Steve Miller was the DJ for this gig and took this photo.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com

I've always had a place in my heart for the kids that attend weddings. Most get bored quickly and just don't get the importance of the day. The problem comes when it's time to get the adults up and dancing. An open dance floor is like a playground for the kids. So as soon as I start the dance music I break out the magic and balloons. This is a great distraction for the kids and opens up the dance floor for the adults. This photo was taken by Doug Gunder with Doug Gunder Photography.

Steve Bergeron
www.bandstandmusic.com