Press Release
Columbia, SC – 1/20/2010 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Capital City Entertainment has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for DJ Entertainment!
The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.
Capital City Entertainment is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.
“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”
We are happy to announce that Capital City Entertainment is among the very best Wedding DJ within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards.
On Sunday I provided sound and music for the Kappa Kappa Gamma 2009 Flag Football tournament behind the Greek Village. It was my second year doing this event. Even though the weather didn’t cooperate they still had a great turnout.
Money raised by the sorority is donated to local charities. I really commend this group for the effort they put into this tournament. It was a huge success and I hope I can be a part in it again next year.
We have recently registered and been accepted into the 2010 Bridal Showcase. We haven’t done this show in 2 years so we are excited to attend next year. Below you will find the details. Come by and check us out
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29th Annual St. Andrews Woman’s Club
Bridal Showcase
Twenty-Nine Years of Wedded Bliss!
DATE: January 10, 2010
TIME: 12 Noon - 5:00 PM
PLACE: Americraft Cantey Building, State Fairgrounds, Columbia, SC
DESCRIPTION: Bridal Showcase will feature 100+ Exhibit Booths by Bridal Service Providers.
Fashion Shows at 1:30 and 4:00 PM
Grand Prize: Drawing for Fantastic Grand Prizes!!!!!
Admission: $5.00 for adults, $1.00 for children under 12 and free admission for children 2 and under.
We just completed a busy Halloween week. On Wednesday we had a Kids party sponsored by Groucho’s Deli. This was our third year hosting this party. The kids had a blast and so did I. We played several games and had a dance contest as well as a costume contest.
On Thursday we did the Trick or Treat Trail sponsored by the Kershaw County Hospital. It was our seventh year providing sound and entertainment for this event. About 20 Kershaw County businesses set up a booth for the kids and Dance Extrordinare did a routine to “Thriller”. Not sure of the final numbers but it was close to 1,000 kids came through.
We wrapped up the weekend with the Annual Halloween Bash sponsored by USC Student BAR Association. This party was held at the Columbia Convention Center and had around 800 in attendance. This was our third year providing entertainment for this large event. We have to set up our large sound system consisting of over 5,000 watts to fill this room. Dana and Steven both had engagements elsewhere so I had to recruit a couple of friends to help me out. Thanks Dave and Roger for the help!
We just recently joined Wedding Wire. Not so much for the advertising but for their review system. We wanted an easy way for brides to share their experience with us to other brides. I am hoping that Wedding Wire will grow in popularity and result in a sucessful tool for our business. Check out our first 2 reviews!
As you can see our blog has been down for several months. Due to spammers and hackers I had to shut it down. Lack of time and motivation is the reason for the long delay in getting it back up. I do believe I have it fully functional and will attempt to update once a week or so. It has been a busy summer and our Halloween events will wrap up this Saturday. We should see some slow time coming up in November to focus on our advertising campaign for next year. Check back often for Capital City Entertainment news and events.
We had 2 events yesterday. One was a wedding located at the Robert Mills Courthouse in Camden and the other was a Sorority Formal also located in Camden at the Health Resource Center.
Dana performed for the wedding reception but I helped him setup as I was only a couple miles down the road from him. The reception was being catered by Tronco’s out of Columbia. I will have to say that the food presentation was fantastic and the facility looked amazing. Dana said the guests were raving about the food. Our policy is to not eat while working a reception but it is displays like this that make us want to dive right in. The Tronco’s staff were also extremely friendly. It is always a joy when we get to work with professionals like this. Check them out at Tronco’s.com
Small System
The Robert Mills Courthouse is a small venue perfect for 100 people or so. Everytime we perform here we use our small system with a big punch. This system is perfect if space is limited.
Red and White Ball
This was my 3rd year performing for the Delta’s. This is a fun group that likes to party. I met Maxie Joye from Four “K” MaxPhotography LLP who was doing the portraits. He had a staff of 4 and they stayed busy all night. Maxie offers a service that few photographers can offer. He is able to print a portrait right on the spot that you can take home that night. Who likes to wait on pictures anyway? I think this service sets him out from others. The quality of the photographs were outstanding. Look them up online.
Medium System
We have plenty of room at the Health Resource Center so we can pretty much do anything we want. We opted for a medium system for up to 400 guests and customized a light show for them. Since we play for them every year we try to change up the light show. I was pleased with the way it turned out this year. I played a lot of old school as well as current hits. I always enjoy a good variety of music like this.
Next weekend we will be back at the Health Resource Center for Camden Prom. That’s right, Prom season is here……
Last Friday night we did a Super Sweet 16 Party. It was the first time we used video projection and uplighting. The party was fantastic and everything went as planned. We received many compliments from the vendors that worked this party.
Larry Melton, Owner of Capital City Entertainment, will be holding a reception planning workshop on March 23, 2009 in Columbia.During this workshop Larry will talk about planning the perfect reception.He will share with you tips and tricks, as well as cover small details that brides often overlook during their planning process.If you are in the planning stages you will not want to miss this workshop.
Larry will be available after his presentation if you would like some one-on-one.Feel free to bring your fiancé, parents, or friend to this workshop.Just let us know how many will be attending so we can be sure to have seating.
Here are the details:
Date: Monday, March 23rd
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Location: Residence Inn by Marriott, Columbia North East
2320 LeGrand Road, Columbia, SC29223
The Residence Inn is located just off I-77 and Farrow Road, Exit 19, across the street from Providence NE Hospital.
Please RSVP by calling 438-2215.We look forward to seeing you on the 23rd.
Last night I had the pleasure of working with some terrific vendors at my Daughter’s Super Sweet 16 party. One vendor that stood out was CMI Limousine. Their service was top-notch.
They have a nice fleet to choose from but we opted for the Hummer H2.
Hummer H2
I had never personally had to hire a limo until now so I didn’t really know what to expect. I had read some limo horror stories in the past so I will have to admit I was a little concerned. I found CMI Limousine through a web search. I ended up calling them mainly because of their professional website. After a brief telephone call I knew they were the right choice for me. I contracted CMI Limousine several months in advance and found the reservation process to be extremely simple. A representative called me a few days prior to confirm our event details. On the morning of the party our driver, Ricky, called and confirmed the pickup time and location. He also left me his cell phone number in case we needed to contact him. Ricky arrived 15 minutes before the pickup time just as he said he would. The limo was clean and Ricky was courteous. The entire 3-hours we had the Limo for was uneventful. It went exactly as planned.
If you need a Limo for any occasion I would Highly recommend CMI Limousine. Their phone number is 803-739-6619 and website is http://www.cmilimo.com. They will definitley get my business next time I am in the market for a Limo.
