Bill Davis doing a wedding in Maryland

I had the pleasure of being the master of ceremonies this past Saturday for a wonderful couple:
Allison and Eric Rung who got married in Easton Maryland at the beautiful Krystal Q.

The ceremony was done at the same venue and Davis Deejays provided the ceremony music as well. Shortly after the ceremomy was completed, I introduced the wedding party and then did the “”Love Story” that I wrote for the couple. The story was based on the interview that I did with them at our planning session about six weeks before the wedding at a steak house in Annapolis.

The Davis Deejays Love Story

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After the Love story, I transitioned into  cocktail music. This included the  ”Great American Song Book,” standards from the forties, fifties and sixties done by vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Michael Buble and Dean Martin.

To give people the opportunity to dance during dinner if they cared to, I suggested to Allison and Eric to have the ceremonial dances prior to dinner (which they did.)

Allison and Eric wanted their guests to have fun even during dinner. I suggested ” Singing For Kisses.” Instead of tapping on glasses to get the newlyweds to kiss, a table had to stand up and in unison sing a song with “Love”  in the title. Most tables responded, and everyone had some good laughs.

Then we transitioned to danceable dinner music, (slow or medium tempo songs with a dance beat that wouldn’t interfere with conversation.)

Bill Davis from Davis Deejays

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To start the main dancing, we had the “Longevity Dance” where we invited couples in love to the floor and then eliminated those married under 5 hours, five years, 10 years, 15 years and so on, We wound up with two couples married over 47 years who gave advice to the bride and groom.

The dance floor was packed afterwards to a mix of current dance music such as the Black Eyed Peas and Lady GaGa, and 70s and 80s dance hits. Almost everyone in the room was dancing to their good luck conga line to Buster Poindexter’s “Hot Hot Hot.’

This party was a lot of fun from start to finish. We ended up with the crowd forming a warm circle around the bride and groom for the last dance.

Bill Davis at Matt and Krista’s reception

" Dancing for the first time, as a married couple, the new Mr. and Mrs..."

On May 15, I personally deejayed a wedding reception for Matt and Krista at the beautiful Liriodendrum in Bel Air, Maryland. Although our company has done dozens and dozens of parties there over the years, this is the first time that I personally came. The building and grounds are breathtaking. The staff is very friendly and professional.

I did the music for the wedding which was held outside. At the planning session with the couple, I played suggested classical music for them and then made a playlist with their selected wedding music. The ceremony was beautiful. They let birds loose prior to the recessional. A very nice touch.

I worked with some great vendors at this party including the very professional photographers from Barnett Photographic Services. They took some outstanding pictures! http://www.barnettphoto.net.

For cocktails, Matt and Krista wanted a mix of standards and oldies. After the cocktail hour, I gathered the crowd into the foyer to read a Love Story I wrote. It was Matt and Krista’s story about how they met, how the became friends. Then how they fell in love. It mentioned their mutual interests and hobbies, their trips and eventually the proposal. It was set to appropriate music. The crowd loved it and so did the bride and groom.

The crowd enjoying Matt and Krista's Love Story

Bill Davis having fun telling the Love Story to the crowd

After the Love Story, the crowd sat down for dnner. I continued to play standards and oldies in the background. Then I gathered the crowd into the ballroom for Matt and Krista’s first dance. They selected the beautiful Allison Krauss song “When You Say Nothing at All.” 

Matt and Krista love the Black Eyed Peas, so we started the general dancing with ‘ I Gotta Feeling” which packed the dance floor. We kept the momentum going with a combination of current hits and oldies which include their pre-requests, crowd selections, and a few sure fire crowd pleasers that I threw in. We got just about everyone on the Good Luck Conga Line that Matt and Krista requested. Eventually it was time for the cake cutting.  They decided to do the feeding very neatly.

Matt and Krista feed each other ever so neatly!

After the cake cutting, we packed the dance floor again with more great music.

Enjoying Davis Deejays music

All in all, it was a great party. A good time was had by all including me.