Wedding at The Meadows with DJ

 This weekend my fiance, our 2 Yorkie's (Elvis & Stella), and I headed down to Hallertown, PA for a wedding at the The Meadows. We left New York City and headed west on Friday afternoon and arrived at our hotel at 4:00pm in Bethlehem, PA.  Since we had the night off on Friday, after checking into our hotel we headed straight to dinner at Emeril's Chop House located in the Sands Casino. The food was amazing and the prices were great, in New York we would have paid slightly more.

Elvis and Stella sleeping after a long day

Saturday morning after a free breakfast courtesy of the Comfort Suites, I headed to the venue to set up my equipment for Mike & Jennifer's wedding reception which was going to start at 4:30pm.  The set-up was smooth and easy. I was surprised how many staff members The Meadows had at 10:00am where there were no day events planned. They were easy to work with and I even went over the agenda with the maitre'd Nancy who is a very sweet person.

Mr. & Mrs. Ortiz Wedding Ceremony at The Meadow in Hellertown, Pa

I arrived back to the venue at 4:00pm to start the pre ceremony music. There was no specific instruction on what to play for this time, so I decided to play some Jazz instrumentals.  Mike & Jenifer had the wedding party walk down the aisle to Johann Pachelbel's "Canon In D", the slower

part of the song. Jennifer herself walked into the same song but to the louder and faster part. The recessional song they selected was "A Midsummer Night's Dream" By  Felix Mendelssohn. 

For the father /daughter dance the selection was "Butterfly Kisses" By Bob Carllisle.  Our Groom selected "Mama" by Boys II Men for the mother/son dance. Mike and Jennifer selected "For you" By Kenny Lattimore for there first dance as husband and wife. After going over many songs together they were still undecided. Mike's mother actually pick the song out for her son and new daughter in law after hearing it for the first time they knew the song was special.

Bride Jennifer and Father Mr. Farrell dancing during the Father & Daughter dance at
Wedding Reception in Hellertown, Pa.

When it was time to open the dance floor, I started with some bachata music then I went into some Motown music. At that point the dance floor became really crowded, I believe everyone in attendance was on the dance floor. My last record that I played from the Motown era was "This Old heart of mine" by the Isley Brothers. Following this song I transitioned into some top 40 by starting with "I gotta feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas. The reason why I choose this song is because the age difference of the crowd, there were people ranging from 25- 65 but the majority of people ranged in there 30-40's. I wanted to keep everyone on the dance floor so I played some top 40 for about 20 minutes. After that I decided to go back to Spanish that's when I transitioned into merengue music. After playing a few menergue songs I played "We are Young" by Fun with a fast upbeat intro which completely cleared the dance floor :( . I was upset that I just cleared the dance floor and was getting ready to play a slow song to change the pace of the music.  When the chorus came through the speakers the crowd realized they made a mistake. Some ran back on dance floor and some just screamed the chorus from wherever they were at in the room. This made me feel better, I was thinking to myself "people in Pa must not really like this song or they must not know this at all. After this song I still decided to change the pace and played  "Unforgettable" By Nat King Cole.

The rest of the night was great and I had so much fun on this beautiful first day of September about 90 miles west of New York City. I was thankful I had the privilege to entertain the family, friends and guest of Mr. & Mrs. Jennifer and Michael Ortiz.


Enrique Colon
DJ/Owner of BTL DJS