I can provide a sound system appropriate for a small banquet room up to very large halls or auditoriums.  I can also provide a smaller, separate sound system for the ceremony itself with microphones for musicians, clergy persons, or for poetry and scripture readings.  This second sound system also includes a CD player or I-pod for recorded ceremony music.  If needed, I can provide a digital piano to accompany a singer.  I have a lighting rig with pin spots, a Sunball (mirror-ball effect), an Aggressor, Elations, Crystals, Strobes, and several others.  Those names are probably meaningless to a bride and groom, but the color and motion adds body and atmosphere- that’s why nightclubs use them.  Those lights will be mounted high above heads so that the lights shine down on the dance floor and not in everyone’s eyes.   They are also used judiciously when required- not during dinner or cocktail hour.   I also have several theatrical spotlights that could be used to light a cake table or memorabilia table.  They could be used as “up lights” to divide sections of the room with colored light columns or just to splash some color on the ceiling.  I also have a Karaoke player and a library of Karaoke discs. 

I use a computerized DJ console.  The software is brilliant and allows me to use a playlist assembled in advance (according to the customers requests), but I am still able to take requests from guests and choose from any of the thousands of titles at any time with just three mouse clicks.  I use a wireless headset microphone and I provide handheld hardwire microphones for toasts and other announcements.  There are redundancies built into the equipment.  There are two power amps, two hard drives, two equalizers, spare microphones etc.  It is all contained in a small and attractive podium with unsightly wires all tucked away inside.  The equipment is kept in good repair and is replaced upon the first sign of unreliability.  I even keep an I-pod on hand with a backed up playlist of the events’ music in the case of a catastrophic failure of the computer.  I rarely, if ever, have technical problems, but in those unlikely events, the redundancies can be utilized and the customer will never know anything is amiss.  More importantly, the technology frees me to interact with family and guests and do the bigger job of a DJ, which is to entertain, not just stand there and play songs.