Category: New Trends and Ideas

ENGAGEMENT / WEDDING RING IDEA PICTURE GALLERY BELOW

Engagement rings and wedding are meant to be special to the people who wear them. This post is to help those who need help finding the right ring for a particular kind of person.

Other than your significant other, if you are best friends with your laptop and Siri is about the only woman who was once willing to talk to you without being paid, then this article could be for you.

If you are daring to boldly go where no man has gone before, then you have finally met that special someone. Getting married is a bond of love that should last for ever, these symbols of love should really embody the personality of those who wear them. If you are ready to move out of mom’s basement and take the plunge, there are ring options that may be for you!

Whether you fell in love because you both like superheroes, outer space, steam-punk, middle-earth or Japanese Anime, you can have a ring that encircles your geeky passions if you look hard enough for it.

Don’t adjust your band-aid-taped glasses, because below is an extensive look of picture ideas that could help you figure out the right ring for you!

AN UBER COOL NERD RING GALLERY

CUSTOM GEEKY RING LINKS:

If interested in going “geek” for your wedding, here are a few places you can look at for custom rings for your special day.

http://www.custommade.com/gallery/custom-geeky-rings/#

http://www.themarysue.com/tag/geek-rings/

Here is an idea for your wedding. Have your guests “hastag the hell” out of it!

CREATE YOUR OFFICIAL WEDDING HASHTAG

For those of you not familiar with the term, “Hashtagging” is creating an easy way of searching social-networking Web sites for pictures, videos or status updates relating to a specific topic. Simply enough, when you hashtag (#) a word or phrase, you are indexing a very specific topic to make it easy for someone to find on social sites like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Vine.

If you have been living under a rock and are not a user of any of the above forementioned social media sites already, the benefits of hashtagging your wedding are a great reason to start!

The hashtag originated for use first on Twitter.com, of course, but is now becoming the goto measuring stick indexing on all social networks. So, what does this mean for weddings? It means more pictures, more videos and more different perspectives of your wedding will be available at your fingertips, for free.

3 STEPS HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEDDING HASHTAG WORK FOR YOU:

1) CREATE YOUR OWN OFFICIAL HASHTAG – If you create an original and uniform hashtag for everyone to use, their will be no guessing or confusion on what word combo should be searched. Try and chose as few letters as possible for less spelling issues, but something that won’t bleed into a hashtag that someone else has already used. A hashtag like #smithwedding has likely already been used by many people, so your best bet would be “#smithwed2013” or “#fredwedsjaney.”  Try and pick something original. You can do this by first searching the proposed hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Vine, so that you are not mixing your event with someone else’s event int he world.

2) SHARE YOUR WEDDING HASHTAG – All you really have to do is announce your custom offical hashtag to all your mobile device using wedding guests, and let the magic begin. Ways to do this can include but are not limited to: adding your hashtag to your reservations and the wedding ceremony program, putting your official hashtag on your place cards or table, and having the disc jockey announce your official hashtag throughout the evening periodically. (If you do not have a DJ set yet, drop me a line! (I know a great one!)

3) SEARCH THE HASHTAG – After the event or even during, the hashtag will bring up a well-organized and beautiful log of your special day as it does any topic or event. The hashtag will capture behind the scenes action, as well as a different perspective on the special moments like the kiss at the ceremony, or your introduction and first dace at the reception.

This idea is great for weddings! The benefits are countless. No more messy disposable cameras on the tables. Multiple mediums will be shared. Pictures are available immediately for sharing. Friends and families who were not able to make it can follow the event from afar. Guests can even request songs to a participating DJ!

In the end, you will get extra pictures/videos at the end of the night, as well as annotations from your hashtagging guests all throughout the night.

PLANNING A “KEEPER” WEDDING PHOTO THAT IS SPECIAL TO YOU

Here is something to think about, when it comes to customizing your wedding day, specifically when looking at the photos being taken.

The picture to  the left is a picture of a typical wedding. This one, in particular, was shot in the new courtyard at the Terrace banquet hall at The Water’s Edge Lighthouse in Scotia, NY, which is one of my most favorite halls to DJ for.

The setting is nice with green in the back and the blue sky. However, as nice this photo is, there isn’t anything overly special about it. This is okay because there doesn’t have to be. It is a nice picture of the ceremony – a time when things are supposed to be more serious.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FUN PICTURES?

With a little bit of planning, you can get that fun, special picture that stands out – the one people will really talk about that means something to you.

All this bride asked all of her bridal party to wear a garter with The Pittsburgh Steelers logo on it. Though you can’t see it that well, the black and yellow is a dead give-away. She knew she would have them flash the photographer and it would really make for an interesting moment. That it did.

While your wedding photographer will do great work, there was no way this shot could have happened without a little planning. This shot is a riot and one she will cherish for years to come!

-DJ Kenny

Alternative Ring Bearer Wedding Ideas

Having a young kid be the Ring Bearer is a great idea. It makes for cute pictures and can totally help lend to the moment. After a some research, some sources say the tradition of a young person carrying the ring evolved from Ancient Egypt, where it was customary for treasured jewels to be carried on fancy pillows during wedding ceremonies.

Others historians claim the tradition came about during medieval times, when Northern Europeans began to present the bride with her wedding ring on the tip of a sword. Personally, we think this sounds a bit terrifying, and we’re glad this aspect of the custom has disappeared.

ALBANY WEDDING DJ IDEA: COSTUME YOUR RING BEARER

Dare to be different. If you have the guts, select a theme for your whole wedding and create a night they will never forget! If you don’t want a theme wedding, maybe just throw a little taste in there for fun.

I have seen a lot of weddings in the Albany NY area and this is one part where you can really lighten the mood. I always tell my DJ clients the best weddings are the ones that stand out. Here is a whole new twist on on ring bearers.

Have fun with it!  🙂

A FUN ACTIVITY TO ADD TO YOUR SPECIAL NIGHT

If you book us to DJ your wedding, ask about our fun “Group Photo Activity.”

We work hand-in-hand with your photographer to make a big shot that would be impossible to make without the DJ “corralling the cattle” and posing a mass amount of people.

MORE THAN JUST A MUNCHKIN ON A STICK…

A new trend of miniature white wedding cakes on sticks is taking the wedding world by storm.

To define this new treat is to not really do it justice; it is sort of like a  super fancy and much nicer doughnut hole ‘munchkin” on a stick. However, add frosting and additional decorations.

ADD RIBBONS! Another way to really puch a theme is to add decorative ribbons in the mix. Using the right ribbon can really punch up the look of the pop!

DISPLAY! Wedding Cake Pops are a wonderful complement to your wedding cake or can actually take the place of your cake with a beautiful custom layer-inspired display.

Below is a gallery of some cake pop pictures to help you get an idea of what is possible: