Leixlip House Hotel - Band / DJ lighting?

Andrewf20

Hi folks,

We are considering the 5 star wedding package that they have on offer in the Leixlip House Hotel. Has anybody availed of this package in the past and if so, how did they find the standard background lighting while the band / DJ were playing? There is an option to upgrade the lighting which sounds impressive but we dont want to incur additional costs if its not necessary.

Many thanks.

clint_silver

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Hi folks,

We are considering the 5 star wedding package that they have on offer in the Leixlip House Hotel. Has anybody availed of this package in the past and if so, how did they find the standard background lighting while the band / DJ were playing? There is an option to upgrade the lighting which sounds impressive but we dont want to incur additional costs if its not necessary.

Many thanks.

As with all wedding packages where you get to pick a band, you probably got to pick 1 of a few bands, the lighting will be whatever lighting that band has. Its not the lighting the hotel provides.

Can you detail what extra lighting they have specified and how much theyre charging for it?

I can only guess theyre talking about uplighting the whole room, that can look very well and certainly make the room look better if you get someone clever to put them up. Uplighters are normally around the 10-15e mark each to rent with a decent sized room taking 20 so Id guess youre being charged around the 200e mark for a room that size (its not the biggest which Im sure you know).
But if you're on a budget its most definitely not necessary. If you dont have the extra 200, trust me, youre not going to be waking up to breakfast the day after wondering if you should have got them.

Andrewf20

Thanks Clint Silver. I think it was 18 better lights where you can choose a larger range of colours, all in for 300 yoyos.

High Decibel

I never knew wedding venues offer you better lighting for more money...talk about squeezing out every last cent ! As a band we bring our own lights to a venue

clint_silver

High Decibel wrote: »

I never knew wedding venues offer you better lighting for more money...talk about squeezing out every last cent ! As a band we bring our own lights to a venue

They have to be referring to uplighters for room enhancement rather than for any band/dancefloor effect.

OP, I would have thought 300e for 18e lights a bit much. As I said earlier, they can really add to a room if you think the room looks bare but it would be on the end of a list of youre on a tight budget. If you really wanted them you could source them yourself.

first site returned by google £wedding uplighter hire", so Ive no connection with them, 10e per light which if liexlip are saying 18 lights brings you a lot cheaper than 300.
http://soundworks.ie/uplighters_for_weddings_.html

Range of colours? Most LED spots are capable of outputting Red, green blue and amber and any combination of those. theyll either use a programmer and theyre daisy chained then with DMX cable to all do the same thing so they only program one and the rest run from that or they can just flick a switch on the back of them to do "red and green" for example.

If you hire a guy to do the lights yourself, ask them will they program them to output as close a colour to the bridesmaids dresses as possible (Im hoping theyre not black!). He should know what he's doing but if youre putting them in yourself, try and make the lights give a columnar effect as you can see in that picture in the above site.

havana

Just to clarify that these lights are for hire from the entertainment company that provide the band/DJ etc as part of the package - not from the hotel themselves. And yes they are uplighters which will be there for the day not just for the band part.

We're also trying to decode whether to go for them - as clint suggested we're going to wait till closer to the time and see what the budget is like - while it might be a nice addition I don't think we'd miss it terribly if we didn't do it.