The 2024 wedding season is underway! Lisa and Mike's wedding had the distinction of serving as my "season 13 premiere," at the venue where I've done more weddings than any other: the historic Lincklaen House in Cazenovia. Keep reading for song choices, photos and more.
If my count is right, this is my 147th wedding overall, and my 8th at the Lincklaen. My previous wedding here was 9 months ago, but it may as well have been just 9 days ago -- the staff there is so great to work with, I know I can just walk in and start setting up, no issues, no problems.
If you happen to check out my other Lincklaen House weddings, you'll notice that this venue is unique in that there are several different ways to stage a wedding. The ceremony could be outdoors in their courtyard, or indoors in the dining room. For Mike and Lisa's wedding, the ceremony was indoors, in the dining room. During cocktail hour, everyone is moved out to the lobby so the dining room can be "flipped" for dinner.
Lisa and Mike's Key Song Choices
Ceremony
- For the ceremony, Lisa and Mike provided their own custom piano tracks for various entrances as well as the recessional.
Reception
- Wedding Party intros: Multiple songs
- Newlyweds' intros: Alkaline Trio / This Addiction
- First Dance: Sum 41 / With Me
- Groom / Mother Dance: Queen / Under Pressure
- Cake Cutting: New Found Glory / Hold My Hand
- Last Dance of the Night: Taking Back Sunday / The One
Like some of my previous Lincklaen House weddings, I set-up two separate sound systems -- one in the dining room and one in the lobby, which doubles as the dance floor. But during Mike and Lisa's wedding, I tested out the feasibility of using a single sound system (in the lobby) to feed my new wireless speakers in the dining room. It worked! This will reduce my "floor footprint" at future weddings here.
Lincklaen House Wedding DJ Photo Highlights
Here are some additional photos I snapped throughout the evening... and for any new readers, I'll start the 2024 wedding season with my occasional reminder that I'm not a professional photographer, just trying to show what my setups looked like and how much fun everyone had.
Before we wrap up this one, I want to give my thanks to groom Mike, who is a professional photographer and managed to sneak a few photos of me in action during the evening!
Mike and Lisa's 5-Star Review
Here's the review Mike and Lisa posted on TheKnot and WeddingWire:
We hired Peter for our wedding at the Lincklaen (Cazenovia, NY). He came highly recommended from our venue and with our wedding having a room flip (the ceremony room flips into the dining room), we wanted a DJ that had experience with this to be able to move people around easily. Peter was extremely professional, had all the right equipment/gear, was EXTREMELY detail oriented and prompt with all responses. He asks for 3 lists of songs - must plays, maybes and do not plays and was very strict about these lists. He said he would not under any circumstances play the "do not plays" even if it was one of the mothers asking! He played individual clips of selected songs for each person during the wedding party announcements. We did custom tracks for the cake cutting and ceremony. We care greatly about music and Peter was truly the perfect choice! Truly thank you so much Peter.
Thanks again to Mike and Lisa for choosing me as your DJ! A great wedding to kick off the 2024 season and I'm looking forward to all the other wonderful couples who've entrusted me with their wedding reception entertainment throughout the rest of the year!
