Jason & Dayana Voss | Jan 30th, 2010

2010!  It’s hard to believe a new year is upon us and after a short hiatus we’re back into wedding reception mode!  This will be our 11th year of DJing and to kick things off we were invited to join Jason and Dayana Voss for their wedding reception at Dinolfos Banquets in Mokena, Illinois.  It’s very ironic too because Dinolfos was the first reception hall that I ever performed at 11 years ago.  It’s amazing how fast time really flies!

Anyways, Jason and Dayana had a daytime reception from 1:00-5:00pm in the North Room at Dinolfos.  The North room is one of the center rooms and it comfortably fit all 90 of their wedding guests. 

To begin the night Jason and Dayana wanted to do a fun energetic grand introduction so they chose the song “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas.  This song always brings a party to life and in my opinion will never get old as an introduction song.  As soon as the first bar of that song hits it’s like an immediate rush.   As we played the song the wedding party made their way down the grand stair case of the North room at Dinolfos.  Their staircase is one of the signature features of Dinolfos and it really works for some great pictures.  The photographers for the afternoon were from Jolie Images from Wheeling, Illinois. 

After we completed the grand introductions it was dinner time.  Since Dayana (the bride) was Brazilian she decided it would be fun to incorporate some fun Bossa Nova music into her dinner play-list.  If you’ve never heard any Bossa Nova music you absolutely need to give some of that stuff a listen.  It’s beautiful and really sets the tone for wedding dinner music.

After dinner was complete it was time to let loose and open up the dance floor.  To kick the dancing off Jason and Dayana danced to the romantic song ”Love Me Tender” by Nora Jones.  A classic choice and it really was a beautiful moment.  After that Jason and his mother danced to the song “Memories” by Elvis Presely(another one of my favs).  As soon as they completed their heartfelt dance it was time to pick things up and let everyone loosen up!  We opened up with “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang and it was smooth sailing from there.  The wedding dance floor was packed all night long as we danced in and out of songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and even some new hip hop songs.  It was a blast!

All in all the reception was a success.  Getting people involved during a daytime wedding can sometimes be a challenge, but for the Voss and Machado crowd it was easy!  These guys really knew how to let loose and have a good time.  Congratulations to Jason and Dayana.  May God bless your marriage!

P.S. The night was not over for us.  As soon as their reception was over we opened up the walls and moved into the room next door for James & Catherine Gonzalez’s reception!  First time in 11 years where we had back to back weddings literally and figuratively!  :)