Things You'll Need:
- iPod
- digital music collection
- venue resources
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Step 1
Begin Planning: Long before you do anything, you will need to introduce this idea to your potential wife. She will no doubt be doting on things like flowers, seating arrangements, and other boring, albeit necessary, topics. If you tell her in one breath that you will save hundreds of dollars in DJ expenses and get involved in the planning with her, she will undoubtedly love it.
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Step 2
Find out What Resources Your Venue Has: Once you have selected a venue sight to have the affair at, don't assume anything. Make sure that your venue has got microphones, speakers, CD players, monitors, and go in and test these items out when you are allowed to tinker around.
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Step 3
Set the Bar Low: Don't think that this wedding will be like any other wedding you have ever been to. You are going to need to assign someone to monitor the iPod, stop it at agreed upon spots for things like the Father/Daughter dance and the Mother/Son dance. Once you have programmed the five hours of music don't think that your job is at all over.
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Step 4
Mix It Up: You also want to be sure that there is a wide variety of music being played. While you probably don't want Justin Timberlake and Timbaland Bringing Sexy Back over appetizers, you also don't want Robert Goulet Dreaming the Impossible Dream smudged in between Britney and Madonna.
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Step 5
Sans Lights: The one problem with having an iPod wedding is that the DJ typically controls and provides the light packages for dancing and such. If this is going to be a small affair with friends and family, this may not be such a problem. However if you are inviting hundreds of people and you'd rather mask yourself in the fog machine, then an iPod wedding might be something you need to reconsider.
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Step 6
Improvise: When all else fails, improvise. At my own iPod wedding I didn't follow my own instructions and was assured that everything would be taken care of, only to emerge thrilled from our nuptial vows to realize that there was nowhere to plug in our iPod at this venue. We had been speaking for weeks and weeks from afar and on the day in question, they looked at me like I had three heads. Never fear, my best man came up with the idea of plugging in a microphone to the speaker on my laptop and everything was fixed. While it then turned into an "iTunes on my Laptop" wedding, it was successful nonetheless.
Comments
gregoman said
on 8/30/2009 This is an account of an ipod wedding from a friend of mine:
My wife and I took the weekend off to visit her parents up in Menohmen MN. (225 miles - six hour drive each way) Up towards the Minnesota/North Dakota border by Fargo. We stayed at the Casino Friday & Saturday evenings. Friday they had a concert by the band Styx. (Really - they are still alive ) Then on Saturday night they had a wedding in one of the smaller ballrooms.
Between 6pm and 1 am I walked past the ballroom 4 or 5 times to see what was going on. The B&G had a large dance floor (rented) with an ipod plugged into one (1) powered speaker with no lighting or Master of ceremony. The first time I passed by the room they were doing toasts to the B&G. There was no organization, no control over the microphone loudness and no order to who would speak and when.
The next time I walked by the B&G was on the dance floor havi...
gregoman said
on 8/30/2009 This is an account of an ipod wedding from a friend of mine:
My wife and I took the weekend off to visit her parents up in Menohmen MN. (225 miles - six hour drive each way) Up towards the Minnesota/North Dakota border by Fargo. We stayed at the Casino Friday & Saturday evenings. Friday they had a concert by the band Styx. (Really - they are still alive ) Then on Saturday night they had a wedding in one of the smaller ballrooms.
Between 6pm and 1 am I walked past the ballroom 4 or 5 times to see what was going on. The B&G had a large dance floor (rented) with an ipod plugged into one (1) powered speaker with no lighting or Master of ceremony. The first time I passed by the room they were doing toasts to the B&G. There was no organization, no control over the microphone loudness and no order to who would speak and when.
The next time I walked by the B&G was on the dance floor havi...
mydeejay said
on 6/26/2009 This is quite possibly one of the worst ideas possible. The question is not "can it be done," but "can it be done well." The general consensus among wedding planners and event professionals is that DIY wedding music rarely, if ever, turns out well. Take a look at these:
http://www.adja.org/general/ipodwedding.asp
http://www.mydeejay.com/wedding-advice/ipod-dj-wedding
frankielo said
on 2/12/2009 A great deal of info. can be found at iPodPartys.com regarding iPod weddings in orlando showing a new novel approach to this whole idea. They even provide a guide to help.
motivation2001 said
on 10/27/2008 Check out www.youdjit.com They rent the complete easy system. Including DJ Lighting! They delivered and set up the system and showed us how to use it, we used our own iPod and it was FANTASTIC!!