Private celebration for 100 guests to celebrate the end of 2007 and see in 2008. Held at the Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney in the Cambridge Rooms located on the 3rd floor. The Cambridge Rooms has views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Opera House and of the Sydney skyline – a perfect venue to witness the New Year’s Eve fireworks display.
The 2007 NYE display was fifteen months in the planning culminating in a much anticipated 12 minutes of intense fireworks involving 30,000 effects, six barges located across the harbour, eight City buildings and, of course, the famous arches and roadways of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The entire pyrotechnics show was synchronised with a soundtrack which reflected the 2007 theme “The Time Of Our Lives”.
Guests at the event enjoyed a fabulous buffet, fireworks and dancing into the early hours – a fun time for all. The event was hosted by a very prominent business executive and attended by high profile guests. To respect their privacy, there are no photographs or videos in this post which depict any guests at this event. It was certainly a great honour to be asked to provide the entertainment for this celebration once again (DJ:Plus! provided the entertainment for another similar NYE event hosted by this businessman in 2005).
New Year’s Eve Fireworks as viewed from Shangri-La Hotel
Reception for 50 guests held in the Botanic Gardens Restaurant which is located within the Royal Botanic Gardens, an oasis covering some 30 hectares in the heart of the Sydney, CBD. The Gardens wraps around Farm Cove at the edge of Sydney Harbour thereby occupying one of Sydney’s most spectacular positions. Subsequently it is an extremely popular location for wedding ceremonies and wedding photographs. The Botanic Gardens Restaurant is a stunning venue surrounded by tropical rainforest and boasting wide verandahs which overlook the harbour. Given that Ryan and Stacey met through their love of plants, it was the obvious choice for their wedding ceremony and reception.
The ceremony was held in the gardens earlier in the afternoon. Whilst the heaven’s kept threatening to open up and ruin Stacey and Ryan’s plans, with the benefit of planning they quickly enacted Plan B and relocated to an alternate location within the Gardens when light rain started to fall for what ended up being only a brief period. Although not the preferred location for the ceremony, they were blessed with the weather subsequently clearing and a beautiful Sydney evening. Stacey and Ryan even arranged for the guests to be shuttled from the ceremony location to the Restaurant by the trackless train which runs through the Gardens, treating the guests to a free tour of the fantastic vegetation, animal life and scenery.
It was a lovely, elegant and largely informal reception with lots and lots of dancing. From the moment Stacey and Ryan entered the reception they hit the dance floor, this was a cue for the majority of the guests to join them. May I say that being a small wedding reception, what the guests lacked in numbers, they certainly made up for it in enthusiasm and willingness to help make the evening an occasion that Stacey and Ryan will never forget. Essentially there was dancing at the very beginning, during background music, between meal courses and at the end of the evening – any time there was music playing, there were guests dancing!
The reception was made extra special with a large number of family and friends flying in from overseas to celebrate this wonderful occasion with Stacey and Ryan.
Songs selected by Bride and Groom;
Bride & Groom Entry Song: “Sunchyme” by Dario G
Cake Cutting Song: “Air That I Breathe (Reprise)” by Simply Red
Bridal Waltz/First Dance: “Amazing” by George Michael
Open Dancing: “One More Time” by Daft Punk
Final Farewell Song: “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” by Leo Sayer
As indicated above, the guests and the bride & groom just loved to dance, dancing at any and every available opportunity. Stacey and Ryan’s first dance (well it wasn’t really their first dance – they had already been dancing most of the night, let’s just call it the “official bridal dance”) was really lovely and certainly ‘amazed’ a lot of the guests.
One of New South Wales finest wedding suppliers, DJ:Plus! Mobile Disco Entertainment was honoured at the 11th Australian Bridal Industry Awards held at the Waterview Convention Centre on Tuesday the 11th of December 2007. The Chairman of the ABIA, Mr John O’ Meara congratulated DJ:Plus! Mobile Disco Entertainment on the achievement as a Finalist in the Professional Disc Jockey category. Mr O’ Meara said that DJ:Plus! Mobile Disco Entertainment should be extremely proud of the achievement especially when one considers that 2,167 wedding suppliers were nominated for the 2007 New South Wales ABIA Awards. Mr O’ Meara went onto say that it was businesses like DJ:Plus! Mobile Disco Entertainment which complimented and elevated the wedding industry with its attention to detail and the pride, passion and professional manner in which they delivered their wedding product to the customer.
The ABIA’s are a much sought-after Award for Australian wedding suppliers as they are determined by the votes of past brides. Each year the ABIA distributes over 60,000 nomination forms through their Accredited Members, who in turn send them to their past bridal customers enabling them to cast their votes for their most outstanding wedding suppliers. DJ:Plus! Mobile Disco Entertainment was nominated for an ABIA based on the quality of product, quality of service, value for money and the attitude of the staff who serviced the brides needs, before, during and after their wedding day.
