What’s that thing they say about when life gives you lemons? When you realize that the business you’ve spent years building and improving isn’t “essential” - and neither are the amazing events that we get to celebrate at - you are left with 2 choices.

Quit or Innovate.

So innovate is where I’ve decided to focus my energy. Some of the things we offer, like our officiant services are unaffected, but our main service is, and has always been DJing and providing Master of Ceremony services for weddings and events. So after lots of learning, practicing, and the occasional choice word or two when the technology just won’t cooperate we’re ready to bring our DJ service online for virtual parties.

We are able to use either Zoom or Twitch to stream your favorite songs - with real time requests - and our fun light show in the background. Using Zoom is a great option. It’s free for your guests to download and everyone can see each other. I have a pro account to host the party - once we set up the party you’ll get a copy of the invite to send to all your “quests”. Then you can get a small group together and connect to your blue tooth speaker to enjoy the night. Twitch isn’t quite as interactive as Zoom, but another good free option with a nice chat feature to talk to each other and request songs.

We all know that virtual parties will never replace the real thing. There just isn’t anything that compares to the way it feels when the music is pumping and the crowd is having a great time on the dance floor. Right now though, with the restrictions put in place by Governor Walz of groups of no more than 10 people, having a party together over Zoom is the best we can do until we can all be together again. (We’re preparing for that too - check out our previous post about some of the changes we’re making as part of our COVID-19 preparedness plan.)