Health Net Federal Services

Just a small blurb about our weekday event. On Thursday, October 7th, we were at the Sacramento Marriott Rancho Cordova to provide our photo booth for Health Net Federal Services “1180 Party”. The booth was set up on the outdoor patio, the Formaggio which has a beautiful pool area and garden view. Excellent background music was provided by DJ Kristy Everett of Jam on Productions. Good times, good fun and good photo booth memories!

Eric & Melodie

10-10-10! What a popular date for a wedding and what an awesome day for Eric and Melodie to be married. Beautiful weather and wonderful family and friends to be around.

We had the most excellent honor of assisting our bride and groom in the planning of the reception but Melodie was absolute when she wanted the photo booth!

The reception was held at the Bonanza Inn where our bridal party entered to a personalized mix of “Let’s Get it Started” by the Black Eyed Peas. Being Oakland Raiders fans, Eric and Melodie had their grand entrance to “Back in Black” by AC-DC, they also designed their photo strip to the colors of the Raiders.

After the buffet dinner, the bride and groom cut their cake to “The Way You Look Tonight” by Rod Stewart.

For their first dance as husband and wife, Eric and Melodie celebrated to “Then” by Brad Paisley. Melodie followed with the traditional “I Loved Her First” by Heartland for the dance with her father. When Eric danced with his mother, he chose “A Song For Mama” by Boyz II Men. Then...open dancing began where the dancing was non-stop. To top the non-stop dancing, the bride and groom led a conga line of guests through the dining area, out to the main hallway to parts unknown and back to the tune of “C'mon Ride the Train” by the Quad City DJ’s!

Too much fun was going on we almost forgot about the bouquet and garter. But never the less, we accomplished these tasks with fun and vigor. Melodie was so ready to go, she threw the bouquet before I got to countdown or play the song! (“Single Ladies” by Beyonce).

Eric, on the other hand, took the garter off with football style. As soon as the NFL Football Theme kicked in for the removal, he took the garter off with grace and ease from his lady fair dainty’s leg.

Then with stern and command presence, he assembled all the single men to the dance floor. Eric took the garter, wrapped it around a football and with shotgun formation precision, threw it to the awaiting men, where one person caught it to claim victory above all others!

What a great evening we had! Good time, good friends, great music and good photo booth fun!

Emma & Rei

On Saturday, we had a wonderful time at Emma & Rei’s wedding. They chose a beautiful venue which was The General’s Garden at McClellan AFB, plus and I got to work with Tony G Photography who I have worked with before and does awesome work.

I had wonderful time planning the reception with them from the individual bridal party announcements through the end of the reception where the guests circled around them and voiced words of wisdom and love.

Emma & Rei had the bridal party introduced with a personal back story as to why they chosen and a theme song played for each person. When it came time for Emma & Rei’s grand entrance, they chose a special mix of “Let’ Get Ready to Rumble!”

Just after they were introduced, the bride and groom had their first dance to Kenny Chesney’s, “You Had Me from Hello” where half-way through, their parents joined in the dance.

Just after diner, toasts were given and we moved on to cake cutting. Emma & Rei cut their cake to the tunes of “Swing Life Away” by Rise Against the machine and “Love Story” by Taylor Swift. We all got to see “stuffing of the faces” between the bride and groom!

For their dances Emma danced with her father to Heartland’s, “I Loved Her First” and unbeknownst to Rei’s mother, we created a special mix. It started off with Hotel California (which she is not fond of), then a simulated record scratch into Metallica’s “Battery”. A crowd pleaser where others joined in on the dance!

Open dancing began where all were involved until it was time for the bouquet and garter toss. For Emma, she chose the Weather Girls, “It’s Raining Men” and for Rei, he chose Kool & the Gang’s “Get Down On It” for the removal and Devildriver’s “Clouds over California” for the toss.

All had good fun dancing for the rest of the night until it was time for the bride & groom to leave in the limo. We took careful planning to use the last 15 minutes to circle all the guests around Emma & Rei where guests conveyed their love to them.

Emma & Rei were whisked off to the limo with the bridal party to enjoy the rest of the evening in Sacrament. I know Tony will have some great photos of the time they had.

Good times, good fun!

Next up, Health Net’s Open Air Photobooth event!