A Full-Service Wedding at The Hilton Garden Inn

This One Took the Cake

A good wedding vendor is part of a team. They need to work well not only with the couple, but also with the other vendors on the big day. 

The best Pittsburgh weddings aren’t necessarily well-oiled machines. Something we’ve learned from being in Pittsburgh weddings as long as we have is it’s not so much about everyone doing everything 100% flawlessly. Rather, it’s more about the vendor team working well with each other and working well with the couple. Since there’s no way to plan for literally everything, there’s bound to be hiccups. But a good vendor team is able to work together to overcome them, solve any problems that arise, and redirect guests (if need be). When done successfully, the guests may not even know anything went wrong!

Our philosophy of what makes for a smooth wedding day is also what’s made us great wedding vendors. We always make it our top priority to get to know the bride or groom and the vendor team. That way, in the unlikely event anything does happen, we can work quickly and efficiently to make sure we get back to smooth sailing.

Complete DJ, Photo, and Video Service

For Deanna and Dylan’s wedding at the Hilton Garden Inn Southpointe, we were not only providing the music and MCing, we were also the wedding photographers and videographers. Being able to provide all of those services at one wedding is something we always look forward to, and it all turned out phenomenally. So phenomenally we knew we had to do a write-up about it.

The importance of vendor communication really can’t be overstated. But this is especially true for the DJ/photographer/videographer relationship.

The wedding DJ is typically the one who makes all the announcements and gets the couple and the guests into the right places at the right times. So without effective communication, half the guests may end up missing the first dance, or the couple is off taking pictures while the guests are waiting for a cake cutting. It’s part of the DJ’s responsibilities to make sure the other vendors are ready for the announcements that they’re going to make.

But when we’re able to be in charge of the DJing and the photography/videography, we can be 100% sure there won’t be any unnecessary surprises when it comes to announcements and the flow of the day. 

Everything being perfectly captured is exactly what happened with Deanna and Dylan. We don’t want to over-sell it, but with Loyalty Entertainment in charge of DJing, photography, and videography, we were able to expertly choreograph and preserve all the important moments with skill and finesse. Which translates to pictures and video that they’ll have for years and years to come that perfectly capture the emotions, sentiment, and joy of their wedding day. 

That’s something you just can’t get in any other line of work.

A Great Pittsburgh Wedding Venue

We often write about the importance of a good wedding venue. For many couples, the venue is the first thing booked and the aspect of the wedding that has the most thought put in it.

The venue is pivotal for good reason. It has to accommodate not only the couple, vendor team, and guests, but also look good in pictures and be relatively easy to navigate to. It’s also the first impression arriving guests have of your wedding day. 

The Pittsburgh Hilton Garden Inn checked all of our boxes for what constitutes a good wedding venue. The set-ups were gorgeous and the layout made it easy for us to navigate and coordinate everything.

There’s so many great Pittsburgh wedding venues that it’s hard to choose our favorites. As Pittsburgh wedding DJs, we’ve seen our fair share. But instead of writing a list or anything like that, we determined that whenever we encountered a venue we really liked and appreciated, we would mention them in a post. 

Final Wedding Thoughts

In closing, we just wanted to say thanks. Thanks to the Pittsburgh Hilton Garden Inn Southpointe for being accommodating and so helpful and an even bigger thanks to Deanna and Dylan. We can’t thank them enough for letting us be a part of their wedding day. We had the best time DJing and providing the photo booth for this amazing night.

We also just wanted to say that we love what we do. Being a part of the best day of a couple’s life is something you can’t get in any other line of work. From wedding photography and videography to wedding DJing and MCing, we’ve been involved in many capacities in many, many Pittsburgh weddings. With the coming year, we’re looking forward to being involved in many, many more!

If you found some inspiration from this wedding blog, we’d love to hear about it! Contact Loyalty Entertainment for Pittsburgh wedding DJs, videography, photo booths, wedding planning, photography, dance lessons, or just to chat about how your big day can be the best day ever.