Practice makes perfect… Maria and Jack’s wedding reception at The Alfond Inn in Winter Park was extravagant, jaw-dropping, decadent, and luxuriously tantalizing! Their cocktail hour began within Alfond Inn’s glass-encased atrium. Guests discovered their seats per the Limoncello breakout wall, which featured bottles of limoncello liqueur with their names on them. A cigar roller rolling cigars, open bar, and coffee bar allowed wedding guests to indulge in refreshments which were all built around seating areas with ferns and greenery framing the entire guest experience.
Reception Doors Open
Once reception doors opened, jaws touched the floor as the entire ballroom was framed out in drapery, lattice framed the head table for Maria and Jack and their wedding party who were all seated within long vineyard-style tables right on the edge of the custom-wrapped dance floor. The entire room faced the dance and the phenomenally ginormous round floral installation, which hung over the dance floor.
Practice Makes Perfect
To ensure their first dance went perfectly Maria and Jack practiced their coordinated 1st dance in the ballroom before guests were allowed in. As wedding DJs, this is something we highly recommend if you’ve prepared a special dance and need to practice. As Maria and Jack discovered and can attest to, dancing in your wedding attire is completely different from dancing in your everyday clothes. When dancing in a ball gown with sleeves and heels on a surface you’re unfamiliar with you won’t have the range of motion or stability you would otherwise have.
Dancing On the Clouds
When the newlyweds were finally introduced, cold sparks at the entrance of the ballroom were set off along with cold sparks leading up to the dance floor. The newlyweds danced to Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers! They danced on clouds as they reached the midpoint of their set and made the crowd roar with applause when Jack surprised everyone by picking Maria up by her waist and spinning her around the dance floor in his arms. It was pure magic!
