Chad & Cheryl Lucente - Party At The Hard Rock

Imagine standing in a long line waiting to enter an area to a park that is surrounded by lush green landscape, beautiful lighting and music to keep your toes tapping. When you enter, the first thing you see is a gazebo that you walk through so you can sign ... get this...two electric guitars.


Chad & Cheryl Lucente were married poolside Saturday night 11-8-08 at The Hard Rock Hotel in Tampa. 185 of their closets friends and family members gathered around the poolside to witness the ceremony by a family member. This wasn't your normal or typical wedding setting.


The evening started off with a cocktail hour outside by the pool deck. At 7:00PM, all the guests "with beverages in hand" gathered around poolside for the ceremony. When the ceremony was over, cocktail hour #2 began. If you are a fan of frozen drinks, you had to see the ice sculpture that was on display. I am not exaggerating when I say this thing was 12 feet wide and 10 feet tall with a guitar as a slide to pour the drinks down. The base "all ice" was so big that the bartender was standing on something behind the sculpture so he could perform his magic.



















The brides mother from Naples, hired me to be "The DJ/MC" but had a big surprise for me and everyone else when she at the last minute, informed me she had hired a band to play. The biggest surprise about the band is that the lead singer, will be on this seasons American Idol!. How cool is that? The band "High Tolerance" out of Miami is a high energy Rock N Roll band that had the brides dad singing on the mic. Everyone was having a blast!

There were allot of quality professionals working together on this event.

I don't wish for this thread to become an advertisement but, when you work with The Best I strongly feel they deserve praise.

1. Mary Patterson at The Hard Rock was as easy to work with as anyone I have ever worked with. One thing I see firsthand when working at The hotels is that the coordinators always seem to be walking on eggshells; not so with Mary, she was actually singing along with the band. Way to go Mary!


2. The photographer - A Fly on the wall photography, definitely deserves her name. Not once did she ever take away from the event by killing the energy asking the DJ or Band to ask everyone off the dance floor for a photo shoot.


3. CVP Videography is well known throughout the country for their high-end work. I can't wait to see the video.


4. ConceptBait did an awesome job decorating.


5. DJ Chuck Amstone - Solid Gold Entertainment

I shot some video and thought you might enjoy.

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