Wedding Production
Ceremony Audio
Everyone hears the vows. That is the whole job
What is included
What you get
The ceremony is the part of the day with no second take. We place the system so the back row hears the vows as clearly as the front row, run your music cues to your timing, and keep the gear out of your photos.
- A site walk, or a photo and video review, of your ceremony location before the date
- Speakers placed and aimed for where guests will actually be sitting
- A wireless lavalier on the officiant
- A discreet second microphone on the couple when the site calls for it
- Prelude music as guests are seated
- Processional and recessional cues run to your timing, not a stopwatch
- Microphone support for readings, singers, and instrumentalists
- Battery power for sites with no outlet within reach
- Wind screens on every microphone outdoors, as a default
- A setup that stays quiet, stays back, and stays out of frame
How we work
Our approach
We look at the site first
Ceremony audio is a placement problem more than an equipment problem. Where guests sit, which way the wind moves in the afternoon, whether there is an outlet within two hundred feet, and where your photographer is going to want to stand all change what we bring. We would rather know that in advance than solve it an hour before.
We run your cues, not a stopwatch
The processional starts when the doors open and the aisle is clear, not when the clock says so. We watch the room and take the cue from what is happening. If somebody is thirty seconds late, the music covers it and nobody in the audience knows anything went differently than planned.
We stay out of the way
The gear should not be the thing people notice. We use the smallest system that will do the job properly, hide what we can, and place what we cannot behind the sightlines your photographer is working with. A ceremony that sounds perfect and looks like nobody ran it is the goal.
What we bring
On the truck
We size the system to your room and your guest count rather than rolling the same rig into every job.
- Compact powered speakers on stands, or a battery system for remote sites
- Wireless lavalier microphones for the officiant
- A discreet second lavalier or shotgun microphone for the vows
- Wireless handheld for readings and toasts
- A small mixer with a music source and a hardwired backup
- Wind screens on everything, standard on outdoor ceremonies
- Weighted stands for open and windy ground
- Enough cable to hide the run, or a battery rig so there is no run at all
Questions
What people ask us
Do we need ceremony audio if it is a small wedding?
It depends on the site far more than the guest count. Thirty guests in a quiet chapel usually do not need anything. Thirty guests outdoors with wind moving across open ground almost always do, because the human voice does not carry outside the way people expect it to. Tell us the location and we will tell you honestly whether you need us.
What if there is no power at the ceremony site?
That is common here, especially at state park sites, lake overlooks, and private acreages. We bring a battery powered system that runs the full ceremony without an outlet, and we plan for it in advance rather than discovering the problem on site.
Will the microphone show up in our photos?
A lavalier on the officiant is nearly invisible in photographs. A second microphone on the couple, when the site needs one, gets placed with your photographer's angles in mind. If having zero visible equipment matters more to you than perfect vow capture, tell us and we will work to that instead.
Can you use the venue's existing sound system?
Sometimes, and we will when it is genuinely good. A lot of church and venue systems are fine for spoken word and poor for music, or they were set up correctly ten years ago and have drifted since. We check it ahead of the date and tell you straight whether to use it or let us bring our own.
Service area
Ceremony Audio across the Black Hills
We run ceremony audio throughout western South Dakota and into Wyoming. Every town on this list has its own page with what the work actually looks like there.
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Send us the date and the venue and we will come back to you with what production actually makes sense for it. No pressure, no packages pushed at you.