Lighting Design · Box Elder, SD
Event and Uplighting in Box Elder
A room that looks the way it should at every point in the night
On the ground
This work in Box Elder
Community rooms in Box Elder are where lighting earns its money fastest. They are flat, bright, and lit from overhead with fluorescents, which is a hard room to make feel like an evening. Bring the overheads down, put color on the walls, and it stops looking like a meeting space before your first guest walks in. We plan it off photos of your actual room, because these spaces vary more than you would guess from the outside.
Conditions in Box Elder
Box Elder does not have a big purpose built event venue, so most of what happens here is in community rooms, church halls, and on people's own property. That suits us. We bring the room with us and size it to your guest list rather than to a catalog. Houses sit close together in the newer neighborhoods, so we settle outdoor volume and an end time with you up front instead of guessing and hoping nobody minds. It is fifteen minutes from our shop, which means we set early and never rush your day.
- From Rapid City
- 15 minutes
- County
- Pennington, SD
What is included
What you get
Uplighting, dance floor lighting, pin spots, and monogram projection. We design the look from photos of your actual venue, because what works in a white ballroom does nothing in a wood barn.
- Uplighting placed around the room in a color you choose
- Dance floor lighting that moves with the music without turning the room into a nightclub
- Pin spots on the cake, the head table, or centerpieces where it helps the photos
- Wireless battery fixtures for venues that will not allow cable runs
- Monogram or text projection
- One color look for dinner and a different one for the dance
- A design review using photos of your specific venue before the date
- Everything set before guests arrive and struck after they leave
How we work
Our approach
We design from photos of your actual room
Uplighting is entirely dependent on what it is hitting. Painted drywall throws color back and makes a room glow. Bare wood absorbs it and needs twice the fixtures at half the spacing. Stone and brick take color beautifully but unevenly. Send us photos of the room and we will tell you what the look you want is actually going to take.
The room should change through the night
Dinner and the dance are not the same event and should not look the same. We build a warmer, lower look for the meal and toasts, then shift the room when the floor opens. It is a lighting cue rather than a new setup, and it does more for how a reception feels than almost anything else we do.
Light the architecture, not just the wall
A lot of venues here have something worth looking at: original brick in Deadwood, timber in a barn, stonework in a lodge. We would rather light that than throw color at whatever flat surface happens to be closest. The room already has character in most cases and the job is to show it.
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Event Lighting in Box Elder
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