Lighting Design · Custer, SD
Event and Uplighting in Custer
A room that looks the way it should at every point in the night
On the ground
This work in Custer
Lighting in Custer is barn and lodge work, and those two behave nothing alike. Bare wood drinks light, so a barn needs more fixtures at closer spacing to get the look a painted room gets with half as many. Lodges usually have character already and want accents rather than a full wash. We plan your design off photos of the actual venue, because guessing at this is how a room ends up looking dim and blotchy in every photo you paid a photographer for.
Conditions in Custer
Custer State Park ceremony sites need a permit, and amplified sound, vehicle access, and setup time all come with conditions we work from rather than around. Most of those locations have nothing to plug into, so battery is standard here instead of an upgrade. Wildlife is a real scheduling factor and we mean that literally: bison on the wildlife loop turn a fifteen minute drive into forty, and they will do it on your wedding day. We build the buffer into your timeline. Outside the park, Custer is barn and ranch country and it reads a lot more like Piedmont.
- From Rapid City
- 45 minutes
- County
- Custer, 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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Other services in Custer
We run more than one thing in Custer, SD, and most events use two or three of these together.
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Event Lighting in Custer
Tell us your date and your venue in Custer, SD and we will come back with what production actually makes sense for it.