Lighting Design · Deadwood, SD
Event and Uplighting in Deadwood
A room that looks the way it should at every point in the night
On the ground
This work in Deadwood
Deadwood is the best argument for uplighting anywhere in the region, because the buildings actually reward it. Brick, stone, and original woodwork take color in a way flat drywall never will. We would rather light what is already in your room than wash a wall in one tone and call that a design. Several venues here will not let anyone run cable across a historic floor, so we plan around that from the start instead of discovering it an hour before your guests arrive.
Conditions in Deadwood
Deadwood sits in a gulch with one main street, one way sections, and parking that fills, so load in gets scheduled with your venue rather than assumed. Several of the best rooms in town are a floor up in historic buildings, which means freight elevators and a real plan instead of a few trips from the curb. The rooms themselves are hard surfaced and lively, so we tune for the stone rather than fight it with volume. The reward is that your guests are staying within walking distance, and nobody slips out of your reception early to beat a drive home.
- From Rapid City
- 50 minutes
- County
- Lawrence, 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 Deadwood
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