Lighting Design · Piedmont, SD
Event and Uplighting in Piedmont
A room that looks the way it should at every point in the night
On the ground
This work in Piedmont
Bare barn wood drinks light, which surprises people who have only seen uplighting in a painted ballroom. The same look takes noticeably more fixtures at closer spacing out here, and we will tell you that up front rather than under-lighting your room and calling it moody. String lights and uplighting work well together in these buildings. We plan your design off photos of the actual barn.
Conditions in Piedmont
Piedmont runs heavily toward barns, ranch properties, and open ground. Barns look incredible and they are reflective boxes, so the audio gets aimed and tuned rather than turned up, and that is the whole difference between a packed dance floor and guests standing outside because it is too loud in there. Most of these properties give you an outdoor ceremony and a covered reception, which is the combination that actually survives a Black Hills afternoon. We are twenty five minutes up I-90, so walking your site before the date is easy to schedule and worth doing.
- From Rapid City
- 25 minutes
- County
- Meade, 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 Piedmont
Tell us your date and your venue in Piedmont, SD and we will come back with what production actually makes sense for it.