Lighting Design · Wall, SD
Event and Uplighting in Wall
A room that looks the way it should at every point in the night
On the ground
This work in Wall
The sky is the reason to have an event in Wall, so the job is lighting your people without erasing it. Too much and you have washed out the best thing about the location. We light the floor, the paths, and the tables and leave the horizon alone. Once the sun is down out here it is genuinely dark, so this is functional work rather than decoration.
Conditions in Wall
Wall is open prairie, which means heat and no shade are the two things every outdoor plan has to solve. Summer afternoons run hot enough that we think hard about where your guests are sitting relative to the sun, because a beautiful ceremony is still miserable at ninety eight degrees in direct light. There is very little rental support in town, so we arrive with backups for anything that matters, since the nearest replacement is fifty five miles behind us. Badlands ceremonies need a permit and their own lead time, so those get started early.
- From Rapid City
- About an hour
- 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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Other services in Wall
We run more than one thing in Wall, SD, and most events use two or three of these together.
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Event Lighting in Wall
Tell us your date and your venue in Wall, SD and we will come back with what production actually makes sense for it.