Wedding DJ at LaBelle Winery
I am John Hathaway, and Elation Entertainment is my one person operation in Shirley, Massachusetts. I have DJed weddings at LaBelle Winery in Amherst, NH, about thirty five miles away and inside my service area, so no travel fee. A ceremony out in the vines gets a system of its own.
LaBelle Winery from the DJ Booth
The Great Room is the indoor half: a vaulted ceiling, its own bar, and floor to ceiling windows over the vineyard, seated for 200 with a terrace off it. Height like that sends music upward before it reaches anyone, so the sources sit lower and closer to the floor than the ceiling suggests. The Wine Cellar is the opposite room in every way, 50 seated among working tanks and barrels under bistro string lights, small and hard and round, which means a quiet setup and nothing pointed at a wall. The Vineyard Overlook is outdoors among the vines with a handcrafted arbor, up to 170, and it has nothing at all to reflect off. Three spaces, three different problems, often on the same afternoon.
How I Run a Wedding at LaBelle Winery
Most weddings here open at the Vineyard Overlook, outdoors among the vines under the arbor. Open ground gives a voice nothing back, so the ceremony gets its own system with wireless microphones for your officiant and your readers, placed near the seats rather than turned up, and checked while the rows are still empty. Cocktail hour moves to the terrace off the Great Room, a separate space at a separate level. Then the Great Room takes dinner and dancing, and between the height and the glass, dinner sits lower than the room looks like it should. Once the floor opens the level comes up in steps. Your coordinator holds the timeline and I run announcements against it, including the walk in from the vines.
Getting to LaBelle Winery from Shirley
Amherst is about 35 miles from Shirley, 45 to 55 minutes up Route 13 and Route 101, or Route 3 and the Everett Turnpike when the back roads run slow. I arrive 2.5 to 3 hours before guests. With a ceremony out in the vines that window does real work: power settled with the venue ahead of the date, the cable run out to the Overlook, gear covered against weather, then the Great Room set and checked inside while it is still empty.
Services
- Professional DJ & MC for your reception
- Ceremony music with wireless microphones
- Uplighting to transform your venue
- Photo booth with props and digital gallery
- Audio guestbook keepsake
- Online planning portal for song selection
Why Couples Marrying at LaBelle Winery Choose Elation
- One event per day, so your wedding gets my full attention
- True open-format DJ: every genre, every era
- 300+ celebrations and counting
- 5-star rated across 100+ reviews
- No travel fees. Amherst is inside my standard service area, which reaches 120 miles or about three hours from my base in Shirley.
Wedding DJ Questions About LaBelle Winery
Have you DJed a wedding at LaBelle Winery in Amherst?
Yes, at the Amherst location, the one on Route 101 with the Vineyard Overlook and the Great Room. LaBelle runs a separate property in Derry with its own spaces and its own layout, so it is worth naming which one your date is at whenever you ask a vendor about the venue.
Does the Vineyard Overlook ceremony need its own sound?
It does. Out among the vines there is nothing overhead and nothing to reflect off, so a voice carries a few rows and then stops. The Overlook gets a dedicated system with wireless microphones for your officiant and your readers, placed close to the seats, with power and the cable run settled with the venue before the date.
Can a reception work in the Wine Cellar?
Yes, and it wants a different setup from the Great Room. Fifty seated among tanks and barrels is a small, hard, low space, so the level that fills it is far under what most people expect and the sources go near your guests rather than at one end. The string lights already do the visual work.
How do the vaulted ceiling and windows change the Great Room?
Height sends music upward before it reaches a table, and a wall of glass over the vineyard returns what hits it. So the setup runs lower and wider than the size of the room suggests, kept off the window side, then reset once tables and people are in, because a full room absorbs what an empty one gives back.
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