You’ve already selected an incredible wedding venue in the Charleston, SC area, if the ceremony or reception will run into darkness, you need equally incredible specialty wedding lighting Charleston SC. Today we chose to share before-the-event photographs of a wedding which took place at a private residence along the Stono River on John’s Island, SC. John Island is a rural section of the City of Charleston, home to great wide residential estates and our own farming community. Homes on Johns Island are often blessed with a lot of green space, as this estate is. It is AV Connections job to create a fully lit event once night falls. Every location is different, and those which are not regular event venue pose a special set of wedding lighting challenges.

Often, crystal chandeliers need to be hand-crafted and wired and hung from old oak trees. Dancing areas need to be lit with uplighting and gobos. We solve the problems of how to get power to all of these lights, how to hang them from invisible lines, how to create colorful light on trees in the distance. There are so many possibilities for memorable specialty wedding lighting Charleston SC that our design group is always looking for new ways to maximize AV Connections largest inventory in Charleston of specialty wedding lighting to make your event like none other.

We will set up lighting rentals for tents, pergolas, outdoor dance floors and bars and create private residence parties like nothing any guest has seen before or will again.

Let AV Connections create specialty wedding lighting Charleston SC for your wedding or celebration. We will deliver the best priced lighting rentals in Charleston, SC.

Our Charleston SC wedding uplighting work was front and center this is past weekend. We worked together with wedding event designers Southern Protocol, and the amazing floral designer, Anne Dabney of Charleston Stems to create several lighting vingettes for a wedding at a private residence along the Stono River.

Traveling down a long gravel road deep into the old plantation section of Johns Island, SC, we came upon a magnificent clearing upon the Stono River. Nestled into this pictureseque and beautiful Low Country spot was a home constructed with the intention of respecting the views of the river. The job is to highlight with uplighting and cafe bulbs strings, but not to add garish over-decor to a wedding site which nature has already perfected.

The pergola is a permanent structure on the property along the river. The winding and lavish florals designed by Charleston Stems are constructed entirely of floral types and vines which are native to the Low Country of South Carolina. The florals were draped and completed first and our Charleston SC wedding uplighting group followed to add the softly-hued uplighting. It made a spectacular central display as the Southern Sun dipped low in the sky.

Our Charleston SC wedding uplighting technicians are pleased to design incredible wedding lighting effects for any site at which you have dreamed about holding your wedding. While we worked with a wedding planner for this wedding lighting, just as frequently we work with brides and grooms planning and designing their own weddings. AV Connections Charleston SC wedding uplighting can plan and create wedding lighting designs for any budget and manage any difficulty flawlessly.

When you want incredible Charleston SC wedding uplighting and a responsible, experienced, and timely business to work with who will not let you down, AV Connections of Charleston should be your first and only call.

AV Connections’ Charleston Event Lighting Group completed an outdoor event light design at The Gardens at Middleton Place plantation so beautiful it literally awed hundreds of guests at Charleston Weddings magazine’s event, Stars of Middleton last night. Perhaps none more so than ourselves, but more on that further on.

Created in the 1700’s by Henry Middleton, The Gardens are literally the oldest landscaped gardens in America. Designed in the grand classic tradition so popular in Europe in the 1740’s when the plan for the property was developed, the Gardens espouse the design principles of  rational order, geometry and balance. These are three disciples which our Charleston Event Lighting group know well. They are engineers and designers at heart. Their respect and dedication to lighting historic Charleston’s wedding and conference venues in ways respectful of the original hands is well known throughout Charleston event planning circles. AV Connections uses modern technology to light these delicate historic venues, but always with a reverence to the creators and visionaries who proceeded us in these great temples of beauty.

And so, when Charleston Magazine and Charleston Weddings began planning an event to show off Charleston’s famed historic plantation, Middleton Place, we approached the event lighting with the same rules upon which The Gardens were founded. Middleton Place’s gardens are acres of ancient design perfection: Walkways and allées are planted with trees and shrubs creating verdant green walls of small gallery gardens, green arbors, bowling greens, and secret gardens.

We set to the event lighting design for this wandering party which would take guests through five tents positioned in various gardens throughout. In the initial landscape design of The Gardens, mathematical precision was paramount.  “Rational order, geometry and balance; vistas, focal points and surprises were all part of the garden design.” When our VP, Jared Luckhart, completed the event lighting design, all of the guiding principles of Middleton’s original design were both preserved and highlighted. Through focal-point uplighting placed carefully throughout the walkways and allee’s and swung wide through breezy Spanish moss and live oak limbs at the edges of the gardens, and literal miles of hidden cords – the finest points of the gardens and statuary were gracefully illuminated at every turn for an unforgettable party.

There are two keys to great event lighting design at Middleton Place Gardens: The first is reverence. It is already as perfect as a garden could ever be. We are careful not to adulterate or glitz what was so long ago set to the earth so perfectly. You can’t help but keep a bow to your head in this place. We walked with the ghosts of so much design and landscape talent through those allee’s, it was hard not to feel the pressure to make their work shine elegantly in darkness. Make it beautiful, yes. But make it beautifully mindful.

The second is elegance. Middleton Place’s Gardens are something beyond stunning. Until you stand in this place as night begins to fall, you’ll never truly understand. It has an illumination by star-light all its own. In that way, the work of man has shook hands with the twinkle of the heavens with such a fierce meeting of beauty that we are somehow inexplicably cautioned not to tamper with this immortal pair. In these times, we spend more time talking about the absence of this rare elegance than its presence in our lives. But Middleton is preserving a hauntingly alluring corner of the world where the best efforts of men and moonlight conspire to exploit one another’s magic on clear nights to do elegant, dreamy things.

We were merely stewards of this light. Conductors of an orchestra long ago created and we hope, showcased magnificently as never before by the tools of our trade.

And even though we did it. And even though it was so powerful and moving an adventure that we could have kept going into lit-infinity. There was a time when we had directed all the uplights, hung all the strands, and covered all the cord.  Then, what bewitching lighting magic we had from our modern age to join this mighty pair reached a point where any more would cloak the masterpiece rather than highlight her features. We stopped. And we let them all dance together in the shared light of four centuries of design: The lights, the live oaks, the wood nymphs, the secrets, all the ghosts, the evening’s guests, and the most ancient of wild-cards, the Carolina moon-light. It was enchanting.

There is a time to design. A time to light. And a time to let history and nature take their course.  That gave us a moment to see the way the intersection of the ages works in this place; a moment to take a breath and realize how very awed and humbled we are to be selected to light these allee’s.

We will never forget it.

(Would you like to see more pictures? Soon! This event is being published by a major magazine and we’ve agree not to publish our photos until the magazine hits newsstands. It will be worth the wait)

What an honor for us to be the conference AV Production Provider for the 68th Annual VA Voluntary Service (VAVS) National Advisory Committee Meeting and Conference. Our on site Production Manager, Preston Phillips, has been pleased to work with this group for several years and this was no less wonderful a client experience as previous years. This was AV Connections, Inc. third year as the Conference AV Production Provider. We are so pleased to return to this client each year. The conference was held at the Embassy Suites Raleigh-Durham/Research Triangle, Raleigh, NC for the second year of our three in service to this client.

Quote from the Client: “Thank you for all of your hard work this week and every year. You went above and beyond, and we couldn’t be happier knowing we are in your capable hands. It is always a pleasure working with you, and your knowledge, care, and attention always make us feel at ease. Thank you again!”

Here is a quick look at the strike of this event. As you can see, AV Connections has every piece of equipment you need to plan a conference in Raleigh, NC with the best conference AV possible.

Our Audiovisual Conference Technology Group is ready to help your next NC conference flawless. Get your message across without a hitch with AV Connections.

One of AV Connections’ favorite job calls is to provide wedding lighting at Daniel Island Club here in Charleston, SC. We provide audiovisual rentals and staging at Daniel Island for many different types of events. We can often be found in the clubhouse working with corprate clients for their meeting and conference audio visual. We have still other AV clients who hold fundraising galas and luncheon banquet events at Daniel Island Club.

Daniel Island Club is a favorite location for weddings in Charleston. Once night falls, even this magnificent venue does well with a little additional outdoor cafe bulb strand lighting. We have also created impressive interior wedding lighting designs for the Ballroom. A great wedding at Daniel Island Club utilizes both the soaring and beautiful interior banquet space as well as the outdoor patio space facing the golf course and marsh. We suggest considering wedding lighting for both locations to create a Charleston wedding atmosphere your guests will never forget.

For our most recent wedding lighting at Daniel Island Club, we were pleased to work with great and longtime partners, RLE of Charleston, SC. RLE is a talented group of wedding designers who turned Daniel Island Club into an unforgettable wedding oasis inside and out. AV Connections wedding lighting audio visual inventory was pleased to provide the following for lighting the Ballroom, Patio, and Lawn areas at Daniel Island Club:

Par 38 Chandelier Lighting Fixture (Uplighting) – Color: Amber
8 Par 38 Light (White) – Includes: Wood Base,
Gel Frame, and Colored Gel
Café-Style Bulb Light Strands (25′ White Wire)
2 1.0 Vertical Support Bar w/ Baseplate – Includes
Weight, Sandbags, and Pole Wrap
Drape Fabric – White
Lighting Accessories: Tie Line, Clamps, Zip Ties, Rope
Ladder: 7′ A-Frame

If you are getting married in Charleston, SC, wedding lighting should be a primary concern to get the party perfect. Whether you chose to work with a wedding planner or to plan your own wedding, AV Connections Wedding Event Lighting Group will be there to guide you in achieving wedding lighting like none other. Custom gel lighting and the largest inventory of chandeliers and specialty event lighting in Charleston are available from AV Connections. We are reliable and the best event lighting technicians in the Southeast. If you do not want to worry and want the most amazing wedding lighting in Charleston, SC, AV Connections should be your first and last call.

AV Connections loves a party and being the preferred Charleston event lighting vendor of event and wedding planners in Charleston, SC. We are so pleased to be featured in Coastal Bride! Coastal Bride featured our work in Charleston event lighting at the Alhambra Hall, Mt. Pleasant, SC wedding of Barbara and Giles. They are a wonderful couple and we were pleased to be the Charleston event lighting vendor they and their weddingn design planners, Southern Protocol selected to light their great party!

The couple chose dresses of yellow and deep pink, just sunny and cheerful. The florals offset the gowns and Southern Protocol’s deoct perfectly with deeply hued pinks, oranges, and golds in the incomparable floral design of Anne Dabney at Charleston Stems.

AV Connections provides each bride and groom and /or their wedding planner, with Charleston’s largest and always increasing inventory of chandeliers, uplighting, gel lights, GOBO’s, and custom-created specialty lighting to make each celebration or event spectacular. AV Connections works with you to create Charleston event lighting design like none other. Our Event Technicians will be on site to set up and test the equipment, and to tear down your Charleston event lighting rentals. Our consummate Charleston event lighting professionals will be with you every step of the way.

Many thanks to our great partners in making Barbara and Giles wedding day one none of their guests will ever forget: We are always pleased to work with Southern Protocol Weddings & Events, Dodeline Design for invitations and papers, Charleston Stems for these incredible florals, and Jennifer Bearden Photography. Special thanks to Jennifer Bearden for allowing us to use her incredible photos.

More SC event lighting and audio visual staging by AV Connections in Myrtle Beach for you this week! This was a really exciting job, very literally. We were pleased to work with FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Information of Science and Technology, Palmetto Partners. The event was supported in part by NASA, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration.

FIRST’s mission is begin scientific creativity as early as age six and continue to support it though enrichment and competions for children through the age of eighteen in order to support the science and scientists of our future. The youngest participants begin building with Legos and over the years of enrichment can advance to the SC event lighting and audio visual staging event you see being set up in these photos by AV Connections in Myrtle Beach; the regional Robotics Competition.

AV Connections is the preferred SC event lighting and audio visual supplier to Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Colombia, and Greenville. We specialize in large scale audio visual and lighting for indoor and outdoor events. We are also happy to service national conventions with audio visual staging across the United States. We provide audio visual and lighting staging throughout the Southeast: SC, FL, GA, MS. We look forward to providing audio visual for your next meeting or conference.

More conference audio visual in Charleston, SC! We’re thrilled to be back at the Memminger Auditorium today in our hometown, Charleston, SC to provide conference audio visual for the Charleston County Bar Association‘s Twelfth Annual Continuing Legal Education symposium entitled, “What Works.”  We’ve only been away from the Memminger for four days, we spent the past weekend providing audiovisual and event lighting for the 6th Annual Chase After A Cure Gala, for which we were proud to be corporate sponsors!

For this symposium we supplied our audiovisual technical staff as well as the following audiovisual and lighting equipment from our Charleston, SC office (843) 573-1174 or avrentals@avconnectionsc.com:

-Sony HD camera

– Yamaha mixer

– Shure microphones

– Extron Switcher

– Magnavox DVD recorders

– Sanyo CP-100 projectors

– JBL 15″ speakers

– Stage lighting

The historic Memminger Auditorium, built in 1938, has just had a major renovation in 2013 and the building is more stunning than ever.  The Memminger Auditorium is one of Charleston finest large event venues. The Memminger, located on Beaufrain Street in downtown, Charleston, SC, where we often provide event and conference audio visual and lighting, is available for rent for events of every type:  Performing arts, special events, weddings, and corporate functions. If you are plannign a meeting or conference in Charleston, do not miss a chance to visit the Memminger as a venue consideration. AV Connections will be pleased to support all your conference audio visual needs at the Memminger, so do get in touch!

Our Charleston gala event lighting, draping, and audiovisual for Chase After A Cure Golden Gala 2014 was unlike anything ever seen in Charleston before! Such an exciting job and evening!

AV Connections of Charleston, SC was pleased to be both a major corporate sponsor and the gala event lighting and audiovisual provider for this annual charity event to cure neuroblastoma, a cancer which affects children. This is a cause which resounds with AV Connections; our owner’s family gratefully has a survivor of this high-mortality cancer. We wanted to go the extra mile for the 6th Annual Chase After a Cure Gala and help the charity continue to pay for treatment and research of neuroblastoma.

Our North Carolina and Charleston gala event lighting groups spent countless hours planning how they would turn the historic Memminger Auditorium (fresh from a complete renovation) in downtown Charleston into a magical crystal-lit ballroom full of color and sparkle. Chase After A Cure also welcomed American Idol finalist, Elise Testone to perform and this added another layer of audiovisual need to the event.

Packed for load-in the night before in the warehouse, the crews and trucks rolled to the Memminger at 6 am on Saturday morning to begin set up for the event. Ten hours later, the event set-up was complete and the crews headed in to change job-site attire into black tie to be event sponsors. Our talented groups can wear many hats in one day.

Ten hours brought a lot of changes to the Memminger as chandelier lighting, hundreds of yards of draping, and four huge fast-fold screen were suspended twenty five feet above the auditorium floor. To give you an idea how massive a gala lighting and decor project this was, here are before and after photos of the auditorium:

Before:

After:

And, of course, the building exterior event lighting:

In person, it was all even more amazing.

AV Connections is proud to be a sponsor of Chase After A Cure and to be Charleston gala event lighting, rentals, and audiovisual supplier of choice for this incredible event and the charity supported by the Gala. We look forward to the seventh annual gala and only continue to hope the work of Chase After A Cure one day ends childhood cancers once and for all. Until then, we are with this group all the way.