The weekend ended on a high as we returned to The Little Silver Country Hotel for the third time this year for Chelsea and Matthew’s wedding reception. We have previously reviewed the venue in detail, please click here to view.
Chelsea & Matthew Bilsby – Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden 22/9/2013
venue – website
package: –creative mood lighting
music preferences: – Garage, 90’s, House, R&B, Latest Charts, Guest Requests (Last Hour)
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Chelsea cuts a shape
After yesterdays 20 hour day at High Rocks for Mel & Chris’s wedding in Tunbridge Wells we were back again later on Sunday at The Little Silver Country Hotel, also known as “The Jewel In The Weald” for a gem of an evening in Tenterden.
I’ve always enjoyed playing at this venue as have always had a great night here, the acoustics of the room are great, the uplighting looks really effective up the walls, access is great, staff are excellent and I just generally find it a nice environment to work in. It’s a very relaxed venue with the bar right next to the dancefloor and its just one of those venues that seems very easy for guests to indulge in the evening.
Chelsea had booked pink uplighting so we got this set up first which was straight after the meal at around 7pm once the top table had been cleared to make space for our set up.
Something that I thought looked fab in the room that I hadn’t previously seen at The Little Silver before is a white starlit backdrop, I’m not usually a fan of twinkly flashing lights but this one was static and looked very classy… it looked really great in the hall and would of given huge benefit to Chelsea and Matthews daytime photos of the top table with it as the backdrop and gives an equally nice backdrop of my own DJ booth. It’s definately something that enhances the room although I’m not sure if its an upgraded package the venue offer which is maybe why it wasn’t there earlier in the year on my previous visits, or it may possibly be a new touch the venue have incorporated. If your planning to get married at the venue then definately worth having it, maybe if someone from the venue is reading this they could leave us a comment at the bottom of this page and let us know if it comes as standard ?
Chelsea’s great taste in music was reflected throughout the evening without any sign of cheese as we played through the latest charts, garage, house and R&B going back as far as the 90s, its what she wanted to party to with her friends and family on her special night and I was more than happy to oblige in those genres for her. I think the only two tracks that slightly deviated were two requests from her very young looking dad at the end of the night for a couple of 80’s tracks.
The first dance was one i hadn’t played before, “Ave Maria” by Beyonce which worked really well and I hope its used more often… it will certainly always remind me of this one. I’ve got a feeling its a particular favourite of groom Matthew as i noticed a big smile on his face as I pressed play for their first dance as a married couple and he was more animated than any groom I’ve seen before particularly during the chorus.
So an excellent end to a very enjoyable weekend and we wish Chelsea & Matthew and their young family all the very best for the future… and first and foremost their honeymoon to Sharm El Sheikh.
We are back at the weekend with the conclusion of Septembers weddings on Friday and Saturday… with a recent upturn in UK temperatures it looks like being a warm October as the 2013 wedding season enters its final month before the countdown begins to the corporate season and christmas weddings.
If you were at Chelsea & Matthew’s wedding how about leaving us a comment at the bottom of this page
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– PLAYLIST
First Dance Ave Maria Beyoncé
Prince Charming Kelly Voorhies
Mysterious Girl Peter Andre
Return of the Mack Mark Morrison
Crazy In Love Beyoncé
Never Leave You (Uh Ooh, Uh Oooh) Lumidee
Pon de Replay Rihanna
Turn Me On Kevin Lyttle
Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) Beyoncé
Gold Digger (Radio Edit) Kanye West & Jamie Foxx
Two Can Play That Game Bobby Brown
Gettin Jiggy With It Will Smith
Staying Alive Remix N-Trance
If Ya Gettin’ Down Five
Finally (Its Happened To Me) CC Peniston
Show Me Love Robin S.
Push the Feeling On The Nightcrawlers
Hideaway (Deep Dish Mix) De’Lacy
Sambuca Wideboys ft. Dennis G
Straight from the Heart Doolally
Love Come Down Double Take & MC Kie
Summer Jam (2-Step Mix) The Underdog Project
7 Days (Sunship Remix) Craig David
Valerie (Feat. Amy Winehouse) Mark Ronson
Forget You Cee Lo Green
Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell) Robin Thicke
Get Lucky (Radio Edit) [feat. Pharrell Williams] Daft Punk
Locked Out of Heaven Bruno Mars
Dance With Me Tonight Olly Murs
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…) Lou Bega
(Mucho Mambo) Sway [Radio Edit] Shaft
Saturday Night Whigfield
What Makes You Beautiful One Direction
Firework Katy Perry
Danza Kuduro (Throw Your Hands Up) Lucenzo & Qwote
Moves Like Jagger Maroon 5
Gentleman PSY
Gangnam Style PSY
Wake Me Up Avicii
Wild (feat. Big Sean & Dizzee Rascal) Jessie J
Bonkers Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden
We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) Rihanna
Titanium (feat. Sia) David Guetta & Sia
Don’t You Worry Child Swedish House Mafia
Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch) Calvin Harris
Drinking from the Bottle (feat. Tinie Tempah) Calvin Harris
I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas
Don’t Stop the Party Pitbull
Let the Bass Kick In Miami Girl Chuckie & LMFAO
Put Your Hands Up for Detroit (Club Mix) Fedde le Grand
Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now) Bob Sinclar
Play Hard (feat. Ne-Yo & Akon) David Guetta
Blue (Da Ba Dee) Eiffel 65
I Luv U Baby (Dancing Divas 1995 Remix) The Original
Dreamer Livin Joy
Professional Widow (Armand Van Helden Remix) Tori Amos
Gunman 187 Lockdown
Migraine Skank (Main Mix) Gracious K
Cupid Shuffle Cupid
Hey Porsche Nelly
What About Us (feat. Sean Paul) The Saturdays
Spin Spin Sugar Sneaker Pimps
Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand’s Drum ‘n’ Bass Mix) C.J. Bolland
Chelsea Daggers The Fratellis
Mr. Brightside Killers
Don’t Stop Believing Journey
Place Your Hands Reef
Summer of 69 Bryan Adams
One Step Beyond Madness
I Wanna Dance With Somebody Whitney Houston
The One and Only Chesney Hawkes
Encore Midnight City M83