Wedding DJ and Corporate AV Production in Raleigh, NC
We are the in-house AV company at The Merrimon-Wynne House. Downtown weddings, state association conferences and nonprofit galas, produced by a company that is in Raleigh most weeks.
A Triad company that is in Raleigh constantly
We are based in Greensboro, and we are the in-house AV company at The Merrimon-Wynne House in downtown Raleigh. Our gear lives in that building and we know its sightlines, its power and its acoustics without having to walk them.
Raleigh is a little over an hour from our warehouse. That is far enough that we plan the day properly, with load-in scheduled the day before where a venue allows it, and close enough that we are there several times a month rather than treating it as a special trip.
Where a travel line applies to your event, it is quoted upfront rather than appearing on the final invoice.
Weddings in Raleigh
Downtown Raleigh weddings tend to be historic homes, restored warehouses and hotel ballrooms, and they come with city constraints most Triad venues do not have: street load-in, shared freight elevators, tight strike windows and noise ordinances that decide when the music stops.
We plan around all of that in advance rather than discovering it on the day. If your venue has a hard cut-off, we build the last hour of the night around it so the end of the reception still lands.
DJ and MC, ceremony audio, uplighting, dance floor lighting, drape and the full enhancements list. Packages start at $1,800 with most couples between $2,500 and $3,500. Detail on the weddings page.
The rooms here, and what each one needs
Historic homes and downtown properties
The signature Raleigh wedding venue. Gorgeous, and tight: small load-in doors, limited power, restrictions on what can be attached to anything, and neighbours. We keep the footprint small and visually quiet, use battery systems where a cable run would be ugly or unsafe, and plan the end of the night around the noise ordinance rather than being surprised by it.
Restored warehouses and industrial spaces
Brick, timber and concrete, which means reflections and long decay. The fix is coverage rather than output: arrays with narrow vertical dispersion, fills for the seats off-axis, and an engineer riding the mix all night.
Hotel ballrooms and conference centres
Where most association conferences and galas land. These are the rooms most likely to require house riggers or to charge for outside equipment, and most likely to have a load-in schedule you have to book into. All manageable, all worth knowing before the quote goes out.
Campus, government and institutional venues
Auditoriums and conference space attached to universities, agencies and associations. Each has its own rigging, power and access policy. We ask the building, not the internet.
Conferences, associations and galas
Raleigh’s corporate calendar is heavy on state associations, government and nonprofit work, and university and medical events. That means multi-day conferences, annual meetings, donor galas and awards nights rather than product launches.
That is exactly what our conference and general session production is built for: a general session with a running order and someone calling it, breakout rooms set and tested before the first session, meal-function audio, and a reception at the end that feels different from everything before it.
- Column or line array audio that makes speakers intelligible in a hard room
- Dual screens, projection or an LED video wall, sized to the back row
- Stage, truss and rigging, with ground support where a venue will not allow flying
- Drape and design lighting to make a rented room read as a set
- Clean recording and streaming feeds pulled off the board
Questions we get about events in Raleigh
Do you charge travel to Raleigh?
Sometimes, and when we do it is on the quote upfront rather than the invoice afterwards. Raleigh is a little over an hour from our warehouse, which is right around where a travel line starts to apply depending on the crew size and the schedule.
You are in-house at Merrimon-Wynne. Can you work other Raleigh venues?
Yes. Being in-house there means our equipment lives in that building and we know it cold. It does not restrict us anywhere else in the city, and we work Raleigh venues of every kind.
Can you handle a multi-day conference?
Yes, and we would rather do the whole thing than one room of it. One schedule, one crew chief, one invoice, and nobody arguing in the hallway about who was supposed to set the mic in the breakout.
Our venue has a noise cut-off. How do you handle that?
We build the run of show around it. The last dance and the exit get planned to land before the cut-off rather than getting chopped off mid-song, and we tell you what that means for the timeline when we quote.
Can you work with the venue’s in-house AV or house riggers?
Yes, and in larger Raleigh venues we often have to. We handle the coordination and the paperwork on our end so you are not relaying messages between vendors.
How far in advance should we book a Raleigh conference?
Six to twelve months for anything multi-day or over 300 people. That is usually when the venue and the speaker lineup lock anyway.
Can you get a full production into a historic downtown venue?
Usually, in a scaled form. The limits are load-in size, power and what the building lets you attach to. We would rather design something that fits the room properly than force a rig in and have it look and sound like a compromise.
Do you provide breakout room AV as well as the main room?
Yes, and we would rather do both. One company across the whole schedule means one crew chief who knows the running order, one invoice, and no argument in the hallway about who was setting the mic in the breakout.
Tell us about your Raleigh event
Venue, dates and headcount is enough to start. We quote in simple line items and we do not nickel and dime.