DJ, Sound and Lighting at Southern C’s Farm
19 events produced at Southern C’s Farm, fifteen minutes from our warehouse. A 6,000 square foot covered pavilion, a 15-acre lake and amplified music permitted outdoors.
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events we have produced at Southern C’s Farm
This one is in our backyard
We have produced 19 events at Southern C’s Farm. It is on Southern C’s Trail in Summerfield, in Guilford County, about fifteen minutes from our Greensboro warehouse — closer than almost any venue we work.
A 127-acre equestrian farm with rolling pasture, pine woods and a 15-acre lake. Horses are on the property and available for photographs, and a horse-drawn carriage arrival is offered. It is a working farm that happens to host weddings, which is a different thing from a barn built to look like one.
The Pavilion is covered, not enclosed — and that is the whole plan
The Pavilion is around 6,000 square feet, seats about 200 and takes up to 300 standing. It has chandeliers, overhead fans, bathrooms, 60-inch rounds, gold chiavari chairs and — unusually and usefully — dimmers on the house lighting.
Here is the part that gets misdescribed elsewhere. The Pavilion is covered outdoor space, not an enclosed room. That is how the venue and the industry listings classify it. You will find at least one competing DJ company’s page calling it enclosed with controlled acoustics. It is not, and planning a system as if it were is how a reception ends up thin at the edges and inaudible at the bar.
Open-sided space behaves acoustically like outdoors with a roof: nothing contains the sound, so it leaves rather than filling the room, and the level that feels right on the dance floor is not reaching the far tables. The answer is distributed coverage — more speakers, placed closer to people, aimed in — rather than a louder pair at the front. Ceiling fans are also part of the noise floor and part of the hanging picture, so anything overhead gets planned around them.
The dimmers are a genuine advantage. Being able to take the house lighting down at the right moment means our dance floor lighting reads properly instead of competing with a fully lit ceiling. Most covered pavilions give you on or off.
The lakeside ceremony, and getting gear to it
Ceremonies happen lakeside and on the dock, with outdoor ceremony seating quoted at around 200. Fifteen acres of open water gives you nothing to reflect off and a constant light breeze, which is the classic open-ceremony problem: the officiant sounds fine to the front row and vanishes by row eight.
We run lavaliers rather than a stand microphone, place speakers along the seating rather than only at the front, and use battery systems where power is a distance away. The venue includes golf carts and a parking attendant, which genuinely helps — getting a ceremony rig down to the dock is a cart job, and we plan the timing for it.
There is also the Lodge, a 4,600 square foot lakeside house that takes around 50 seated, an 1820 log cabin and a guesthouse for overnight stays, and a Huntbox used as a getting-ready space.
The rules worth knowing
- Access runs 11:00am to 11:00pm on a single-day rental, with two-day rentals adding the prior evening. That is the published access window; whether 11pm is also the music cut-off is a question we ask the venue for each booking rather than assume.
- Amplified music is permitted indoors and outdoors. No published decibel limit.
- Liability insurance is required. We carry ours and send a certificate as standard.
- Exclusive use — no competing event on the property on your date.
- Catering is in-house through the farm’s own kitchen. Entertainment appears to be open vendor, but confirm your own contract rather than taking that from a web page.
What we bring
- DJ and MC running the night, with the set built around the 11pm access end
- Lakeside and dock ceremony audio — lavaliers, distributed speakers, battery power where needed
- A Pavilion system designed for covered outdoor space rather than for a room
- Uplighting that works with the chandeliers and the dimmable house lighting
- Dance floor lighting programmed to the set
- Monograms, cold sparks and photobooths from our enhancements list, subject to venue approval
Questions we get about Southern C’s Farm
Do you charge travel to Summerfield?
No. Southern C’s Farm is about fifteen minutes from our Greensboro warehouse. There is no travel line and there is plenty of time for a proper load-in.
The venue’s micro-wedding package includes a DJ. Why would we book you?
For a small micro-wedding, you may not need to — and we would rather say that than talk you out of something that works. For a full wedding in a 6,000 square foot covered pavilion with a lakeside ceremony, the job is bigger than a package DJ slot: two locations, open-air acoustics and a dance floor. That is where we are worth the money.
Is the Pavilion enclosed?
No. It is covered outdoor space. You will see it described as enclosed with controlled acoustics on at least one competitor’s page; that is not what the venue or the industry listings say, and it leads to a system designed for the wrong space.
Does music have to stop at 11pm?
The published 11pm is the end of the access window. Whether it is also a hard music cut-off is a question we put to the venue for each booking, because those are not always the same thing and the answer decides where the last dance sits.
Can we have amplified music at the lakeside ceremony?
Yes — amplified music is permitted indoors and outdoors here. The practical question is power, and where there is none nearby we run battery systems.
Can you hang anything from the Pavilion?
We ask the venue before we plan it. There are chandeliers and ceiling fans up there, so there is structure and there are circuits, but that is not the same as permission or a rated point. We confirm rather than assume.
Tell us your date at Southern C’s Farm
We already know the room. Send us the date and what you have in mind and we will come back with a real proposal in simple line items. Wedding packages start at $1,800 and most couples land between $2,500 and $3,500.