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Our Charleston gala event lighting and audiovisual for Chase After A Cure Golden Gala 2014

February 3, 2014

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.
AV Connections is the Charleston convention audiovisual and lighting rental supplier for the 2014 Toyota Highlander Launch Conference

January 29, 2014

AV Connections of Charleston, SC was thrilled to be the Charleston convention audiovisual and lighting rental supplier and technical event specialist for the Launch of the All-New 2014 Toyota Highlander.

We spent a week with the Charleston meeting planners and attendees working on the Charleston convention audiovisual to make Toyota’s week-long cyclical media conference an incredible experience for our clients and their guests.

The 2014 Toyota Highlander Launch is being held at the fabulous Market Pavilion Hotel in Charleston, SC’s historic Market and French Quarter District. For the Charleston convention audiovisual as well as smaller meeting audio visual and lighting, we provided all these great technical event audiovisual and lighting tools:

– Large Presentation Monitors installed onto a set backdrop

– Large Tele-prompting Monitors on 84″-Tall Stands at the back of the room

– Smaller Confidence Monitor on a floor stand at the back of the room for presenters’ content

– Dimmable Stage Wash to light up presenters and stage area – flown in the back of the room from the Airwall Track

– Programmable LED Uplighting on set backdrop and scenic décor

– Presentation Laptops

– Teleprompting Laptop

– All-around Native Resolution HD Switching and Displays

– Wireless Microphone Systems

– Laptop Audio Patches

– Audio Console

– Production Manager

– Multimedia Technician

– Full Garage Lighting of (12) 2014 Toyota Highlanders

The Event: Toyota is cycling presentations of press executives each for two-day visits; starting each group on one of four different days and providing them with Tech Specs and early reviews of the Highlander, as well as safety tests and driver reports, to give the media and press a complete and incredible education on the new Toyota Highlander. The first day includes a welcome lunch and afternoon presentations. Then the event attendees are being taken out to the garage where AV Connections has lit 12 new Toyota Highlanders for their review. Each attendee then gets to choose a vehicle to drive around Charleston and out to dinner that night.

On the second day of each wave, the Exec’s get to choose a different 2014 Highlander model (LE, LE+, XLE, Limited, and Hybrid Limited) in the 2014 Highlander lineup to drive to any of 20 or so Charleston, SC tourist destinations (plantations, forts, beaches, historic areas, etc.) for the entire second day.

AV Connections provided a lot of great technical event audio visual, lighting, and video equipment rentals to this press showcase at the Market Pavilion Hotel in downtown Charleston, SC including:

Video:

– (2) 70″ Vizio Monitors

– (2) 60″ LG Monitors

– (1) 32″ Samsung Monitors

– (1) Kramer 4-Input HDMI Switcher

– (1) Kramer 2-Input HDMI Switcher

– (1) Kramer 4-Way HDMI Distribution Ampliflier (Splitter)

– (2) Kramer 2-Way HDMI Distribution Amplifiers (Splitters)

– (1) Extron HDMI-to-CATx Converter

– (1) Extron VGA-to-HDMI Converter

– (2) MacBook Pro Laptops

– (1) HP Laptop

– (1) Toshiba Laptop

Audio:

– (2) JBL PRX612 Speakers

– (5) Shure ULX Wireless Microphone Systems

– (1) Yamaha MG166c Audio Mixer

– (2) Tascam SS-R100 Digital Audio Recorders

Lighting and Scenic:

– (2) Source 4 Junior Lights

– (2) Source 4 Lights

– (8) Chauvet SlimPAR 64 LED Lights

– (24) MBT Par 38 Lights

– (4) Lightronics Dimmer Racks

– (2) Lightronics Lighting Consoles

– White Drape used for a Tech Block-Off to hide the Entire Tech Area
AV Connections Charleston Wedding Lighting in The Wedding Row Today!

January 29, 2014

We’re always humbled by all our incredible Charleston wedding lighting press mentions! This week’s beautiful post by The Wedding Row here, featuring our incredible Charleston, SC wedding lighting for a colleague and friend at 428 Main Vintage Rentals just blew us away. As did Sarah’s dreamy wedding itself. It is always a pleasure to be featured in on-line magazines, but this press mention is really special to all of us in AV Connections’ Charleston wedding lighting group. Sarah’s company is with us on many Charleston wedding lighting sites, 428 Main provides the incredible vintage furniture rentals for weddings in Charleston. If you have not yet had a peek at all the incredible beautiful work Sarah’s company does, now is the time to drop into the website (click here).

AV Connections’ Charleston wedding lighting designers were pleased to light the historic Legare-Waring House in the Charlestowne Landing Park for Sarah and Chris! It is as beautiful a wedding venue as Charleston has to offer. We provide wedding lighting and audio visual for many weddings, banquets, and galas at Charlestowne Landing in partnership with all of the incredible wedding planners Charleston, SC has to offer.

Preston Phillips, who leads the Charleston Wedding Lighting Design Group at AV Connections in Charleston, SC is gifted with incredible artistic skill and a broad range of wedding lighting expertise to facilitate every brides dream wedding in the historic venues of Charleston, Bluffton, Beaufort, Colombia, and Greenville regions of SC as well as all the incredible locations in Savannah, GA. If you want to have the most incredible wedding lighting design in South Carolina or Georgia, AV Connections of Charleston, SC should be your vendor.

Planning a wedding? Let’s be in touch! Email us at avrentals@avconnectionssc.com or give us a call at 843-573-1174. We cannot wait to help you plan you wedding lighting and audio visual for a Charleston, SC wedding like none other!

Photography by the incredible Paige Winn Wedding Photography of Charleston, SC.
Charleston wedding uplighting by AV Connections at Charlestowne Landing: Behind the Event Scenes

January 21, 2014

AV Connections was so pleased to be the Charleston wedding uplighting rental supplier selected by Blue Planet Green Events on behalf of a fabulous couple who were married last week. Our Wedding Lighting Design team took the blog behind the scenes of this wedding set up to give you a peek into the preparations at our wedding venue, Founder’s Hall at Charlestowne Landing. Charlestowne Landing is both a park and historic site in the West Ashley section of Charleston, about four miles from downtown.

Founder’s Hall is the perfect mix of modern and traditional architecture brought together in a peaceful park setting deep inside Charlestowne landing. We wanted to create an amazing wedding atmosphere, respect the wedding budget, show off all Founder’s Hall has to offer, and have a completely thrilled new married couple to wave goodnight to around at the end of the enving. We had great partners in achieving the perfect wedding lighting for this newer venue in this very historic location along the Ashley River: Blue Planet Green Events accomplish beautiful, eco-sensitive weddings which are unforgettable.

For this Charleston wedding, we provided twenty white can uplighting fixtures with custom color gels in the shade of soft amber and golden amber on the drape around the reception room. AV Connections also provided the white and champagne colored draping for the wall and decorative backdrop you see in the photos. We also modified the installed lighting fixtures hanging from the ceiling in Founders Hall, by covering them with the custom color gels to soften the ambiance of the room

AV Connections in Charleston, SC is the most reasonably priced, experienced, and customer-service driven lighting and audio visual wedding rental supplier in the city. Our knowledge and strength of our positive relationships with the venues and other vendors on the wedding site is unparalleled.

We look forward to meeting with you or your wedding planner to discuss our endless array of options and wedding lighting rental inventory. AV Connections stocks everything you need to create a perfect wedding party atmosphere; From illuminated custom gobos, spotlights, highlights, decorative floor wedding uplighting. We have every possible wedding lighting option for you, customize-able in colors and patterns to match your decor perfectly. We offer a huge and creative variety of indoor and outdoor decor lighting options from mood lighting and uplighting to HD projection and lasers to ensure an unforgettable event for you and your guests.
Corporate conference audiovisual and lighting at an Atlanta, GA convention center by AV Connections

January 16, 2014

We are thrilled to be providing the corporate conference audiovisual and lighting for the Vector Marketing summit at the Sheraton Downtown Atlanta Hotel and Convention Center this week. This large-scale national conference has brought together our teams from our North and South Carolina branches of AV Connections. We met up in Atlanta, GA to get rolling together on the corporate conference audiovisual, after a night of loading in and a full day of set up, you see the incredible results!

Thousands of corporate conference and meeting attendees were treated to top-line event technology presentations on our innovative corporate conference audiovisual technology.

On site for our equipment were:

JBL speakers
Yamaha audio mixers
Shure wireless microphones
Sanyo projectors
Extron 506 switchers
Tascam DVD players
9×12 rear surface screens
7.5×10 rear surface screens

Here is an inside look at the night of on-site loading and a little of our set up early on the job:

Vector Marketing is an amazing client and we were pleased to be the conference audiovisual and lighting vendor of choice for their presentations and events. It was a great week in Atlanta, GA (which was actually kind of chilly for Hot-lanta) and we look forward to returning for Vector, the convention center, and other Atlanta clients soon.

For all your conference audiovisual and lighting needs in Atlanta, GA, as well as SC and FL, AV Connections should be your first call. We are budget savvy, customer-service driven, and have thirty years experience in hotel and convention center audiovisual and lighting. Once AV Connections has been one ajob for you, we’ll always be your first and last call. Quality is the only way.
AV Connections outdoor event lighting rental at a gala banquet Charleston

December 31, 2013

AV Connections, Inc. event lighting shone at a gala banquet in Charleston recently for Palmetto Medical Initiative. Our team created an beautiful outdoor party atmosphere with strings of cafe bulb lighting and uplighting. We also provided two video screens for audio visual presentation support during the event.

Set up for the event lighting and audio visual staging took most of the day in the courtyard of the Gibbes Museum of Charleston, which was the site of this twinkling evening.

Once night fell, our banquet gala gel uplighting and audio visual staging excellence really became apparent. The courtyard was completely transformed by our lighting into a gala stage.

Palmetto Medical Initiative does a lot of great work around the world being care and resources to areas where it’s programs are relied upon as the cheif source of medicine. The major programs PMI is currently addressing are in Central America and East Africa. We admire them for their tireless work to bring better health care and safe conditions to the world we share.

And we are so glad we could help them create a very special outdoor gala evening event in Charleston with our cafe bulb lighting, uplighting, and audio visual equipment staging.
Outdoor event lighting at Kiawah by AV Connections for an Oyster Roast Gala Banquet at Rhett’s Bluff

December 31, 2013

More outdoor event lighting at Kiawah! We recently providing event lighting for a gala Oyster Roast banquet held at Rhett’s Bluff on Kiawah. We love making lighting magic in the great ocean and seaside destination venues of our Charleston!

What a magical evening it was at Vanderhorst Plantation’s Rhett Bluff! If you are planning a wedding, party, or any sort of gala evening, we encourage you to have a look at Rhett’s Bluff. It was a pleasure to work at this venue and install the cafe bulb lighting and uplighting you see in these photos. AV Connections, Inc.always looks forward to bringing more banquet and outdoor event twinkle to Kiawah! We are blessed to work in the most beautiful sites in the world, we think!
Announcing the AV Connections, Charleston, SC Brand Merger, Winston-Salem and Charleston

December 18, 2013

Visual Aids Electronics of North Carolina, Inc. (VAE of NC) a premier national provider of large-scale audiovisual staging and production for conferences, meetings, and events, located in Winston-Salem, is pleased to announce a brand merger with its wholly-owned subsidiary, AV Connections of Charleston, South Carolina.

As of January 1, 2014, Visual Aids Electronics of North Carolina, Inc. will now also be known as AV Connections, Inc.

VAE of NC opened in 1985 as a licensee of another national audiovisual concern. In 2002, the experienced owner-management group of VAE of NC opened AV Connections of Charleston, also a premier provider of large-scale audiovisual rental and event production, under the same ownership and management. The success of the AV Connections brand, started by Brad Luckhart (President and CEO of VAE of NC, now AV Connections, Inc.) and managed by Vice President Jared Luckhart in Charleston, has led to the decision to merge these two strong businesses under one brand name and to end the use of the VAE brand going forward.

The ownership and leadership of AV Connections, Inc. of Winston-Salem is unchanged. Brad Luckhart, in partnership with his wife, CFO Marjorie Luckhart, continues to manage both the North Carolina and South Carolina operations from the AV Connections, Inc. (formerly VAE of NC) corporate headquarters located at 245 Executive Park Boulevard. In the process of this brand merge, we are also pleased to have increased and elevated our management group with Jared Luckhart’s promotion to Vice President.

AV Connections, Inc. continues to maintain a quality-based customer service approach to the national business of audiovisual production. Clients can continue to expect the highest level of professionalism and technical experience available to them in the audiovisual production and rentals fields. AV Connections, Inc.’s trusted teams of technical professionals will continue to provide the best audiovisual event experiences throughout the southeast and across the United States, as they have for twenty-eight years.

AV Connections, Inc. is pleased to announce this brand merger and welcomes all requests for further information at 336-768-5454.

Contact: Cat Coughlin, cat@bluelightpublicrelations.com
SC Governor Nikki Haley addresses a conference, AV Connections of Charleston provided audio visual rentals

November 7, 2013

AV Connections of Charleston provided audio visual rentals for the South Carolina Auto Dealers Association Conference this week at which South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley made an address to the attendees. We were so honored that AV Connections of Charleston was selected to be the audio/visual rentals and staging vendor for this great conference.