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Specialty wedding lighting rentals at High Wire Distillery, Charleston for a beautiful event

November 28, 2014

Not something we do everyday, specialty wedding lighting rentals in a distillery but we loved designing this lighting and it was an incredible, and truly memorable wedding! We were excited to get this call because AV Connections Charleston event lighting group is always floored for a new challenge. We love the creative thinking of holding a reception in a distillery. And we are especially partial to High Wire Distilling as we were their event lighting company who lit their grand opening – we know and love their space well.

While Charleston has more than its far share of extraordinary wedding venues (and for that reason continues to be the number one destination wedding city in the nation), there are still some untapped wedding venues couples planning a wedding in Charleston would do well to consider. The great benefit of a wedding in a location like this, besides the obvious proximity to distilled spirits, is that it is a wedding site like none other your guests have even seen.

For this wedding, the bride and groom choose specialty wedding lighting rentals of strands of cafe bulbs to line the ceiling of the space and give it a warm sparkle once night set in.
Set up at a glance: Magnolia Plantation Gardens wedding lighting by AV Connections

November 21, 2014

Today we are taking a glance over our team’s shoulder with a glance into the set up for a Magnolia Plantation Gardens wedding lighting job for a recent fall nuptuial on the historic property. The bride and groom choose the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens Carriage House for a beautiful autumnal celebration. Both the vows and reception were held on the Magnolia grounds and AV Connections was called upon to create a twinkling rustic night design for the reception.

Magnolia Plantation Gardens wedding lighting has just one key to making the lighting both spectacular and correct: Respect the structure. The Carriage House, a most popular Charleston wedding event venue, was built in 1840. It is selected so often because it is truly a Charleston setting, complete with original hardwoods throughout. The key to Magnolia Plantation Gardens wedding lighting is to light it to make the structure and its rustic elegance sing. While so many options are available, cafe bulb rentals are a great choice for weddings with differing plans on how they will be hung for each wedding.

Taking into account that this bride and groom wanted to put an elegant spin on a rustic venue, we really thought through the wedding lighting rentals and design to get the most from the long and wide Carriage House, without adding any inelegance to the atmosphere. It is a careful balance 0 you want an amazing party, but you don’t want to go too far. It is AV Connections’ experience with Magnolia Plantation Gardens wedding lighting which helps us to achieve things other wedding rental companies cannot: A subtle, warm lighting to a great party. Magnolia Plantation Gardens wedding lighting is one of our favorite jobs, we look forward to helping more wedding planners and brides and grooms have great weddings at this beautiful site.
Wedding lighting for Cooper River Room by AV Connections of Charleston

November 14, 2014

AV Connections was so pleased to be the wedding lighting for Cooper River Room weddings once again this past week. Once of Charleston’s most picturesque wedding venues, the Cooper River Room is perched above the Cooper River on the Mt. Pleasant side of metro Charleston. Part of a massive waterfront project to make great public park and venue spaces for the people of Charleston, the Cooper River Room enjoys panoramic views of the mighty river and the bridge. Wedding lighting for Cooper River Room can run the gamut of fabulous indoor and outdoor lighting options: AV Connections has run round lantern rental lighting in strings from one part of the law to another, inside and along tents, and seemingly off into blank space in the night like a magical disappearing act.

Some brides and grooms choose to be inside and that requires a different planfor wedding lighting for Cooper River Room: In that wedding scenario you may consider more standing lantern rentals at the doors and custom color gobo’s inside the Cooper River Room. We also erected LED custom uplighting rentals, and Par 38’s. Other’s choose to erect a tent on the great lawn at the Cooper River Room and there are once again a world of great wedding lighting rentals available from AV Connections of Charleston.

Whether you choose to plan your Charleston wedding yourselves or are working with a local planner, we are happy to have a member of our wedding light design team meet you at the Cooper River Room to discuss great wedding rental options available from AV Connections. When the wedding day arrives you can be certain we will be set up and torn down in a timely fashion and leave you nothing to worry about when it comes to your wedding lighting for Cooper River Room. We look forward to working with you.
AV Connections new conference AV rental inventory items added for Fall, 2014

November 2, 2014

AV Connections continues to pursue the finest and most technologically advanced conference AV rental inventory in NC and SC, we are pleased to announce the purchase of a new front line of conference AV rental technology. Our broadened inventory is available to conference AV rental clients throughout the Southeast from our branch offices in North Carolina and South Carolina. We continue to make capital investment in the quality of your conference and meeting presentations as has been our commitment since opening AV Connections thirty years ago.

Our Event Technology team regularly creates lists of new technologies to advance AV Connections presentation rental offerings. included in this season’s inventory buy for both North Carolina and South Carolina conference AV rental selections were:

8000 lumen LCD projectors
Digital video HDMI signal packages
Alma-Barco Screen Pro-II 3G digital switchers
Shure wireless microphone and hand held transmitter sets
Shure wireless digital antennas
Milestone 9×12 projection screens
Milestone 10×10 projection screens
Theatrical screen dress kits
Additional custom lighting options for both special events and conference presentations
Several new chandelier options for wedding and banquet lighting rental options

We are so pleased to offer this new AV rental inventory to our clients throughout the United States. If you are new to AV Connections, now is the time to send us an RFP for your conference or meeting. We’ll be the best priced AV rental company in the United States and we are always pleased to work to your budget. Email us at avrentals@avconnectionsusa.com.
Charleston Company Holiday Party AV by AV Connections

October 24, 2014

It’s that time of year when our Charleston company holiday party AV and rentals booking begin to fill. We encourage all party planners and Charleston Christmas and company party hosts and hostesses to get their orders and special requests in early. It promises to be a busier holiday season than ever before. So many great firms have relocated to Charleston in the past year and so we expect significantly more bookings this season.

Our Charleston weather is particularly kind the winter usually and so many outdoor celebrations are planned for Charleston company holiday party AV rentals. Cafe bulb lighting strands to outline or overhead light patios or terraces is a great idea. AV Connections maintains Charleston’s largest inventory of party lighting rentals. Our lighting designers are happy to design a spectacular and festive lighting design for your home or party location. Let us be your first call for great prices and talented lighting design. Every lighting design is crafted to order to suit each space and budget.

AV Connections’ goal is to deliver an elegant and memorable atmosphere. We want to create the perfect holiday celebration or thank-you for your clients or employees. We look forward to being your Charleston company holiday party AV and lighting vendor for years to come. We will earn your business with every job.
Outdoor presentation AV Charleston by AV Connections

October 20, 2014

Look at this incredible outdoor presentation AV Charleston location this week! AV Connections of Charleston, SC is so pleased to be the outdoor presentation AV Charleston vendor selected to help broadcast the 300th anniversary of the South Mulberry Plantation in Moncks Corner, SC. This magnificent home, sometimes referred to as Mulberry Castle, doesn’t look a day of 300 years. Meticulously restored and maintained, the home is a testament to the tireless historic preservation efforts of local homeowners. An event is planned to commemorate the 1714 construction of the Mulberry Plantation home by the Historical Preservation Foundation of Charleston.

Going to this event are the following AV equipment rentals which we will set up and tear down for the clients:

60″ Sharp LED/LCD Flat-Screen Monitor
Includes 84″ Dual Post Adjustable Floor Stand
DVD Player
A/V Rolling Cart w/ Black Skirt
JBL PRX712 Powered Speaker and stand
2 1.0 Shure UHF Wireless Hand Held Microphone System, Podium Mic & Seated Presenter Microphone
1 1.0 Yamaha MG10/2 Mixer Includes Audio Patch/Connection for iPod/MP3 Player/Laptop
1 1.0 Standing Lectern – Black Professional
AV rentals SC at Harbour Club Charleston by AV Connections

October 17, 2014

Absolutely one of our favorite meeting or conference locations for which we provide AV rentals SC is the Harbour Club of Charleston on Priouleau Street in Charleston’s oldest section. Flanked by cobblestone streets and a quick duck around a corner to the harbor, it is a picturesque and perfect setting for conference, meetings, and weddings. Our AV Connections’ AV rentals SC Team is always pleased to get the call for this historic venue,

This past week we were pleased to provide AV rentals SC for a state-wide medical association conference in the Ballroom at the Harbour Club.

AC Power Extension Cord/Power Strip
LCD Projector, 2700 Lumens
Shure Hand Held Wired Microphone Podium
Extron DVS 406 Switcher/Scaler
32″ LCD Flat Screen Monitor
D’San Speakertimer
Wireless Presentation Advancer Remote and Laser Pointer
Laptop Computer and audio adapter
Yamaha MG12/4 Mixer
JBL EON 15 Powered Speaker and Ultimate Stand
Shure UHF Wireless Hand Held Microphone System
Shure Hand Held Wired Microphones
Nashville Conference AV by AV Connections

October 15, 2014

We have been on the road this week providing Nashville conference AV for a major national legal conference held at the Nashville Hilton Downtown. Central to everything and providing great sights and sounds for conference attendees, this hotel is a top conference destination.

Nashville conference AV is a pleasure at Nashville Hilton Downtown. The facility was built with conference ease in mind. Our Nashville conference AV group was pleased to work again with the great clients for whom we travel each year. And just as pleased to work with the professional and exceedingly personable conference planning group at Hilton Nashville Downtown.

For this Nashville conference AV job, we took with us in part the following conference AV rental equipment which we set up and tore down:

Multiple 8’x8′ Screens
Multiple LCD Projector (2500 – 3500 Lumens)
Shure UHF Wireless Hand Held Microphone Systems
Yamaha MG10/2 Mixers
Shure Handheld Wired Microphones (Podium Microphone)
Wireless Presentation Advancer Remotes w/ Laser Pointers
Laptop Computers
LCD Projectors (2500 – 3500 Lumens)
Conference AV Pinehurst NC by AV Connections

October 10, 2014

It was an exciting week for AV Connections providing Conference AV Pinehurst NC for a national medical conference. We were pleased to provide the AV rentals, set up, technicians, and tear down this week at the incredible conference facility at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst. NC.

It is always a good idea to send your RFP to multiple off-site conference AV Pinehurst NC providers. Often AV rentals companies which are not under contract to a facility a meeting planner is considering can give far better prices for large AV jobs. Be sure you check around, do not just accept the in-house costs. Everything is competitive and negotiable.

Pinehurt, best known for it’s incredible golf courses and five-star acocmodations, not to mention several US Open Championships, is also a great choice for your national conference or meeting. We were the AV vendors selected to provide the ballroom and breakout rooms AV during this three day event.

Some of the AV rental equipment we traveled with was:

9′ x 12′ Fast-Fold Screen (Front Projection Surface – w/black bottom skirt)
Complete Screen Velour Dress Kit – Left and Right Side Drape & Valence Drape
Pipe and Drape: 8′ – 16′ (Black)
Barco RLM-W8 WUXGA DLP Projector (8,000 Lumen)
Barco Lens: 1.5-1.8 XGA, 1.45-1.74 WUXGA
ScreenPro II HD Switcher ((8) VGA Inputs, (2) DVI Inputs)
D’San Pro-2000 Limitimer Package
D’San ASL4-ND3 Speaker Clock (24″)
Extron RGBHV Distribution Amplifier
42″ Sanyo Flat-Screen Plasma
LCD Monitor
Cat5 Cable (150’+)
Shure Hand Held Wired Microphone – SM58/Beta 58 Podium Microphone

If you are planning a conference at Pinehurst Resort, be sure to call or email AV Connections for a competitive estimate on your conference AV Pinehurst NC. AV Connections is pleased to generate a price quote for your conference, meeting, or wedding at Pinehurst. We look forward to hearing from you at avrentals@avconnectionssc.com or 843-574-1174.