There is a phone number where brides can get information concerning the Bella Terrazza and Tuscany of Garden Oaks. It was just posted on the Knot at this link:
So this morning I log into my visitor Tracking software and notice that hundreds of people are looking for information on Bella Terrazza on and The Tuscany of Garden Oaks. I do a little bit of research and I found a few interesting articles.
Bella Terrazza and Tuscany of Garden Oaks File for Bankruptcy
The best source of information is of course TheKnot.com.
Go to the main page and Click on the “COMMUNITY” Tab.
Once in the community tab, Look for Local Boards
on the drop down next to “Where are you?:” Select : “TX - Houston”
There you will find plenty of brides and vendors offering help and you can voice your opinions as well.
With all that is going on, FHP Entertainment would like to help out any bride that still needs Entertainment for their event. As most of our Saturdays are already reserved for upcoming events, if a (Bella Terrazza or Tuscany of Garden Oaks) bride would like to use our service for their upcoming event, we are more than glad to provide our service at a special discount rate, however we can only accommodate Most Friday and Sunday events. Please contact us and we can arrange a special discount for you. We wish you all the best.
Hurricane Ike has come and gone, but it’s damage and aftermath is still here for us Houstonians to clean up.
This past weekend I had two weddings cancel because of Hurricane Ike. Although, they will both probably reschedule, I feel really bad that they had to go through not only a Hurricane, but dealing with the rescheduling of such an important day in their lives.
Power is still out through a lot of Houston, but places are slowly starting to light up. We are out of power at home but power returned to our office yesterday.
It’s great that God blessed us with a cold front because we really needed it. Having no power or AC in Houston is very dangerous and deadly.
Last night I woke up at 3:30 am, and I have to admit, I was feeling a bit desperate because if everything does not go as planned, we only have supplies to live for a month at the most. If in one month things do not straighten up, then we (my immediate family) are in serious trouble. Like they say prepare for the worse and hope for the best. By the looks of it, the worse is not going to happen, but you have to wander what if.
After that I just rolled over and kissed my 1 year old girl in the cheek, hugged my wife, and thanked God that we were all still alive and our house was still standing. It almost felt like a new begging and that I had the power to do exactly what I wanted with my life. I don’t know where that came from but it was a realization that I needed.
Let’s hope that Centerpoint Energy and all city and state government officials do as great a job as they have done to this point, and they get this city back on it’s feet.
If you have, then you know exactly what I’m talking about…
Non-Professionally trained wedding Dj’s that ruin a wedding!
This weekend, I took the weekend off to spend with my family. We decided to attend a family event, which just happened to be a wedding. Let me just tell you, it felt like the looongest wedding I had ever attended, and I am talking about feeling this by 8:00pm. People don’t like to attend weddings because weddings are boring, they are not properly entertained, and because they are not wow’d from the moment they arrive at the reception venue. Their sensory system is not impressed at all. If all their senses are not properly entertained, they easily lose interest and now feel like they are imprisoned for the rest of the night. That’s how I felt Saturday night.
Now, I can’t talk about the sense of smell, the sense of sight, or the sense of touch, but I can talk to you about the sense of hearing and taste. But for my audience’s purpose I will concentrate about the sense of sound.
Music is a stimulant; it can stimulate you to feel relaxed, hyper, active, etc… It also helps you pass time when you are just sitting there and have no one to talk to for short periods of time. You start noticing the background music and you tend to find yourself enjoying something you would normally never enjoy. Not to mention, music sets the mood of a room, or an audience.
When we walked into the reception area, the first thing we noticed was that there was no music. Now since I am a DJ I was expecting to hear some music, my only curiosity was the type of music that would be played. Well, there was none, just people mumbling like they were at a subway, at a park, at a noisy classroom right before the teacher walks in, etc… It did not feel like we were attending a wedding, it felt more like we were just at an everyday place you don’t really want to be, but have to.
I feel that the background music, even if it’s something you really don’t particularly hear on a day to day basis, would have added a bit of an ambiance and would put you at a wedding reception, surrounded by close friends and family.
Another thing that I feel having no music did was, it separated the groom’s friends and family from the bride’s friends and family. I felt it created like a dual, a separation, a distance. Like if they were intruders in our personal event. OK maybe I’m stretching it, but it did feel like that. I guess I don’t see that too much at the weddings I attend, but I know that if you put some jazzy beat, some classical background music, some romantic melodies, or something smooth, it will relax all of your sense and put you more at ease to trust those strangers. Again, this is my opinion of what happened that night.
So here are 10 ways that a non-professional wedding dj can ruin your wedding, without him even knowing it.
We will start with the music. They don’t play any music during the dinner/reception hour. Uggh, annoying… boring… unprofessional!!
They don’t find out what kind of music the bride and groom like beforehand, so they play what they are used to: All night loooong: During Dinner, During Cocktails, During Dancing. A big no no…
They don’t inform the audience of what is about to happen, what is happening, and what to expect. What just happened? ever hear that? or What’s going on over there?
They dress inappropriately. How embarrassing is it to have someone represent you in an unprofessional manner? Shame on you!
They do not announce your bridal party when asked to. They are the bride and groom’s best friends, they want the bridal party to be recognized for their time spent with them through the planning stages, they want to guests to know they are important people in their lives. When the DJ did not announce them, I saw the bride burst out in tears. SAD… you paid for that… very sad…
They do not have an itinerary to help the bride and groom run and organize the wedding. (no that is not the wedding planner’s job, especially when one was not hired, and no that is not the bride and groom’s job to make one up, it’s up to the DJ if there is no wedding planner present!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Come on!!! Evolve already!
They don’t find out what type of music BOTH sides of the family like to dance.
THEY DON’T ALLOW THE BRIDE AND GROOM OR THEIR FAMILY TO REQUEST SONGS THEY LOVE TO DANCE TO!
They play unedited, inappropriate music. It’s a wedding, not a night club.
They disrespect, make fun of, your guests over the microphone. Ditto!
Obviously, anyone who does ALL these things, should never be invited to a wedding let a lone be asked to MC and DJ yours.
Now the DJ at this particular wedding did not do all these, he did not even do half of these. But with two or three things that he did do, it made it seem like a long, enjoyable wedding where everyone was just sitting there looking at each other wondering: When is this going to get good?
This wedding reminded me how the music is an important-vital part to any wedding reception.
I hope this helps you AVOID an un-enjoyable evening at your wedding reception.
Pictures from a recent wedding in Vargos Restaurant In Houston Texas. This was from a Latino Wedding. Great dancing and lots of fun. I was able to also help them webcast their wedding to their family in Peru and all over the world. They set up a web cam at the bride and groom’s main talbe and using my AT&T wireless Air card we were able to transmit the entire wedding, toasts, speaches, singing and dancing all around the world. Neat stuff. I hear they were also dancing all over the world. So now I can say I have played for a few other countries around the world.
Here are the Pictures from the Wedding Reception at Vargos
Next time I will have to do a better job of taking pictures of the venue for you to see.
Happy Planning!
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DJ Francisco
Professional Bilingual Wedding DJ in Houston
Hurricane Ike has come and gone, but it’s damage and aftermath is still here for us Houstonians to clean up.