birdofsong wrote:
johnreynolds wrote:
Like i mentioned before, IF they can afford it, put karaoke in another room and everyone wins.
YOU get the upsell $$, everyone has a great time, and nobody leaves early.
Actually, they may WANT to stay LATER...dancing THEN karaoke or vice versa. 2 simultaneous activities they can choose from.
Separating your guests is a terrible idea. I've done bar/bat mitzvahs like this. Chip has done corporate parties like this, too. It never works well. You end up with a few people in one room and the bulk of them in the other. The few feel isolated and the guests of honor have to divide the time between the two rooms. Terrible idea. (Sorry John).
Sorry Bird, but i disagree with your accessment based on performing over 130 bar/bat mitsvah my self personally, and overseeing several hundred corporate gigs in my 20 years time running a full service entertainment business.
When you people options of entertainment they usually utilize them. Attempting to keep the same people in the same room when they may not be enjoying themselves is torture, but most do it out of formality, etiquette, then find a reason to leave, usually sooner than later.
Every Bride & Groom i've ever dealt with, nearly 99% being high-dollar functions with hundreds of guests (including lot of children), never seemed to mind going room to room checking on the guests doing karaoke, listening to live music and smoking cigars, then making it back to the reception itself to dance. This of course, after the first dance and other traditions that a performed with everyone in the same room.
As far as mitvahs go, after doing some dancing and traditions, most kids have a seperate room for karaoke, x-box, video-making, leaving the main room for dancing for the adults. Hip hop the kids want, does not usually vibe with the many 70 year olds. That is done in another room, as well as all the kids games (coke & pepsi, balloon-butt racing, etc..) Many mitsvahs i hired dance-troops to get the older folks dancing, then go into the other rooms to teach the kids line dancing. I taught dancing as well.
Certainly i've done many mitsvahs where everything iS performed in the same room where everyone can witness the fun, but the more extravagant ones lasted longer, had many more guests, and had more performers to keep EVERYONE, not just the kids, happier.
We can choose to disagree, but ther'e no denying my own experience at this one, for myself, and the many happily satisfied guests, which directly lead to dozens more mitsvah bookings, as well as weddings, because they got it ALL, as far as entertainment. -john
I suppose everybody's experiences are different, but I can say with regard to mine and Chip's (with 17 years of experience each), dividing a party (expecially one such as a wedding), is not a good idea and does not work well. I'm glad for you that your experiences are different. This is not a situation where kids are playing games in another room so they don't annoy the adults. This is a situation where now the bride and groom have to divide their time in two different places. To each their own, I suppose.
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