Brian Whitis

The Loft

2011-03-31T07:37:00.005-04:00

A great night at the Loft in Columbus with Shawna and Brandon! We had the Ceremony and the Reception both at the Loft on February 26. Their music taste started with a first dance of Michael Buble to the last dance of Green Day, and every thing in between! The Room Before Uplighting. The Room After!

Coming Soon

2011-01-13T09:28:00.003-05:00

In the upcoming months we will start construction on a new office, same location just remodeling an existing building on the property into the new Gallery! Same great professionals with more space and room for a photography studio. I can't wait! stay tuned for more info and pictures to come.

Fun at The Omni!

2011-01-10T15:59:00.003-05:00

Fun with lighting at the Omni! Thanks Meg For the great picture!!!
Dancing under the Stars and Up-Lighting.

New For 2011

2010-12-29T10:14:00.004-05:00

New for 2011 More Lights you now have the option for Union Station to do 20 uplights! From 12 to 20 transformation! Thanks to Troy for the Great Photos! He add fun to the evening with his Photo Booth!

The Ritz Charles

2010-12-29T09:59:00.003-05:00

We had a great time at the Ritz Charles Christmas party. The room was awesome from the Cool Bar and fun lounge area, to the lighting! Troy from Clikz Photo booth added to the fun of the evening!

Lighting under the glass table top

Snow Flake GOBO

Dancing under the stars!

Dancing under the stars

2010-08-11T14:22:00.003-04:00

Dancing under the stars at Oak Hill in the Pavilion.

I love new lighting!! Thanks to Jennifer for the great photos.

Candy Table

2010-05-12T09:12:00.002-04:00

NEW!!!! I have my Lighted Candy Table ready for your event!

Grace and Matt

2009-07-09T09:47:00.002-04:00

What a great couple!!! Grace and Matt were sooo much fun! The cocktail hour was planned to be outside in the gardens of the museum but the threat of rain brought us inside. Good thing because on our way down to the museum the skies let loose and it poured. I was able to provide a small uplighting package for Grace and Matt . We had a great team Darcie With Circle city planners and photography by openField photography. Grace, Matt and all their friends and family danced the night way. And I mean danced, they love their ROCK N ROLL !

Pin Spot Lighting

2009-06-03T07:34:00.008-04:00

Here are a few pictures of my Pin Spot lighting. I used at the Bridal seminar at Ritz Charles.
Thanks to Kristin for the great pictures.

Eric and Christy at Union Station

2009-05-28T07:37:00.002-04:00

Eric and Christy at Union Station!

What can I say but Awesome! The girls at Circle City Planers planed a majestic evening for Eric and Christy. I was able to provide the uplighting and the Gobo. Thanks to Andrew Scalini for the outstanding pictures.

Bridal Seminar at the Ritz Charles

2009-05-05T15:59:00.006-04:00

Bridal seminar at Ritz Charles. It’s a great chance to get room ideas, taste the food and GREAT cake! I was able to show case some new lighting. Pin Spots on the buffet and up lighting on the cake! What fun the night it was to play with some new lighting and talk with Brides and my fellow Professionals. Thanks to Erin Hession for all the great photos.
Tonya Shadoan from Circle City Planners gave another one of her awesome presentations on the do’s and don’ts of wedding planning, videotaped by Bob Ridge from IndyVisual

The new Cake up lighting!

Whitney and Randi

2009-05-05T15:44:00.004-04:00

What a beautiful spring day for Whitney and Randi, and a great team that night put together by Tonya at Circle City Planners.
We were at the INDIANA STATE MUSEUM and I was able to add to the décor by providing the uplighting, and Gobo . It was great to work with John and Jennifer from Northern Lights Film and Photography by Jennifer Driscoll. Thanks Jennifer for all the great photos.

Brides against Breast Cancer

2009-04-17T15:11:00.003-04:00

NATIONWIDE TOUR OF GOWNS
“FIND THE GOWN OF YOUR DREAMS AND MAKE A WISH COME TRUE”
"Brides Against Breast CancerTM" gown sales continue to be important fund-raising events for Making Memories. Our more than 32 yearly shows provide brides-to-be with an opportunity to find their dream gown (at an incredible savings) while making wishes and dreams come true for women and men who are losing their fight against breast cancer.

They even got Paul Thomsas and I to model.....HA HA

ISES Lunch

2009-03-25T11:16:00.003-04:00

I provided the uplighting for the ISES Lunch …Thanks Troy for the pictures

Wesley and Whitney

2009-03-25T10:24:00.000-04:00

Another outstanding night with the girls from Circle City Planners at Crown Plaza Down Town. The Ceremony was in the Grand Ball Room under the beautiful flowers by Julie.
We then move to the bar for Cocktails and flipped the Ball Room over and changed the color of the up lighting for the reception. As always it was great to work with Jessica Strickland photography and Bob Ridge Indy Visual.

March 5 2009

2009-03-25T10:10:00.001-04:00

Circle City Planners
Presents
“How to have a LUXE wedding”
on today’s Budget.

Tonya and the girls from Circle City along with The Crown Plaza, did a wonderful Job with this event. Great night to learn eat drink and just have a good time. I was able to provide Music and some uplighting for the evening. Thanks Dawn for the great pictures

February 28

2009-03-19T14:14:00.001-04:00

Saturday night at the Indiana Roof.

Justin and Kate what great couple. Dancing the night away with Kate and her fellow Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders. Cocktails, Dinner and Dancing under the Roof’s stars. Joining the wedding team was Jenny with grise photography and Jessica with Movie tyme productions.

Kate with the girls!

World Of Wheels

2009-03-11T09:29:00.000-04:00

Well February is kind of slow, but that's ok it gives me time to play. The 12th - 15th. was the World Of Wheels at the state fairgrounds. We showed the wife’s 66 mustang and she did very well. Winning 1st in her class and Best Street.

New LED Up lighting

2009-01-30T09:27:00.000-05:00

Here are just a few pictures of the new LED up lights ...You can see the dramatic difference it makes before and after.

1.25.09

2009-01-30T09:03:00.000-05:00

Bobby and Caroline what a fun couple, from Purdue Pete, as a groomsmen, to the Monday Night Football theme for their grand entrance.
Darcie and the girls from Circle City Planners along with the staff from the Omni and beautiful flowers by Julie, made it a night to remember.
The Ceremony was in the Ball room with new music like Incubus ,FooFighters and John Mayer all done by The Vitamin Quartet.
After cocktails on the mezzanine, and dinner in the dinning room. We move back into the Ballroom to dance the night away.

Happy New Year

2009-01-05T10:17:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year !
As it is sad to see the holidays pass it’s good to move on to the new year.
We spent Christmas this year with the wife’s family in West Virginia. We were down there about 5 days and had a great time with family and just relaxing.
New Years eve was quite the party at out house (no I did not work) the wife had a tonsillectomy at 8:00 a.m. and I am still playing DR. kill patient. But all is well and she should be talking soon!
Thank You to all that were a part of making my 2008 successful! I am looking forward to another successful year in 2009!!!!!!

IHTC Holiday Party

2008-12-20T07:05:00.000-05:00

12.13.08 Holiday party for the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, at The River Walk. Fun was had by all! Good food, Drinks, and a “Dirty Santa” gift exchange. All lead up to an energetic group of dancers.

Zotec Holiday Party

2008-12-20T06:34:00.000-05:00

12-12-08 Working with the girls from Circle City Planners, and what a job Tonya and Darcie did for the Zotec Holiday party. We were at the Renaissance in Carmel. Chick McGee from Q-95 was the M.C. for the ZOTEC Got Talent show along with two other judges picking the winners. The Village People were first on the stage with a outstanding performance of YMCA. They were so good they were brought back at the end for an encore!

Wow what a great weekend

2008-12-10T19:22:00.000-05:00

It started Friday night with Carmel Financial at the Ritz Charles. Carmel Financial had another record year for their food drive OVER 85,000 FOOD ITEMS That’s a semi trailer and a half of food. Way to guys.
Saturday night, I was back with Covanta Energy at the Omni Down Town, they raffled of a 42” flat-panel T.V. and had a 50/50 raffle all to raise money for Wheeler Mission. They raised over a $1000.00 Good Job Covanta.
Sunday night was Ashley and Andy at the Ritz Glass Garden Pavilion .What a beautiful night. Colors of Black and Pink, snow on the ground and frost on the windows it was décor money can’t buy.

Gallery

2008-12-03T20:21:00.000-05:00

Tonight was Gallery open house .......
Troy brought out his gear and had a photo shoot to get me a new head shot.
Well you pick...........

#15

Thanksgiving

2008-12-01T18:58:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone had as good a Thanksgiving as I did……It felt good to have the weekend off and spend time with friends and family. Thursday my family came to our house for drinks, dinner, games and watched movies by the fire. You know you had a good weekend when you feel recharged and ready for work and the Holiday season.

Katy and Clayton

2008-11-19T14:38:00.001-05:00

It was her father's love of trains behind having their reception at the Mavris . The dinner was out of this world !! catered by MBP. A fun night of dinner, dancing, and trains. We had cocktails on the first floor and dinner and dancing on the 2nd.

This young man danced all night long ....... King of the Dance Floor.

First Dance

The Mavris

Darcie and Clint

2008-11-19T14:22:00.000-05:00

Wow what a great day it was, Clint and Darcie are just great to work with. The ceremony was in the Ritz Chapel with the Reception next door. Again Troy did the photography awesome job. The Ritz Charles did their usal wounderful job too. Best of luck Clint and Darcie

Uplighting

2008-11-19T13:46:00.001-05:00

You can now add uplighting and a monogram projector to your Event. You can bring your colors to the room and put your name in lights.

Circle City Planners - GOBO/Monogram

Ping and Brian

2008-11-18T12:36:00.000-05:00

Ping and Brian were married this past summer at White River Gardens. Photography was the by Troy Hill as always great to work with. Decor for the ceremony and reception was by Dale Brewer of DB Event Design. Dale knows how to take a outdoor setting and make it Grand !

Troy ,Dale and I are all part of the Debut Event Gallery in Avon .

Dale's design for the Ceremony

Let's dance

Me hard at work !!

Time to move from ceremony to the reception.

Mustang

2008-11-18T12:18:00.000-05:00

This summer I finished my wife's 1966 Mustang......Wow after 10 months of a labor of love we are done.

She won awards 6 of the first 7 shows with one Best Of Show !

Welcome

2008-11-18T11:21:00.000-05:00

Welcome to my blog I will be posting past events that I Emcee and D.J. as well as significant happenings in my life.