Can an LED Dance Floor Match Your Wedding Colors?

Can the Floor Match Our Colors?

Ours can hold a true pastel. Most cannot, and the reason is worth two minutes of your time.

A standard LED floor mixes red, green and blue. Those three make a vivid magenta or a deep blue very well, but a pastel is not a vivid color turned down. Blush is not dim red. Sage is not dim green. To reach them you need white light in the mix, and a floor without a dedicated white channel gets there by half-lighting a primary, which reads as murky rather than soft.

Our floors run red, green and blue plus separate warm white and cool white channels, with hue and saturation control on top. That is what makes a genuine blush, sage, ice blue or champagne available as a setting rather than an approximation. If you have a palette, bring it to us and we will match it.

Blush is not dim red. Without a white channel in the mix, a floor cannot get there.

The two whites also do quiet work through the evening. Warm white is genuinely warm and flatters a seated dinner. Cool white is crisp and reads modern. Move from one to the other as the night turns from dinner to dancing and the room changes character without anyone quite noticing why.

What Is a Multi-Level Dance Floor?

Floor units stack, so sections can sit at different heights with lit steps between them.

At one New Jersey wedding the build was a main floor with a smaller raised platform beside it, and the bride used the raised section through the night to show off outfit changes. It became the place everyone looked without a word being said about it. At a Connecticut wedding we built the reverse arrangement, a 4ft by 4ft center section at 8 inches flanked by two 4ft by 4ft sections at 16 inches, so the middle read as a stage and the flanks as wings.

Levels are a configuration, not a custom build, so this costs unit count rather than fabrication.

What Else Is Worth Lighting?

The cake table, more often than anything else.

A small lit floor under the cake display turns a table into a feature and gives photographers something to work with during the cutting. It is a handful of units and it is the single best value addition we get asked for. At one reception the order was a lit dance floor, four lit cocktail tables, bar stools and a lit cake table, which is a fair picture of how these builds usually grow.

Beyond that, lit cocktail tables during the hour before dinner keep the room feeling designed while people are standing rather than seated, and a lit bar gives the room a second bright point so the dance floor is not the only thing pulling the eye.

One thing to know. Cocktail tables and bars run on battery lighting, which does effects rather than precise color. If your heart is set on an exact palette across every piece, the floor is where that promise can be kept. We go into how the systems differ in our guide to what each piece can do.

What if Our Venue Has a Stage or an Awkward Floor?

Both are normal and both are solvable, but they need raising early rather than on the day.

We have built an 8ft by 16ft lit stage directly on top of a venue's own stage, adding a 4ft wide two-step lit stair so it could be reached comfortably. The venue keeps its structure and the couple gets a lit one on top of it.

If the floor underneath is uneven or in poor condition, a subfloor gets framed first so the units seat correctly. That is a solvable problem with notice and a serious one without it, so tell your rental company what the room is actually like rather than what the venue's photographs suggest.

For how many units the room needs in the first place, we worked the sizing through in our dance floor sizing guide. The short version is four square feet per dancer, and each of our units is exactly four square feet.

Who Controls It During the Reception?

You or your DJ, on a remote, with a range of about 90 to 120 feet.

Most couples set a static color for the ceremony and dinner and then hand the remote to the DJ for the dancing. On larger weddings you can have a lighting technician run it instead, which is free on events over $10,000 and $75 an hour otherwise. Worth it if you would rather not think about it at all on the day.

We deliver, install and break down across the tri-state area, from Manhattan and Brooklyn to Long Island, across New Jersey and up through Connecticut.