Real Weddings

Weddings We’ve Actually Worked

Every photograph and venue note on these pages comes from a wedding Eddie & Arlene personally worked — not stock photography, and not a summary borrowed from a venue brochure. What you see is what we saw from the booth.

Why These Pages Exist

What a Wedding Really Looks Like at Your Venue

Couples often ask us the same things: how does ceremony sound work here, where do introductions happen, how do the speeches carry, and what does the dance floor actually look like once dinner is over? Venue websites rarely answer that. These pages do — from our own experience working weddings in these rooms. Our First Dance is an independent wedding DJ and MC service; we don’t represent or speak for any venue.

Featured Venues

Real Weddings by Venue

Discovery Lodge reception room in Evansville, Indiana, with log walls, high beamed ceiling, stone fireplace column and warm amber uplighting
Evansville, Indiana

Discovery Lodge

One large log-and-stone lodge where the ceremony, dinner, toasts and dancing can all happen under one roof.

Bride and groom sharing their first dance under string lights at City View at Sterling Square in Evansville.
Evansville, Indiana

City View at Sterling Square

A historic downtown brick room with high ceilings and a bright dance floor — the whole reception happens in one lively space.

Reception tables at The Old Post Office in Evansville with red and blue uplighting on the walls and arched windows
Evansville, Indiana

The Old Post Office

A landmark 1870s hall with tall arched windows and rows of columns — uplighting and a long open floor give the reception a grand ballroom feel.

Outdoor wedding ceremony with a bride and groom under a wooden pavilion at Friedman Park in Newburgh, surrounded by their wedding party and guests.
Newburgh, Indiana

Friedman Park

An outdoor ceremony at the lakeside pavilion, then dinner, toasts and dancing inside the event center — two spaces, one easy flow.

Guests dancing on a packed checkered dance floor with glow sticks at a Highbanks wedding reception.
Petersburg, Indiana

Highbanks Wedding & Events

The ceremony sits at the water’s edge among the trees and needs its own sound, then everything moves inside to one big open room with a checkered dance floor that gives the dancing a clearly defined space.

Packed dance floor at a Rapp-Owen Granary wedding reception, with exposed timber trusses and chandeliers overhead
New Harmony, Indiana

Rapp-Owen Granary

A restored 1810s granary with a timber-truss hall, stone-and-brick walls and iron chandeliers — ceremony and reception in one historic room.

Guests at round tables during a wedding reception in Event Barn A at Mahr Park Arboretum, under wood beams and string lights
Madisonville, Kentucky

Mahr Park

A modern-rustic event barn with wood beams, a herringbone wall and glass doors opening to the patio — an easy indoor-outdoor setting for the celebration.

Eddie and Arlene Crunk smiling together at a warmly lit wedding reception at Discovery Lodge in Indiana.
Eddie & Arlene

The People You Plan With Are the People Who Show Up

When you book Our First Dance, you plan directly with Eddie and Arlene — and Eddie and Arlene are the two people who arrive on your wedding day. Eddie runs the music and sound; Arlene handles planning, announcements and the flow of the day. Nothing gets handed off.

Every photo on these pages is from a wedding Eddie and Arlene personally worked — never stock photography.

Not Listed Yet?

Don’t See Your Venue?

These pages grow as we add weddings we’ve worked. Eddie and Arlene DJ and MC weddings throughout the Tri-State — Evansville, Newburgh and Southern Indiana as well as Western Kentucky — so if your venue isn’t featured yet, tell us where you’re getting married and we’ll talk through how we’d handle the day.

Ready When You Are

Check Your Date

Tell us your date, your venue and what you have in mind. Eddie and Arlene answer personally.

Prefer to talk? Call or text Arlene at (270) 543-5742.