Studio Veil aims to make your event planning simple. There are no hidden fees or extras you will be charged for later (unless you add services to your contract). The only things to keep in mind beyond the stated prices are, sales tax for uncle Sam and gratuity should you decide to tip your vendors. DJ service is not subject to sales tax, but all other services are.
To secure your service with Studio Veil we require a 50% deposit with a signed contract. The final 50% (or remaining balance) is due 1 month before the event.
Studio Veil is based in Brooklyn Park, MN. Our team will travel up to 1 hour to your event venue from our location. Please note, some venues will incur a travel fee. This will be communicated ahead of time on your quote/contract.
In 2005, our company was started from a shared idea between two good friends. We wanted to make it easy for couples to plan their weddings by providing multiple wedding services from one central company. The first official wedding we worked as a company was on April Fools Day 2006. What a perfect day to start in the wedding and event industry!
The shoe game is a fun way to entertain your guests and see how well your answers line up with your now spouse. We have you sit back-to-back and take off your shoes. You’ll hold one of your shoes in one hand and one of your partner’s in the other hand. Then we’ll ask you a series of questions and you raise the shoe of the person that best answers the question. For example, “who is the better cook?” or “Who starts the most fights?”. As I’m sure you can imagine, it can get pretty entertaining.
This is a fun activity to consider if you have guests attending that have been married for a long time. There are multiple variations but the one we typically do goes like this…invite all married couples out to the dance floor and start playing a slow dance song. We start calling out time periods and asking couples that have been married for less than that time period to step aside until we are left with the longest married couple out on the dance floor. We once had a couple that had been married 67 years! It’s a fun way to honor that couple. Sometimes we’ll re-invite the newlyweds back to the dance floor for the last 30 seconds or so to dance with that couple.
Yes, but not in a way that affects the music. We may need to step away to grab water or use the restroom, but we’re never away for more than a few minutes and the music will continue regardless.
Out of respect for the clients we are actively working with, we are not able to invite future couples/clients to events where we are DJ’ing. The best way to get a feel for who we are and what we do is through our reviews on Google & The Knot.
Within your DJ Questionnaire inside your Client Portal, there’s a place where we ask you to give us approximately 20 song requests. That’s usually a good number to give the DJ a direction of what you’re looking for but also gives them freedom to use guest requests and their own selections to fill in the rest. Some couples simply pick their first dance song and leave the rest to us while other couples pick 100 songs and tell us to only play from that list. We prefer the default middle ground but we’ll work with whatever you give us. There’s also a section on the DJ Questionnaire to list any do-not-play requests.
We accept guest requests by default but have had some couples in the past ask that we not take requests. If that’s you, just let us know.
We include lighting for the dance floor with all our DJ packages. This lighting will be on a stand next to one of our speakers with the lights shining down on the dance floor. They’ll change colors with the music and help provide a fun atmosphere for dancing. Uplighting is not included but an optional add-on, and it’s for lighting the space or the room at large. They are called uplights because they sit on the floor and point up. We use them to light behind the head table, pillars, walls, drapes, corners, etc. We offer them in different quantities depending on what you want to light.
We use LED lighting which takes very little energy and puts out very little heat. You won’t burn up from the hot lights as you might from traditional stage lighting. Our lights change colors with the music to create a nice ambiance, but we do not use club or party lighting such as strobes, lasers, and fog machines.
Of course! We will handle all announcements and activities as needed. Some couples do have a friend or family member that wants to take on some of those responsibilities and that’s fine with us as well.
We consider ourselves more as facilitators then entertainers. Your guests are there to have a good time…not to listen to us talk all night. We’ll facilitate all the events you want (grand march, 1st dances, bouquet/garter tosses, cake cutting) and none of the ones you don’t. Unless there’s an announcement that needs to be made or one of the above events taking place, we let good music decisions do the talking for us. In our experience, if guests don’t want to dance, nothing we do or say will change that. And if they DO want to dance, they will love the music choices we make!
Our DJ’s vary slightly in their setup time. They will arrive between 1 and 2 hours before guest arrival into the reception space to load-in and set up. Music begins playing when 1st guests arrive. At the end of the night, it’ll take approximately 30-45 minutes to tear down and load out.
With our Full Day DJ package, we arrive about 90 minutes before the ceremony to load-in and set up. We typically start playing seating music 30 minutes prior to the ceremony, as guests begin arriving. Two handheld wireless microphones are available for the officiant, wedding couple, musicians, and readers to use. Lapel or headset microphones are available upon request and for a small rental fee. We will play any music you would like throughout your ceremony. If you plan to have musicians, they may also plug into our soundboard, but must provide their own cables to go from the instrument to the soundboard.
Absolutely! It’s your day, not ours. Some couples leave it totally up to us, and others pick every song. Most fall somewhere in the middle. This is where we combine our experience with guest requests to play music that everyone will enjoy. You’ll communicate song requests, do-not-play lists and other details via your DJ Questionnaire in your Client Portal after booking.
Unless you are booking the Full Day DJ package by Ryan Veil, DJ scheduling is based on individual availability. We are a smaller company with a roster of only 10 DJ’s so we are able to maintain a pretty consistent style across our DJ’s plus we have extremely low turnover. Our DJ’s are experienced and amazing which allows us to schedule based on availability rather than trying to play matchmaker. Our online Client Portal makes it SUPER easy to communicate details of your wedding with us beforehand and then we finalize those details directly with you a few weeks prior to your wedding.
Because holiday parties are common for us year-to-year, we do maintain a set of holiday themed props. Additional themed props are available on request but please note there is additional cost for us to source new themed props.
Yes! Files are uploaded directly to an online gallery from the booth. As we finalize and process everything from your event, usually 1-2 business days later, you will also receive a link to download all the media at once.
Guests can text, email, and airdrop files to themselves as soon as their session is completed. You also have the option of adding printing to any photo booth booking. If you added the photo booth print package, guests will also recieve a printed copy. Please note, however, that GIFs and boomerangs are digital-only files that cannot be printed.
A boomerang is a short video file that plays forward then backwards several times…going back and forth like a boomerang. People get super creative and these are usually pretty fun to look through.
A GIF is an animated image that is a BLAST to create! Guests will be prompted to take 4 photos that play back in a short video.
The Glam upgrade creates black/white photos with a touch of skin softening. It gives your photos more of a high fashion look.
Photo booth attendants arrive about 1 hour prior to the booth opening to load in and set up. Teardown will begin promptly at the conclusion of the rental time. Early setup and late teardown is billed at $40/hr if needed.
Props are always included with our photo booth rentals. We bring glasses, signs, mustaches, headbands, and other great props. Clients are also welcome to provide their own props as well.
So glad you asked! Ryan (Studio Veil owner) is picky about photo booths. They must be beautiful and look like they belong as high end events, they must be reliable/dependable so as to minimize down time, and they must be high quality and create stunning images. Our booth does all those things while offering guests photos, GIFs, boomerangs, glam, email, text, airdrop, video, and more! When you compare Studio Veil booths to some of the others out there that are either eye-sores, lower quality images, or less feature-rich, it’s clear that Studio Veil photo booths are the way to go.
When it comes to photography and your wedding day, we stress the importance of not rushing the photographer or yourselves. It’s difficult to produce high-quality images when we’re constantly behind schedule and all the family/wedding party are just trying to “get to the reception.” Additionally, you don’t want memories of your wedding day to consist of being stressed out due to time!
We recommend you allow 2 ½ hours for couple, wedding party & family portraits. (If any of the photos are happening off-site, please keep travel times in mind as well.) For ease of flow in this schedule, we highly recommend doing photos before the ceremony. Setting up a pre-ceremony “first look” not only gives the two of you an intimate moment together, but it’s also a wise time-conscious decision. Capturing the images of the two of you together before the ceremony will make for the most smooth transition to the reception afterward (and no waiting around for hours for your guests.)
A typical wedding day example…
12:15 – First Look
12:30 - Couple & Wedding Party Photos
2:30 - Family Photos
3:00 - Photos done...reset for ceremony
3:30 – Ceremony
4:15 – Cocktail Hour/Photo Time
5:30 – Grand March
6:00 – Dinner
7:00 – Toasts/Speeches
7:30 – Dessert
8:00 – First Dance
They are the way to go…hands down. If you wait to see each other until the ceremony, you don’t get to have a personal moment just the two of you for several hours. It also tends to add unnecessary stress to that moment where you are standing in front of 100-250 of your closest family & friends. You can’t even give each other a hug and kiss until the end of the ceremony! It isn’t just a benefit for you though…if you skip doing a first look but want great photos of your wedding day, your guests will be stuck waiting for 2-3 hours post ceremony before you are ready to walk into your reception. Doing a first look is better for your timeline, your guests, and your stress going into the ceremony.
A digital download will be made available to you after editing is complete. While Studio Veil still maintains ownership of the images and all copyright laws are still in effect, you are granted printing rights for personal use. Images may not be published for commercial use without Studio Veil’s permission. You may also share on social media.
Editing takes approximately 1 month from time of your wedding until the gallery is ready for viewing online.
Our engagement sessions are 45-60 minutes in length and on location in the Twin Cities metro area. Except in rare occasions where schedules aren’t able to align, your engagement photographer will be one of your wedding day photographers. These sessions are a great opportunity for you to get to know your photographer and for the photographer to learn about you and how to capture your natural personality in photos. Once editing is complete, you will receive an email with a link to your online gallery as well as an email with a link to download the digital files.
I would say we are fun, creative, and natural. We give direction for posing but try not to let it get to up-tight. We try to get you to laugh and bring out natural emotions during our time together. We bring off-camera lighting for creative opportunities and dark situations that require it. However, we like to keep colors pretty true to what you see with your eye. Popularity of various filters and “looks” come and go so we try to shoot and edit in a way that your photos will be enjoyable the rest of your life.
When your photos are fully edited and ready for sharing, we’ll put them in an online gallery and send you details for logging in to view them. You can also share the gallery with family & friends. This will be the best way for them to view all the photos. Through this gallery, anyone can place orders for prints or other products as they wish and the couple doesn’t have to be the middle man to get prints to those who want them. The couple alone will have the ability to download the digital files from the gallery if included in your photo package. If you are receiving an album with your package, the gallery is also where you select images to be included in the album.
Each of our photos is hand touch by our editor. We do not use AI.
When it comes to photography, we definitely subscribe to the philosophy that “two are better than one.” We have a few reasons for using a second photographer: Multiple angles of coverage during the main events. Extra set of eyes to make sure posing is just right in group photos Improved creativity as our photographers work off each others’ ideas and keep things fresh throughout your wedding day. Having 2 photographers built into our packages puts our best foot forward and promises to deliver you the best product we can.
First looks are a must…they reduce stress going into the ceremony and provide a much more friendly timeline for the day, for the couple, vendors and guests alike. It’s also a great opportunity for us to capture video of that moment when you see each other for the first time that is very challenging to do during a ceremony when people are standing and you are 100 feet away from one another. If you are going with our Video #1 package that includes a cinematic edit of your wedding day, we highly recommend that you write your own vows and/or write letters to each other. We’ll have you read them aloud before the ceremony while we record it so that we have audio of your story to weave into the final edit.
It is part of our craft to match music to your wedding video in a way that creates a perfect pairing. Our skilled editors carefully select songs from our library that can be coupled with the right portion of your wedding video and that match your wedding’s overall style.
The ceremony is always included in its entirety. We use 2 camera angles and we edit between the angles throughout the ceremony to give the best shot possible and keep the flow dynamic. We also include a reception highlights edit that has the grand march, speeches, cake cutting and some shots of guests and details. Then there’s a dance video that has the first dances; if you get our higher end video package, you’ll also have guest dancing footage included in this edit. With that higher end package, we’ll also create a cinematic wedding film for you that is typically 6-10 minutes long.
We use a platform called Vidflow to create an online gallery for your wedding video to be viewed. This gallery can be shared with family & friends and it even has native apps for smart TVs that make it incredibly easy to view your wedding video any time. The gallery will be available for 10 years. You can also download the MP4 files from the gallery for your own safekeeping offline.
Studio Veil’s style of videography leans toward that of a documentary. For the most part, the photographer gives direction throughout the day, and the videographer captures moments as they happen. Occasionally, our videographer will give direction but only if time allows. When working with photographers not from Studio Veil, we always introduce ourselves to the photographer and keep open communication throughout the day to ensure no one’s shot is interfered with.
Mostly documentary style…capturing events as they unfold. We aren’t interjecting ourselves or giving a ton of direction though we may ask you to “look here” or “hold hands and walk that way” or similar on occasion.
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