Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Our Engagement Party

My fiance and I celebrated our engagement at Lustre Lounge where LazZ and I work. We had a cocktail party for around seventy guests, which included mostly family and close friends of myself and my fiance (pic on left). This was a good crowd for Lustre Lounge, although we could have fitted in about thirty more people. The function lasted four hours.

As far as the music went, we didn't really hire a DJ for the night! Instead, LazZ made some non-stop mixes (80's & RnB) and I made a non-stop mix ("Sega & Baila"). We used MixMeister Pro. for making the mixes, although I must say my "Sega & Baila" (i.e. (similar sounding) danceable Sri Lankan music and danceable Mauritian music) mix was horrible -- thanks to creating the mix on an old version of MixMeister, and then transferring the mix to the latest version in the last minute to burn the CD! However I do hope that people at least got the main message of the "Sega and Bail"a mix, i.e.: the two cultures can coexist. But unfortunately, the mix could also have given them the impression, that they can't coexist peacefully!

The switching between CDs on the CDJs was mostly done by Fabrice (a.k.a. DJ Fab?), my (future) bro-in-law (pic on top right), who also played some nice slow warm-up music on the CDJs at the beginning. The sequencing of the warm-up music was chosen by DJ Fab, from a list created by my dad and (future) mom-in-law, from my dad's oldies collection. This was DJ Fab's first time playing overseas, in a real bar, on a real DJ system, so I doubt he'll forget the night any time soon! I wonder if he can now call himself an international DJ in Mauritius?









Towards the half-way mark, when the more danceable tunes were playing, a small dance group started forming, and they danced for a while to some of the Sega music. But soon the Sega music was over, and since we had already played the 80's mix earlier, we had only RnB left! As expected, the dancing didn't continue for too much longer!

The organisation of the event was handled by Lustre Lounge, who did a fantastic job of it as usual. Catering for the event was provided by Shane recommended by Lustre Lounge, who was very timely and organised in bringing and serving the food. All photographs shown above(except for the pic of DJ Fab), and more, were taken by the Wasantha Wimalaratne, who also did a fantastic (and very professional) job of it.

Overall, I think the night went very smoothly. Next time (i.e.at the wedding, not at a second engagement!), we'll be booking the venue for about six hours, and I'll try and get the message across a bit better, that the two cultures can coexist peacefully!