The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Schiemer Entertainment is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

I would like to thank my past newlyweds for nominating me for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards.  Click here to read some of the generous reviews I’ve received.

Music database updated
- finally worked through a ton of issues so now my most recent catalog is now back online!

New planning form
- everyone has been upgraded to our new super detailed reception planner. If you’re new to the site, make sure to test drive the planner.

New reviews
- I’ve been extremely blessed to have received some new reviews over at WeddingWire.  My clients are the BEST!

I’ve been making a ton of other “changes under the hood” on the website as well, please let me know what you think!

Sometimes these choices are obvious, sometimes it’s a little harder to know what songs will make the day perfect. I’m pleased to announce that now integrated into the music selection area of the client area there are now extensive lists of helpful song ideas to help point you in the right direction when making music selections for your reception.

These lists are created from online requests from thousands of events from thousands of entertainers throughout the world so the choices are quite varied. You can simply click on a song on the list and add it to your request list for your big day. It’s simply perfect.

The lists featured include The Top 200 Requested Songs and five Top 100 lists from the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, 90′s and 2000′s. These lists are great for choosing music based on your favorite decade to please every age of guest.

The best part (in my opinion) are Top 50 lists of song ideas for all the special events during the reception. You won’t need to choose a song from these lists but it helps having such great lists included right inside where you’ll be doing your planning. These Top 50 lists are:

Bride & Groom Dance
Bride & Father Dance
Groom & Mother Dance
Bridal Party Dance
Bouquet Toss
Garter Toss
Cake Cutting

Once your logged into Music Selection section of the the client area, just click the button in the upper right hand corner that says MOST REQUESTED. Double click on the song you want and it’ll perform a song search that you can add straight to your song list. This might also be a good place to find songs that you don’t want played at the reception… some times songs can be OVER requested.

I’m hoping this will help people take advantage of how much music is in my collection without having to search through every song in my database. (Which no one would ever want to do!) I hope this makes planning your music even easier, try it out and let me know what you think.

DID YOU KNOW? If your not a current client you can preview the entire client area (including the music selection lists) by going to the client login area through this link.

One of the most appealing aspects of the new site is the stunning imagery provided by Heather Lahtinen of Weddings By Heather. I’ve known Heather for many years, in fact, before she was even a professional photographer. I was the entertainer at the first wedding she shot and I’ve been amazed to watch her grow into one of (if not THE) leading photographers in the Pittsburgh Area. Heather is a great friend and deserves credit not only for the fantastic imagery on my website, but for pushing me in an entire new direction for my company. I really can’t thank her enough, but I’m going to try.

Obviously Heather’s photography speaks for itself. Sit with Heather for 10 minutes and you’ll understand how her passion for photography will become your biggest asset on your wedding day. She delivers 110% every time, and is so detail oriented that she’ll deliver images from your big day that you could never imagine. Heather also uses her people skills to interact with the other vendors that you’ve hired for you wedding. People may not realize how important this can be, but Heather uses her fun and easy going personality to coordinate with your DJ, Coordinator, Videographer, Caterer and other wedding professionals to make sure your event goes exactly how you have planned it. You only get one opportunity to hire the right photographer. Heather is well worth the investment. If you love the images on my site you owe it to yourself to jump over to Heather’s site RIGHT NOW and enjoy some more of her breath taking photos.

I loved using EricTheDJ, especially for my website address, since it was fun and easy to remember. Unfortunately that name no longer seems to truly represent me or the the full range of services that I offer now and plan to offer in the future. I needed to upgrade to something a little more robust, so today Schiemer Entertainment Services will be picking where EricTheDJ has brought me.

Both SchiemerEntertaiment.com and EricTheDJ.com will both bring you here so feel free to use either address, also I’ll be still using my ericthedj email address for quite some time during the transition.

This has been a huge change for me and how I present my business, I’d love to hear your comments, feel free to post them here or email me.