A TURKISH celebration

This past Saturday I had the privilage of DJing Ceylan and Efe's wedding reception. Ceylan booked us through a friend, and saw me at the Vera Wang event and asked if I could be her DJ. I committed and worked with them this summer to create an awesome Turkish affair. Ceylan is Turkish born in Chicago, Efe is Turkish and grew up in London. They are the cutest couple, both into IT work, and love music. Ceylan and I have a very similar taste in music, so for cocktails I played a lot of my own mix: Electric Boutique with a mix of old jazz and cook bossanova cocktail music. I emceed the evening with the support of my assistant Brent Rolland, played music for ceremony, cockatails, dinner, and dancing. A few exciting unique things about the event, my fav was a live painting by Ceylan's sister Ela during their first dance, also a live performance from Efe's brother Tarik to a piano, and Turkish music. This was my favorite part... playing off of an awesome CD that the couple gave me, I spent some time preparing and listening to the CD, and when it came time for the dance set it hit hard. It was first time in my DJ career where I was playing music I didn't know, but reading the crowd, going off of their recommendations, and playing from my gut. It was hot! I played a mixture of Tarkan (the Turkish Ricky Martin), Ricky Martin, Shakira, but not my white mtv girl shakira, the raw spanish hip twirling music. It was and is hot. So, that was my biggest win of the night.. of my international event.

Venue: Swiss Hotel
DJ: Megan Taylor
Assistant: Brent Rolland