Nightshade Sound Austin, Texas Check your date

Wedding DJ & MC · Austin, Texas

Some love stories only bloom after dark.

Nightshade Sound is a wedding DJ and MC team in Austin, Texas. We score the whole night — ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, and everything that happens once the lights drop.

Check your date See how the night blooms
  • Ceremony
  • Cocktail hour
  • Reception
  • After dark
Wedding guests dancing on a dark floor lit in orange
Reception, after dark
A DJ's hands cueing the next track in a dark room
One hand on the dial, all night

The idea

A vine, not a setlist.

Most wedding music is a list of songs handed to a stranger. We'd rather grow the night from the ground up — starting with the two of you, ending somewhere after midnight with the floor still full.

So the whole evening is treated as one piece of work: the sound at the ceremony, the quiet of cocktail hour, the announcements, the first dance, the lights and the last song. Different moments, same hand on the dial.

  1. 01

    We listen

    The songs that matter, the ones you'd rather never hear again, and the moment you want the floor to lose its mind.

  2. 02

    We map the night

    Ceremony, cocktails, dinner, toasts, first dance, last song — a running order so nothing is left to chance.

  3. 03

    It blooms

    On the day, one team handles sound, light and the microphone, so you can stay exactly where you are.

The night, in four blooms

One evening, opening petal by petal.

Four moments, each with its own sound and its own light. Most couples book all four; some only need the last one.

01

Stage one · Ceremony

Before the light goes

Processional, vows, recessional. Levels set so the smallest word carries, microphones placed before anyone takes a seat, and music that starts exactly when it should.

  • Ceremony DJ
  • Sound system rental
  • MC services
An outdoor wedding ceremony at dusk with guests seated
Ceremony, just before dusk
02

Stage two · Cocktail hour

The hour nobody plans

You'll be off having photographs taken. Everyone else will be drinking to a soundtrack built from your answers — songs you actually love, played low enough to talk over.

  • Custom playlist planning
  • Sound system rental

The night map

  • Ceremony cues01
  • Cocktail hour02
  • Dinner & toasts03
  • First dance04
  • Open floor05
  • Last song06

Built with you, weeks before the day.

03

Stage three · Reception

The floor fills

Introductions, toasts, first dance, and the one that empties every table. As MC and DJ in one voice, we keep the room moving — no dead air, no waiting on anyone, no gaps.

  • Reception DJ
  • MC services
  • Custom playlist planning
A wedding dance floor at night, lit orange, seen through the crowd
Somewhere past the first dance
04

Stage four · After dark

Then the lights drop

Uplighting turns a room into somewhere else entirely. A live musician turns it into the part people bring up at brunch the next morning. Both are add-ons. Both are worth it.

  • Uplighting packages
  • Live music add-on

The last bloom of the night — color, live music, and a floor that won't quit.

Uplighting packages

The last thing they remember is the color.

We bring the light with us: wall washes, floor pools and a color that works with your palette instead of fighting it. Set up before your guests arrive, packed away after the last song — one team for sound and light, from the ceremony to the end.

Ember
Candle
Violet
Midnight
Wall washes Floor pools Matched to your palette Setup & packdown included
An empty reception hall washed in orange uplighting
Before the doors open

Check your date

Let's see if your date is still in bloom.

Tell us the date and the venue. We'll come back to you with availability, what the night could look like, and how to hold your date — sound, light, and the songs in between.

  • Ceremony & reception DJ
  • MC services
  • Sound system rental
  • Uplighting packages
  • Custom playlist planning
  • Live music add-on

Send the date and we'll tell you whether the night is still free. Dates are held with a signed agreement and a deposit.