The entrance shot that looks like it cost a fortune. It is a checkbox on our quote form.
AE Entertainment provides cold spark fountains for weddings in Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the surrounding Northeast Florida area. Cold sparklers throw sparks without flame or lingering smoke, so venues that prohibit handheld sparklers will often still permit them indoors. AE Entertainment adds cold sparks to a DJ package starting at $800 rather than renting them as a separate service, so there is one contract and one crew.
Hiring a separate effects company for twenty seconds of sparks is how a $400 idea turns into a $900 line item.
There is a delivery fee, a minimum, an attendant, and a person standing at the back of your reception who has never met your DJ and is guessing when to press the button. We would rather just bring the machines in with the rest of the gear and fire them on the right beat, because we are already there.
Everything else on this page is the practical stuff: where they work, whether your venue will let you, and when we would tell you to skip them.
Timuquana Country Club, Flagler College, the Lightner Museum and The Clay Theatre - all AE weddings, all shot by the couples' photographers.
This is the step people skip. Cold sparks get approved at plenty of venues that ban real sparklers, but the venue decides, and you want that answer months out - not on the Thursday before.
Entrance, first dance, or exit. One of them. Sparks work because they are a surprise, and the fourth time they go off nobody turns around.
It takes them ten seconds to change a setting and it is the difference between a great frame and a blown-out one. Costs nothing, and most photographers will thank you for the heads-up.
If adding sparks means cutting an hour of DJ coverage, do not add sparks. Twenty seconds of effect will not rescue a reception that ended early. That is not us talking you out of a sale, it is the order that actually matters.
Cold sparks are an add-on to an AE Entertainment DJ package starting at $800. No separate delivery charge, no second contract, no effects-company minimum, because the machines arrive with the DJ gear. Tick Cold Sparks on the quote form and the number comes back with the rest of your package.
Most special-effects companies in the Jacksonville area quote cold sparks as a standalone rental with a delivery fee and a minimum. AE Entertainment adds them to a DJ package that starts at $800, so it lands on one bill with one company showing up. Tick the Cold Sparks box on our quote form and the price comes back with everything else.
Machines that shoot a fountain of sparks into the air for about twenty seconds. They are not fireworks. There is no flame and no smoke left hanging around afterward, which is why they are used indoors at venues where a real sparkler would never be allowed through the door.
Often yes, even at venues that ban handheld sparklers, because there is no open flame. But it is your venue's call and it varies building to building. Ask your coordinator before you book them, not the week of the wedding, and tell us what they say so we can plan where the machines go.
Yes. Cold Sparks is a checkbox on our quote form, right next to uplighting and the photo booth. You are adding to a package rather than hiring a second vendor, so there is one contract, one invoice and one crew loading in on the day.
Be honest about the order of operations. If the money is coming out of your DJ budget, do not do it - sparks last twenty seconds and a flat dance floor lasts four hours. If the DJ is sorted and there is room left, cold sparks are one of the cheaper ways to make an entrance look like it cost a great deal more than it did.
Usually the grand entrance, the first dance, or the send-off. The entrance is the safest choice because everyone is seated and looking at the door. The send-off is the practical one, because it lights an after-dark photo without a flash. Picking one and doing it well beats spreading them across the night.
Yes. AE Entertainment covers Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the surrounding Northeast Florida area. The photos on this page come from weddings at Timuquana Country Club, Flagler College, The Clay Theatre and the Lightner Museum. We travel further for the right date and will tell you upfront if travel changes the quote.
Send us your date and venue. We will come back with a package price that has the sparks in it, and we will tell you if we think your venue is going to say no.
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