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Whether you’re planning a romantic wedding, a milestone birthday party, or a corporate event, interviewing potential vendors can be a stressful experience. Who do I call? What should I ask? How do I know they’re the one for my special day? Research tells us that music is attached to memories and that hearing even a small clip of a song can evoke vivid memories and emotions from a wonderful experience. This means hiring the right DJ can make your event last a lifetime for yourself and your guests. After 22 years in the wedding and event industry as full service DJs and event planners, we’ve compiled a list of the most important things to consider (and questions to ask) whe...

HPS Entertainment is proud to announce that we are the recipients of WeddingWire’s 2018 Couples Choice Award for the fourth year in a row.

The Couples Choice Award recognizes wedding professionals for their exemplary work and the outstanding reputation they’ve established among newlywed couples as demonstrated through excellent reviews. Professionals are chosen solely based on their reviews as broken down by the following factors: overall rating, total number of reviews, review performance from 2017, and consistency of reviews from year to year. HPS Entertainment has nearly 200 reviews - and counting! - with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars, which demonstrates the dedicati...

You’ve said “Yes!” You and your future spouse will carry the memory of this moment forever, when everything is perfect - you are both in love, excited, and in a state of complete bliss.

Now what?

It’s time to plan the wedding, of course! It’s a day many of us have envisioned in our minds since childhood. But the realization of what that special day entails, and ultimately, what it will cost, can be overwhelming to say the least.

The first step in every couple’s planning process is determining what kind of wedding you both want. Small, simple ceremony on the beach? Backyard wedding with family and close friends? A large, traditional church wedding with an eve...

HPS Entertainment’s clients have voted and the results are in! We are one of the top DJs in Southwest Florida for the third year in a row.

Every year, WeddingWire recognizes the top five percent of wedding professionals on WeddingWire who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism. They look at client feedback, extensive surveys of newlyweds, and the demonstration of excellence in quality, service, responsiveness, and professionalism for each of the top local wedding professionals across more than 20 service categories. HPS Entertainment excelled in these categories to receive the 2017 WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award®.

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Did you miss our interview with Out and About Southwest Florida on Sunday, March 20, 2016? If so, we’ve got you covered with a clip of the show that aired on ABC7!

Out and About Southwest Florida, a local TV show that highlights and covers local entertainment and businesses with interviews, features, and promotions, sat down with HPS Entertainment Owner and Head DJ, Patty Amandis to find out more about HPS Entertainment. During the interview, DJ Patty shared that HPS Entertainment has been around for more than 18 years right here in Naples FL inside the Mercato. We offer DJ services, video, lighting, and party planning for any special occasion, including weddings, birthdays, country ...

HPS Entertainment has been named winner of the prestigious WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® 2016 for DJs in Naples, FL! The WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® 2016 recognizes the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism. The esteemed awards are given to the top local wedding vendors in more than 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding florists, based on their professional achievements from the previous year.

While many industry award winners are selected by the host organization, the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® winners are dete...

We asked our Southwest Florida DJs to come up with a playlist of must-have songs for Thanksgiving. They did not disappoint.

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year when you sit down with your family and friends to eat, drink, and be thankful for all of the blessings from the past year. If you are the one doing all of the cooking, you’ll probably enjoy some great music while you stuff, baste, layer, and bake, but it may still be a little too early to break out the Christmas carols. If you’re stuck on what songs to throw on your playlist, don’t fret! Our Southwest Florida DJs have put together a Thanksgiving playlist that will keep you humming and swaying as you cook or ent...

Discover how your wedding DJ in Naples, FL and Fort Myers, FL can enhance your wedding venue with the use of uplighting.

Choosing a venue is one of the most important decisions you will make when planning your wedding reception and, most of the time, there are still a few details about the location that you’d rather change for the sake of blending in with your wedding décor. Enter uplighting.

Uplighting, or decorative lighting, is when lights are strategically placed throughout your wedding venue or wedding décor to enhance the setting of your wedding reception. Some thoughtfully-placed lights can transform a space and take your wedding from “This looks good” ...

Let the professional Southwest FL DJs at HPS Entertainment help you choose the perfect wedding song.

You have the venue reserved, the flowers picked out, and you may even have your bridal book filled with little notes and tips on how to make your wedding day go as smoothly as possible. Or maybe you have a wedding planner that is skilled at taking care of every detail with minimal bride or groom involvement. Either way, there is one important and heartfelt detail that cannot be done by a book or a wedding planner and that’s choosing the song for your first dance as a married couple.

Picking the song that will forever be known as “your” song may be a little intimidating with ...