The Poconos
Mountain barns, lakeside lawns, fall-color receptions and snowy New Year's weekends. We've been producing Pocono weddings for over a decade.
Wedding DJs and entertainment in The Poconos, Pennsylvania
Modern Era Weddings produces Poconos weddings at Skytop Lodge, Split Rock Resort, Pocono Manor, and Woodloch Resort across Monroe, Pike, and Carbon counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Our DJ, emcee, and Signature Wedding Weekend team holds a 5.0 rating from 768 verified reviews and has completed more than 20 Poconos events since expanding to this market.
Booking a wedding in The Poconos? Modern Era brings the entire entertainment stack (DJ + emcee, programmable lighting, live musicians, photo and video, and photo booths) under one production roof. We cover Pennsylvania and travel to whichever venue you've picked.
The Poconos wedding entertainment pricing
All packages use day-rate billing covering unlimited hours. Prices are starting points; your final quote is customized to your date, venue, and add-ons. Contact us and we respond within 24 hours.
| Package | Starting price |
|---|---|
| DJ and emcee Ceremony and reception, unlimited hours, travel included from our Pittsburgh or Florida base, full sound and wireless microphones | from $3,500 |
| DJ with live musician Adds an acoustic guitarist, violinist, or string duo for the ceremony or welcome party at Skytop Lodge or Woodloch Resort | from $5,000 |
| Signature Wedding Weekend Friday welcome party, Saturday ceremony and reception, and Sunday farewell brunch at Poconos resort venues | from $12,000 |
| Full weekend production All of the above plus lighting design and photo booth across all weekend events with one coordinated team | from $18,000 |
About The Poconos weddings
The Pocono Mountains have been Modern Era's home market on the New York/Philadelphia wedding axis for over a decade. The region covers roughly 2,400 square miles of northeastern Pennsylvania, Pike, Monroe, Wayne, and Carbon counties, within a 90-minute drive of NYC and 100 minutes of Philadelphia, which makes it the most accessible multi-day mountain wedding destination on the East Coast. We DJ, host, light, photograph, and produce wedding weekends across the entire region every season.
Where Pocono weddings happen
- Lake Wallenpaupack & the northern Poconos, Skytop Lodge, Cove Haven, Silver Birches, The Lake House at Ledges. Lakeside ceremonies, open-water sunsets, and resort-property buyouts that sleep entire wedding parties.
- Stroudsburg / Mount Pocono / central, Stroudsmoor Country Inn (one of the most prolific wedding venues in the entire Northeast), The Settlement at Bear Creek, Camelback Resort, Buck Hill Falls. The all-inclusive resort core.
- Tyler Hill / Wayne County / west of the Delaware, Tyler Hill Camp, Woodloch Pines, and the converted summer-camp wedding format that's exploded in the last five years for NYC creative-industry couples.
- Jim Thorpe / southern Poconos, historic train-town venues with a Catskills-meets-Appalachia aesthetic.
The seasonal rhythm
Peak Pocono wedding season runs late May through late October, with two distinct demand spikes: late September / early October fall foliage (highest demand of the year) and late June through August summer (resort buyout season). Snowy New Year's weekends at venues like Skytop Lodge and The Settlement at Bear Creek have become a real category, weekend-long wedding takeovers built around fire pits, cabin lodging, and a literal winter wonderland.
Why couples specifically book a Pocono wedding
The Poconos solve a problem most NYC and Philly couples are quietly trying to solve: a destination-feel wedding their full guest list can actually attend without a flight. Buyout-style resort venues let you put 150 guests on-property for two nights, run a welcome night, run a wedding day, run a farewell brunch, and everyone is sleeping in the same place the entire time. That's a fundamentally different guest experience than a single-day hotel-ballroom wedding.
What we bring to a Pocono wedding
We staff Pocono weddings out of our nearby DJ and entertainment roster, short travel, no out-of-region surcharge, real familiarity with every major venue's electrical, sound restrictions, and outdoor-ceremony logistics. Tented receptions at Stroudsmoor or lakeside ceremonies at Skytop have specific gear and contingency requirements; we've already solved them. Our interactive entertainment formats (hosted trivia, music bingo, hosted games) are particularly well-suited to the Poconos resort-buyout format because guests are stuck on property and ready to actually engage, Friday-night welcome trivia at the lodge bar is one of the most consistently-talked-about events of an entire wedding weekend.
Venues we love
- Skytop Lodge
- The Settlement at Bear Creek
- Stroudsmoor Country Inn
- Cove Haven
- The Lake House
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The Poconos FAQs
People also ask about The Poconos weddings
How much does a Modern Era Weddings DJ cost in The Poconos?
In The Poconos, modern Era Weddings uses day-rate pricing rather than hourly billing. Standard wedding DJ packages typically start around $2,500 and scale up with add-ons such as elevated lighting, photo booths, ceremony coverage, and live musicians. Multi-day Signature Wedding Weekend packages are quoted custom based on the number of events. Every package includes a professional emcee, premium sound, unlimited planning consultations, and our online planning portal.
Read full answer on FAQMulti-day weddings in The Poconos
Welcome parties, ceremonies, after-parties, farewell brunches — one creative team, one cohesive arc, hosted entertainment that keeps every guest in the moment.
Pocono wedding weekends almost always run 2 or 3 days, on-property, the resort-buyout format is what makes the Poconos work. Stroudsmoor, Skytop Lodge, Cove Haven, Camelback, The Settlement at Bear Creek, Buck Hill Falls, Tyler Hill Camp, every major Pocono wedding venue has lodging on-site or directly adjacent, which means your full guest list sleeps, eats, drinks, and parties in the same place from Friday afternoon through Sunday brunch.
The standard arc
- Friday welcome night, at the resort lodge bar, at the on-property restaurant, or in a private cabin cluster. Hosted trivia or music bingo is the most-booked format we run here, Pocono guests are stuck on property, ready to engage, and a hosted welcome event delivers the social anchor that an open-bar mixer never quite hits.
- Saturday ceremony + reception, full-scale DJ set, live musicians for the ceremony if you want them, lighting design through dinner and dance floor. Most resort venues have indoor curfews around midnight; after-parties typically move to the lodge bar, a fire pit area, or a cabin block.
- Sunday farewell brunch, buffet at the resort dining room, or a more intimate brunch on a cabin patio. Acoustic background music, optional hosted music bingo, optional digital trivia to send people off with one more shared moment.
Resort buyouts and lodging logistics
Stroudsmoor and Tyler Hill Camp are particularly buyout-friendly, full-property weekends are the norm, not the exception. Skytop Lodge can hold 250+ guests on-site across the main lodge and cottages. Cove Haven and Woodloch run all-inclusive resort buyouts for 200+. The Settlement at Bear Creek does intimate full-property buyouts at smaller scale (75-125 guests). For all of them, the lodging-buyout pricing is dramatically more economical than the same guest count at a destination Caribbean resort, which is why this market keeps growing.
Transportation
The Poconos solve transportation by largely eliminating it. Once guests arrive on Friday afternoon, they don't drive again until they leave Sunday. For couples whose guests are flying in (LGA, EWR, JFK, PHL), we coordinate with regional charter shuttle operators to get full-bus moves from the airport block to the resort. For couples driving up from NYC or Philly, the resort parking is included in the buyout.
Programming we recommend
For a 3-day Pocono resort buyout with 120-180 guests: Friday welcome with hosted trivia or music bingo (90-120 minutes, the room will love it), Saturday wedding day with full DJ + lighting + optional after-party rig at the lodge bar, and Sunday farewell brunch with acoustic or a short hosted game. Book 12-14 months out for fall foliage and summer dates.