Wedding Entertainment in the Washington DC Metro Area

Wedding entertainment for the Washington DC metro area, including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Most of our work in this market has been in Maryland and Virginia.

This is where we learned the job, and not in the way that phrase usually gets used. Before there was a Modern Era and before there was a DJ MadMike, our founder was one of the youngest sound designers and lighting programmers working in the DC theatre scene, doing it while still in high school after coming up through the Maryland State Theatre.

That background is why this company thinks about a wedding the way a stage manager thinks about a show, with a running order and cues rather than a list of songs, and it is not a line we invented for a website, it is just what happens when somebody learns rooms in a theatre before they ever learn them in a ballroom.

About the market itself, the estates, clubs and historic houses out in the Maryland and Virginia ring are where we have actually done our work here rather than inside the District, and we would rather say that plainly than let a page imply otherwise. The city proper runs on museum and hotel logistics we would want to walk with you before promising anything about.

Tell us the venue and we will tell you straight whether we are the right team for it.

Common questions

Do you handle Virginia and Maryland wine country weddings?
Yes. Loudoun and Fauquier wine country (Salamander Resort, Goodstone Inn, Stone Tower Winery, Early Mountain Vineyards, Trump Winery) and Maryland's Eastern Shore (Inn at Perry Cabin, Tidewater Inn, Herrington on the Bay) are increasingly common multi-day takeover markets - Friday welcome, Saturday wedding, Sunday brunch. We program hosted trivia and music bingo welcome nights for these regularly.
What other services do you offer for DC-area weddings beyond the DJ?
Most DC-area couples bundle DJ + elevated lighting + photo booth into a single Modern Era package, with destination photography, videography, and live ceremony musicians (string trios, sax, vocalists) common add-ons for the historic-venue and wine-country weddings.
Do you produce multi-day DC-area wedding weekends?
Yes. Multi-day DC-area weekends most often anchor in Virginia or Maryland wine country (Salamander, Goodstone, Inn at Perry Cabin): Friday welcome at the property, Saturday wedding on-site, Sunday farewell brunch. The Modern Era Signature Wedding Weekend platform handles the full arc with one team.