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Event Lighting Rental

Event Lighting Rental: Uplighting, Stage Lighting and Dance Floor Lights

Event lighting rental, designed, delivered and set up: LED uplighting, moving heads, gobo monograms, string lights and stage lighting, by the crew that brings your stage and sound. Lighting packages from $1,295 with the design and the crew inside the price. Brooklyn based since 2001, serving New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

  • Open 7 Days: 8AM-8PM
  • Text messages answered until midnight
  • Same-Day Delivery in Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens

Lighting Looks

Pick the mood for your room

  • UplightingColor on every wall
  • Dance floor lightsMoving heads and effects
  • Stage lightingWash and spots for shows
  • Gobo monogramYour name in light
  • Full roomAll of it, designed
  • 25 Years

    In Business

  • 5.0 Stars

    Google Rating

  • 4 States

    NY, NJ, CT, PA

  • Setup

    Always Included

  • Insured

    Fully Insured

Event Lighting Rental

What Comes With Every Event Lighting Rental

Celebration Entertainment is an event lighting rental company in Brooklyn, New York, serving New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. We light weddings, Sweet 16s, corporate events, school shows and block parties with the same crew that delivers our stages and sound systems, so the lighting arrives on the same truck, goes up in the same setup and leaves at the same pickup.

Every order is placed, aimed and tested in the room before we leave. You tell us the venue, the headcount and the color you want. We bring the fixtures, the stands, the cables and the tape, and we take all of it away afterward.

  • Placed and aimed

    Every fixture is set, focused and color-matched in the room before we leave. Nothing arrives in a box for you to figure out.

  • One truck, one setup

    Lighting rides with your stage, speakers or DJ gear. One delivery, one crew, one number to call.

  • Delivered and set up

    Free in Brooklyn over $595, Manhattan and Queens over $1,500. Minimum lighting order $995 in those three, $1,500 beyond.

  • Priced as a job, not a box

    Packages from $1,295 with the design, the crew and the setup inside. Day two and three are half price, because the gear stays installed.

Packages

Lighting Packages From $1,295, Designed and Run by Our Crew

Most event lighting rental orders are one of three jobs: wash the room in color, light the dance floor, or light a stage. Each package is the fixtures for that job, the stands and cables to run them, and the delivery, setup and pickup. Each one includes the lighting design, the crew that sets and strikes it, and the delivery. A bigger room adds fixtures at the per-piece price, so the package is the floor, not a fixed kit.

Weddings and Sweet 16s

Uplighting Package

Ballrooms, lofts, restaurants and tents

$1,295per day, delivered and set up
  • 12 LED uplights around the room, any color
  • One color or a two-color scheme, matched to your theme
  • Lighting design for the room, set, aimed and struck by our crew
  • Extra uplights $75 each, a gobo monogram $495
  • Delivery, setup and pickup inside the price
  • Day 2 and 3 half price - a whole weekend is $2,590

FREE delivery in Brooklyn - and the design is inside the price, not an add-on

Dance Floor

Dance Floor Package

Sweet 16s, mitzvahs, proms and parties

$1,950per day, delivered and set up
  • 4 moving head lights on stands over the dance floor
  • 2 LED bars for color and chase
  • Haze machine, where the venue allows it
  • Lighting operator on site for 4 hours, running the show
  • Add the DJ package at $1,495 and it is one truck
  • Day 2 and 3 half price - a whole weekend is $3,900

FREE delivery in Brooklyn - the operator is inside the price

Stages and Bands

Stage Lighting Package

Concerts, school shows, block parties and speakers

$2,450per day, delivered and set up
  • Two truss towers with an 8-light front wash
  • 4 backlights for color behind the band
  • Operator through the show, focused at soundcheck
  • Black drape backdrop 12 ft high, add $295
  • Add the PA package at $695 - still one truck
  • Day 2 and 3 half price - a 3-day festival is $4,900

FREE delivery in Brooklyn - and one crew builds the stage, the sound and the lights

The whole room? The Full Room package is $2,950: the Uplighting Package, the Dance Floor Package and a gobo monogram, one crew and one design, for less than the three on their own. A 200-seat ballroom adds uplights at $75 each. Stage lighting rides with stage rental and the PA package, so a band or a school show gets one number for the whole job.

The Equipment

What We Light With: Uplights, Moving Heads, Gobos and String Lights

Every fixture below is our own stock, and it is the same gear you see in the job photos further down. Tell us the look and we pick the fixtures. Ask for a fixture by name and we bring it.

Event Lighting Rental: sweet 16 venue lit with red uplighting on the columns and a custom monogram projected on the wall
Red uplighting on every column and a custom monogram projected on the wall at a Sweet 16 in a Manhattan loft.

LED Uplights: $75 Each

The fixture that changes a room fastest. Uplights sit on the floor against walls, columns and drapes and wash them in color from below. One color turns a plain hall into your event; two colors give a wedding its palette. Uplighting rental is the order we get most often, and it needs no rigging at all.

  • $75 each, 8 light minimum
  • Set on the floor, no rigging
  • About one every 8 to 10 ft of wall
  • 12 in the Uplighting Package at $1,295

Moving Head Lights: $195 Each

Intelligent lights that pan, tilt and change color. Over a dance floor they put beams in the air and movement on the crowd. On a stage they follow the performer. We set them on stands or a truss and program the show before the doors open.

  • $195 each, programmed
  • On stands or a truss
  • Add haze at $195 so the beams show
  • 4 in the Dance Floor Package at $1,950

Gobo and Monogram Projection: $495

A gobo projector throws a pattern or your names onto a wall or the dance floor: a monogram for a wedding, a logo for a corporate event, a name and a date for a Sweet 16. Send us the artwork and it arrives ready to project, aimed on the day.

  • $495 with your custom gobo
  • Stock pattern gobo $295
  • On a wall or the dance floor
  • Send the artwork, we do the rest

String and Bistro Lights: $175 a Strand

Warm white bulbs strung over a tent, a backyard or a rooftop. It is the look every outdoor wedding and block party asks for. We run them on poles, the tent frame or a truss, and power them from the house or a generator.

  • $175 per 50 ft strand, 4 strand minimum
  • Warm white bistro bulbs
  • On poles, the tent frame or a truss
  • Four strands cover a 40 x 40 tent

Stage Lighting and Truss: From $2,450

Front wash, backlight and color for a stage, on truss towers or light stands. It is how a band or a speaker reads from the back row, and how a school show looks like a show. A stage lighting rental is quoted with the stage and the sound, so one crew builds all of it.

  • Package $2,450: 2 towers, 12 lights, operator
  • Single LED par $85, truss tower $195
  • Black drape backdrop $295
  • Lighting operator $125 an hour, 4 hr minimum

Effects: Haze $195, Snow $250, Foam $395

The machines that make lighting visible and a party memorable. Haze puts the beams in the air, snow and bubbles turn a kids party or a winter event, and a foam machine is a summer block party on its own. Every one of them is checked against the venue rules first.

  • Haze or smoke machine $195
  • Snow machine $250, bubble machine $150
  • Foam machine $395 with solution
  • Laser $150

Power and permission. Uplights and string lights run off ordinary outlets. Moving heads, a truss rig and effects machines need more, and an outdoor job usually needs a generator once the sun goes down. Haze, smoke and foam need the venue to say yes, and we ask before we bring them.

Delivery

Delivery, Setup and What It Costs

Setup is included on every event lighting rental, everywhere we go. We bring the fixtures, stands, cables and tape, place and aim every light, run the effects if you have them, and check the whole room before we leave. After the event we come back and take all of it away.

Delivery has a number on it, and here it is rather than "call us". Brooklyn $95, free over $595. Manhattan and Queens $175, free over $1,500. The Bronx and Staten Island $225, free over $1,800. Nassau, Westchester and northern New Jersey $295, free over $2,500. Past that it is $10 a mile, measured one way from Brooklyn 11230. Minimum lighting order is $995 in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, and $1,500 everywhere else - a crew and a truck for an hour each way has to be worth the trip.

The rental period is one day, 24 hours, and day two and day three are half price, so a Friday to Sunday event costs twice one day, not three times. Two extras are published up front rather than added later: $195 if the gear has to go up more than two flights with no elevator, and $195 for a pickup after 10pm. Book before 11:30am and it goes out the same day. After that it is the next day.

We are open 8am to 8pm seven days a week and we answer text messages until midnight, which matters when the event is on a Saturday night.

How It Works

How Renting Works

Four steps from the first call to the pickup.

  • Tell Us the Event

    Call (718) 787-4477 or text us, or send the quote form, with the date, the address and the headcount.

  • Get One Price

    One number covering the gear, the delivery and the setup. No deposit to ask a question.

  • We Deliver and Set Up

    Setup is included on every order. Book before 11:30 am and it goes out the same day.

  • We Pick It Up

    We come back for everything after the event. A pickup after 10pm is $195, and we tell you before you book.

Service Area

Lighting Rental Brooklyn, NYC and Across NY, NJ, CT and PA

Brooklyn based, and every event lighting rental goes out on our truck across four states. Delivery is free in Brooklyn over $595 and in Manhattan and Queens over $1,500, and quoted by distance beyond that, with setup included on every job.

Recent Work

Recent Lighting Setups

Ballrooms, lofts and country clubs across the four states. Every photo is one of our own jobs: blue uplighting around a country club ballroom, moving heads beside a DJ booth at a Brooklyn wedding, truss lighting towers with the stage and the sound, and a red-lit Sweet 16 with haze in the air.

Reviews

What Customers Say

Got Questions?

Common Questions About Lighting Rentals

The Uplighting Package with 12 lights, the design and the crew is $1,295. The Dance Floor Package with four moving heads and an operator is $1,950, the Stage Lighting Package $2,450 and the Full Room $2,950. Singles: uplight $75, moving head $195, custom gobo monogram $495. Day two and day three are half price. Delivery is free in Brooklyn over $595 and in Manhattan and Queens over $1,500. The minimum lighting order is $995 in those three boroughs and $1,500 everywhere else, because every lighting job sends a crew, not a box.

We do. Every event lighting rental is delivered, placed, aimed, tested and picked up by our crew. Setup is included everywhere we go, and the fixtures never arrive in a box for you to figure out.

Roughly one every 8 to 10 feet along the walls you want lit. A 60-guest room takes about 10 to 12, which is the Uplighting Package at $1,295; a 200-seat ballroom takes 20 to 30, so the package plus extra lights at $75 each. Send the venue name or a floor plan and we count it for you.

Yes. LED uplights mix to any color, and we set one color or a two-color scheme to match your theme, linens or logo. Bring a swatch or a hex code and we match it in the room.

A gobo is a stencil inside a projector that throws a pattern or text onto a wall or floor. Send us your names, a date or a logo and it arrives ready to project: a monogram for a wedding, a logo for a corporate event, a name for a Sweet 16.

Yes. String lights over the tent or the street, uplights on the tent poles, stage lighting on truss towers. Outdoor jobs usually need a generator once the sun goes down, and we rent those too.

They work without one, but the beams only show in the air when there is haze. Many venues allow a water-based haze machine; some ballrooms and every school want to know first, so we ask the venue before we bring it.

Yes, and it is the most common way we rent it. Stage lighting is quoted with the stage and the PA package, and moving heads and uplights ride with the DJ package. One truck, one setup, one number.

One day, a full 24 hours. Day two and day three are half price, so a Friday to Sunday event costs twice one day, not three times.

Yes. Delivery is $95 in Brooklyn and free over $595, $175 in Manhattan and Queens and free over $1,500, $225 in the Bronx and Staten Island and free over $1,800, and $295 in Nassau, Westchester and northern New Jersey and free over $2,500. Beyond that it is $10 a mile one way from Brooklyn. Setup is included wherever we go.

Yes. $995 for a lighting job in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, and $1,500 everywhere else. Lighting is a crew job, not a drop-off, and the minimum is what makes the trip worth doing properly.

Yes. Celebration Entertainment is registered as Party Services Inc and is an approved New York City Department of Education vendor. Purchase orders and W-9 requests are routine, and school shows, dances and winter concerts are a regular part of the calendar.

We are a Brooklyn based company and we deliver across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Call (718) 787-4477 or send us a text, or send the quote form with the date, the venue and the headcount.

Get a Quote

Tell Us the Room and the Color. Packages From $1,295.

Uplights, moving heads, gobos, string lights and stage lighting, delivered and set up across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Setup is included everywhere we go. Delivery is free in Brooklyn over $595 and in Manhattan and Queens over $1,500.

 Open 7 Days: 8AM-8PM
 Text messages answered until midnight
 Same-Day Delivery in Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens

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