While offering basic lighting for events, MTB Event Rentals recommends working with a professional lighting designer for major event expactations. Event lighting is often overlooked or dismissed during event planning, but it plays a critical role in shaping the atmosphere and success of any event, whether it is a wedding celebration, corporate event, or activation. Proper lighting sets the mood, highlights key areas and moments, reinforces branding, and enhances the overall attendee experience. It transforms ordinary spaces into engaging, memorable environments by guiding focus, evoking emotions, and facilitating networking and engagement. Regardless of the event type, thoughtfully designed lighting elevates the professionalism, energy, and visual impact, making the occasion truly stand out and leaving a lasting impression on guests.

Different Types of Event Lighting

Wash Lighting: Provides a broad, even coverage of light that softly illuminates larger areas like stages or event floors, often used as a base layer.

Color Wash Lighting: Wash lights equipped with color capabilities to bathe spaces in brand or thematic colors, creating ambiance and mood.

Spotlights: Intense focused beams used to highlight speakers, performers, or specific objects with defined edges and brightness.

Ellipsoidal Spotlights (Leko): Precision spotlights with shaping shutters and lenses to focus and shape light beams, often used in theaters or stages for crisp illumination.

PAR Lights (Par Cans): Durable fixtures that emit a strong, broad light useful for stage and event area illumination, now often using efficient LEDs.

Intelligent/Moving Head Lights: Automated lights capable of rotating, tilting, and changing color or pattern dynamically, adding movement and visual effects to an event.

LED Pixel Tube Lights: Baton-shaped LED fixtures that can be arranged creatively to produce colorful, animated lighting effects.

Laser Lights: Focused, bright beams used more for dramatic visual effects, often seen in concerts or high-impact events.

Uplights: Positioned on the floor to highlight walls, creating columns of light that enhance room depth and ambiance.

Batten / Wall Washer Lights: Provide a uniform, linear wash of light across surfaces, ideal for illuminating backdrops or drapes.

Follow Spots: Manually operated focused lights that track and highlight a moving speaker or performer on stage.