The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Wedding at 99 Scott

99 Scott is not your typical wedding venue. Located at the intersection of East Williamsburg and Bushwick, this 13,000-square-foot industrial warehouse is a blank canvas in the truest sense. High ceilings, raw concrete, exposed steel, and an unapologetically industrial aesthetic make it one of the most unique and flexible event spaces in Brooklyn.

The venue spans three distinct settings within the historic warehouse, giving couples the ability to design a wedding that feels completely custom. There are no chandeliers, no built-in decor, no predetermined aesthetic. You bring the vision, and the space becomes whatever you want it to be. That level of creative freedom attracts couples who want something genuinely different from the standard wedding experience.

But 13,000 square feet of raw warehouse space presents serious acoustic challenges. Without proper sound management, a room this large with concrete floors and steel walls will eat your music alive or turn it into an echoey mess. Here is how to make it work.

The Space

99 Scott offers three interconnected areas within the warehouse, each with its own character.

The Main Space

The primary event area features soaring ceilings, industrial columns, and a massive open floor plan. This is where most couples set up their ceremony, dinner, and dance floor. The scale is impressive, but that scale is also the challenge. Sound dissipates quickly in a room this large, and the concrete surfaces reflect high frequencies while absorbing almost nothing.

Your DJ needs to treat this space like a concert venue rather than a typical wedding room. That means a proper PA system with adequate power to fill the space, combined with strategic speaker placement that focuses the energy on the dance floor rather than trying to fill every corner of 13,000 square feet.

The Courtyard

The outdoor courtyard provides a separate environment for cocktail hour or ceremonies. It offers a welcome contrast to the industrial interior and gives guests a chance to experience the Bushwick neighborhood vibe.

The Lounge Area

A more intimate section of the warehouse that works well for cocktail hour, dessert stations, or a late-night lounge experience.

Acoustic Strategy for Raw Industrial Space

Concrete, steel, and high ceilings create an acoustic environment that is simultaneously reverberant and absorptive in unpredictable ways. Here is what your DJ needs to understand:

Bass frequencies in a concrete room can become overwhelming. The hard surfaces reflect low-end energy back into the space, creating a buildup that makes everything sound muddy. Your DJ needs to cut the sub-bass frequencies more aggressively than they would in a typical venue and rely on the mid-bass punch to carry the rhythm.

High frequencies bounce off steel and concrete and create harsh reflections. The solution is speaker positioning. Speakers should be angled downward toward the crowd rather than projecting horizontally across the room. This keeps the high-end energy directed at the listeners rather than bouncing off distant walls.

The high ceilings mean sound travels upward and never comes back. Your DJ cannot rely on ceiling reflections to fill the room the way they might in a lower-ceilinged space. The system needs to deliver all of its energy directly to the audience.

Embracing the Blank Canvas

The beauty of 99 Scott is that there are no rules. The venue does not impose an aesthetic, a vendor list (beyond valet and wifi), or a predetermined flow. You choose your own caterer, your own decor team, your own timeline. This freedom is incredible for couples with a clear creative vision.

For your DJ, this means the musical approach should be equally unconstrained. 99 Scott weddings tend to attract couples who are deeply connected to music culture. They might want a set that moves from ambient electronic to 90s hip-hop to afrobeats to classic house. They might want a live percussionist layered over DJ sets. They might want a silent disco after-party in the lounge area. The venue supports all of it.

Building an Industrial Soundtrack

The raw, industrial aesthetic of 99 Scott calls for music that matches its energy. This is not the venue for safe, predictable wedding playlists. The couples who choose this space are making a statement about who they are, and the music should amplify that statement.

Think bold, curated, and unexpected. A ceremony set that features artists your guests have never heard in a wedding context. A cocktail hour that sounds like the best bar in Brooklyn. A dinner soundtrack that builds anticipation. And a dance party that takes full advantage of the warehouse acoustics to deliver something that feels more like a Brooklyn warehouse party than a traditional wedding reception.

If you are planning your wedding at 99 Scott and want a DJ who knows how to command 13,000 square feet of raw industrial space, let's talk.