About this vendor
Hello,
My name is Vladimir, and I am an entertainer, MC, comedian, and acting coach. Although I have 9 years of experience and 600 events under my belt, my specialty and passion are weddings.
I started my career as an MC in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and will bring the best from my extensive European experience to the table. Nothing brings me more joy than helping a new couple have the best wedding day possible. We play exclusive games, we laugh, and we cry, but, most importantly, we create lifelong, unique memories. I guarantee the weddings I conduct will break free from the cliché. I work with the DJs and the wedding planners that the couple chooses and enhance the experience of all the wedding guests tenfold. My program is fully customizable, with classy, funny, moving, and good vibes only.
I live in Williamsburg, but I am happy to work all over VA.
I would love to set up a time to discuss your upcoming wedding and how I can make it even more special.
Details
Music Services
- MC Services
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
- Ceremony
- Reception
Awards and Affiliations
2024 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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We'd like to express our deepest gratitude to Vladimir! Our wedding was cozy and peaceful as well as it was ambient and lots of fun. All guests were delighted!
Vladimir, huge thank you for a wonderful wedding reception. I have to say without a doubt the wedding party rests on the host. You handled the task in such a considerate and profes...
sional manner that none of our guests noticed any sign of a script. It felt everything was happening by itself. I can’t express how greatful we are. We are so pleased to know that our most important day will be remembered with joyful and positive emotions. Thank you again! You are a wonderful entertainer!
I’d like to thank Vladimir for hosting our wedding, it was amazing!
He is such a pro for sure 🔥
He made this day so special, and we are so happy that we chose him 🙏🏼
I am so happy that the wedding MC was this person! So simple, open, humble but at the same time so much fun! You created a true celebration for us!
Our ceremony and reception were...
so touching and - again! - thanks to you! All because every word was sincere, honest, spoken from the heart. It could be felt!
I also would like to say that I've been to several weddings that Vladimir ran - and here's the trick! He has an absolutely individual approach to all of them, no templates! Everything came from the heart and each wedding was fresh and unique!
He's always working, always searching for new ideas!
We wish you only the overwhelming success in doing what you love, keep up the creativity! Thank you for the wonderful memories!!! We would have done it again!
In my opinion, the wedding MC is the foundation of any wedding. You can have a DJ, a cover band (or not), you can have an exquisite cake or maybe plain vanilla, you can have firewo...
rks but you can do without. All that is not important. Because only the MC can guide your guests through everything you've prepared for them, only he can entertain and make sure nobody gets bored, only he can stop the new father-in-law from giving one more speech. For us, the wedding entertainer was of utmost importance and we didn't want to settle for anything less than amazing. We had been invited to several weddings and watched different MCs: some were straight-up rude to guests, others had dumb activities, while others are not professional MCs at all - just friends of the bride... But amongst them, there was one who didn't make anyone feel out of place, who orchestrated the entire reception with ease and fun, and who could connect with any guest. I give you - Vladimir Sokolov!
We liked Vlad because of the way he carried himself and the way he ran the wedding, with a sense of humor and tact. We have not - for one second - regretted asking him to take care of our wedding. We met in the beginning of all the prep, discussed everything, he answered our questions, worked with others who were involved in the wedding. In the end, we thoroughly enjoyed our wedding that did not miss a beat. Vladimir was on the same wavelength with the guests, offered games that were interesting to us and to the guests. There was a lot of fun and laughter, everybody left happy! 5 stars out of 5!
Vladimir was an excellent EMCER at our wedding. I'm from here and my wife from Europe and I were surprised how different weddings can be compared between the two countries. Vladimi...
r brought to our wedding a lot of laughs and positive energy. He made sure every single person was engaged in the process, he played a lot of games and did Dance Battle, even though I never dance, I was dancing all night 🌟. I always have experienced that at a wedding Emcee and DJ are one person, but after our wedding, I saw that are completely two different rules and Vladimir did excellent work.
Vlad was an MC at my frined's wedding and did an excellent job keeping us entertained. He was very professional, had great ideas on how to keep the wedding crowd engaged. All activ...
ities were well timed. Overall a great experience. I would highly recommend Vlad to lead your wedding and entertain your guests!
I was a guest at the wedding where Vladimir was a wedding MC. I can only say that we all were super lucky to be there. That was a perfect wedding in every way! Everything was great...
and so much fun! I really like Vladimir's way of communicating with guests and appreciate a lot an excellent selection of music. It seems to me that there are very few people who know how to think over a wedding celebration so well, without vulgarity, bad taste, and so that no one gets bored. The atmosphere was very warm, almost like a family. Now I know whom to invite to be the wedding MC on my future wedding!
Thank you, Vladimir!
August 2, 2020 was the happy start of our family. Two years prior to this day we already knew who to trust with our celebration: we had seen Vladimir in action at our friends' wedd...
ing and couldn't imagine having our own reception without him! The problem with our wedding was that it was under a tent by the water, open air, and any shift in weather required our MC to react quickly, redirect the flow of events, organize people and activities to move from the tent and back. Vladimir is born to be MC! He arranged for and took care of everything: greeting the guests upon arrival, entertained and distracted them to make sure the newlyweds' arrival was a surprise, organized incredibly touching moments. Vladimir cracked jokes, improvised, ensured that we have the best positive emotions even now when we look at the wedding pictures.
Vladimir found the right approach to each and every guest: to rowdy jokesters, to shy people, to those who were afraid to speak in front of a crowd, to the elderly and even the children. It was fun and sweet, just like we always wanted. Vladimir paid attention to every table and every guest, fulfilled all our requests, organized team contests and dance battles, where everybody danced and laughed, even people who had never danced in their life! Everything was so perfect that whenever anyone asks us who to hire, we yell in unison - only VLADIMIR!
Vladimir was our wedding host in 2020. I couldn't recommend him enough: witty and charming he was able to create and maintain laid-back atmosphere throughout the evening, managing...
some 'difficult' guests and orchestrating this whole ordeal which the wedding is.
Me and my wife are often remenisсing abouth our wedding being one of the few bright spots in 2019-2020 not in small part due to Vladimir's efforts :)
If you are here to read reviews about Vladimir, my advice to you is drop everything you're doing, go contact him and reserve your spot, before someone else snatches it! 😉
Finding...
a good wedding host is a difficult task on its own, because he will be the person that sets the mood for the entire event. I searched the internet high and low trying to find an MC and ended my search on him! He was the professional we were looking for! I did not stress about the reception for one second because I knew Vladimir would deliver first-class entertainment ‐ and he did just that! We never discussed the details or sequence or content, only a few traditional moments that we wanted but, other than that, we trusted him fully and he did not let us down.
Vladimir, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you, from our entire family! Our wedding was light, fun and laid-back. The contests, the interactions, the flash mob, the care you showed - everything was amazing! And that is considering that we didn't have many guests, but with all the action, it seemed like we had a lot more people. The atmosphere of the evening was extraordinary!
Thank you, again and again, for all the wonderful memories of our day!
5 years have passed and we still think of our wedding with warmth thanks to Vladimir. No stress, no bumps in the road, everything went smoothly and fun! When my brother gets marrie...
d, apparently we will have to go to America to have his wedding 😁 We can’t imagine another person who can possibly host the wedding with such high class and memories for life!
Your wedding day has to be perfect. With so many things that can go wrong, the most important person for the wedding, in our opinion, is the master of ceremony.
Our wedding was di...
fficult to organize: the venue was far away from the city, in the middle of nowhere.
Vladimir was our master of ceremony and he accomplished an impossible task - to make 30 guests of different ages (from 17 to 80) happy. Everything he did was top notch: his communication with guests was excellent, activities were amazing and fun. When something went not according to plan, Vladimir masterfully made it go away, so that nobody noticed it. We had the best day with the help of a great master!
It’s been 2 years since our wedding day but we still remember the clever jokes of our wedding MC Vladimir. Oh how the men were stuck trying to guess what the T-zone was! Priceless!...
Vladimir prepared activities that all the guests could participate in and everybody had so much fun!
Just like in «Romeo and Juliet,» our families were in a constant state of feud, and, unfortunately, a fight broke out. Vladimir went above and beyond to reconcile the two sides - and saved our wedding!
It is worth mentioning that we really did not want a traditional, «stiff» wedding. We came across a video of one of Vladimir’s prior weddings and were so impressed with his kind, comedian-like style. He even learnt all the guests by name! We hired him shortly after meeting him in person.
We had the best experience!
Dear Vladimir,
I cannot express my gratitude enough for the amazing job you did as our wedding MC. Your ability to bring together different cultures, age groups, and nationalities...
into one big family event was nothing short of extraordinary.
From the moment you took the stage, you had everyone’s attention and kept the energy level high throughout the night. Your professionalism, entertainment, enthusiasm, and creativity were truly outstanding. You had a way of making everyone feel included and engaged, which made our wedding night unforgettable.
Your bilingual skills were also a huge asset, as you seamlessly translated jokes and the entire program for our non-English-speaking guests. This helped bridge the language barrier and made everyone feel like they were a part of the celebration.
We received so many compliments from our guests about how amazing you were, and we couldn’t agree more. You were the glue that held everything together, and we couldn’t have asked for a better MC.
Contact
Williamsburg, VA
Sokolov Entertainment