White balance - how to make a seamless transition?

I recently shot a wedding video and at the end of the night, the bride and groom ran from the reception hall out to the main lobby as the DJ played "Hit the Road, Jack."
My question is this - the reception hall is darkly lit, with tungsten balanced lights and other things coming off of strobes. The lobby is lit by tungsten lights. I can use the razor blade tool to chop the clip and set a new white balance for the lobby area, but there is a color shift that you can see, or at least I can, when the white balance changes between the two areas. Is there a way to make this transition seamless, or is it better just to leave it be as to the way the camera shot and balanced things?
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