I was disappointed with the DJ services at my wedding. I filled out all of the paperwork and shared playlists with my DJ for inspiration, and both of my choices for prelude music a...nd cocktail hour music were ignored. We wanted a 1960s cocktail lounge vibe, and instead, bad violin covers of pop songs played. I even sent the DJ an hour and a half long playlist for cocktail hour and said, “If you can’t do this, this is the vibe we want.” Every song choice we made was something from the 60s or 70s; I walked down the aisle to Tom Waits and my wife chose Nina Simone, why on earth would you think, “These people don’t really want this kind of music, I know they’d rather hear bad covers of already bad Taylor Swift songs”? Our friends and family both commented on how weird some of the music choices were for me and my wife.
Imagine you spend so much time and energy getting every detail perfect for your wedding, and someone who is supposed to help make your vision come true just changes things and doesn’t communicate beforehand that he can’t get the music or is changing the plan. Imagine you walk outside to get ready to walk down the aisle and you hear the wrong music. You craft a playlist that you’re so excited to hear, and when your maid of honor asks why it isn’t playing, the DJ says, “It already played.” No it didn’t? I know how long that playlist was, I know what songs were on it, I didn’t hear one of them. I had two must plays on my list, and even those didn’t get played. It took me out of the moment many times, and I was very upset with the lack of communication, despite having many phone calls with the DJ. What it felt like to me is that he looked at our music choices and said, “I know better” and ignored what we wanted for the things that were actually important to us.