AMS entertainment has such a good reputation that I was super excited to have them DJ my wedding & have them man a photo booth. The meetings leading up to the wedding were wonderfu...l & I felt very secure in my choice to use them as a vendor. We had a country style backyard wedding, so I added all of the more recent country songs I wanted played during the cocktail hour/dinner. My husband & I wanted a party feel once it was time to dance, so I listed more hip hop songs & some wedding classics. The manager Todd, reassured me that the songs I put on my playlist, would be the ones the DJ would play at my wedding, so I really put some time into putting it together. I also had country song titles as the table titles, so a lot of the country songs I wanted played were related to the decor.
Skipping to just before the wedding, the DJ was on top of getting in contact with me several times over the phone & making sure I was on schedule with my wedding planner and music list. We met in person the week of the wedding to make sure we were on the same page as far as what "feel" we wanted for the wedding & the order of events during the reception. I explained I didn't want him to own the microphone too much on our wedding night, and he assured me, he knew it was not his time to shine, it was mine. I felt GREAT leaving the meeting &had high hopes for the wedding day as far as the DJ was concerned.
On the wedding day, the DJ, Randy, showed up very early & was great about talking to the other vendors and making sure everyone was on the same page. I was very impressed by this. The big disappointing thing was when the reception was supposed to start and then it continued throughout the night. We were supposed to have the wedding party introduction song be "Honeybee" by Blake Shelton. Apparently, because of a power problem, Randy lost that song & the important Mother son dance song. It took about 10 mins to figure out this situation & we finally settled on using a different song. During the introductions, the microphone was fading in &out. It was also a power problem. This was not his fault but he then felt the need to bug the groom & I the whole night about it. I was trying to enjoy visiting with my guests, but he kept creeping in. I wish he would have asked me who he could talk to instead of the Bride (me). Another disappointing factor was he played all old time slow country songs for the cocktail hour/dinner. I spent a lot of time picking out those newer songs! He also somehow misunderstood my husband & I explaining the bridal party dance break to the harlem shake. I don't know how he misunderstood, "Immediately after the mother son dance, she will push the groom & You play the harlem shake. Then the bridal party will get up & go crazy." Instead, there was an awkward pause & the mother of the bride pushed the groom & started dancing to no music. He then got on his microphone & asked us to come up & dance! Ugh it was so frustrating! We kept looking at him saying play the song! play the song! Then, when my husband & I were finally done cutting the cake, tossing the bouquet, & doing the garter toss, we were really looking forward to the dance party part. The DJ started the "dance party" with a slow song and invited all the guests up to come dance. We looked to him to say "change the song!" We finally got to dance but i was disappointed.