Since the 1st contact Josh was very soliciting and answered all my questions. His price was compatible with our budget and we decided to go with him instead the ones in our venue vendor list.
He went over the venue to get to know the place and... figure out stuff about the audio system and equipment installment. He did that without us having to tell him to, which was nice and took stress out of our planning process. He was also at the location for the wedding day very early.
We don’t live in Utah and only had one meeting before the actual day. On the meeting Josh explained to us how he worked, the system he used and listened to our requirements. We were very happy when he told us he would listen to every single song in our playlist and make sure they were put well together as well as played at the right time according to the beats.
Music and dancing are VERY important in our family and we made sure to tell him that. Since I’m not from here, something else important to us is to make sure our family and friends experience both cultures. We wanted to make sure Brazilian songs were going to be played as well as the ones from here. Our playlist had more than 9 hours of music and everything we wanted was included.
Throughout the night we had some minor problems like wrong cake cutting song, late tempo for certain songs or low audio for reception that would have been just details if it wasn’t for bigger problems that added up and resulted in everyone complaining during the party and talking about it afterwards.
The Brazilian part was non-existent. For the reception we didn’t have one song that was played but the ones designated for seating and dinner. I asked Josh at least 3 times and he would tell me he would play them. Finally, he said he would play them in the after party. Not ideal, but acceptable. Still during the reception our guests were getting frustrated to the way he was transitioning the songs. The songs were not played in full. He would cut them and most of the time in not a good part to be cut at. Some people would be literally in the air dancing and BANG, song cut! We also had songs played more than once and songs we didn’t include. At some point I thought we were the problem since we sent the playlist a week before, but no because I asked him to let me know of any problems and he didn’t mention anything.
For the after party I waited a little and nothing. I asked him multiple times about it and at some point he started playing songs in Spanish which have nothing to do with Brazilian songs and he knew because we let that very clear to him on the meeting.
Lastly, he told me he wasn’t finding the songs in his system, something we tried to avoid creating a Spotify playlist and sharing with him. I inquired about the playlist and apparently he didn’t have the cable to connect his normal computer to the sound system so he didn’t have our playlist available in the moment that was most needed. It was very infuriating but at that point there was nothing I could do.
One of my bridesmaid, decided to dance to at least some Brazilian songs, went to him and start using his Ipad that was finally connected to the amplifiers. I’m happy we could at least do that and dance, but again, very disappointing.
With that being said, I give Josh 3 stars and advice anyone who considers music a big part of their wedding to not hire him. He is a good DJ for traditional weddings with most played songs kinda thing but not a fit for unique set ups like ours.