We hired Dave for our wedding due to his extensive experience at our venue, and exceptional reviews both online, and from our venue. Prior to the wedding, Dave was extremely easy to work with, and quick to respond to questions.
The ceremony s...ound was excellent. Dave played all the right songs, at the right time, set up a wireless mic for our officiant, and set up a standing mic for our readers. The volume and timing were perfect, and Dave did a good job explaining to us ahead of time what to expect.
We were a little disappointed by a few things (it's so hard to choose a DJ online, which is the only reason I'm leaving this review):
- Dave forgot to make a requested announcement for guests to put away their phones prior to the ceremony.
- The cocktail hour playlist looped, so 2 songs were played twice in 1 hour
- During dancing, entire songs were played start to finish, which seemed a little weird. I'm not sure what's normal, but I had expected songs to be mixed where 1 song flows into the next.
- Dave didn't play a lot of the songs on our dancing playlist. To be fair, I did tell him he could exercise some artistic license, but I didn't realize that would mean replacing Blackstreet, Daft Punk and Glass Animals with Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry. Oh well.
- Our guests told us later that none of their song requests were played.
Overall, we were happy to have Dave's audio expertise and equipment, but feel that he dropped the ball on some of the details. Everyone has off days though, and most of our complaints were very minor - our guests still had a wonderful time, and we are probably the only ones that noticed any of this. We had people on the dance floor all night.