Truthfully, I was a bit disappointed with the services provided by Marty. As far as cost, Marty McFly was on the higher end of the DJ’s we were looking at. But because music is so ...important to me and my husband, and because we knew were were going to have a few special requests for our DJ, we decided to splurge and go with Marty.
This ended up not really being a good use of our money in my opinion. Now, I want to be fair and say that I have gotten a lot of compliments on the DJ and he had the dance floor full all night. So my issues are because I had a specific vision in my head and he didn’t help me execute it. It’s not that he’s a bad DJ or played bad music. My complaint is with his ability to listen to our specific requests and make sure to execute them.
I’ll be specific. My husband and I used records as our centerpieces. We wanted a certain song to play as tables were released for dinner. Apparently when Marty showed up he was unprepared for this and pushed back on the day of coordinators about it even though we had discussed it over zoom and I had followed up with all the necessary information required to make it happen. Without day of coordinators, it doesn't sound like this would've happened and it was something very important to us.
We also had taken the time to create our own dance floor playlist we wanted Marty to pull from. We had tried to do some older songs to get the older guests involved and we’d avoided the very typical overplayed wedding songs like Yeah by Usher and Timber by Kesha. This playlist was not really stuck to at all from what I can tell. Now, again trying to be fair…maybe people were requesting those overplayed songs? And we had told him he had some leeway to go outside of our playlist… But, ultimately, our vision for our dance floor just was not executed. And for me, that is a big disappointment of the wedding.
I would’ve appreciated more upfront communication on what was and was not possible to make happen so I could’ve avoided stressing about it the night of and just gone in with the proper expectations. Maybe our playlist idea was unworkable, but then that should’ve been said to us from the very beginning. The other thing is as the bride, you want to be able to tell your vendor something once and trust that it’s going to happen. This wasn’t the case with Marty.
So my advice to brides and grooms is this. If you’re looking for a DJ that you can just let do their thing and trust that they’re going to play the hits and keep the dance floor going then go ahead and book Marty McFly if he fits in your budget. But, if you have specific requests that are important to you and you want someone you can trust to execute them without reminders, keep looking.