DJ/MC Jeffrey Evan Mufson / Jemstar Entertainment

Jeff arrived early to the ceremony/reception venue and was set up on time. However, he somehow spaced out during the ceremony and played our after-the-first-kiss song at least 30 seconds late, causing an awkward pause and a disruption in the ceremony. I know this may seem like a small detail, but I can’t help but think that the DJ has just ONE job during the ceremony, and that is to play the music on time. From that perspective, he really dropped the ball and we were incredibly disappointed. The weather was unseasonably cold, so the cocktail hour was moved inside and Jeff had to do some extra entertaining. I was away taking pictures, but he was constantly asking my mother when we would be back and urging her to take us away from the photos and come back to the reception. I told Jeff photos would take at least an hour, maybe more, but he said he had never been to a wedding that took an hour after the ceremony for photos. He bugged my mom SO much that she actually left the cocktail hour to find us at the photo spot, and tell us he didn’t know what to do with everyone because we were 40 minutes behind schedule. Once we got back, he was throwing out orders to people lining up to enter the reception. I received a number of complaints and feedback from my bridal party about how off-putting and obnoxiously he was behaving. During dinner, Jeff did an okay job, except that he talked incessantly even though we had specifically asked him not to. Weirdly, Jeff was calling tables up to the buffet and was apparently amused enough at my grandmother’s confusion that he actually walked up to the sweetheart table to joke with us about how she was confused. Once the dancing started, Jeff engaged in a number of behaviors that changed the whole tone of the reception away from what we had wanted: Guests requested songs via text (as Jeff encouraged them to) and Jeff ignored them. Guests approached Jeff and asked to have songs they know we would enjoy and Jeff said no (although we only gave Jeff two rules: no pop country and no cha cha slide. We had completely okay-ed guest requests). My aunt requested our family anthem - which I included on the online song request portal Jeff bugged me to fill out- and Jeff denied her. Jeff told her he needed my approval. She asked me, I said yes of course, she went to tell Jeff this, and he told her he needed to talk to me himself….which he pulled me out of the photo booth while taking pictures with our friends, stop enjoying my wedding, just to give my verbal consent to play a song I HAD ALREADY REQUESTED WEEKS BEFORE THE WEDDING. And when I went up to him and said, Jeff please play the song my aunt requested, he quizzed me on what song it was. My husband requested to be lifted in chairs during a song. Our groomsmen lifted him up in a chair, and one of them pulled out a chair for me. Before I could sit in it, Jeff STOOD ON THE CHAIR. He actually left his DJ booth to be a part of the party (which was totally against our wishes- we kindly asked him to “blend in” to the wedding, not be a star of it). After the wedding: Jeff emailed me some ceremony photos he got from the window of the venue (where his music station was set up), which was a kind gesture. Jeff has a strong personality that doesn’t seem to mesh well with a large, varied group of people. His prices are extremely reasonable and he will show up on time. However, be warned of the above as it significantly impacted the wedding experience for us and for our guests.