About this vendor
More than music, more than a disc jockey. We provide Master of Ceremonies that not only play the music the way you want it, but organize and keep the reception flowing. We are North Florida's exclusive place for The Love Story and other unique options to help make your wedding the very special.
Details
Equipment
- Audio/Visual Equipment
- Sound Equipment
Music Genres
- African
- Arabic
- Bluegrass
- Bollywood
- Caribbean
- Celtic
Music Services
- MC Services
- Recorded Music
- Sound Equipment
Wedding Activities
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
- Ceremony
- Reception
Awards and Affiliations
2013 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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Reviews
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4.7
out of 5.034 reviews
Darrin at D'Land was super helpful and very easy to work with leading up to our wedding. He was thorough when asking about our ideas and venue and "feel" of the wedding, and made s...
ure we felt included in deciding the songs and flow for the evening. He was very personable and made sure our guests had lots of fun!
Jeffrey was wonderful! Took the time to sit down and make sure it was "our wedding". Using the music we requested but also not making us choose every song. He kept the party going ...
and everyone enjoyed him!
We booked with D'Land after witnessing the quality of their services at a Bridal Expo we attended! Josh Cannon was our DJ for our 9/24 wedding at the River House in St. Augustine, ...
and I'm so thrilled with what a great job he did! I have a love for all things music, so it was easy to compile a long list of potential song choices in D'Land's very helpful and user-friendly portal, but having a DJ who could read the crowd was extremely important to me. Josh was absolutely the right guy for the job! He played the right songs at the right time, and mixed a few of his own selections in that he knew would go over well with our crowd! He kept people on the dance floor all night and did a great job going with the flow when necessary. He has a witty personality, which is helpful in an industry where you don't know what kind of crowd you're going to be dealing with. I would strongly urge you to book with D'Land and to ask for Josh!
Professor Jeff was a hit at our wedding! Communicative through the planning, set up FaceTime meeting since we weren't local, and made great suggestions when we needed it. I think e...
veryone was dancing, including my 80 year old grandma!
With my wedding being a destination wedding, I had limited time to meet with vendors during my visits. My first meeting with Jeffrey at D’land Entertainment was all it took. He i...
s professional, knowledgeable, and energetic. Jeffrey helped us create a plan for the evening, as well as provide creative ways to get and keep people on the dance floor. Not to mention, he was always available for me whenever I called or emailed. He made the long distance between us not seem so long. I cannot say enough about him, as I truly was blown away.
Our DJ, Jeffrey, worked with us for our reception. We had some difficulties in the very beginning with communications issues when hiring, but these were quickly resolved and the s...
ervices otherwise were outstanding. Jeffrey was responsive when asked about various aspects of what we were looking for, and had a long meeting with us to walk us through the process of figuring out what we wanted. During the event, we had a few last minute changes where we had told someone one thing and the DJ another, and he was able to quickly and smoothly accommodate the changes so that you wouldn't have even known anything had happened! He was very personable with everyone and during the evening did an excellent job of keeping everyone involved. The set list he came up with based on our music tastes was awesome and so incredibly us that we asked him afterwards for a set list so we could forever remember what was played! He even added in a few fun things to do during the reception, including a version of the newlywed game that was a blast! I would highly recommend this group for anyone planning a wedding in the Jacksonville area, and Jeff himself would be a great choice for your dj!
D'Land did a wonderful job providing music and managing the flow of the reception. Chris was so fun and encouraged everyone to have a great time. Our night couldn't have gone bette...
r. Everyone complimented us on what a fabulous night it was.
Our wedding was last weekend (4/11/15)
at the Hilltop Club. We choose Jeff Wood with DLand. By far that was the best choice ever! He was amazing. All of our family and friends st...
ill keep saying how good he was. We really wanted to make sure we got a dj that would get everyone up and dancing all night and that definitely happened!! He was also so awesome at making sure everything went smoothly from our ceremony to our last dance! If you want a dj that will get the party started and keep it going then Jeff is your man!!! 😊
The DJ we had at our wedding was nothing special. He was very unresponsive when we tried to contact him. He cut our first song short which was a huge let down since we had paid f...
or dance lessons. He basically stood behind his DJ stand the entire night. I have faith in the company, but I wouldn't choose nor recommend Dion as your DJ. I was very disappointed in the way the company handled my complaints.
Great energy, wonderful interaction. He helped me choose the best music for the ceremony. Dancing was great!
We were immediately drawn to these guys based on a bridal show we attended (major snoozefest until we saw D'land entertainment tearing up the dance floor!). We had Jeff Wood, who d...
id a phenomenal job of organizing everything during a thorough session prior to the wedding. He played every song we requested, and people were obsessed! He really got the party going and even stood up on two chairs and taught the dance moves, which was awesome. You don't realize how much more the DJ actually does until you're at the reception...he basically governed the entire night's timeline! It was perfect. Oh- and he did a really fun activity with everyone since we had a buffet, called 'name that tune to eat' (you have to be the first one to run up to his booth and name the title of the song he's playing and if you win your table gets to go eat) and it was a huge hit!
Thanks so much for making our night the best party ever! :)
We are so happy that we had Jeffrey as the DJ for our wedding. He made sure we heard the music we requested, and worked in requests from our guests very well. So many of our guests...
made comments about how great the music was! Jeffrey was so energetic and fun, and really kept the guests dancing and having a good time all night. There was not a time that the dance floor was empty. He had some really great and fun ideas for the reception. We did a sing -a-long, which my husband and I had both forgotten about until the music started. It was so fun! I will always remember what a great DJ we had and how pleased we were with everything. Highly recommended!!
My groom was incharge of the DJ. He did have a little of trouble getting ahold of them on the phone at first, but once we finally did they were amazing. Our DJ was Jeff Wood. Jeff ...
gave us his e-mail so we were able to contact him whenever we needed to. We met with Jeff and went over the do not play list and what we wanted. The day of the wedding, we had so many people coming up to us telling us how amazing the music was. Both me and my husband believed the music help make the night. And we were right, I don't think the dance floor was empty at all the whole night. He started the dinner with some nice love songs to get people in the mood. Then after dinner Jeff has some oldies for the older crowd. And as the night went on went on to each generation of music. Still after a month people from the wedding are still talking about the music.
We used D’Land entertainment after a bunch of recommendations and seeing them at a bridal show. At the bridal show, they had an entire dance floor set up and were doing all sorts o...
f dances (including the wobble!) and getting the party going and the crowd involved which was everything we were looking for, for our wedding. We had glow sticks at our reception and really wanted to have a serious party so we went with d’land. Our music taste is a little different and we really like EDM (electric dance music or house music) so we discussed this with the DJ and gave him an entire print out of songs we wanted played. He ended up playing one song from the list. That was a bummer because we already told most of our friends (who like the same music as us) that we would have that music.. and we didn’t. The party was still going all night and the songs he played were crowd pleasers so everything ended up working out.. just wish we had our music. I would still recommend them.
Darrin was great! He made our wedding so much fun all the guest had a blast! He also made our father/ daughter awesome with a remix. Well worth the money.
The first time we met with Jeff Bell he was jumping up and down all over the room and was so excited about what he does - we knew we HAD to have him! D'Land entertainment offers so...
mething truly unique in their services and people today are still telling us about how great he was! If you are looking for a DJ that gets the crowd moving and doesn't just sit behind his booth, then this is the guy for you! I can't wait to have more events in the future just so I can hang out with him again! It was expensive but worth every penny - now that the experience is over, we would have paid DOUBLE to have him! We love you Jeff Bell!
Jeffrey Wood is absolutely amazing! All of our friends and family kept commenting on how great of a job the dj was doing. He was keeping everyone involved and interacted with every...
one really well. Our wedding was not the traditional ceremony, we put a little hip hop pizazz into it and he was supportive of it and helped us get everything we wanted. He has some secrets up his sleeve so be ready. He kept the night going, and we had the whole night planned out and stayed he made sure we stayed on pace. He made the night so fun and memorable. We still talk about it! My husband and I want to throw a party just to have him dj for us again!
D'Land Entertainment was an excellent choice. DJ Jeffrey played all of our favorites and really worked the crowd. Many of my guests came up to me and told me hey liked him and said...
our reception was so much fun.
Paul D'land was the emcee for our wedding. We went to Paul based on a recommendation. We couldn't have been happier. On our first meeting he took the time to get to know us as a...
couple. He has been in the business for a while and even gave some tips on the wedding. The Love Story he does was amazing. Everyone at the wedding loved it. He kept us updated on the timing of the wedding made sure everything went the way we wanted it to. He made sure the music we wanted to hear was played and guaranteed any music we didn’t want to play was no played. I was really impressed on how much he wanted to get to know what we wanted from our wedding and tailored what he did to meet our needs. From the first meeting to the note in the mail we got after the wedding, he was very professional and great to work with. I highly recommend D'land entertainment.
Also…when we met with our cake vendor before the wedding, she even commented on how great Paul is and how we are in good hands.
Jeff Bell was the most amazing DJ! So many people went on and on about how he was the best DJ ever. My aunt who was an event planner for the Navy said “He was the best entertainer ...
I've seen. I say entertainer, and not DJ, because he was so much more than a DJ. He really got people dancing and was wonderful to watch” He knew the perfect time to play the songs we had to have. I can’t thank Jeff enough. He was worth every penny and I would have paid more knowing what value he brought to the event.
Jeffrey was so awesome! He has such a great enthusiasm and energy, not just during the reception but during the planning as well! He has such great ideas and really made our recept...
ion special. We received so many compliments from our guests. He got everyone dancing which was awesome! I highly recommend Jeffery with Deland Entertainment!
Music is very important to me, so I knew if I was going to splurge anywhere, it would be on the DJ. Jeffrey Wood at D'Land Entertainment was worth every penny! The professionalis...
m, attention to detail, and way he ran the evening took all of the pressure and stress off me and allowed me to truly enjoy my reception. He was incredible and I would highly recommend him to anyone!
This company is very professional and make themselves available. I worked with Darrin and he was always available when I needed him as I was traveling from NC. He made my wedding...
and reception special for myself and my family. He even remembered my neice's favorite song and played it as a surprise. I can't say enough about how wonderful it was working with them. I would highly recommend them to anyone.
Awesome DJ's!!!
Everything was great except there was some technical difficulty which was not their fault.
D'Land Entertainment is the company you want to book! They have a unique brand. I am confident that any one that you could hire within D'Land will provide you with the best servic...
e around.
Our MC/DJ was top notch! Jeffery is an upbeat professional; he listens well and is very organized. All of our guests were impressed with the uniqueness of our reception. Jeffery even got out on the dance floor to motivate timid guests. We have guests telling us three weeks later how much fun they had dancing. One guest said, “I haven’t danced like that at a wedding in years!” Many told us it was the best wedding they had ever been to. As far as sound quality and lighting equipment, it was high quality! Overall D’Land Entertainment is a great value and with dazzling service.
They set up an appointment with us initally when we were going to meet with the photographer and bakery that are a part of The Wedding Party. They cancelled that appointment the da...
y of. Then they re-scheduled for a less convenient time for us where we both left work to meet with them. Then when we were 35 minutes into a 40 minute drive to meet with them, they called and cancelled the appointment. We chose to use someone else.
D'land entertainment is amazing. We used Darren & he exceeded our expectations. He not only did a great job being the DJ, but helped coordinate everything!
Absolutely a disappointement. Don't consider yourself a priority with this company. Apparently a signed contract is not enough to ensure the dj you book with them. They promised me...
a certain guy, sent the contract, I signed it (with his name on it) and then call me and tell me he booked something else. They were more than happy to accomodate me for another $2,000.00. Horrible ethics, intergrity and just plain bad business.
Paul was awesome!! He had so many unique ideas and such great ability ro keep people interested and having fun! Everyone asked me for his name!!! Worth every penny!
Definitely use this company!!!! If you want your wedding to be non-stop fun then Deland is the perfect choice. There is several DJ's to choose from but we used Jeff Bell. Not on...
ly was he our DJ but he also gave my husband and I choreographed dance lessons. He knew exactly how to get and keep everyone dancing all night long. If you want someone who is professional, outgoing and full of energy then book him! He helped make our wedding unforgettable:)
James Bell is by far the best DJ! We worked with him several months before our wedding learning our first dance. Not only does he know music but he also can dance. He got out on th...
e dance floor and was dancing with our guest. We could not have pulled our first dance off with out him!
We used Jeffrey for our daughter's wedding. He was amazing. People were stopping me all night to tell me how great he was. I will definitely use them again.
We used Jason from Deland and he was great. We were nervous with a daytime wedding if we would still have a party atmosphere. But Jason took care of that, everyone has a wonderful...
time.
We had Paul Deland himself so we paid a little more. He was worth every penny. We had a small guest list....so it could have been deadly...but he kept everyone up and dancing. Ev...
eryone had a good time. He aslo suggested a last dance with just the bride and groom in the room and it was very romantic.
Contact
North Florida, South Georgia
D'Land Entertainment