My wife and I used the falcon films studios DJ services for our December 2022 wedding. Genuinely, if everything else hadn't gone well, this DJ would have ruined the wedding. Frankly, I was seething and incredibly embarrassed.
We originally boo...ked Devon with Falcon Film in July because of his great reviews. However, 5 days before the wedding Derek gave us a new DJ, Richard. No explanation was given for the switch. But fine, I am generally happy to roll with the punches.
Richard was kind but that is unfortunately where the compliments end in our experience.
30 minutes before the ceremony Richard needed clarification on the recessional music and had the incorrect song pulled up despite being given a link in advance. Thankfully, the correct song was played for the recessional and processional but there was no fading out of songs. The processional music was abruptly cut off, almost in a record scratch way but without the sound effect.
The microphone levels were always wrong and Richard was not paying attention to the volume without being prompted. Announcements were too quiet or the music was too loud compared to the microphone. For every announcement the venue staff (not part of Falcon Film) would go table to table to instruct the guests or would make a follow-up announcement aloud without a mic. Guests started yelling at the DJ in the middle of the bride's father's speech to turn up the volume.
My god... The DJ booth lights.... I would bet money that the light arrangements were in demo mode because they were certainly not synched with music. The lights cycled through all the different lasers and spinning effects, which would have been fine and easy to ignore if it weren't for an extended and jarring strobe light effect at the end. During setup we asked that he turn off the strobing lights. But he turned on the strobing lights again as we were cutting the cake. Possibly in preparation for our first dance... to slow music? Jason Mraz's song Lucky does not strike me as a laser and strobe kind of song, but maybe I'm just not cool enough. Our day-of coordinator again told Richard to turn the lasers/strobes off and, mercifully, they remained off the rest of the night.
Additionally, for the first dance despite being given a link, the wrong version of our first dance song was played. We had a choreographed dance and genuinely thought he was playing the wrong song and intended to just go with it and sway because at this point we were just over the whole DJ situation. However, he had just picked a version with an extended intro so we did get to do our dance. The other dances (father-daughter, mother-son) had the correct songs and were fine.
When the dance floor opened to everyone it seemed there was zero curation of the playlist, or possibly just bad curation. The songs would alternate between fast and slow (think Proclaimers 500 miles followed by Elvis Can't Help Falling in Love). It was so bad that an elderly guest shouted "what are you doing!?" and other people booed. Our guests booing the DJ was not on the list of things we wanted to happen at our wedding. A groomsman had to go up to ask Richard to only play fast songs, and once he switched to a fast playlist half way through the night (and no longer made announcements), everything went fine.
He is a nice guy, but my recommendation for Richard would be to learn how to sync/operate the lights, curate the playlist a little, and check all the mic levels in advance.