Foley Weddings

a good DJ. His approach to our wedding seemed to be making assumptions without clarification. There were issues and errors at every step of the wedding, and not once did he apologize or take accountability for everything that went wrong, even after being given multiple opportunities to respond via email, text, and phone. The issues we experienced with DJ Evan were: - Poor communication in the planning process. Evan uses a form that he created and assumes that is the end-all-be-all for the information he needs. The form is not comprehensive and required a phone call to review details. He only spoke on the phone when we requested but did not retain all of the information we discussed as it was not correctly implemented at the wedding. Example: we told him we had a playlist for cocktail hour on the phone and sent it to him via text. During the wedding, he did not play the playlist, and when confronted, said he didn’t have it. We told him we texted it to him and he did end up playing it. - Inconsistent communication as well. Example: we were told there would be a separate ceremony microphone, but our officiant was told there would not be. Also, he was unable to effectively direct our guests to where they needed to go. When it was time for guests to go outside for the ceremony, nobody could hear his announcements and the groom had to make the announcement himself to get everybody outside. - He did not collaborate well with the venue staff and other vendors. Example: one of our guests was seated right next to his speaker and music was blasted in his ear. Evan did not adjust and instead blamed it on the venue saying that he was forced to set up in that corner. The venue had also previously offered to let him use their built-in speaker system that plays throughout the barn and he declined to use it. Additionally, our wedding coordinator and photographer both told us he wasn't listening to their instructions throughout the day. - He did not look presentable or professional at the wedding (as noted by a few of guests as well) wearing just a black t shirt. - There were multiple technical issues like the microphone not working during the ceremony and the music turning off on the dance floor. - Contrary to our phone discussion about transitions between songs, full-length songs were played throughout. He played the entirety of Juke Box Hero which is a 4-minute song with no transition. He also went from playing Levels to Twist and Shout, which killed the dance floor and wasn’t even one of our requested songs. A number of our guests have noted how choppy the transitions between songs were. - Finally, the most upsetting thing that Evan did was cut off our first dance song. We had prepared a choreographed dance and only got to perform half of it. We had worked incredibly hard on this dance and we were devastated. At no point did we communicate that the song should be cut early. We admittedly got very mad at him and during the wedding he texted us that he was “immensely remorseful at what was perceived as a mistake” and that in the worksheet, we had indicated to “invite couples halfway”. Not only did he not apologize, but our guests were already standing so this explanation did not make sense. He did leave his tip though.

Our dance floor was packed for nearly 2.5 hours and so many of our friends told us it was one of the best dance parties they'd ever been to. He was really reactive to the crowd and would keep the songs moving if people weren't vibing as much. Stop looking now and book him!