Positive:
- On point with timing of playing music and announcements
- Flexible with demands from us (bride and groom)
- Very professional interactions
Negative:
We had high expectations, based on demos and conversations, that the DJ would be a...daptable with the crowd and the type of music to play during the reception. We had about a 50/50 split of guests that included a younger and older crowd. At the start of the open dance portion of the reception there was a good hour of a dead dance floor and confusion from both age brackets of our guests. The music being played wasn’t anything that anyone was “feeling”, or made anyone feel like dancing. The music was on the border line of songs that you could not fast dance to, or slow dance to, preventing anyone from dancing.
We had group engaging songs, like the Cupid Shuffle and Electric Slide, on our do not play list, because we know our guests generally like to dance and do not need those types of songs. Due to desperation and embarrassment of a dead dance floor for so long, we allowed the DJ to play Cupid Shuffle. This did get guests on the floor, but as soon as the song was done, the guests would leave due to the music not being engaging for fast or slow dancing. We were then spammed with group engaging songs such as electric slide and the YMCA. Though our guests joined in on some of these songs, it was only because they were bored at this point and wanted to do something.
The playlist just seemed very out dated by about 10 or more years. We are from the 90s and enjoy 90s music, but we were not even getting the good 90s music. And nothing against the YMCA, but there is no need to play that at a wedding reception. The DJ was banking on these group dance songs to keep the dance floor occupied (wasn’t filled since most of our guests did not care for this type of music and dancing).
We had high expectations (again, based on the demos and conversations) that the DJ would find good songs to play with a list of artists we provided. We listed some songs on our “to play” list, but mostly just some artists that have known songs to make people want to dance, like Katy Perry and Pitbull. We heard very few songs from the list of artists and songs we mentioned. We were hoping to rely on the DJs experience to know what to play based on information provided and seeing the dead crowd during other songs he played, but that did not happen.
Overall, absolutely professional from the time of filling out contracts up to the end of the event. The major downside seems to be the very cookie cutter style of DJing that we were not interested in. Oversold on how flexible and understanding the DJs are of crowds. If going with this group, would highly suggest providing exactly the songs you want to hear to avoid DJ’s predefined playlist that seems to be out dated.