This review was something I have contemplated writing for a few weeks now. But I feel it is something I have to do to keep other brides informed. My husband and I used Richard afte...r seeing his rave reviews and speaking with him on the phone. He was upfront about cost which was fantastic and was willing to work with us as we did not need his services for the full time the price allowed for. Two months before the wedding I reached out to him with a bit more information about what we were hoping for and a question I had. One of the things we specifically asked for was that we wanted guests to be invited to dance with us 90 seconds into our first dance song. He responded back promptly but dismissed all that I had written out saying that he would send me a form to fill out two weeks before the wedding. Two weeks before the wedding he sends us the form and we fill in the specific information he asks for, and a few days later he called us to discuss it. We discuss the details of our wedding and what we are hoping for, again I mentioned we wanted people to dance with us 90 seconds into our first dance together. This was the only thing I was pretty specific about and it was important to me as we loved the song and didn't want to cut it short. We mentioned a few other details and he gave us suggestions about things we weren't sure about which we appreciated. Up until this point we were pretty satisfied. The day of our wedding came and he was very friendly and helpful in getting our wedding party lined up for the intros. After the introduction to the wedding party however we were pretty disappointed with his service. After intros we went into the first dance, and he did not invite anyone to dance with us. He also stopped the music about 2 minutes into the song, even though we discussed this detail and it was mentioned many times. During the reception we had a lot of people dance at first but then about 1/3 of the way through the wedding the dance floor was almost empty and stayed that way the entire time. At one point only my husband and I were dancing. Granted this was a brunch wedding, and perhaps it could have been our guests, but he did not even attempt to get people out on the dance floor by engaging with the crowd. We asked for wedding classics and latin pop music, as well as a few specifics but by the time the specifics were played most of our guests had left. We did allow for requests, but only 2 requests were made which shouldn't have put 90% of the songs we wanted at the end. He also only played 1 slow song other than our first dance at the end of our reception, so people didn't even have a chance to do that. Overall Richard was really friendly, and easy to work with for the most part, but he did not follow through with our plan, and didn't even really try to get our guests to dance. I've been to plenty of brunch weddings where people dance, and I am pretty sure he was even a DJ at one. So maybe it was just an off day, but to be honest this is still something I think about and get sad about now and again. We just got our photos back of empty dance floors. :(