Our wedding was on 11/19 and Brandon was our DJ. I was super excited to work with him because we had several calls before the event and he seemed prepared and confident. I sent him our song choices, a list of everyone walking in the processiona...l, playlists, and a day of timeline.
Unfortunately, there were several issues. First, he played the wrong song when I walked down the aisle, realized it halfway through my walk, and switched it to the correct song with an awkward transition. What happened was, the wedding party walked to their song. The officiant then asked everyone to stand for the bride. Everyone stood, and the wedding party song just kept playing. My dad and I stood there with the venue coordinator for what seemed like FOREVER until we felt like we had no choice but to just start walking. And then, when my dad and I were halfway down the aisle the song switched to the correct song and everyone kind of looked around confused. We obviously just continued on, but I was upset because that was supposed to be my moment and it was ruined.
The next issue that happened was at the end of the ceremony. Prior to the event I asked Brandon if he wanted a copy of the ceremony script so he would know when it was over and when we would want the recessional music to start. He said not to worry, he would know. He did not. After we kissed, we kind of stood there waiting for the music to start so we could exit. When it didn’t, we just started walking to no music. It started when we were about a third of the way down the aisle.
The next issue happened during our first dance. The music cut out for a second while we were dancing. Not a huge deal, technical issues happen, but still worth mentioning.
The last big issue was with the timeline. I emailed him a copy of the timeline for the event and then had a follow up call with him about it. I didn’t want to do my first dance and father daughter dance back to back. I wanted to do the first dance, then let everyone get their first course, and then do the father daughter dance a little later. We discussed this with him and he said that a lot of people will do the first dance and then the husband will hand the bride over to the father. I did not want that and made it clear. Obviously, he forgot, because right after the first dance he went into the father daughter dance.
Brandon was really nice and friendly on the phone. I had confidence in his abilities and was really surprised and disappointed that these things happened, so I felt compelled to write this review.