READ THE REVIEWS BEFORE BOOKING THIS DJ!! First, the planning part was good. Anthony helped me identify events that I may want in my wedding and assisted with his website to create a wedding playlist which took hours. My DJ was Deshon Brown. He... informed us that he had the unique playlist we created and assured us that he didn’t have an issue playing them. This is when the enjoyment end for “us” as a wedding couple.
During our cocktail hour at first none of the 20 songs we selected were played. My sister had to go to the DJ and asked if he was playing any of the songs we selected. His reply was, “There were not enough cocktail songs so he had to pick his own”, we had to remind him that he needed to start playing our 20 songs.
Before the wedding, I informed the DJ of a special introduction I had to pay extra to have pre-recorded. I received a verbal and email confirmation prior to the introduction. When it was time to announce the wedding party, he skipped over one of my groomsmen. I had to yell out the groomsmen’s name before he introduced him, despite providing a complete list of names beforehand. The moment the bride was introduced he would play the two designated audio files. He played the Groom’s but when it was time for the bride, he played the groom’s again! He didn’t realize that it was the wrong one. I yelled “No, No, that’s the wrong one!” but he didn’t stop the recording. By the time he realized it, the Bride was already on the dance floor. The pre-recording was wasted, and she wasn’t introduced properly.
Because my wife is a different religion than I, we decided to have our Priest and her pastor to say grace. Those names were put into the playlist we completed days prior to the wedding. After the Priest said something, the DJ thanked him and said, “Let’s eat”. Completely ignoring my wife’s Pastor, while she was walking up to the microphone. We yelled out “Hold on, the Pastor needs to say something”, when he recognized yet another mistake. During the dinner, I heard him play a small amount of the songs we selected. This was getting annoying, but we shrugged it off until multiple family members came up and said, “Do you want me to DJ, this guy is messing it up by the numbers”. They made light of the comment, but I knew they were right. What could we do, fire him in the middle of the reception?
He would say “Ok folks it’s time for the next activity”, when we transitioned from one event to another. How is it that the MC could only come up with that one line for a wedding?
For the open dance the DJ played all your standard wedding favorites. We were disappointed because our wedding didn’t have the unique personal touch we wanted after working hours on the playlist. He played requested songs from the crowd, some of which I vowed wouldn’t be in my wedding. I didn’t give the DJ a list of these songs because you would think, if you are going off of the playlist we selected, we wouldn’t have to worry about the songs we don’t want played.
Anthony was shocked by our response, he said Deshon was one of their best DJ’s. That’s when he went on the defensive, He said, Deshon played 60% of selected songs and he recited all the excuses Deshon had in response to our concerns. Anthony asked, “What am I looking to get out of this”, I replied “Since Deshon only played 60% of our songs, we should only pay 60%”. Anthony said he was working through the “Process”. It has been over a week, it’s apparent this is not an important issue.
Thank you!