0/10.
• During our meeting with him two weeks prior to the wedding, we could tell he was unorganized with his paperwork.
• He had hours prior to the event to set up for an outdoor cocktail social. He also had an assistant. Yet, he was unable ...to route power to his speaker outside. Thus, our 1.5 hours of a cocktail social did not have any music. No backup speaker. No portable Bluetooth speaker, which he said he would have during our meeting. He did not bring extension cables to route power from inside the venue. In the end, one of our coordinators ended up routing power with their extension cable. He has claimed numerous times that it is not on him to make sure there is power. If he had a device that needed to be plugged in, he should’ve made sure it could be plugged in and it worked during his set up time. And if no power was available, he should’ve had a back-up plan.
• Cocktail hour was followed by an outdoor Jewish ceremony. Prior to the ceremony, the Rabbi approached him since he was having issues with the sound during cocktail hour. The Rabbi asked him if there would be speakers and a microphone for the rabbi to use during the ceremony. Flustered, he proceeded to get defensive and raised his voice to the Rabbi, causing a large scene at the cocktail hour, in which most guests overheard or saw. He was yelling at the Rabbi and our planner so loudly that someone from the set-up team could hear from upstairs, and came down to check if they were okay. This is now the part of the wedding people remember. Not our actual wedding.
• His DJ-ing was sub-par. He played whole, four-minute songs, even when they were dragging on, rather than mixing music together. It was basically a playlist rather than DJing.
• On top of mispronouncing numerous names of the wedding party during the grand entrance, he mispronounced the groom’s name during the grand entrance for the reception. We met and provided pronunciation help prior to the wedding and he had notes. Prior to the grand entrance he was outside walking around and talking to us, and he could have easily used that time to clarify any names he was unsure of.
• He said he would put our monogram displayed on the wall from a projector, but he did not do that. He also said he was able to play a slideshow of photos from the aforementioned projector, but was unable to do that. A slideshow of photos was made by one of our cousins. He told our cousin that he had put it on one of his flash drives, but then the projector was unable to read flash drives. He did not bring an HDMI cable, so he was unable to play it from his computer. From experience, the easiest way would be to play it from a laptop, connect it to the projector via an HDMI cable, and duplicate/extend the display.
• A refund of any sort was not provided, even though he did not play music for 1.5 hours, as well as provide microphones for a 30-minute ceremony. We paid him for 2 extra hours of silence.
• Part of our wedding team at the venue said that out of the many DJ’s they’ve seen, he was the least professional and has issues with anger.