Puget Sound DJ

everything. He’s a recommended vendor by Ray’s Boathouse which is where I had the wedding. We had a few zoom meetings and I got to select some must play music! He has an awesome playlist and got a good chunk of my guests to get on the dance floor. He’s more than just the DJ he also helps with coordination and MC-ing!

rience for our guests. Alan's dedication to getting to know us prior to the wedding both as a couple and as clients ensured that the day was personalized to us, and allowed us to relax because we knew Alan had it covered. With Alan, you get more than a DJ, you get an MC, a collaborator during your planning phase, and a friend. Throughout our meetings he was able to provide suggestions and recommendations not only from a music and sound standpoint, but from a coordination and timing perspective. Alan was able to travel to a remote location and provide flawless sound quality outdoors for our entire day as a one man team. Alan is a collaborator and will help you make your vision come true. Our guests said it was the best dance party of their lives - and we agree! We are so glad we chose Puget Sound DJ (Alan) for our wedding - we couldn't have pulled it off without him!

usly had him as their DJ, and through a story of how Alan swooped in to save part of their wedding, we knew he would be a great choice. And we weren't wrong. Alan's process to prepare for our big day was thorough and thoughtful. Music and dancing wasn't a particularly big part of our day, given most of our guests weren't big dancers, but Alan's wealth of experience led him to provide value in other, much needed, ways. He advised us on the flow of our timeline, offered suggestions on the best photo opps, and integrated a clever way to get as many guests on the dance floor to start the night off right. What I saw in Alan, that I didn't see in any other of the 7+ DJs I talked to, was his ability to see himself as a part of the bigger picture and not "just a DJ." He wasn't just thinking about the music, but about where the guests were, how to flow from one activity to another, and the pacing to make the experience for the couple AND guests an incredibly memorable one. On the day of, we had to remain flexible with the timeline & Alan stepped in to coordinate with the vendors on real time, live changes. He was part of a handful of the vendors we hired that kept the event together. Alan was one of our BEST vendor decisions on our wedding day.

ple and as an individual, and he helped us create the entire timeline for the big day. We loved having Alan as a resource not only for great music, but also to help us make the guest experience fun and memorable and to guide us through the wedding planning process. Alan was timely, organized, flexible, and communicative, and he provided amazing service (and tunes!) on the big day. We highly recommend Puget Sound DJ's services!

nted some more unusual music and he did a great job balancing that with keeping the crowd happy. He kept things running smoothly and on-time for the entire day and was a great asset to our vendor team!

pful with making suggestions to make our day special. He helped me remix a song for my father daughter dance, which I really appreciated. The reason I give 3/5 stars, is the day of the wedding was not so smooth. Alan accidentally announced my sisters by the wrong name (it turned out to be funny and fine), and then announced us for our grand entrance by the wrong last name. When I mentioned to him that he used the wrong name, he did nothing to correct the mistake. My mom came to him and asked him to reannounce us with the correct name, and he said that he had been made aware. But, no correction. My parents wedding song was wrong, which I had double and triple checked and added to the playlist tool he had on his website, was the wrong song. Alan came up to me and phrased it in such a way that I had made the mistake, and I know I had checked it. This was my wedding day, and there were multiple instances where I had felt like I was being thrown under the bus by Alan, sometimes actually by him announcing I had made a mistake filling out a form, or choosing the wrong song. I worked really hard to plan this wedding, and was made to feel like I was inconveniencing Alan throughout the evening of my own wedding. All of this would not have been a big deal to us in the grand scheme of things, but the last and most important piece is that my husband and I had a choreographed dance that we had been practicing for months for our first dance. When we were doing our first dance, Alan had cut out the middle of the song unknown to us, and we had to improvise on a dance we had worked so hard on. Would have been nice to have had a heads up on that. Reviews for Alan are great, so I’m hoping this was just an off night. Alan is a nice person, just wish there was some sort of acknowledgment that he made some mistakes.

ople were still talking about him. Alan was there at my sisters wedding and now my wedding and I wouldn’t have it any other way. We can’t thank you enough Alan!

liked working with Alan because he didn't rely on any scummy high pressure salesman talk to convince us he was worth hiring (none of that "if you act RIGHT NOW you'll get a free thing" type stuff that we all hate). Instead, he let his portfolio, experience, and personality shine through and do the talking. It quickly became obvious that he was well practiced with making good use of the many years of experience he has as a DJ and MC. He sat down with us and methodically went through each phase of our wedding day; whenever there was something we were unsure of he always had several great suggestions ready, and whenever we had a request he would smoothly fit it into the itinerary. He would also tell you his professional opinion if he had some reservations about certain activities, but he would always bring them up respectfully, and would always respect our wishes whatever we ended up deciding upon. Alan met with us on several occasions before the wedding to continue to hash out details and make sure everything was for sure settled before the big day. He also did a great job reaching out to our other vendors and coordinating with them, which showed on the wedding day with how smoothly things progressed. He was able to keep things rolling smoothly and on time in regards to our itinerary; things were planned out well enough that we barely had to think about what was next, and Alan already had a queue for us for the next activity. Really, we have absolutely nothing but positive things to say about Alan. His talents are well worth his rate, which was very reasonable for the Western Washington Market. 11/10 would recommend him as a DJ and MC for any wedding or special event. You for sure will not be disappointed in the spectacular job he will do.

California to Seattle and we were lucky to have found Alan with only a month until the wedding. About two weeks prior to the wedding, we learned we had to reschedule it to 4 days earlier. We contacted Alan about the change, he said that he had a family vacation planned for then but that he would call us back. Alan called us back 30 min later and stated "I'm onboard." While I never want someone to take away from family time, I was so appreciative of Alan AND his family. Alan makes it his mission to make your wedding as personalized as possible, to have your guests feel truly like a part of your big day, not just witnesses. The wedding was seamless. He worked closely with my coordinator and the venue owners and the day was truly magical. I cannot recommend Alan enough. He was a huge part into making our day amazing. Thank you

ng without a hitch to make sure that we had the most amazing wedding day possible. As everyone else has said Alan is a great DJ, he is able to fill every moment with the perfect mix of music for a fun and lively wedding day. He is also a fantastic master of ceremonies, coordinating with all of our other vendors and becoming familiar with our story in order to create a reception that was unique to us. Alan didn’t stop there though, when our officiant backed out on us in mid-March he immediately stepped up offering to serve as the officiant for our ceremony. Even though he had never officiated a wedding before we were confident that he would handle the situation masterfully and boy did he deliver. We had so many guests come up to us and say that we had the best wedding ceremony they had ever been to and they were shocked to learn that we were Alan’s first ceremony. If you want a personalized, stress-free wedding day, book Alan as one of your first vendors.

as absolutely perfect on our wedding day - he played all the right music and got everyone dancing (even though we had a pretty reserved group). He was really funny and really cultivated an inviting and happy wedding reception environment. Alan also took the time to get to know us and went out of his way to create a wonderful slideshow for us. Our wedding timeline flowed smoothly despite us running late all thanks to Alan. 10/10 I would highly recommend hiring Alan for your big day, he will do everything in his power to make it perfect for you. We can't thank you enough Alan!!!

ely manner. And if we weren't ready yet, he waited. My brother-in-law said it was one of the best weddings he had ever been to because it was organized. And that was all because of Alan. He gave us all kinds of ideas and he was very transparent with us on our ideas as well. If you are looking into hiring Alan for an event, do it! Our guests had a blast at our wedding and were dancing all night long!

cs that I wasnt sure of. I had never planned a wedding before so his experienced input really helped us make some decisions on how our ceremony and rehearsal was going to run. Alan met with us a couple of times for multiple hours to hash out details and I really felt so relieved everytime we left a meeting with him. Just felt *phew*, got lots of details checked off the list! On the wedding day Alan ran everything so smoothly and helped keep us on schedule. He played all the songs I wanted and really made sure I (the bride) was happy and my needs were met. We LOVE Alan! Thanks for all the hard work you put into our wedding! it turned out perfect.

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arious different aspects of the wedding. Was amazing the day of the wedding and very professional.

hat were must plays, play if you can, and don't play. We also received a login for our guests that allowed them to choose songs they wanted to hear at our wedding, which we know they loved getting to be involved in the music selection and request songs in advance so this was a great feature for us and for them! Alan had us fill out a form prior to our wedding which laid out every "moment" in detail (from our grand entrance to the garter removal and garter toss) so we could select every song that we wanted played for each and every important moment during the reception. He was very thorough in our meetings, which made us feel confident that no detail would be missed. He made the reception have a wonderful flow to it and played every special song we had requested for special moments throughout the night. His experience with our venue was especially helpful as he knew that guests sitting near the back of the venue would be unable to see the dance floor and therefore, it would be necessary to have them all standing near the dance floor for the first dance, father daughter dance, mother son dance, so that everyone could see. He helped pull this off so that the night still had a good flow to it and people didn't feel like they were being shuffled around. Details like these were things we hadn't even thought of, so Alan was very helpful in his knowledge of making sure everything "flowed." We interviewed several other DJ's before Alan and most were either not as professional or knowledgeable and also less expensive or had similar philosophies to Alan and portrayed a similar confidence and professionalism, but were 3 times as expensive. Alan was the right price for our budget and gained our confidence quickly and certainly carried through with that and didn't let us down on our wedding day. He was very easy to work with and we would definitely recommend him!

te offer a tremendous amount of helpful checklists, but his wealth of knowledge in his profession is unmatched by any DJ in the Seattle area. The importance of a DJ goes far beyond picking the right music for your day, it is also about setting a terric flow between planned activities: from ceremony, cake-cutting, garter tosses, etc; establishing relationships with your guests; providing the right equipment and sound for your space; and creating a trusted relationship with the one person who you have assigned to get create the atmosphere that everyone can enjoy. I cannot express enough how incredibly fortunate I was to snag Alan for our big day. Please do yourself a favor and don't even THINK about hiring someone else or attempting to do an ipod wedding. I thought about an ipod wedding and I know now that I would have regretted that decision more than anything else in my wedding. THANK YOU ALAN for the PERFECT day!

make sure we had every detail down and really got to know us as a couple so that he could personalize our reception as much as possible. Alan also sent us a book to help with planning our reception and we got so many compliments as a result. Alan was fantastic and with his set pricing you didn't have to pay for any of the extras.