I wish we had half the experience most of these reviewers did. We had a beautiful day, but the worst part about our wedding was our DJ, David (DJ Vektor).
1. His “I-Told-You-So” A...ttitude. During our planning call, a week before the wedding, David informed us that the carefully adjusted layout for cocktail party-esque backyard wedding on our planning app (VIBO) was “a total mess and clearly a mistake”. When we informed him it was intentional, he seemed almost insulted that we weren’t having a “traditional” wedding. He told us this layout was likely to be a mess, especially since we didn’t have a wedding planner. On the day of the wedding, we had a few hiccups only we knew that slightly delayed a few of our “wedding milestones”, like the party entrances. David, while helpful in creating an adjusted plan on the fly, was more than happy to point out that he knew this would happen - multiple times! He also pushed for us to purchase other items during our planning call (a week before the wedding), like up-lighting or a photo booth, which we declined because it was, well, a week before the wedding. He pointed out during the wedding when he thought the up-lighting would have been necessary.
2. Uncommunicative. David was clear that DJing is his side gig. The week of the wedding, I used his preferred method of contact (email) to follow up on a few questions, like power for his equipment. Because we had this wedding in my parents’ backyard, my dad wanted David to give him a call about power needs. David never responded until the night before and morning of the wedding. Obviously, because of this timing, my dad was otherwise engaged. David called and texted me instead, blaming my dad for not answering and expressing his concern for the power supply. Though he had had plenty of time to speak to my dad about this, he chose arguably the most stressful: the morning of our wedding.
3. Negative. After the first planning call I let my mom (whose house was the venue) know we didn’t have full confidence in our DJ’s ability to pull off this wedding layout. She decided to call the DJ directly to gently clear up an confusion - except, on the vendor contact sheet I’d created for the wedding, I had John’s information. So she called him instead. When John told David that she had reached out, David was pissed - thinking we had intentionally gone over his head. He was unable to let this go.
4. Messed Up Our First Dance Song. This really angered my now-husband and guests. David didn’t download this song so it would play properly. Instead, he streamed it using my parents’ wifi and it crashed. Twice. Once the first dance was over, he immediately apologized, to his credit, but then blamed my dad for the wifi crash - though this was the only song to crash. Why he used my parents’ wifi instead of his failsafe hotspot, I’ll never know.
A final note as well, unrelated to David. The day after our wedding, John reached out to my mom and me and shared that “after many attempts to contact us”, we hadn’t made our final payment. Except I had, three weeks prior. While John explained that this was a clerical error, he has yet to actually apologize.
Thankfully, despite what was mentioned above, David played most of the music we had spent ten months adding to the planning app and the dance floor was still lively. Except for the first dance song, no one knew any of this. Overall, we had a BLAST at our wedding and wouldn’t have changed a thing. Except the DJ.