BEWARE brides and grooms. We hired Andrew to DJ our wedding in Newport News, Virginia, and he did not show up! Instead, he notified me 18 minutes after he was contracted to begin playing music for my wedding that he sent a random replacement WI...THOUT our consent or any prior notification. We were never offered the opportunity to discuss this or request our money back since Andrew would not be rendering the service. The DJ he sent (Tyquan) told my husband and I that he had only been a DJ for 6-months and was still working on his “crowd engagement skills.” Imagine how disastrous this went over in the services (or lack thereof) rendered. He played the wrong music several times, introduced one of my special parent dances wrong (I had went over this in detail several times with Andrew), and left the DJ booth several times to ask for direction because he was poorly prepared. We had been communicating with Andrew for over a year about our wedding and he assured us that we would not run into any issues and that he would be there to DJ. We even trusted him and paid in full upfront prior to our wedding…BIG MISTAKE. I would not suggest submitting any monies in full upfront until he arrives at your event. Andrew made sure to follow up with me to check in on when he would receive his full payment, however, became unresponsive after getting our money and ultimately unavailable on our wedding day! Andrew’s lack of professionalism ruined the wedding/reception of my dreams and now I am stuck with regret and what-ifs about how my wedding could’ve gone had I not trusted him. We spent thousands of dollars on our big day only to have guests mention that playing music on our iPhone would have been better than hiring such poorly prepared (un)professionals. The worst part about it is that when we contacted Andrew, he told us that he “THOUGHT” he reached out to us to with notification but he never did because “the message didn’t send.” Imagine being a bride and getting this information 18-minutes after you thought your vendor had already began rendering services. When we spoke to him, he was very nonchalant and annoyed that we confronted him on breaching our agreed upon and signed contract. This was a heard lesson learned for us as a couple and after investing so much money into a day that we can never get back.