Simon was great and showed our guests a great time! Simon was always kind and personable and we liked that we were able to have a portal to requests some songs we wanted played at our reception. Simon was very responsive and when COVID hit he w...as very flexible when we postponed our wedding. We also hired a photobooth with SIFI entertainment that our guests loved! Our guests were up and dancing the entire reception and kept raving about Simon! We loved how he incorporated the music we requested and mashed it up with other songs.
We also used Simon for our ceremony music. Music is very important to my husband and me. We spent months deciding our ceremony music. We love going to concerts together and we wanted to incorporate our favorite memories of music and find perfect instrumental versions of our favorite songs. We found 4 perfect songs after months of searching. I made a Spotify list and shared it with Simon. I emailed him and my wedding coordinator the list of the songs with the names of the artists and versions. They were all cover songs. At the walk through I asked Simon if he got the email and he said yes. On wedding day, the song that all the wedding party walks to was the wrong song. It is the same title of the song we picked, but by another artist. It is a popular new hit, which didn’t even exist when we picked the song. It was not an appropriate song to walk down to a ceremony, but it was an instrumental version. I was confused how this mistake happened when I thought I had sent a playlist to Simon and wrote down the artist name. Regardless, the song we had originally chosen made me tear up every time I listened to it. The minute I heard this song I couldn’t help but crack up that our wedding party was walking to this song.
Walking down the aisle (the song I selected was the right one!, THANK GOODNESS!) I was laughing and smiling because my husband standing under the chuppah was laughing too. The moment I got there he says “that was NOT the right song!” All of our guests and live stream guests keep telling me how I couldn’t stop smiling and looked so happy. I guess this worked in our favor because the other song makes me cry and I always thought I would have a hard time holding back the tears when I walked down the aisle!
It’s a catchy song, just not appropriate for our wedding party to walk down to. A good story to tell in the future! Our recessional song was incorrect as well. We picked an instrumental song we did not want the words to. The version of the song played had words which we did not want at all. The version was just not a good version at all. We also were cracking up leaving, and everyone kept saying how happy we were. Again, we were just laughing so hard.
Additionally for our first dance, somehow our song intro got slowed down then sped up. It completely threw us off and we messed up our first verse. Everyone kept asking us why we remixed our first dance and we had to tell them that we don’t know what happened.
These are great stories to tell in the future, but the reason I am writing this review is to remind everyone no matter who you choose, over communicate to your DJ if you are particular about your music like we are!
Other than that, I highly recommend Simon. He was a great DJ and MC. He got everyone out of their seats, even people we wouldn’t expect, and showed everyone a good time!