My wedding was about 8 months ago. Fred never called to check how things went with his backup DJ and I’m still fuming so here I am writing a review. We were excited to book Fred because our venue spoke highly of him. They said that he’s a lit...tle pricier than others but worth it. Fred ended up having a family emergency (this happens, we were never upset about this) and sent his “best guy” Geo in his place. I did inquire as to the premium that we had paid specifically for Fred and he brushed off our concerns saying that we had already received a “discounted rate”. Prior to the wedding I’d filled out the digital playlist worksheet with my first dance song, dance music requests, etc. and had separate phone conversations with both Fred and Geo to walk through it. Both times I talked about how I wanted to skip ahead 20 seconds or so into the first dance song (Shania Twain “you’re still the one”) to skip the part where she’s talking and they both said that’s standard because they get that song a lot. The day of, I walked through my vision for the grand entrance with Geo (was not complicated) and he said indicated that he understood. Basically i just wanted him to play the song and my wedding party was going to form a dance line before we walked out. Well, he didn’t understand and completely ruined it and it was the most awkward part of the wedding…. Until right after that when he played the WRONG first dance song. He played a different Shania Twain song, and when I told him that wasn’t the correct song and he had the audacity to tell me the I was wrong because “that’s what I told him”. I went back and double checked my digital worksheet afterwards and he was very much mistaken. Now every time I hear my real first dance song on the radio I get upset because he’s ruined it for us. All of the MC moments were awkward because he would stop the music to talk (rather than turning it down) and there was a long awkward pause before he started the music again- for example, he stopped the music to invite single ladies to the floor for the bouquet toss, waited for them to all get there before playing the music and everyone was just standing around. He did this awkward silence thing at every single MC moment from the grand entrance on. He didn’t consider the request list at all during dancing, only requests made in person, and did not play 1 single slow dance song. On the day of I never expressed my absolute fury at this man (aside from my visible agitation at the first dance song) because I needed him to keep the party going- you’re kind of at their mercy. But in the end I feel that I was duped, did not get what I paid for, and am left with some bad memories due to this DJ and no apology regarding the very obvious mistakes.
We also hired our photo booth through them and I had a lot of trouble communicating with Michelle (non-responsive) until I told Fred and he stepped in to facilitate.