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and reception requests, the ceremony requests were fine and he “received” them, yet apparently he did not receive our reception music request list. (One would think if he didn’t have the request sheet, he would notify us before the wedding). The night started with the entrances, the maid of honor placed the wireless microphone on the table in the dressing room and left it there as she ran out to make the entrance. When it was time for her to do her speech, she had to borrow the DJs microphone for the speech. After the speech, the DJ only cared about the microphone and went straight to the bride and said that the microphone is worth $600, how did she lose it? I need it back now. While yes, a mistake on the maid of honor's end, the microphone was safe and returned to the DJ within seconds of the speech’s concluding. Additionally, After an hour and a half of very dated disco music, where no one under 65 was dancing, we made several comments to the DJ about playing more songs in line with our requests and he aggressively stated “ you didn’t fill one out” , clearly we did as he received our ceremony requests. Instead of being professional and saying ok let’s fix this issue and make the night right and fix the vibe, he decided to stick to his guns and refused to play our and guests requests for more dance / club / higher energy / upbeat music. Upon numerous requests to fix the playlists he made comments like “do you want me to pack up and leave” , “if you think you can do a better job then do it”, “I'm getting complaints” to the bride and guests. He also had the gall to constantly say his opinions and commentated over the microphone. For instance, during the cake cutting, the Maitre d' and the photographer were talking to the bride and groom and he had the guts to say "whelp guess they need explanation on how to cut a cake", and that was just one of several openly broadcasted back handed comments made. *These were not jokes, these were deliberate comments* Literally at the final hour, he started to play more consistent modern songs but by that point it was late in the night, and people were bored and leaving. I don’t know if this was a bad night for him, but even if he didn’t get our request sheet, make an honest and professional effort to fix the situation and make the client happy. In a business of word of mouth and where every venue is filled with potential new clients, many were left wanting a better experience, and were unimpressed. He was paid in advance so didn’t care much apparently. Its a shame we had high hopes for the evening, Fred let us down and was a major regret in our hindsight.