Wedding dj Horror stories
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I don’t even have enough space on here to tell you my DJ horror stories; pretty much what everyone else mentioned and more. The answer to this is, unfortunately, to not cheap out on your DJ.
Celia
We were getting married at a country club in North Raleigh. We’d had these guys booked for about 7 months. Everything was OK until we get done taking some pre-ceremony photos and we walk up behind the DJ with our coordinator, setting up for our outdoor ceremony. He’s got the stuff all over the place, it looked like a bomb had gone off, and he’s got his phone out and he’s cursing out his wife, yelling “You dumb b****, you didn’t pack my car right and now I don’t have what I need for their ceremony!” I couldn’t believe he was talking to her like that. My coordinator asked if there was a problem and that’s when he realized we’d heard everything. He turned around, saw me, then grabbed his stuff and just left. Thank god his boss answered the phone when we called, they were able to take care of everything, but I didn’t even want to see that DJ again after what he said. Why was his wife packing up his car?
**** was a fantastic salesman. After speaking with him I was convinced he was a talented and professional DJ who was going to do a fantastic job entertaining my guests. Which I’m sure he would have… had he shown up. The first red flag was about 2 weeks before the wedding. I had already paid the remainder of my balance for services contracted specifically with **** himself as the DJ when he sent me an email unlike his usual automated reminder emails. This particular email was titled “On your wedding day who do you tip and how much should you tip?” Having never received any previous emails from him regarding wedding etiquette, I took this as a not-so-subtle way of saying “By the way, I’m expecting a tip.” As someone who works for tips in the service industry myself, I found this to be in very poor taste. On my wedding day I was disappointed to find out that he had sent a replacement with no prior notification or explanation. His replacement, B***, told us **** was in Wilmington and was afraid he’d be late. I found it to be very unprofessional of **** not to communicate this beforehand. B*** was extremely unprofessional and seemingly uninterested in our event. Among other events, he spoke negatively about us and our guests to the other vendors, unaware that they were also our friends. He left early; told no one he was leaving and shut off the music in mid-song. I never received a call from **** with any explanation or apology. In addition, I recently found out that my father-in-law called **** prior to the wedding to discuss a song he wanted to perform for us as a surprise. He said **** was very rude to him on the phone and that based on the conversation he felt it was best to buy his own equipment (microphone, speakers, and amplifier) to preform his song, which we also used for the toast. I wish I had read some the other reviews before being suckered into contract with this guy.
I went to a wedding where the mic failed mid-ceremony, and the DJ didn’t care at all. Nobody heard the rest of the ceremony. Then it failed again during speeches, and when the speaking MOH asked for help, he said (through HIS mic) “I’m not the problem, I’m not the one holding the mic”. Awful. At another wedding, the DJ was nice but she had a very limited music library – it came from when her husband was a radio DJ until, like, 5 years before.
This was the worst wedding DJ I could have EVER hired. He RUINED everything he was supposed to do and was completely incompetent. He played the wrong songs when we walked down the aisle, introduced our wedding party, and began our first dance song which was choreographed, when we were 200 feet away from the dance floor.. Then would not turn it off when we qued him to stop for the first 30 seconds of the song as we walked up to the DJ booth. Meanwhile, his assistant was sleeping on the dance floor and refused to move their equipment off the floor for our dance. He did NOT pump the crowd up. Was completely rude when we were cutting the cake.. The list could go on and on. This was the worst vendor I hired for the wedding and I’m completely let down. NOT WORTH 100 bucks, let alone the $800 we paid. I would give him zero stars if this website allowed. DO NOT USE HIM
STAY AWAY! PLEASE DO NOT ENTRUST THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF YOUR LIFE TO THIS MAN! HE CANNOT BE HONEST UPFRONT AND TRANSPARENT WITH HIS VENDORS. IMAGINE WHAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR YOU! HE OWES PEOPLE MONEY BEFORE HE QUOTES YOU A PRICE ASK HIM HOW MUCH OF THAT GOES TO PEOPLE HE ALREADY OWES MONEY TOO FROM HIS PAST EVENTS
We’d planned our wedding for after our baby’s birth but unfortunately our little Angel didn’t make it. We wanted to honor her at the wedding and had talked with the DJ about exactly what we wanted to do and how it should be done. Instead, during our first dance, he gets on the microphone and starts yelling ‘Angel, come on out to the dance floor! Don’t be shy! Can we get Angel to the dance floor!” Everyone was horrified and I had to leave the reception for a little while. He apologized but that was really hard to deal with.
If I could give 0 stars I would. This was by far the worst experience of my wedding, and almost ruined my wedding day. I should have known from what was supposed to be our first meeting with XXX, that these people are HORRIBLY unprofessional. My husband and I were getting married in Wilmigton in June. We live in Texas, and flew up to Raleigh for a weekend to get our marriage license, and drove down to meet with all of our vendors, including XXX Entertainment. We had set up this meeting weeks in advance, but after waiting for almost an hour for them to show up, we get a phone call that they are stuck in traffic and are unable to make it. We had multiple phone calls prior to the wedding to make sure they got everything right. One thing in particular that was stressed over and over is that, since our ceremony was going to be on the beach, and it was against the hotel/beach policy to have wires from the hotel to the beach, we needed a wireless, battery operated sound system for the ceremony, for our music and the microphones. We were ASSURED multiple times that this was not a problem. Well, about 20 minutes before Im supposed to walk down the aisle, I get word that the DJs battery system is not working, isn’t holding a charge, and that he has never even used this thing before!!! Im freaking out!!! All of the nontraditional music that we had planned on for our ceremony was going to be ruined!!! SO now, my wedding coordinator is scrambling, trying to find something else to use, while the DJ is doing nothing to help. Thankfully, my wedding coordinator saved the day, and XXX entertainments ass, and was able to borrow a system from another wedding. But, since this all took so much time to do, our ceremony started over an hour late, with a storm rolling in, and my wedding was almost ruined by a downpour. Thankfully, we and all of our guests made it back to the hotel right before it started pouring. But, because we started so late, and it was raining right after our ceremony, all my pictures that i had planned on having with my groom and wedding party on the beach, were ruined and we were unable to do any of them. If we had started on time, we would have been able to take the beautiful beach photos that I had dreamed of. And was that the only F-up? of course not. They were supposed to play Sinatra-esque music during dinner, but my husband had to get up from his seat and remind him to do so since he was playing Hip-Hop! They kept telling us before the wedding about how if we gave them a ‘Do not play’ list, then if anyone requested a song on that list, the DJ was just supposed to say, sorry I don’t have it. But several of our guests came up to us and said, you DJ told us this song is on your ‘Do Not Play’ list. Totally embarrassing and not the discreet excuse we were promised!!! Clearly, what they promise you is not what you get. I would NEVER recommend these unprofessionals to ruin anyone else’s wedding
I think the worst experience I’ve had with a DJ was with a budget client who hired a friend to DJ. He was a club DJ, supposedly, but had ZERO experience on a mic. And wasn’t prepared for the traditional elements like bouquet/garter. Even though I printed out everyone’s names for him, when he did the introductions, he messed up the names of 2 of the couple’s kids AND said one of the bridal party couples twice. Then later during the garter toss/placement, he couldn’t find the song they wanted, so instead of just leaving the song on that was playing already, he STOPPED THE MUSIC to look for the song they requested. The guy who caught the garter didn’t want to wait anymore, so he just put the garter on the girl and walked away. It was a mess and it was completely out of my control.
DH and I did not vet our DJ very well and do, for the most part, regret it. He wasn’t a total disaster but definitely wasn’t ideal. Out of all the songs we checked off his list to have him play, only one of them was a country song, like 1 out of 80. During dinner he played 3 country songs in a row until my sister/MOH went up and said something to him. He told her that he thought we had requested a bunch of country (I had in fact requested he play Sinatra and some classics during dinner). He started the dancing off with the electric slide, which for me it’s a no-no to start dancing with a choreographed dance. He also played like 3 slow songs in a row and tended to play slightly older music.
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There’s a DJ who has done 2 family weddings I’ve been to and he’s an awful MC. At both weddings he made every table sing a song on a microphone before they could get in line for the buffet. At the second, there were about 270 people in attendance so it took FOREVER and people were just getting up and getting in line.
At the second wedding, when he was announcing the bridal party, he said something like, “And next up we have Sally. Sally has known the bride for 12 years and let me tell you, she gets around!” All 270 jaws dropped.
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