Wedding DJ Tips

Booking your Wedding DJ for 2022 is something you may want to do sooner rather than later. Reason: DJs are booking up faster than ever. It could be pent-up demand for weddings, whatever it is, it's real. Do your research, find an available DJ and sign a contract and put down a retainer.

I can easily look back on my Virtual DJ software to see what I played at a recent wedding. For anyone who would like to see these historical music mixes, it would be fair to say none of them are any type of indicator what I'll play at your wedding!!1

Throwback Thursday!! My old friend Phil Chabot and I started a Wedding DJ company called Record Hops Unlimited back on January 14, 1977. Phil had a band and we used his PA system and my access to WPNO's remote broadcast board and voila, RHU was born and did hundreds of weddings between January of 1977 and December 31, 1999.

One of the many beautiful barn venues in the State of Maine is Cunningham Farm in New Gloucester, Maine. I was there this past Saturday, providing ceremony services as well as music for the cocktail hour in the Hay Barn and finally dinner and dancing in the primary barn. Congrats to Kenneth and Elizabeth!!

Thank you to Fred & Sharon, a fantastic couple who had me DJ their wedding ceremony and reception at DiMillo's. Steve DiMillo Sr & Jr are awesome to work with!! What a great venue in a great Portland setting, The Old Port!!!

For over 7 years, an unfinished script about a ring bearer and a flower girl and how they experience going to a wedding sat on my MacBook Pro desk top, dormant. Well, 2020 and covid changed all of that. I finally wrote it, got it illustrated by Steve Hrehovcik and now published on Amazon!!! It's a pretty cool children's book about a wedding, as experienced by two kids.

Doing intros as a wedding DJ includes holding a piece of paper to read from while doing intros!1 Old school for sure, but very, very reliable!!! I'll be doing it this way indefinitely. Since the 70's, good old fashioned paper, that's where my intros are read from, not a phone or a tablet!!

Give me the ball, let me know where you want to go musically, and I'll get you there. Trusting your DJ to play the right music at the right time is imperative. Otherwise, if couples try to micro-manage my music selections, it comes off as making me feel like I've got one hand tied behind my back....

I do appreciate 5 Starr reviews when they come in. I recently got a glowing 5 star review followed 24 hours later by a disappointing 4 star review. I do my very best to make every wedding I'm connected to a success. The high majority of my reviews are fantastic and when I get a "B" on my tests sheet, I'm disappointed because my effort is always to get an "A".

When I set up equipment for ceremonies, I always set-up a pair of speakers that play music in stereo. I know it sounds better and gives you a better range of sound since two speakers can be spread apart. One speaker typically limits the sound to be in mono (one channel). Stereo is the way to go!!