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Comment preview: Not a friend's wedding, but mine. We had an awesome DJ and we have amazing family and friends, so the whole night was a party and the dance floor was packed, and a LOT of people stayed all the way to the end. (We had 300 guests at our wedding and somehow s ....
Comment preview: I briefly owned a photobooth business that was hired mainly for weddings. The worst thing I saw was the wedding planner showed up drunk and/or high and disappeared with the best man (brother of the groom) to go hook up. So no one was in charge and the cere ....
Comment preview: I love these stories! My MIL tried to get my colour scheme so she could "match" at our wedding. I was like "LOL no". She also expected to see my wedding dress and got butthurt that my mum had seen it. The weird thing is that she didn't pull this shit at he ....
Comment preview: There's a big difference between a DJ who's hired to work the crowd and a DJ who's hired to perform. For example, you might expect a cover band to know some of your favorite tunes, but you wouldn't pay Rush or Led Zeppelin to "play to the crowd" Wedding DJ ....
Comment preview: I'm a wedding/club DJ and was once training a new guy for my brother's DJ business: I pick him up and we head to the wedding. Once there, we start loading in the gear. He takes in one light bag, then takes the liberty to start taking selfies in front of th ....
Comment preview: You sound awesome. I'm at somewhere over 300 weddings. I've always had a planning meeting with the couple, and most of the time they've had one with the DJ too, so we're usually on the same page. I roll into the reception, and if I don't already know th ....
Comment preview: - Email instead of $600 paper invites. - Cupcakes instead of $1,000 cake - Plenty of photographers on craigslist looking to start their portfolios for free or minimal cost. - Venue can be whereever you want and not sequestered to a golf course club house. ....
Comment preview: People like Mark really rustle my jimmies. I don't get how they have friends and why the put up with them. My suggestion (as someone who has dealt with this type of wedding drama before) would be to have one more sit down with the Fiance and calmly say "I ....
Comment preview: My best advice for keeping wedding costs down is eliminate expenses that aren't important to you. A marriage license and officiant only cost a few hundred dollars (less if you have a friend who can officiate), everything else in a wedding is optional. Ch ....
Comment preview: At my sister's wedding, the DJ demanded an extra $250 "per his contract". There was a clause stating if assistance wasn't provided to help unload at a venue that involved taking the equipment up stairs, the extra charge would be added on... The main dance ....
Comment preview: I don't think I've ever been to a wedding that wasn't awkward! 1. My cousin's wedding. He decided to have his bachelor party the night before his wedding... terrible idea. He showed up 30min late to the ceremony. (It was a 90 degree July day and an outdoor ....
Comment preview: My mom was the wedding coordinator at our church for several years and I somehow got roped into helping. Most of the "ruined" weddings were just random stuff blown out of porportion by the bride. Examples: dead butterflies. (We told them they would likely ....
Comment preview: Hmm, relatives saying they wanted to come but could not commit to the date, a bridesmaid disappearing and then getting arrested for cocaine/prostitution (she seemed normal before), or having to replace our flower girl right before the wedding since she was ....
Comment preview: I was a wedding DJ for a while in college. DJ'd a dry (no booze) wedding reception that started at around 4:30pm and ended before it was fully dark outside... Maybe 8:30 or 9 in the middle of summer. There were a total of probably 40 people there, includi ....
Comment preview: We hired a DJ to play our vinyl records at the reception. The DJ was fired/quit and we got a replacement the week before the wedding that "knew" how to play vinyl. When he showed up to set up the gear, he asked me if they played from the inside out or the ....
Comment preview: Not a wedding planner (I know, I know), but a funny story from my wedding. What we later found out was that the DJ who was supposed to do our wedding bailed at the last minute, so the owner of the DJ service had to scramble and send someone she didn't know ....
Comment preview: [Yeah, that's well under average!](http://www.costofwedding.com/) You clearly haven't even begun to price out a wedding if you think that shit is cheap. I think our facility was like $3k (very cheap for a facility for 12 hours), the catering and labor was ....
Comment preview: There's also a lot caught up in the term "wedding planner." We had one, but only hired her for the day of, which I think is pretty common. Basically we did all of the actual planning, met with her to give her our plans, and she was paid to be more or less ....
Comment preview: My perspective: I was a wedding DJ for a long time and have a sense of photographer pricing from having worked with many - no photography experience - I more or less think F-Stop is a bad end to a date. To me, his price is incredibly reasonable. Wedding ph ....
Comment preview: I'm not a musician of any sort but I lived and worked at an enormous mansion that was a wedding venue. One of the regular DJs told me a story about a very uptight and controlling (but hot) bride who was grating his nerves. Everyone was on pins and needles ....
Comment preview: BAH! I love this topic. So just before this wedding I was going to, the bride was asking me about my staged wedding party dance and asking questions about it. It wasn't staged. My husband and I had the dj call my party down (without a clue what was going o ....
Comment preview: As a former DJ for a party scene, I can tell you that grouping all performers under the moniker of "DJ" is something of a misnomer. I DJ weddings for money nowadays and I call myself a DJ for that. All I do now I just move from song to song because the c ....
Comment preview: My cousins wedding was in October in the north of the U.S. It was an outdoor wedding and it was about 35 degrees and windy. Bridesmaids weren't "allowed" to wear jackets, and the groomsmen were only in vests and dress shirts, so everyone was freezing. Hav ....
Comment preview: * At my wedding, two of my groomsmen got lost on the way to the reception (a mile and a half away, mind you) and didn't show up until there was about 45 minutes left. * At a friend's wedding, I was a groomsman and there was a host of things that went crazy ....
Comment preview: The added cost could be because there is added value. They only mention the venue, which had the excuse the people generally drink more at weddings. Well, there's the option to have an open bar or not. People probably aren't going to get plastered at a bus ....
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