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WR: Pissed at DJ
Two months after the wedding, and I'm seriously pissed off at my DJ. I was irritated shortly after, but now after viewing my wedding video, I'm tempted to confront him via e-mail, even though that won't change anything, and it doesn't affect my quality of life now.
While the emceeing aspect was okay, I'm irate he strayed
so far off my play list. I chose my songs very carefully, and with
reason - including songs from a lot of genres, fast/slow, etc. We
didn't hear ANY of the slow songs on my list. My cocktail hour playlist
consisted of old jazz standards - Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald. I
guess some of that was played per guests. But then I watch my wedding
video to hear "The Locomotion" during cocktail hour. Checked my list
today - yeah, not only does that NOT fit with old jazz standards, but
it was on my DO NOT play list. What is so effing hard about playing from a (brilliant!) list? DJing cannot be that difficult, right? I'm wishing I had done an ipod reception like I originally wanted.
One thing that makes it tricker is that I'm now in the wedding industry and don't want things to be weird should we work a wedding together. Should I just suck it up and let it go?
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
Re: WR: Pissed at DJ
First of all, sorry you weren't happy with your DJ. I am sure everyone still had a great time though! I know it's disappointing when you put a lot of energy and time into something (a play list, and a "don't play" list) to have it be ignored. I know I would have been pissed too. But honestly, I would let it go, there is no good that can come of complaining about it now. I would leave it on your vendor reviews and local board and stop at that.
I was an event planner for many years and let me tell you--it's a small industry! More than likely, you will cross paths again and it's always best to take the professional high road IMO.
Yeah, you're both right. If I didn't have the risk of meeting up with him again, in addition to hurting my own business, I might. It is a super small industry in my region.
Thanks for smacking some sense into me, ladies!
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
We are in the same situation, but I'm not going to say anything. We had a few issues during the evening that we noticed, but no one else would have ever noticed. But then when we watched the video, there were quite a few songs on there that were on our DO NOT PLAY list. And many of the ones we definitely wanted were not played.
All I did was give him a so-so review. It didn't ruin my evening and my dance floor was packed, but yes, it's frustrating when you pay so much money on something and go over things in great detail.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
EXACT thing happened to me... i had a special "play" and "do not play" list. since DH and I are more into "indie" versus mainstream music, we wanted a few songs played that were special to us.We took a lot of time picking these out, making sure that they were songs that we would like but the general audience could also appreciate. But NONE of those were played (even after DH approached them as a reminder during the reception), and they played several songs from my "do not play" list (including my least fav song EVER... cotton eyed joe!). The guests had a great time, but we didnt want our wedding to be 100% "typical" in terms of reception music. It ended up being VERY typical...
We had a great time but wish that they could have at least ATTEMPTED to respect our wishes, esp since we paid them a biiig chunk and also tipped very well.?
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