How did you find your Wedding DJ/Disco

I guess I'm probably not much help to you because we had a barn dance. But welcome to the forum anyway

Good question!

I didnt think it would be that difficult, until i went to a friends wedding last year and their DJ was awful!

So not wanting to waste money and having no one up dancing we started looking around and asking people for reccommendations. OH brother told us about a band that his friend booked for their wedding looked them up and they were playing at a local bar so we went down and checked them out - and booked them the next day

Hi Barney,

We started off with the list of preferred suppliers that was given to us by our venue. We then searched for others in the local area via google to compare prices. We have gone for one of the preferred DJ's as they already have a connection to the venue and were also competitive when it came to prices.

Hope this helps!

Laura

He was the son of the people who own the wedding venue. It meant one less supplier to worry about as we knew he would be there and he organises a festival annually in our area so knew he would understand music.

The band we used was my uncles band. Easy!

Many of my bookings are by recommendations, but I don't like to make any assumptions whilst discussing plans.

Our DJ is well known to us. Carmen took photos at a Wedding he performed at (at his request, and his clients purchased many photos) So, Carmen is happy.

For us, its not about the equipment, but the DJ's performance. Music wise, we're leaving it mainly to him, we've not sensitive songs, and like me, he'll not play anything too cheesy unless requested by us.

So - knowing the DJ was experienced and run his business in a professional manner sold it to us.

Thank you all so far for reply and FAST!!! Wowza I wasn't expecting such detailed responses so quick!

I have so many questions I want to ask but I'll take it step by step as I dont want to be all take, take, take... I want to give back to the forum and community too

We went to a wedding fair and saw a few DJ's there, but we had a really nice chat with one guy and decided a few days late to book them after we checked their website and facebook page. They have 2 DJ's that also take photos of the guests dancing away which we thought was nice, so have booked one of them. We will also give them roughly 20 songs that they must play and the rest they can play what they think suits the crowd. One thing that did make us want to book them is that they've played at our venue before so know about sound level restrictions etc

Ae asked our venue for recommended ones ... when we looked at the list, it turned out that one of them had done a friends sister's wedding, and people had commented how good they were, so because the price was also within budget, we booked them!