Reasonable price for a DJ??

Sounds extortionate to me! We're paying £150. The most expensive quote we had was £300.

That's what I thought. Here's the website, there is a lot included in the package so its not just a DJ. We would be having the silver package which is £495. What do you think? Do you think we could get a similar package cheaper elsewhere?

http://www.partydexx.co.uk/our-service/

We're paying £450 for our DJ, plus an extra £150 for a lighting technician to do strobes, lasers etc. Might sound tacky and expensive but we're big ravers, as are most of our friends, therefore we don't mind splashing out more on the entertainment. We want to put on a great party, and for me, music and lighting is a big part of that.

Bearing in mind we were quoted anything from 1k-2k for a band, I think we're getting a good deal, plus a DJ is more up our street.

Personally I wouldn't scrimp on a DJ. At a friends recent wedding the DJ was so bad she pulled the plug before the end of the night, it was such a shame as everyone loves a good dance at a wedding.

It depends what area of the country you are too, I guess.

Same as us, most of our friends and family love a good party! This is the thing, we get lighting etc all included so maybe its not a bad price really? Have just emailed them again to see if they still have our date free and ask how much deposit they need

Last time I hired a DJ was 9 years ago nearly and he charged £60 but I got a discount for knowing the family and only paid £20 lol guess the world got more expensive

We were quoted approx £600 I think, which included uplighters. Generally speaking, from experience working as a photographer the more expensive DJs we work with tend to be better at creating an atmosphere, at keeping people on the dance floor, reading the crowd and that kind of thing. The lighting tends to be better too.

Lighting was a huge deal to us as we wanted it to be as good as it could be for photos. We were actively looking for someone with a great lighting set up and not someone who was using party style lighting that would leave us covered head to toe in funny coloured dots.

Personally I don't think that's a bad price at all for a good DJ. But again it depends on what you're after. If you want the great lighting set up too, I think the quote is reasonable.

Our dj is £250 plus £100 for 10 room uplighters which make the room look amazing. He also does all the fancy patterns on walls with lights which I may add on nearer the wedding IF we have any budget left He will play any music we want, just have to give him a playlist and obviously we will take his lead as to which songs r floor fillers x

Thanks guys! We have decided to book the company Party Dexx, like some of you said the lighting was something important to us too for photos etc so the package includes full uplighting/moodlighting in our choice of colour plus a personalised spotlight with our names They have been excellent already. Thank you for all your advice! x

Just a tad! My H2B is a DJ and he normally gets £100 for a club night. So far the only weddings he's done have been for friends so he's done it for free as a gift, but he does intend to set himself up properly to do weddings (and maybe as a HIB) after our wedding, and he'll be looking at a £200 sort of region. That's not with any fancy lighting though!