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    • drdj001
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    We are a highly experinced and qualified wedding DJ company. We wre not part timers, we are full timers professional DJs. This is our bread and butter, our sole income. We are also residential DJ company for a major group of hotels!

    Please feel free to inquire or seek as much advice as you wish;

    1st Song choice?
    Music selection?

    Please feel free to ask us any advice you may have, we will sincerely be more than happy to assist even if you are not a client of ours, we are here to help!

    Final word of advice! Dear brides & grooms, do not go for the cheapest dj or the most competitive quote! This is your special (hopefully) once in a life time most important celebration day of your lives! Please make sure that you do not let some "cheap, unprofessional DJ" reuin it for you! Always ensure that your DJ is NADJ qualified as a minimal and get references. (NADJ stands for National Association Of Disc Jockies).

    Paying less than £200-300 / night should send alarm bells ringing! professional digital sound and laser lighting equipment is verrrrrrryyyy expensive but makes your night, believe me! Any professional / serious DJ company would never charge any less for a 1st class wedding celebration, and this is your night, you deserve no less!
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    • sbride
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    Hi, I wonder if you can give me some advice. I got married on the 21st of may this year. We paid alot of money for a very well known dj in our area. Told him what we wanted, and what we didnt want. Music is very important to us, and the music in the evening was something we cared about the most, hence why we paid out for a good dj.

    However, the dj really let us down. We had 5 must have songs that we wanted playing, he only played one of them. We asked for no abba or cheesy pop, but he played this. All the other songs we aked for, only got played for about the last 20mins of the night.

    We felt greatly dissapointed. Do we have the right to ask for a refund, considering he did say he would play the music we asked for and it clearly states on his website that he will play the music you ask him to play?

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    • kaycrunch
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    Any advice for music/songs for me walking in and for us walking out?

    Thanks!

    x

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    It's as simple and as difficult as that"
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    • XLittleMissMe!X
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    I'm finding this hard at the moment as our main entertainment is a live swing singer and we need to make some CD's up for the time in between his sets. I'm really unsure what is best to get people up and dancing. We were thinking some 90's music as that is what we used to get up and dance to when we were younger. (god I sound old now) What would you recommend to put in the play list and what sort of order?




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    • drdj001
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    Dear Mrs Stacey Stiles

    Whether you have any legal right to ask for a refund or not will depend on whether you had any prior written agreement.

    My company is is the sole residential DJ company for a major group of leading hotels and we play numerous gigs for many many weddings and corporate clients.

    Whilst we do offer the couples or clients to select their favourite tracks even the entire play list if they wish to, we are also capable of playing any track requested on the night, never fail. This is what anyone should look out for and possibly check out before actually booking a DJ. Unfortunately our profession is contaminated with numerous amatures who end up not only killing our business butr also spoiling peoples special night!

    Also, try and collect as many references as possible before taking the plunge of booking. For example, DR DJ Pfomotions whould have absolutely no problem in providing you with as many references as you wish, and further more we are the reccommended DJ Company for White Weddings, so that should say loads!

    Hope this could be of any help.

    Carlo Laurenti

    DR DJ Promotions
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    • drdj001
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    Dear Kay Crunch,

    Music is something personal, it is only you who can and should decide what music to walk up and down to.

    Is there any artist or track that means anything to either you or the groom? We get various requests from Bon Jovi, to Richard Marx, Micheal Bubble, etc etc.

    Would you like me to recommend specific tracks to you? Could do if you wish, no prob at all.
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    • drdj001
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    Dear Xjox,

    Having a swing singer is very classy for some, but could also be deemed to be boring for others. This all depends on the generation and average age your guests are to be at your celebration.

    Playing CD's is a very out of time way to do it, I would probably go as far as almost saying aboslute! Whilst I appreciate weddings cost £000's today, I would seriously suggest spending another £250/£300 and having a good DJ. What a good DJ can do to a crowd a swing singer could not! Especially if the DJ can offer you professional laser lighting that would light all the venue floor, walls and cieling up! Whilst then you would be left with the dilhemma of the music selection, a professional DJ would again take an on the spot decision from seeing the crowd and their behaviour!
 

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