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Cupid Shuffle, Macarena, Electric Slide, I gotta feeling, shots, and any other incredibly generic song you can think of that has no soul.

NietzSKY, post: 35129, member: 4553 wrote: Cupid Shuffle, Macarena, Electric Slide, I gotta feeling, shots, and any other incredibly generic song you can think of that has no soul.

I’m sorry, that literally made me LOL. “any other incredibly generic song you can think of that has no soul”. Awesome. lol

man i tackled a wedding as a last min thing but was rewarded with a fat pay day. The most important thing to do is to have a real good communication with the newly weds i.e playlist and the no-no playlist. In addition, the gig I did they actually got married at the hall by an “efficient” (first time i ever heard about that) so I had to do the hole 9 yards; back ground music, walking down the isle etc. I also learned about wedding structure as far as the time order of the event. For example, from 6-630 entrance music and special requested song for walking down the isle. Then from 630 to 730 would be dinner music. You cant be dropping bangers when people eat. Also I had to take into account that the audience will have 4-90 year olds (recommend clean edits) from different ethnic backgrounds so english and spanish music was a go. Man, the list goes on. Theres father bride dance so thats a specific song that then goes into bride groom dance. You have the tossing of the bueque(sp) [that flower thing I cant spell] and then the garter belt thing. So all these different events you have to have a specific song already preplanned with the couple. During these song transitions there is absolutely no blending per the couples request. Another word that I need to mention, mic presence. You are the MC and for it to flow well you need to be on the mic directing traffic, if you will. So after all the activities were done and all the announcements from the bride/groom are done, then out came the Dj in me lol. Thats when I was able to take control of what I do best. Trust me its allot of hard work and looking professional is a must. Remember you might be in some photos and plus it a wedding, so get a suit and a hair cut and shave!!!! Your not in a club, your in the most important part of most peoples lives. a bonus i was allowed to eat and drink away on the open bar. The best part was me actually getting paid. I charged $1000 bucks for 6 hours and I rocked this wedding like i’ve been doing this for years that the brides father through in an extra $500 from the family. Wow. Most I ever gotten paid for a gig.

With weddings you usually charge for the event, based on how many people/ how long/ what gear setup you’re going to need for X amount of people. A few guys will charge hourly, but I don’t see it too often for event djs.

Musicwise there’s just the ~500 songs that everybody knows and wants to hear. Think in terms of soul, funk, disco (stuff for dancing), classic rock (stuff to sing along to), some hits everybody knows as mentioned before.
Then at the party try to get a feel of the audience and see how far you can integrate your own style in it!
As people drink more they might be more open to certain kinds of music, but keep some recognizable elements in in 🙂

im like a year out to convert from mobile to a wedding dj business. Ill still play out but them wedding gigs pay brotha! and the bills aint stoping. im 2 kids deep by 2 different women and dam cild support a mofo lol!