True Stories

A DJ turns his microphone over to the Best Man and Maid of Honor right before dinner is to begin. They say a few words of encouragement to the Bride and Groom and turn the microphone over to someone else for a blessing. After that the DJ turns to the Photographer and says “watch my stuff for a while. I have to run some errands” and he puts his system on auto pilot and leaves. Of course there was a problem and the Banquet Manager had to turn the music off during dinner, and wait for the DJ to return.

Another photographer tells me of the DJ he worked with who, when the wedding party arrived and wanted to be introduced, would not go to greet them at the door and instead asked the photographer to go fetch a wedding program from them. He was not even sure if the program had the wedding party in the order that they were to be introduced, and had never even looked at it to be sure he could pronounce all of the names.

And then there was the wedding where I personally attended when the DJ sent the Bride and Groom over to the wedding cake for that ceremonial first slice. He called everyone’s attention to it - only to discover they had not made arrangements to have a cake knife and server available. After an awkward moment he uttered “We’ll have to get back to that,” and let the bride and groom stand there.

Finally, one of our local DJs is so impressed with modern technology that we’ve heard he has at times pre-programmed his system and then went to the bar to watch the football game.

These are not stories of Disc Jockeys in the big city or across the country, but rather right here in the Dubuque/Galena area.

Do you think these couples paid more than $500 for these people to DJ their one-and-only wedding day?