Bill from Carlysle Entertainment was an amazing DJ for our wedding. My partner Cate is a police officer, and I am a paramedic. We were able to splurge on the vendors that were most important to us, our caterer, photographer, and DJ, because we held our reception in a fire hall that is always nicely decorated for Christmas parties. Bill added special lighting that completely elevated the atmosphere, and his music kept us on the dance floor nearly an hour past the original end time. We also appreciated learning that Carlysle Entertainment offers a first responder discount, which they don’t advertise. Even with two very type-A brides, Bill was patient, professional, and easy to work with, and he helped make our night unforgettable.

Bill from Carlysle Entertainment was fantastic to work with from our first meeting through the end of our wedding night. He was informative, organized, and managed our reception timeline and diverse music list flawlessly. After a special dance honoring the longest married couple, my partner’s grandparents, he kept the dance floor busy all night. When he came to let us know our last dance was coming up, we were taking a selfie with part of our wedding party, and Bill suggested we take a few more. He then invited all of our guests to form a big circle around us on the dance floor and had us go around taking selfies with everyone on their phones before our last dance. It turned into such a fun and memorable moment. It’s obvious Bill truly loves what he does.

​Bill Marsh with Carlysle Entertainment was absolutely phenomenal! He was incredibly professional and exceeded our expectations for our wedding at West Oaks Farm Market.
​Bill is an outstanding MC; he kept our entire evening timeline perfectly on track and made all the announcements engaging and clear. The music selection was fantastic—a great mix that included everything we requested, keeping the dance floor packed!
​If you want a professional DJ who manages the entire reception flawlessly, hire Bill!

It has been almost a year since our wedding last December, but we gave both of our parents their copies of our wedding album and video over Thanksgiving weekend and heard a lot of compliments about how much fun everyone had at our wedding. Looking through the photos and video sparked several memories, but the one that stood out the most for everyone was singing and dancing to three different versions of "All I Want For Christmas" that our DJ, Bill from Carlysle Entertainment played at different times during the reception, including the original Mariah Carey version as the last song of the night. We told Bill we wanted our wedding to be more like a big Christmas party than a typical wedding and that is exactly what we got thanks to some of his fun creative suggestions including a Secret Santa gift exchange between the guest tables and a “Pretty & Festive” sweater / outfit contest. If you are looking for someone that is more than just a great DJ and MC, then we recommend talking with Bill.

We only had five months to plan our wedding, so we relied on the list our venue provided for most of our vendors, but we did not have a good vibe with any of the DJs on the list. My partner remembered that the non-profit he worked for had been using the same DJ, Bill Marsh at Carlysle Entertainment, for their annual anniversary event and holiday parties for at least ten years. We found out Bill was available for our date, and he encouraged us to meet in person so he could begin helping us with our timeline and song lists if we decided he would be a good fit for us during the meeting. Needless to say, we booked Bill to be our DJ for the ceremony and reception. We also added up lights around the room, along with some small spotlights he suggested to highlight a table of old family photos because we wanted to keep the lights in the room as dim as possible, and also on our cake not only to highlight it but also cast a shadow of our cake and custom cake topper on the wall that made our “Groundhog Day” wedding complete. Bill also nailed the vibe we wanted for our wedding music wise, even though we only gave him a list of about a dozen songs along with our formal songs, we all had an amazing time together, and although we are not a big dancing crowd the dance floor was never empty.

I have been working in catering and event sales for several years, which is how I met my husband who owns a video production company, so planning our wedding was somewhat second nature. Most of our vendors were wedding professionals we became friends with, or knew from working together at other weddings, including Bill, our DJ, who I met when I was working at my very first job as a server for a restaurant & catering venue. He was also the DJ at my older brother's wedding, then my younger sister, two cousins, and a few other friends’ weddings before we finally had him DJ our wedding almost 14 years later. We both enjoy a wide range of music and gave Bill a rather long list of songs that he took the time to go over with us during one of our planning meetings so we could group together a list of must play songs and songs that could be used during cocktails, dinner, and dancing. He also mentioned that he made up a list of the first dance songs from each of the other weddings and asked if we would mind if he ended up including a few of them during dinner. We were having a multi course formal seated dinner and were hoping guests would get up and dance between courses if they wanted. Bill’s real plan was to include each of those first dance songs into the dinner list which created several special moments. Later he also used some dance songs that he found to be on at least a few of the must play lists from those weddings that were also on our list that really helped set the mood for dancing all night.

We booked Bill Marsh of Carlysle Entertainment to be the DJ for our wedding because he came highly recommended by a good friend of ours. We had no idea at the time that Bill would also help us coordinate our ceremony and reception, facilitate a surprise appearance by Elvis to marry us, and later perform one of his Vegas sets during dinner leading into our second dance, then, since Elvis could not perform weddings outside of Vegas or Graceland, Bill ultimately become an ordained Dudeist Priest of the Church of The Latter Day Dude to be the real officiant for our ceremony. Along with all that Bill also worked through our eclectic song list that ranged from Vegas Lounge, Country, and Classic Rock to Pat Travers, Usher, LMFAO, Disturbed, and Remmstein. At 58 & 60 years old we both had our own ideas for how we wanted our wedding, and Bill found a way to blend them together for a perfect afternoon and evening with our families and friends.

Bill was a fantastic DJ for our wedding. He worked with us consistently through the planning process, and coordinated well with our other vendors. It was clear that he valued making our experience the best he could and made it unique to our experience. He had helpful advice in the time leading up to the event about the music and the overall flow of the event. The night of the wedding he kept the dance floor alive from when it opened to the end of the night. Overall a fantastic experience.

Carlysle Entertainment was one of our favorite vendors for our wedding. Bill Marsh was outstanding as our DJ and Master of Ceremonies and helped us create and manage our timeline through the ceremony and reception. They also provided amber colored up lights for around the ballroom, and a different type of up lights mixed in around the dance floor end of the room that switched from a solid color to a dance mode, changing colors with the music. Those lights really added a little flair to the party atmosphere without making it look like we were in a club. What impressed us even more was how Bill utilized our very long song list to include songs that were just right for cocktails and dinner, while saving some of the best for later to keep everyone dancing. We always felt as if Bill wanted to go an extra step to make our wedding even better than we expected.

Even though there are plenty of DJs with a hundred or more reviews, I was impressed with the consistency of the reviews Carlysle Entertainment received about how helpful they were. That was exactly what we were looking for because neither of us had been to many weddings before ours and we needed some guidance. We exchanged a few emails with Bill Marsh and he gave us very detailed answers to our questions, so we decided to schedule a virtual meeting with him. In the meeting Bill was more than willing to not just answer our questions but offer suggestions and help us see how our wedding reception would flow from the formalities to a fun party. He warned us that time would fly by and recommended we add an hour to the reception if we wanted to have a few moments to just relax and not worry about what was next. It was exactly how we wanted our wedding reception to be, but we did not even know that until Bill helped us realize that.