- 2025
DJ Not A Panda
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About this vendor
DJ Not A Panda is a wedding DJ and MC based in Bradenton, serving Sarasota, Tampa, St. Pete, Orlando, Fort Myers, Naples, and the West Florida coast.
Tony Garcia, DJ Not A Panda, brings a warm, professional, and high-energy approach to wedding entertainment. Since 2018, Tony has served hundreds of weddings and private events, helping couples create celebrations that feel organized, personal, and genuinely fun.
Tony’s style blends down-to-earth professionalism with expressive, guest-friendly energy. He is comfortable guiding formal moments, making clear announcements, reading the room, and keeping the dance floor moving. Whether your wedding calls for classic reception favorites, Latin music, Christian-friendly selections, multicultural playlists, or a mix of everything, Tony works with you to create a music experience that reflects your taste and keeps your guests engaged.
From ceremony audio to reception introductions, formal dances, speeches, open dancing, lighting, and optional photo booth service, DJ Not A Panda is focused on making your wedding feel smooth, memorable, and full of personality.
SERVICES OFFERED
- Wedding DJ + MC Package
Not A Panda provides wedding DJ and MC services throughout Florida. Tony’s wedding package includes a pre-wedding consultation, professional sound equipment, wireless microphones, MC service, dance floor lighting, wired uplighting, glowing foam sticks, and music planning support.
Tony will work with you to understand your timeline, music preferences, formalities, must-play songs, do-not-play songs, and any special requests that matter to your celebration. His goal is to help your wedding feel organized, comfortable, and exciting from the first announcement to the final song.
- Photo Booth Package
Not A Panda also offers a digital photo booth experience for couples who want an easy, fun guest activity during the reception. The photo booth package includes the booth unit, props, backdrop, and a digital photo gallery.
This is a digital-only photo booth experience, meaning guests receive access to the photos without printed copies. It is a strong fit for couples who want the fun of a photo booth without the cost of premium features such as printouts or customized backdrops.
- Karaoke Package
Karaoke is available for select weddings, afterparties, rehearsal dinners, and private celebrations. It can be a fun addition for the right crowd, especially for families or friend groups who already love singing together.
Because karaoke changes the tone of an event, Tony is happy to discuss whether it makes sense for your specific wedding or celebration.
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8 years in business
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We speak Chinese, English and Spanish
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Reviewers praise the DJ for exceptional professionalism, clear communication, and a detailed planning worksheet. He kept diverse, multicultural crowds dancing all night, handled requests smoothly, and kept events on schedule. Extras like a photo booth and custom songs were popular and felt like great value.
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Awesome DJ
From the beginning, Tony stood out for his communication. We had several calls leading up to the wedding, and he always took the time to walk us through how wedding DJing works and what we should be thinking about. He also answered a ton of questions via email and didn't mind the back and forth at all. As a couple planning a wedding for the first time, there were a lot of small details we hadn’t considered. Tony filled in those gaps with practical advice from his experience without ever being pushy.
He has an online wedding worksheet that was especially helpful. It’s a detailed form that covers each part of the day: ceremony, ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, and more. We could fill it out over time as we made decisions, save our progress, and then review everything with him before the big day. That process made us feel organized, confident as we were able to track our TODOs through his website
On the wedding day, Tony arrived early, coordinated seamlessly with our planner, and handled setup without needing anything from us. He is a total professional, and clearly knows what he's doing.
The ceremony music was exactly what we wanted (music, timings and everything), and the reception was even better. Our wedding was multicultural (Indian/American) and had a wide range of ages, and Tony managed that balance really well. He played great Bollywood tracks (and already knew crowd favorites), mixed in classics for the older guests, and kept the dance floor packed with hip-hop, house, and other popular songs for the younger crowd. He rotated genres thoughtfully so everyone felt included at all times. Special shoutout to him as he gracefully handled all spontaneous song requests from us and our guests !
Overall, we’d absolutely recommend Tony. He’s super friendly, communicates really well & is very reasonably priced for the level of service he provides: honestly, for what you get, it feels like a great value. He's a solid choice and will spend time and effort in understanding your vision, we’re very grateful for his contribution in making our event such a great success
Hallelujah
Excellent DJ
Exceptionally Thorough And Easy To Work With
Can’t go wrong
Tony is a great DJ.
This was all confirmed on wedding day. Tony is efficient - from arriving on time, to setting up, to performing his duties, to tearing down. His abilities are without question some of the finest. By the way - the photo booth was so worth the effort in including it in the package.
Nothing - nothing at all but good results from Tony the DJ. INCLUDING the value for the cost. Hire him. He's great.
Fabulous DJ! You will love him!
At the event itself, he was again thorough ahead of time with a walkthrough of what was needed, on point with all my needed announcements and even made suggestions, cranked out the perfect tunes for the day and was so energetic MCing that you know he loves what he does! Several people commented to me how great the DJ was which was so nice to hear. I would highly recommend him, as I know you will not be disappointed! I could not have been more pleased!
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