Cancelled 3 Days Prior to our Wedding
We hired DJ Timdogg back in November '25 for our May '26 after searching for good DJs in Delaware, as we live out of state. I found him through WeddingWire, he was responsive and we had great phone conversations. I asked for mixes which he sent me and after seeing others' good reviews and enjoying the mixes, we hired him. Our experience over the next 6 months with him went fairly well, he was responsive and had requested a detailed list of our music selections. Based off his conversation, he seemed experienced doing weddings and we didn't have any major concerns. There were a couple times over that period where he was supposed to call us at a certain time or show up for an appt and didn't, but he made up by calling us or showing up another day. Everything was good until the Tuesday before our Friday wedding. After sending him a text that we no longer wanted to do a bouquet toss, I got a response that he had a slight issue he needed to discuss with us and he would call later that night after he finished another gig. This immediately gave me concern, and he never called that night. The next morning I followed up with him and we spoke. He tells me that he can no longer do our wedding because of a surprise anniversary trip that his wife had planned that started the same day as our wedding. I was shocked and horrified and expressed my concerns immediately. He ensured me that he had another DJ who could do the wedding instead and that he would be properly caught up to speed with all the details regarding our wedding music that him and I had finalized over the past 6 months. At that point we were 2 days out from the wedding and traveling to DE early the next morning, so i had alot of things on my plate and just had to trust that the replacement DJ would be ok. I requested a discount, a 3-way call with the DJ, which we had later that night, and also to meet the DJ in person prior to him DJing the wedding, which the replacement DJ had agreed to come early to our hotel the day of the wedding to meet. The day of the wedding, the replacement DJ texted me letting me know he was on his way to DE (he lived out of state, even though our original DJ was local) and he was planning to meet us at the hotel as planned. A couple hours later he texted saying he's stuck in traffic due to an accident and can i meet him at the venue instead. I was the bride and we were all getting ready so that was a no go, so i tell him to go straight to the venue so he won't be late and to get with Ken the sound guy for the ceremony to make sure they were straight (previously DJ Tim was going to send Ken the songs to play and be on the mic for the ceremony, I assumed this had been communicated to replacement DJ as well, especially since he had the list of music we wanted for the ceremony). Fast forward to the wedding ceremony, every single song that was played was incorrect except for the song I walked down the aisle to, which I told the wedding coordinator a couple minutes before walking down the aisle to make sure was correct after hearing the other wrong music being played. It was obvious that neither Tim nor the replacement DJ had ever talked to Ken to tell him which songs we wanted, so he was just playing generic music. Now we get to the reception, he basically was fumbling through the entire first half of the wedding (maybe trying to find the right song?) He played an instrumental version of Cardi B for the bridesmaids' entrance, he announced and played music for a parent/grandparent entrance that was never requested, and he played the wrong song for our first dance. After the first dance we were immediately supposed to go into father-daughter, mother-son dances but he had long delays before playing either one of those songs (so long that I had time to sit down for awhile and take pictures with guests). Throughout the night i received multiple sound complaints from guests that the music was too loud, there was also some crackling going on with his speaker, that later went away. Toasts were never announced, it just felt very disorganized and the guests could tell. Later on in the night he did a bit better once the dance floor opened but there were many must play songs on our list that were never played until prompted including reggae and gogo sets which were also on our list. Guests had to make requests to him all throughout the night. Also when he introduced the reggae set, he started with a reggaeton song which confused most of us. We had a beautiful day, but the DJ situation was definitely the thorn from our special day, and to make matters worse, when we spoke with the replacement DJ after the wedding and DJ Tim a few days later, neither took any responsibility for their mistakes or wrongdoings in this situation. All of the blame was passed to someone else, the wedding coordinator, or they didn't have the song on the music list (when it obviously was), etc. It was just such a big disappointment all the way around. Because of this I would not recommend hiring DJ Tim for anything important and we definitely will never hire either one of them ever again.