AVOID - Fox DJ Ruined Our Wedding Day
DO NOT HIRE! Absolute nightmare!
This guy ruined our wedding.
AVOID him at all costs.
First, his equipment didn't work. We had a generator for him to use his speakers... but they didn't work with the microphones - so the ceremony was drowned out and nobody could hear us. Disaster!
Then, he drank our alcohol, which was for our guests, while on the job!
We ran out of liquor for our guests and we now have a good suspicion of why that happened… Doug.
We paid him upfront (HUGE mistake), so he took that as an opportunity to party hard - on the job.
We paid him for 5 hours ($750). Our wedding started at 6p with reception following.
His equipment didn’t work during the ceremony. The reception started about 6:45 and we shut it all down starting at 9p. He “worked” less than 3 hours total.
When this was mentioned to him via text and a partial refund was requested, he lied about working extra hours and made up a bunch of false details about our wedding as his excuse despite none of it being relevant to doing his job. It’s possible he remembers incorrectly due to the alcohol he drank while “working” our wedding.
He admitted to drinking our alcohol when confronted about it. Didn’t apologize for it, but admitted he did it.
Many of our guests complained that he seemed drunk and was slurring words when they tried to talk with him. My wife and I noticed that too. When he asked me for a “live” review at the early end of the night, he absolutely reeked of alcohol and cigarettes.
He took multiple smoke breaks during our reception, which was only 2.5 hours long - partly because of the fiasco of having him as the DJ. Who takes multiple smoke breaks during a 2-3 hour job?! Doug at Fox DJ does.
When we went to clean up the venue the next day, my wife had to pick up his cigarette butts.
Doug had left his cigarette butts on the grounds. If we hadn’t cleaned up after him, it would have been billed to us by the venue.
The songs he played sounded terrible - poor quality of his speakers and/or the downloads.
He would later blame this and all his equipment failures on… the city of Nashville.
Our first dance sounded so bad, my wife wanted to cry tears of sadness and frustration during the dance.
I’m not joking when I say this: I could’ve done a better job DJ’ing my own wedding. If I had brought a bluetooth speaker and done it myself instead - it would’ve been better than having Doug there.
He was awful in every way. And unrepentant when we confronted him over the phone a couple days after our wedding. He wouldn’t say sorry at all. He just said, “I guess you’ll write whatever you want to write about it.”
So here it is - me writing about the nightmare of having paid Doug at Fox Disc Jockey to be the DJ at my wedding.
We asked him for a partial refund, he strung us along for a couple weeks before I finally decided to stop waiting for him to rectify the situation and alert everyone to how terrible this guy is.
Doug should not be in this business. Save your wedding - hire anyone else.