Grant Hemond and Associates, Inc.

When we started researching DJs in Tampa for our wedding, it became clear pretty quickly that Grant Hemond was the way to go. They’ve been in business for decades and have thousands of 5 star reviews — and with good reason! Music was incredibly important to me, so I was convinced I was going to be that annoying bride, but they were absolutely fantastic to work with for our wedding.

After reading through pages and pages of reviews, I noticed the same names of DJs keep popping up, so even though they say your DJ isn’t assigned until the week before your event, I asked if I could request a particular person. They said we absolutely could request specific DJs, so I gave four names. Two were already spoken for (a year out!), but she wrote into our contract that we were guaranteed to have one of the other two assigned to our wedding. We booked them to play music for a ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception, and to provide uplighting for the reception as well.

Over the next year, my husband and I compiled playlists of music we wanted to have played during cocktail hour or dinner (in other words, songs that we really liked but that you couldn’t really dance to), songs we wanted for the reception, as well as a “do not play” list.

A little over a week before our wedding, Craig Hemond reached out to us, introducing himself as our DJ. He sent over a questionnaire and set up a time for us to talk on the phone. I sent back the questionnaire along with our spreadsheets (yes, plural) of playlists, and we proceeded to have a two-hour (!) chat on the phone about how the music would go for the ceremony, cocktail hour, wedding party intros and reception. He was incredibly thorough and just the nicest guy you could ever hope to meet.

Craig totally understood what I wanted for my reception — I told him I needed this to be a throwback to the late 90s/early 2000s. He knew how to get people on that dance floor, and everyone had such a fun time! And he made our reception look amazing as well with the uplighting, which we asked to be a dark teal color. He also had the ability to change the colors throughout the night, and to have them change along with the beat of the music.

Start to finish, Craig did an absolutely wonderful job — I couldn’t have asked for a better DJ for our wedding!