DJ Horror Stories!

When it comes to picking a DJ, it is very important to do some research. Although this may seem like a boring, simple task, many people overlook this. You also want to make sure that the DJ you would choose is equipped with the best equipment and DJ mixing software . That's all I can suggest. Have a nice day!

Met with my DJ several months prior to my wedding. He actually was a back up sound guy for my stepdad‘s band. I trusted their thoughts of them. Not to be dramatic but it seriously is detrimental to everything I wanted.


For starters I requested the following: My basic ceremony songsFirst dances I requested to certain songs to be played during dinnerI wanted to do the anniversary danceCake cuttingAnd lastly a private last dance with my husband after everyone exited the venue

Other than these basic requests I gave them a 2 1/2 page list of songs I wanted to hear first during the reception and anything to follow after would be song requests or whatever the DJ felt necessary
Let me just tell you ladies the only thing my DJ did as I asked was the ceremony and first dances and cake cutting.
He was having Wi-Fi issues at our venue but I was reassured that it was no issue. There were a few moments during speeches sound went down immediately following dinner all he did was take song requests for the entire night.
It’s been four days since my wedding that I am still so upset and it’s gonna take me quite some time to get over it.
And let me just tell you I even went above and beyond and typed them up a word document as well as filled out the questionnaire in the word document laid out every procedure for the wedding and the reception and what song to be played and then I made a playlist for the remainder of the night for what I just wanted to hear. I told them no song requests until after they’ve played my list.

I typically love dancing but I spent most of the night running around avoiding the fact of how upset I was. I know the most important part of the day it was that we had beautiful weather and I got to marry the man I love but it seriously had such an impact on my reflection of my special day and all the money I spent toward them. My word of advice for any bride to be to please do your research and just because you think you went above and beyond to make things clear with your vendors it might not go as you asked.
I’ll add one last bit to this they have done several weddings and this is not a new an up-and-coming DJ it was a husband and wife team. They never told me they weren’t showing up for the rehearsal because they had a gig that night until two days prior I’m following this the day before my wedding they mix me up with a future wedding in September asking about an acoustic act. I knew from the beginning I was going to have issues and even though I tried to prepare myself I did not think it would get that far. The moment I was immediately pissed as when I found out for hours into my wedding that his wife had Covid and she was at my wedding. She was an EMT she did wear a mask at times but they only told my parents who had to go around and tell all of our family and guests. The amount of embarrassment this DJ caused me was unreal.

I wouldn't qualify this as a "horror story," but we went to a wedding over the summer with a breakdancing DJ.

To book a good DJ will cost you a bit more money then what you might have planned to spend. So some people would suggest you renting some speakers and subscribe to a music station live YouTube or Pandora and let that be your DJ.

Bride here and I’ll share my worst nightmare.
We booked our DJ 8 months before the wedding. Not a cheap DJ. We provided the timeline and rundown to all the songs for the ceremony and along for the reception. Everything was given 3 times to the DJ and even the night before! We are very organized and I wanted everything to go perfect. As I’m about to go downstairs to head down the isle. My wedding coordinator ran to me and said the DJ doesn’t know what song to play for my isle song?!?!!. I was beyond confused because this has been planned and talked about with the DJ for 8 months now HOW COULD HE JUST NOT KNOW?!?… I gave the the song to the DJ 5 times before I had to walk down the isle. As it was time. I walked down the isle to a song that was never mentioned or told to be played to the DJ and there he did, he played a random song. My moment was robbed and will never be taken back. Gets better, at the reception I went up to him and requested a song and he knew I was obviously the bride whose isle song he completely messed up on. Has the audacity to say “I’ll see if I have time”… long story short that DJ no longer works for the company.

As a guest, I have more horror stories about DIY playlists. The djs we have seen as guests were awesome because all they did was play music and didn’t say a word. The only bad djs we have seen are on YouTube in the random reception videos that people post of their weddings. Where the DJ is always announcing a WWE match instead of a wedding and they are very cringy to watch. That made us decide we do not want an MC of any kind and there will be no announcements or introductions whatsoever.


On the flip side, a lot of the local djs have videos on YouTube of how they operate with clips and such for advertising purposes. One of the highest rated local djs who is 5 stars on WW, TheKnot and Instagram turned me off in one of their videos where the owner is talking about how to run a wedding, and it will be a disaster unless that method is followed to a T. Basically it translated to the dj being as in your face as possible to get people to dance and stay dancing and announcing every single event, which seemed obnoxious more than anything. If people don’t feel like dancing, then calling them out is not going to get them in the mood. The same with pointing out the obvious of what is happening at any given second like guests have never attended a party of any kind before.

View Quoted Comment I had kind of the same thing happened. I got married this September 3rd. We had to kick our DJ out though because he was on drugs . 😭