DJ .. to leave bad review or not at all

Absolutely leave a review. I like to leave reviews whether bad or good. Me and FH go off of reviews a lot because they're real and you really can't make those up. Let people know how that person is. I'm Sorry you had a bad DJ.

You probably should have just made a play list on your iPhone and played that.. then you have no one to complain about.

ADD: I agree with Richard.. Micromanaged for sure.. They are a DJ for a reason and if he had bad reviews to begin with you should have looked elsewhere.

I would wait a week, then write review. Some people may think you were micromanaging, some may think you were correct.

Leave a review if you want to but realize your expectations are not normal. I gave my DJ a playlist for him to "get" an idea of our music style. I, by no means, told him what to play, at a certain, while I was at a certain position in the room.

Also, if you write your review the way you wrote this post, no one will take it seriously. I read, re-read, and tried so hard to figure out what you were saying. Honestly, have someone proofread it for grammar and flow.

Well, at least DJ Steve is catching a break with this DJ-review thread...

#LongLiveDJSteve

Omg Jay it's like you have, as OG Nonna used to say "ESPN." I was gonna ask if it was DJ Steve!

#allthelovefordjsteve

@Nonna, I have ESPP, not ESPN!

Extra Sensory Pepeto Perception.

Disclaimer: I don't agree with all this, I wasn't there and some of it seems unreasonable to me but here it is cleaned up a little:

Our wedding was Sunday and it was beautiful except for our DJ. There were many errors, some of which include:

Not playing the ceremony music on time

Mispronunciations of our names during introduction

Disagreeing on H and I were to be introduced (he said our grammar was incorrect; I asked him to read it the way it was written because that is how our officiant pronounced us)

Not waiting for our edited intro song as requested

Playing songs that were on the do not play lists such as rap

Playing versions of songs we didn't have as our playlist

Not playing the entire playlist

Playing older songs later into the night when most guests left

The same as above with the special songs for our parents,

Told him multiple times for two songs to be the last

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Please don't do anything until you follow up with your DJ. Explain to them your concerns and give them the opportunity to make it right. We can't turn back the clock but there mu$t be $ome way for the DJ to make thing$ right. If they don't work to turn this into a customer success story then leave an honest review. Nobody likes to be blindsided. I hope everything else turned out okay. Best wishes!

I say leave a bad review. That will give future potential clients a heads up.

Some of your concerns are valid, some of them are rubbish. Absolutely review him for mispronouncing your names and messing up your ceremony music.

But he is allowed to disagree with you on how you were introduced - he thought there was a mistake and brought it to your attention. If it really was a mistake you would have been grateful. As long as he went ahead and did it how you requested then there is no issue.

The list of must play songs is just that. Songs he must play. Not songs he must play but only when you specifically are in the room. How many songs were on this list anyway? I suspect it was a lot and made it harder for him to do his job - especially when you then complain that he played your 'do play' songs but at the wrong times.

Think hard about what actually was the problem and then leave a realistic, better worded review. If you leave one like the one above, it will be pointless because it's overdramatic and hard to read.

This is exactly why you don't try to tell a professional how to do their job. You end up with unrealistic expectations and that never ends well. How can a DJ possibly know when the two of you are going to be in the room at the exact same time so they can play a song you want to hear? What did you expect him to do? Pause the song until you got back to the dance floor and then proceed? These are some ridiculous complaints.

Leave him a bad review, just do it.

Review. Without it, the next could be someone he does the same two and they would be sad.

"Not playing to our type of crowd at all"

Given that you gave him a mile long do play list, this sounds like your fault.

As many others have said....couple valid complaints, the rest is rubbish.

I think maybe he didn't understand you...and you might be a little difficult so confronting you might have been an issue as well. Honestly, by your posts...I you are just not happy about a lot of things. Sorry, but you come off that way...might not be accurate, but it is the appearance.

Anyhew...to leave a review or not is up to you. I would make sure, like others have said, that is factual and fair. Following your every move all night is not possible for a vendor, so knowing where you were moment to moment is an over expectation. I would try to take a step back, revaluate the evening prior to putting up a review and make sure you are being fair and completely honest in the review. I do agree on the do not play list. We are not rap fans and neither is our crowd...most are all over 40, rap would not go over well. If you specifically asked him not to play rap music and he did anyway, I would take issue with that too.

Leave a review, be constructive

Please write a review. As someone who is in the beginning stages of planning and planning from a distance, I rely on them.

I would write a review

You should write a truthful review. As someone whose name is constantly pronounced incorrectly even when written phonetically, it is really annoying. Also, I would like to know if a DJ plays songs that were explicitly on the DO NOT PLAY list. I have been to plenty of weddings that had do not play list and the DJs followed these instructions. Messing up introductions is kind of a big deal. Frankly, if he felt your personal introduction was poor grammar but you stated you didn't care that is on you not him, so he should have announced as you asked.