As many different weddings as I have been hired as professional Wedding DJ, there are two things I can count on for each one. It would seem with all the different couples, cultures, ages, styles and personalities that nothing would be the same for sure except a Bride and a Groom get married right? Wrong.
The first thing you can count on is that there will always be something that is not as planned, no matter how much planning and coordination is put into the wedding. You can pay the best planner, hire a great day-of coordinator and be obsessive about the details but there will always be something that demands a quick change in plans. Sometimes is an Uncle who can’t make it due to health. It may be a storm that keeps one entire family detained because of cancelled flights. An Aunt you haven’t seen in ten years may demand that her son of eight years be part of the Bridal Party without taking no for answer and making even a bigger scene than she has already. It doesn’t matter what it is but there is always something that requires the professional Wedding DJ to switch gears and smoothly transition to whatever needs to be adjusted without anybody else knowing there was a shift in the program. An experienced professional wedding DJ can do this seamlessly. It is what you pay us more money to do. You want that confidence and security to know it will be OK no matter what and that we will make it work without adding to the excitement that already exists.
The good news is that the second thing you can count on as a professional Wedding DJ is that everything will be amazing! I do not know how it happens but it does. Every wedding somehow is remarkably exceptional. I wish I could take credit for this but I can’t. It seems as if there is a force that directs the wedding toward amazing in spite of all of us involved. In spite of the crazy Aunt, the drunk Cousin, the always late Brother and the rain on the day that the weathermen promised no rain with a zero chance of precipitation. It ends up amazing.
I can’t tell you how many times it was raining les than an hour before an outdoor ceremony and stopped till ten minutes after the Vows and photos! It is uncanny. Last summer I had a wedding that the weatherman predicted one hundred percent chance of rain and not a drop! I was hired as Wedding DJ the weekend of Hurricane Irene and the venue canceled the day before. Somehow the Bride’s Mother was able to find an alternative venue in three hours and the next day all but a handful of people were seated at the Chapel eagerly anticipating The Bride and Groom. It was amzing!
Somehow it all works out. It is the one thing that I can count on besides organized chaos at every wedding. Couples get married. Families sparkle. Friends celebrate. How they get married, what makes the family sparkle and the style of celebration are as different as the couples themselves but it happens. Trust me it happens. You will get married and it will be amazing. Count on it!