Instant Request DJ Entertainment & Lighting

minor changes. Even helped prank my dad with or father daughter dance! She kept the dance floor occupied all night and was so supportive and had such a good energy. Would hire again- especially if Tate was our DJ!

, knew where to be and when, did a good job communicating day of, and professionally set up equipment both for our ceremony (although we only needed a mic and one speaker) and for the reception. Where things fell short were: 1) for our introduction to the reception "for the first time as a married couple" he called me (groom) by the wrong name, he used the name of our photographer, Eric, which doesn't come close to my name. 2) Admittedly, we had a long "must play" list for the dance floor after dinner, about 50 songs. But we had noted many of them (40-45) didn't need to be played in full, maybe 2 minutes each on average or so. We had 2 prep calls with DJ Damani and had sent a spreadsheet over with our list before the second call, and he did not mention at any point that playing all of them would be an issue. He ended up missing about 20 songs/40% of our list in total. He did however have time to play about 35 songs that were not on our list, so he certainly had the time to play them. they were not obscure songs either, like "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige, "Golden" by HUNTR/X, and "Friends in low places" by Garth Brooks among others. The songs he did play were enjoyable, and a lot of common/popular songs which was good. But it also felt lazy as if it were chunks of playlists he had created in the past, and didn't want to do the work to put together our specific requests. 3) on one of our preparation calls, he asked us to text him important details like the specialty dances and first dance, and order of events. It felt unprofessional at best, but what was more frustrating is the about 5 hours we had to put into communicating all these details into a complicated and antiquated website. So we had to do about double the work, once well in advance of the wedding but then a second time with about a week and a half left before our wedding date. Not the best time to waste time 4) he played our final song twice. We had discussed a plan that we'd like to end the night with a specific slow song, but as its wrapping up, cut it off and say something like "this is the real last song for the party", and play a faster tempo, good dancing, fun end of the night song. He did do a great job of executing this, but he played the song we requested as final in the later-middle of the night. Given he left songs off our must play it would've been nice not to waste a song, duplicating a song really isn't fun anyway, and we were left thinking he just wasn't going to play our final song as requested for a while. Ultimately he did, but just a weird note to the night. 5) we didn't leave a tip and the manager at Instant Request, Mitch, did say he appreciated the honesty of that, but otherwise I would have thought this would be grounds for a partial refund. We had a January wedding, offseason, so it was indicated to us we would bet getting assigned a pretty good DJ. In fairness it wasn't overly expensive, about $1,200, but felt like some of these mistakes were so unprofessional that it would be fair to do more than an apology email (from Mitch the manager, not from the actual DJ Damani).

on the day of. We were lucky to get DJ Rick to DJ on our wedding day, and he was great! I think instant request and DJ Rick were incredible!

cate with, flexible with an ever changing schedule, and was seriously the life of the party! She made our dance party SO much fun and truly exceeded my expectations. I could not recommend Kalli more!