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Be Prepared

If you are new to weddings, or would like to know some information about how to go about booking a wedding, follow this simple tips.

Be Specific

You want to make sure you get all of the info you need to do a wedding. For many events people may tell you to play any song to keep people dancing or give you a reason to stay within. With weddings this is not good to do. You may get a way with this a couple times, but it will come back at you ever, and you will be in a bad position.

I've had weddings were they tell me they are informal and they do not really care what music I play. But I would just throw song names out at them, or play a bunch of songs on my laptop as we were talking. If they did not like it they would say "No" and I would cross that off my list. If they herd a song they really liked they would smile or say "you need to play this song." It was a good way to learn the music that they wanted with out actually drilling them will questions about music.

They Do Care

So, make sure you go over almost every song you will be playing at the wedding. Give them some lists of music, of course a list of the most popular wedding songs and genre they prefer, and not a list of your own collection (If your actually crazy enough to have an entire list). You should help them with ideas, and ask if they would like certain songs you think they would enjoy. You will find many songs you think they would like, they really do not want.

Remind them, during the wedding they will be extremely busy visiting everyone, trying to enjoy themselves and helping to coordinate the event. The last thing they want to have to do is make sure the music is right.

Also go over the songs they do not want to hear. Many times there are songs that make them think of something negative, and you want this to be the happiest day of their lives. So do not be responsible for ruining it by playing the wrong song.

Ask if they want to allow requests. Certain weddings I have had problems were the families do not get along well; so one family intentionally requests a song the other family will not like or it will get them upset. You get about half the room giving you a death look and the other half laughing. It's not a comfortable position. Maybe there are only certain people they do not want to make requests.

Ask Questions!

Get all your questions out at meetings prior to the wedding. Some questions are acceptable at the wedding, but you want to make sure you do not look like you do not know what your doing. It will impress them if you can run the entire night with few or no questions and you run it exactly how they wanted it.

What Announcements Do they Want?

You do not want to be the DJ on the mic the whole time, of course unless they want that. But most weddings they only want minimal announcements other than the standard ones. Sometimes they do not even want some of the regular announcements or events, such as many brides do not want to do the bouquet throwing etc.

You should go over step by step, almost song by song how the wedding is going to run, so there are no surprises for them. Naturally you might play other songs or mix some of them up depending on the crowd, but you want to have a strong idea what your going to play before you get there.

Ask if they want jokes with their intros, just names to be announced, or any other special things. What you may think will make everyone go crazy might not, and you do not want to be standing in the middle of the floor being the only one laughing at your own jokes. Remember your here for their entertainment, not your own.

Hope this was helpful!

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Source by Brian Brenner