Wedding question
Hi, just looking for a general advice from a DJs perspective. My wedding is next month. We have been working on preparing different playlists for cocktail hour, during dinner, after dinner, late night, etc..
We don’t necessarily want to tell the DJ to only stick to what our playlists, but we are pretty particular about knowing what we like/want in terms of music. Mostly well known classics and hits. From your perspective is it annoying to be told to just stick to the playlist or should we give the DJ freedom to kind of mix their own thing in here and there? We have heard stories about DJ’s kind of doing their own thing and it not being what people wanted. We’ve also heard of people giving “don’t play” lists, which ended up getting played anyway.
Edit: you don’t know what you don’t know. I appreciate the help, we are planning to talk with our DJ again. To be fair to the DJ he did have us fill out a form and did a phone call. We were the ones who were a little stubborn about using our playlist. After your recommendations, we will try to narrow it down to a few must play songs during each period of the wedding and let him handle the rest.