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Know My Job – part 1
In March I let it be known here that my oldest daughter is planning her wedding for next year. We are now just days inside one-year-to-go. Things are progressing well. So far her fiancé Nick and she have checked the venue, the dress, photographer and a rehearsal dinner location off their list. Now they are working on the guest list, Save the Date cards, and have been in contact with a few florists.
As she is going through this she has also been to or been a part of four other weddings already this ‘season.’ What a great way to get some perspective and gain some insight.
After one of the recent weddings she was in I asked her how things went. She gave me a bit of a recap and then – of course since her father has been a long time DJ – gave me her thoughts on the entertainer. She was not as impressed with this particular DJ as she has been with some others she has seen recently.
It started with the introductions of the wedding party, she told me. Instead of introducing each couple with some pizazz like “she’s been a BFF of the bride since the third grade, he’s a former college roommate of the groom. They are Molly Jones and Rob Smith!” It was more like “Now we have Molly Jones and Rob Smith, Next we have …”
The traditional first dances were done after dinner and then the party was ready to kick off – but just before the open dancing began the DJ was asked to let the guests know that (Surprise!) there was an ice cream truck outside and the guests were invited to go get a sweet treat to finish off their meal … which most of them did.
When they finished their goodies the guests began returning inside to an empty dance floor. “We were ready to dance, to get our groove on!” Megan told me, “but she [the DJ] was just not playing the right music. It just was not the vibe.”
Fair enough assessment. Now that Megan has been to more than a few weddings – and grew up with a father that was a wedding DJ – she is probably a pretty good judge for this field.
Or could it be that …
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The couple was offered some options, such as adding some personal one-liners to their wedding party intros but chose not to do so?
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The music that did not have the right vibe to get people on the dance floor could have actually been on the bride and grooms playlist?
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And maybe the ice cream truck should have arrived BEFORE dancing started and the guests should’ve been invited then thus eliminating the possibility of sending many of the potential dancers outside when it was time to kick things up a notch?
