DJs can make or break a wedding. I don’t know if my company (Complete Music Video Photo) really wants me to say that but it’s true. Wedding DJs have a tough job, all eyes are on them for hours, and if the crowd isn’t dancing or the reception isn’t flowing well it usually falls to the DJ to fix it and if he/she has to fix it then most people would think the DJ failed. A wedding is a BIG deal and feeling solely responsible for the success or failures of such an event can be really stressful.  That is why I wanted to dedicate this one blog entry to DJs in general and more specifically one DJ who won  OMAHA DJ OF THE YEAR….Tay Westberry.

Since corporate is headquartered in Omaha, I actually know Complete’s DJ of the Year and I felt compelled to let people know what an awesome DJ and person he is. How you become DJ of the Year isn’t very easy, he’s been with us for just over a year and a half and he’s generated the most referrals (he’s requested a lot) has some of the highest evaluation marks a DJ can have and an outstanding attitude.

Tay cracks me up every time he comes in, when he’s not working working his three jobs he stops into the office to say hi and is always in the best mood, it’s hard not to be happy around him.

I made Tay sit down and tell me why he thinks he won DJ of the Year:

” I work hard and I honestly strive to be the best DJ I can.  I love the responsibility and the stress of making someone’s wedding day perfect, they rely on me and I like that, I do everything I can to make everything perfect.

Tay definitely sums it up well as to why he thinks he won, but I prefer this comment from one of his brides:

“If you were already booked on the day of our wedding, we would have changed the date to make sure you could be our DJ”  BTW she said this to him one year later when she saw him at a grocery store, so obviously Tay made a great impression.

Tay loves being a DJ and plans on being one for years to come (lucky us!!) and we at Complete are so flipping proud to have him on our team!

Yeah…I know this is a cheesy blog post, but when good people do good things I’m a firm believer they should get recognition.

Cheers

I’ve been obsessed lately with Pandora and Spotify at work, wearing headphones all day long to drown out everyone and everything and it made me think about how music can transform moods, alter atmospheres and bring back memories.  This lead me to think about my own wedding and the music I chose to play at my reception.

At my wedding I cared very little about most of the details, but I had very strong opinions about what I didn’t want, specifically when it came to the music at my reception. When I spoke with our wedding DJ (who, ironically, was a Complete Music DJ and is now a coworker) I said the following:

I don’t want rap.

I don’t want country.

I don’t want pop music.

WELL WHAT THE HELL WAS LEFT?  Not much. I wanted old school Frank Sinatra played during dinner and that’s all I knew. I also knew I didn’t want a Father Daughter dance; I didn’t want to cry, I didn’t want to have that amazing special moment between a Father and a Daughter and have everyone acknowledging that I was leaving my dad for a husband. I also didn’t want the traditional ice-break reception songs; “MY WEDDING” was too elegant to have people doing “stupid” ice breakers.  My poor DJ, I left him with nothing and he couldn’t get me to budge.  He didn’t force the issue but he tried to tell me it might work to the benefit of everyone to have a little fun and let loose. NOPE, I wouldn’t budge… Until, of course, there I was looking around at my reception wondering what was missing. Well it was all the stupid fun parts of a wedding, the nerdy electric slide with the goofy impromptu dance moves. The laughter and lightheartedness of being silly with ridiculous music. I was denying my guests their moment to let loose, reminisce and just be re-donk-ulous.  Luckily I noticed and went immediately to my DJ to help fix what I did… Cue the ice breaker of the century: ICE ICE BABY and then BAM! People took to the dance floor like white on rice.

The whole point of this rant is this:  you may not know exactly what you DO want, but spelling out every little thing you think you DON’T want may not be the best approach either.  If you find yourself getting too caught up with the DON’T’s  just remember If there’s a problem, Yo, I’ll solve it  check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.