Sugartown Industries

Colleen is a fantastic DJ. The main thing that we wanted from our music at our wedding was a fun dance party, and Colleen completely delivered. Having been to a few weddings where guests barely danced, both with DJs and with bands, we were nervous about music at our own wedding. But having hired Colleen, we were in safe and experienced hands. Our dance floor was packed with guests of all ages from the beginning of the first song to the end of the very last song, which came so quickly it was hard to believe, and we got many compliments on our music both that night and afterwards. From our first conversation with Colleen we found her to be organized, responsive, and professional. She has excellent and eclectic music taste, as you can tell by looking at her song list on the Sugartown website, but she tailors the night completely to your preferences. Colleen has a great system for soliciting input from the couple and is also happy to provide as much feedback and as many suggestions as you want. She also helped us with strategizing the schedule of the night in order to get our food served quickly and to have the dance party going for as long as possible. Colleen is relaxed and easy-​going as a person, and as a DJ she lets the music do the talking. Finally, she is very reasonably priced, and after the wedding she provided us with a list of every song she played so that we can relive our wedding again and again. Our wedding was an incredibly fun party, and we owe so much of that to Colleen.

Based on the recommendations of 5 of my friends who also had Sugartown as the DJ at their weddings over the past 5 years, we also selected Sugartown Industries for our wedding this past weekend in Long Island City. Tony was our DJ for the event and he was nothing short of incredible. We had a lot of crazy requests as we are a very multiculturally mixed couple — and we wanted a nutty mix of Abba, Jewish music, and middle eastern music as well as awesome reggae, hip hop and pop jams from the 90s and beyond. We were concerned it would be near-​impossible to pull off, but he did it and with what panache! Our whole huge wedding barely left the dance floor the whole night.
Additionally, the planning and communication was on point and so professional from beginning to end. Colleen and Tony were always easy to get a hold of and followed up on all of our requests.
I cannot recommend this company highly enough. Wonderful.

Sugartown is a great company. My two sisters and I all used different DJs from their company for our weddings, and we were all super pleased with the job they did. Wells Crandell dj’d our wedding this June, and he did an excellent job. We spoke to him on the phone twice before our wedding, and then several times over email the couple of weeks before. He was always super responsive and resourceful, including sourcing obscure ethnic songs to appease my mélange of a family. Booking a DJ is always nerve-​wracking unless you have heard them play before, because they can make or break a wedding. Wells definitely amplified our wedding experience. He did a great job of mixing in our favorites with older tunes for older folks and was super flexible during the whole time. Can’t recommend him enough!

I am not really into dancing, but I am almost certain I could have been a serious contender on «Dancing with the Stars» at my wedding reception.
Thanks due to Wells Crandall of Sugartown Industries — an amazingly talented, down to earth DJ who would likely sooner face plant into your wedding cake than play «The Chicken Dance» at your reception.
Wells works to avoid cliché (and let’s be real, boring!) songs and aspects of a wedding reception: cough: bouquet toss: cough:
My husband and I met with Wells three times before the wedding to plan the ultimate playlist. These meetings were relaxed and fun, as Wells has a cool demeanor that makes meeting with him seem like an old friend. The day of my wedding I was a bit nervous that the music might be too mod for my family’s conservative midwestern ways … this was not the case!
The genius of Wells is that he quickly picks up on the crowd’s tastes, and incorporates a variety of music that is both popular and fun. No song is played in duration (unless the crowd is raging), and the variety and lack of slow songs keeps things moving. When the dancing portion of the evening began, my guests flooded the dance floor like there was no tomorrow. I saw some family members bust moves I did not know they were physically capable of!
In an unwieldy testament of the awesome music, my guests did the following (amazing!) things:
— A double dutch dance with an invisible jumprope
— Lots of (literally) ass-​busting breakdancing
— A human train that weaved throughout The W hotel
— Shattered many a glass on the dance floor (yeah, we know how to party)
— Refused to leave! As the clock struck midnight, we demanded one more song … and our wish was granted.
If it were socially acceptable, I would build a tiny musical shrine of old CDs dedicated to the fabulousness that is Sugartown Industries. Instead, I will make due with the playlist Wells provided after the wedding, which I listen to often to remind me of what a great event we had with the help of Sugartown Industries.
Wells sent us a copy of the entire playlist from the cocktail hour and rececption. I obviously made an iTunes playlist and listen to it daily as a reminder of Wells’ outstanding contributions to our lovely wedding.