Vip Events

This review is for DJ services only. I also acknowledge (and hope) that our experience may have been a one-​off, but as it really ruined an important aspect of our day, I believe other couples should be aware.
We were initially really excited to find John’s company — he was listed as a preferred vendor for our wedding venue, and we found several positive reviews online. We conducted numerous phone interviews, and were really pleased with our decision to use John. Prior to our pre-​wedding meeting with John to review song selection and the overall timing/​schedule for the day, my husband and I put together a very detailed Excel spreadsheet complete with song titles, artist names, and in most cases song durations. We brought this to our meeting with John along with our iPad to play songs where there were specific versions we wanted, or songs that we wanted to fade in/​out at particular points.
Upon learning we had the spreadsheet, John did not take a solitary note from that point forward in our meeting — in hindsight, this should have been a huge red flag. But, we were excited and under the assumption we were working with a pro, and didn’t give it much thought. He asked us to e-​mail him the spreadsheet (which we did on the spot while in his office) and he joked that we had «done his job for him.» We laughed and left feeling pretty good, and under the impression he was going to review a few songs we had questions on (songs we weren’t sure were a good fit, songs that we wanted to see if he’d be able to mix, and that he wanted to play around with and get back to us on).
I was not happy with the overall responsiveness of this company — it often took multiple follow-​ups to get a response. I understand being busy, but there is still a level of professionalism we found with all of the other stellar vendors we worked with that was lacking here.
Despite that, at the end of the day, the majority of things went smoothly. He did a good job of keeping things on schedule, and played a great mix for the reception that had people dancing.
However, I have two major complaints.
1) One of the two MOST important songs to us on our wedding day was incorrect. The song that was to play as our bridal party walked out just before I walked down the aisle was TOTALLY WRONG. It wasn’t even a song on the list. Mind you, we had literally typed out the entire play list (for everything but the reception dance music) for him. The song we selected was full of so much meaning to us, and was SO important to us to have played. We spent at least 5 minutes at our meeting with him talking about it/​listening to it with me tearing up and discussing the meaning to us. To hear the wrong song crushed me — hearing the chords of something else playing as I approached with my parents to walk down the aisle made me tear up — had it been at any other point in the day it may not have resonated so much, but this song was key for us. And what was John’s excuse for playing a song that wasn’t even remotely close? «That’s what came up when I typed in the song.» He said that to me when I brought it up after the ceremony. Clearly, he didn’t listen to the play list he put together. He didn’t check his work. And I have tried on multiple search engines to type in our song and get it to generate what he actually played and it hasn’t happened once. Yes, people make mistakes and I get that. But this was a HUGE miss — out of sheer laziness. There is no way he went through our song list and actually played the selections to check against our list and didn’t catch that.
2) As I was about to walk down to our ceremony, our wedding coordinator took me through the reception area in my gown to see it mostly set up. There, 5 minutes before I am supposed to say «I Do» I see John’s son setting up our up-​lights in the venue in the WRONG color. Fully dressed in my wedding gown I had to take the time to tell his son what we had specified (in two emails and our in-​person meeting). Lighting at this particular venue essentially makes the entire room shine in that tone, and the one he was putting up again wasn’t even close to what we’d decided. They got it fixed in time, but the bride shouldn’t have to make that correction moments before. His son said he didn’t have the info on what it was supposed to be.
Again, yes, mistakes happen. However, any vendor in the wedding industry knows that it’s all in the details, and these were two areas that were important to us. John is a VERY nice, friendly, and amiable guy and I really didn’t want to write this review, but at the end of the day it’s what has really stuck with me about our wedding. All of our other on-​site vendors did such a fantastic job, and seemed to genuinely care about and take pride in their work. Everyone has off days, and hopefully this doesn’t happen again to another couple, but we felt as though we should share our experience knowing that for us it wasn’t money well spent in this instance.

We had John DJ at our wedding and he did a great job! He was very personable and the music kept the crowd dancing! Would definitely hire him again and will refer other people to him for sure!

John from VIP DJ’d our wedding and he was awesome! He kept everything on time and on track and had the dance floor filled the entire time. The company has online planning tools which were very useful. We were able to create a must play and do not play list on our own schedule and then submit it when we were ready. John also was able to easily accommodate a special request of having our first dance and the last song of the evening played by our friend on acoustic guitar through their sound system. Their prices were very reasonable and they were great to work with. Definitely consider them for your event!!!

John did an absolutely phenomenal job DJ’ing and MC’ing our wedding! We would highly recommend him to anyone who wants their wedding to go off without a hitch! He literally did not miss a beat and did an excellent job following our wedding timeline. He is professional and personable and we feel the success of the cocktail hour and reception (Had a string quartet for the ceremony) to be largely attributed to his wonderful talent!!! We also used his videography services and have yet to see the result of all the hard work the videographers put into our wedding, but we have high hopes :). They were all very professional and I look forward to leaving another Unilocal review once we get to view it!

John did an amazing job as a DJ at our wedding! From the planning stages to the actual day of the wedding, John was professional and fun to work with. The day of the wedding flowed seamlessly and we didn’t have to worry about a thing. Even though our reception was in the afternoon, John had the dance floor filled for a majority of the time (we were amazed!). For something as important as a DJ to a wedding is, we are so glad we decided to go with VIP Events – John was great!