Okyne Medialab

It was great working with DJ Okyne and his team. The night went by so fast and the music kept our energetic vibe going. Wish we could have met the DJ who was doing our wedding before though.

We just had a wedding at the Rookery on September 26^th with DJ Daniel. To say the least, it was the time of our lives. Dan is a great guy and kept the dance floor rocking the entire night, taking requests, mashing up songs, and he also nailed our First Dance number which was two songs back to back while we did a little amateur choreography. It turned out great.
The only issue we had was that the bridal party introductions got out of sync, and the last few couples were introduced with the wrong names. After the wedding, our wedding planner, Anthony Navarro of Liven It Up Events (who is absolutely awesome by the way) told us he has never had this problem before with Okyne Media Lab. So it sounds like this is not a recurring problem with this group of DJs.
As for add ons, we did the satellite system for cocktail hour, which was a must have for our venue, and also some uplighting on the drapery which looked really nice once the lights went down (we were really on the fence about uplighting bc looking through countless sample pics, we thought the pinks and purples looked a little tacky. We chose amber colored lights and were happy with the warm feel.)
For future potential clients, i would definitely recommend these guys, my only suggestion would be to make sure you discuss the timing of introductions both with the DJ and also at the rehearsal so everyone’s on the same page.

So happy we chose Okyne for our wedding. From the very beginning Stacy and Al were helpful in creating the atmosphere we were looking for. We had rooftop dace party reception and wanted it to feel more like a nightclub than a typical reception. DJ Dan was excellent! He had the whole rooftop dancing their butts off, and without gimicky announcements or line dances. It was perfect!

The music was very important to my husband and I, especially during our reception. We wanted people to have fun. We wanted a celebration… one that everyone would enjoy. We had a consultation with Al of Okyne Media and we were very specific about wanting a DJ who could «read the floor.» You know when the DJ plays a dud, everyone leaves the floor, but he just keeps playing that lame song? Yea, we did NOT want that. We wanted a DJ who could keep our dance floor packed. We thought we were being picky and asking for the world, but Okyne Media delivered! We had the pleasure of having Randall DJ our wedding /​reception and he was PERFECT! I had a very classy jazz/“rat pack” theme during the beginning of the reception and throughout the dinner, but once it was time to hit the dance floor, Randall performed a seamless, natural transition to more current dance songs (people of all ages are still telling us how much fun our reception was). I definitely recommend Okyne Media (especially Randall) because of their ability to listen to what you want and make it happen in the best way possible.

A month before our own wedding my husband and I attended another wedding that also had Okyne Medialab as their DJ. We weren’t sure if it was the music selected by the couple or the DJ himself but the music did not keep the dance floor active at all. Therefore, as our wedding day approached we were a little worried about how our dj was going to turn out. A week before we spoke to Al and told him about our experience. He did say that that DJ admitted he was struggling a little that night trying to engage the crowd. Thankfully, we had another DJ assigned to our wedding. DJ Jesse. He was AWESOME! The dance floor was full all night from 8pm until midnight. He played to the crowd and mixed in songs that he knew would keep the party going. That’s one major difference between him and other wedding DJs (not just from Okyne) that is significant — he MIXES the songs & uses smooth transitions. He didn’t just play a record, wait to the end, and then play another one. He was actually working — dropping the beats like a pro. LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! The music was so good that every time I decided to head to the restroom my «song» would come on and I’d forget to go. Good music was important to us and DJ Jesse delivered. Thank you!

Hired Okyne for our wedding and had DJ Rob. We had a Serbian-​Irish wedding, and our music requests included traditional Serbian and Irish, pop country, and classic rock.
With the limited guidance we gave Rob, we could not have been happier. First and foremost, the dance floor was thriving all night. Second, he took the limited direction we gave and played other songs that our guests complimented us on (which we took the credit for of course lol). Third, he was classy and a professional, which was refreshing and comforting to us as we enjoyed our wedding night.
A final note… due to the timing of our meal we had to be flexible with when the toasts would occur. We asked Rob to go with the flow and present them at the logical time, and he handled it perfectly. It all played out as if it was perfectly planned, and he did not rush any of the speeches or cut off any of the impromptu good times.

They are the jam. I’m a fellow wedding vendor in the industry (
shameless plug) so know how important it is to have a great DJ. It can honestly ruin your whole event if they are not on point, as they help to direct the flow of the whole reception and sometimes ceremony. You want someone who knows weddings, LIKES weddings and cares about their clients. Al and his team represent all 3 of those things. I’ve worked 20+ events with him and his team and am always impressed by them. Al and Stacy have become great friends of mine and we share many of the same traits in how we operate. I see first hand on a regular basis how much they honestly care about their clients, their DJ’s as well as the relationships they have with other vendors. I have now hired his team for my own company launch party, for my studio managers wedding and we even are such a big fan of them that we flew them out to Hawaii for my sister’s wedding because they are just that good. They run a great business, a great squad of Dj’s and are just great people and trust me, when it comes down to your wedding day, you want vendors that are invested and care about you and giving you the best experience and I have seen them deliver all of this time and time again. Client for life. Friend for life.

I just got off of a wedding consultation with Al via Skype. He was professional and the information he presented was very beneficial. It was reassuring to hear their DJs are involved in everything from coordinating the ins-​and-​outs of the ceremony all the way through the last song of the reception. My fiancé and I plan on using them for our wedding in May and look very forward to them making our wedding a day to remember!

Quite disappointing. we worked with Okyne at our recent reception. The DJ was stiff, refused to play popular song requests that strayed from our list (we gave NO direction to stick to our list). I could have set up iPod up and had a better DJ experience.
As I had just hired another DJ at a different event Okyne really stood out — as dud’s.
The DJ was dull, not energetic in getting the crowd moving… really just disappointing all around.

We really couldn’t be happier with our whole experience with Okyne. Alan was an AMAZING DJ, everyone I’ve talked to about the wedding loved the music. The dance floor was packed the whole night.

I can’t say enough nice things about my experience with Okyne Medialabs.
For starters, my wedding was logistically difficult as we were planning from the wedding from overseas. Stacy, Al, and our DJ Jonathan were incredibly accommodating through the entire process.
Since I hadn’t even seen my venue till 5 days before my wedding, they were able to make a number of last minute changes and, I feel, really went above and beyond my expectations as they made every effort to make our wedding day amazing.
Thank you again Okyne!

Okyne Medialab was 5-​star quality from the time we requested information through our wedding day. Stacy was extremely responsive to all of our questions and flexible in accommodating our appointment requests, especially since we were planning our wedding remotely. She provided all of the necessary details instrumental towards our decision-​making.
As soon as we met Al in person, we knew he’d be the perfect fit for our music needs for our wedding. Al has a fantastic personality, is very knowledgeable and professional, and helped us develop a great rapport with him from our initial meeting. Al was early/​on-​time for all of our appointments and on the day of, and asked very thorough questions about our venue logistics since it was a new venue for him.
We love how progressive Okyne is with using technology to manage our profile, timeline, song lists. We also hired Al to provide music for our ceremony; after only speaking with him for about 30 minutes during our venue walk-​through, the timing and coordination of every ceremony song was perfect during the ceremony itself.
They were very accommodating in enabling us to choose a playlist for our dinner music and adhered to our request for no song requests from our guests. As a result, Al helped create a perfect playlist that kept our guests on the dance floor throughout the night.
It a big help to us that Al has extensive experience, especially working with our other vendors such as photographer and planner. It also helped greatly that Al was more than willing to offer his services for no additional charge for another 30 minutes since our reception fell behind schedule.
Overall, we highly recommend Al & Stacy Okyne for any couple seeking first-​class DJ service for their upcoming wedding. It was worth every penny!

To update my initial review: I did speak with Al and he was very regretful and sorry that Okyne MediaLab did not deliver the great experience that was promised. He really is a great guy and it’s clear he views customer feedback as a valuable tool in his business. I wouldn’t let my review, or any other negative reviews, stray you from hiring them as your DJ.
Okyne MediaLab did additionally create a video montage of my wedding photos set to music of my choice. And they did a spectacular job! My family is obsessed with it! They were in tears when they watched it and it really is a beautiful creation and something we will cherish forever!

Al and Okyne Medialab are nothing less than amazing! The reception is the most fun part of a wedding, everyone just wants to dance and sing along to great music. Hiring Al Okyne as the DJ for our wedding was the best decision! The music mix was perfect so everyone stayed on the dance floor the entire night! Having Al as our DJ just made the night so much more fun! It also led to a lot of great dance photos of our guests having fun and getting crazy on the dance floor!
I booked Al at our first meeting; I could tell he was someone I would love to work with. My fiancé could not make the first meeting so Al suggested we meet up at a later time with he and his wife so they could get a feel for our personalities and music preferences. They are such much fun and great to work with!
We used their easy online system to provide to list out a handful of our favorite songs as well as some songs to avoid. It worked great because Al was able to get a feel for the types of music that we liked and what genres to play so that everyone would have the most fun and stay on the dance floor.
We trusted Al to tailor the playlist and keep everyone on the dance floor having fun! It worked perfectly. We received so many compliments from all of our guests on the music and that they just didn’t want to leave the dance floor! You could tell Al was also having fun being our DJ throughout the night!
We also hired Okyne to provide the uplighting as well as a Gobo icon image projection. I was initially nervous about everyone’s suggestion to use a soft amber uplight in the dining area (my colors were B&W). I told Al that I wanted the room to glow in a candlelight color, instead of the yellowish/​orange I’ve seen elsewhere. I originally thought that all white lighting might be better. I’m so glad that I trusted Al and Stacy as the uplights were perfect! They provided two different colors (dance floor area and another for the dining room area). The Gobo was an icon designed for us to be used in all of our stationary, they made it look fabulous! Everyone loved it!
Overall, Al and Stacy were great to work with and did a fantastic job! They really went above and beyond to make sure that everyone’s names were pronounced correct, that they understood our music preferences, and that everyone had a blast at our wedding reception! I would hire them for any DJ needs and have referred my friends to them already! LOVE Okyne! They deserve 10 stars!

As has been said in a few other reviews, this company brands themselves as something special and over and above other wedding DJs, and they are not. Had they charged us the same as the others, I’d probably feel less disappointed in the overall experience, though there were still mistakes made, but the fact that they brand themselves as special and charge high amounts and then are at best average is the worst part.
We had decided that we were going to spend extra on the DJ because music was extra important to us for the wedding, and so we went with Okyne, who seemed a splurge, because they market themselves as higher-​end and better quality. In the end we got average at best, and felt upset that we had chosen to spend extra on this company when it was not at all worth it.
From when we signed, I started to be disappointed in the lack of communication. Often I had to email two or three times to get a response (though not so when they were trying to sign us) and meetings were extremely hard to set up. The office staff is just generally very unresponsive. Al is good when you do get to talk to him, but the rest of his team is not great.
I also felt like I was doing some of the work when it came to finding songs or solutions and suggesting ways to do things that I had seen other DJs do. For my friends’ weddings their DJs went to forums to find these songs or suggested these solutions, and here this was another task I had to do.
We had a list of ethnic songs we wanted played and when I emailed them to Okyne (and then had to follow up 3 times to check if they got them), I was finally told they did. I thought, great! Well at the wedding when my mom asked the DJ to play one of those songs he said he didn’t have it! This was the only song my parents had requested for our wedding as it was their song at their wedding, and she ended up upset in the middle of my wedding and I had to deal with her instead of enjoying my own wedding. Not something I felt like I should be doing when I had spent hours communicating with Okyne about our songs, the links for them, the order to play them in, and then confirmed three times. What a waste of my time.
Needless to say I felt like I didn’t get my money’s worth with this company — one of the only disappointing vendors we worked with for our wedding!

I got married on July 13 and Okyne Media Lab is pretty much as good as it gets. Let me count the ways…
From my first point of contact with Okyne via email, they are so PROMPT with replies which is key when planning a wedding since there are emails flying around to multiple vendors simultaneously.
The contract is SIMPLE, and puts a bride and groom’s minds at ease with how they don’t lock you into a certain number of hours. And I found from my experience on July 13 that they live by that because as midnight approached, DJ Alan reiterated that he would go on for as long as we’d like.
Their prices are VERY REASONABLE in comparison to other places. Plus they offer services such as up-​lighting and video which I couldn’t use due to a preferred-​vendor issue with our venue but would have loved to because they’re the most inexpensive in town.
Okyne’s ORGANIZED process was one of my favorite parts. They have an online tool that helps you plan the music for your wedding and a timeline so that your DJ is on the exact same page as you and you don’t have to worry about a thing the day-​of. Then a week or 2 before your event you have a call to go over the music requests and timeline and they help you with questions and give suggestions. Once again putting your mind at ease in a potentially stressful time.
Lastly, the actual DJ service was just BRILLIANT. We had a big mix of young and old guests which can cause issues with what songs will get people out dancing, and it was the perfect mix that kept the dance floor filled. Our DJ was so professional, read the crowd from minute to minute, and his experience in this business was so evident. Everything ranging from the songs he played to get the dance floor going, his announcements that we asked for, keeping the party going inside while there was fireworks display outside, his reaction when we had an unfortunate medical emergency with one of our guests, to closing down the night, I couldn’t have asked for more.

Planning a wedding is a stressful task. And one of the hardest things to do in the process is choosing your wedding vendors. It has to do with what you envision for your wedding, what your budget can handle, and who you can trust to deliver the final product. My husband and I were so careful to make sure we had at least three choices for each vendor, so we could compare and contrast and make sure we made the right decisions. And honestly, that is also why these review sites are so important — so you can hear first hand from other people’s experiences. Fast forward to our wedding day… of course, we were stressed beyond belief and didn’t have time to worry — we had to have complete faith in who we chose for each piece of the puzzle to complete the day. And of course, it is inevitable that things will go wrong on your wedding day…
That being said, DJ Matt (and the whole Okyne team) was one of the best vendor decisions we made! Of course, there were multiple issues that went down at the wedding, but Matt was calm and collected, and tried to help us out as best he could. He would update us as much as he could to make sure we weren’t too stressed out about everything that was going on. And I knew I could count on him to check up on things for me when needed. He was so easy to work with, and when we finally got to the ‘fun’ part of the night — where there were no more worries and you could just let loose — he definitely did a wonderful job mixing up the tunes to please the whole group, both young and old. He had a great attitude and really was a nice guy! You felt like he wanted to be there and help you with your wedding!
And besides DJ Matt, working with Al and Stacey was also a fantastic experience. They are excellent in responding to emails and following up, which is not the case for many of the other vendors I worked with. They even followed up after the event to make sure everything went well.
The only thing that we weren’t crazy about with Okyne is you cannot meet your DJ before you book. While we do understand why, it was just a little risky for us not to know who we’d be working with before we sign on and put money down. We basically had to trust that we would get along with the DJ and that he would understand us. We got really lucky with DJ Matt– we know that Okyne tries to match you up with someone they think would be a good match based on both personality and musical tastes. So they did a great job with that, even though we were pretty nervous!
I would definitely recommend Okyne for a professional DJ service who can rock it out on the dance floor. You can tell from the first sales meeting… they have been doing this for awhile, they are experienced and they are good at it! You knew you could trust these guys to pull off a great event!

If I had a billion dollars, I’d buy out Okyne and have them DJ my every evening.
But I don’t, so I merely had them DJ my wedding. You should do the same. We received mountains upon mountains of complements for our wedding, and we would not have been so blessed without Okyne.
From first glance to wedding night, Okyne was a dream. Okyne’s owner Al is simultaneously professional and laid back, and in our first meeting he effectively demonstrated his DJ’s capabilities via laptop. A significant selling point to me — which all of you newlyweds should consider — was an ability to mix music; and he did so effortlessly.
Furthermore, and this is quite important, his company has a highly usable interface for searching and selecting songs for every stage of your ceremony. This functionality was unique among other wedding DJs we considered. This was a big selling point for us and we chose Okyne based, in part, on this functionality. It gives you a massive amount of control for your wedding, and provides a framework for thinking about how your evening should sound.
As our wedding date neared, our instincts were our reward. Al paired us with a DJ based solely on our initial conversations with him, and he was quite wise. Our musical requests for our wedding were quite specific, but our DJ, Matt G, instantly understood our plan for our wedding — New Orleans Jazz for the ceremony, followed by the American songbook and Southern blues for the cocktail hour, ambient techno for dinner, and then alternative dance for the reception. Music truly is my life; I had a vision, and Matt turned it into a reality that my guests, to my continuing humility, complement my wife and I today.
Whatever vision you may have for your wedding, I am confident Okyne can do the same for you. Have a wonderful life together, with my complements.

Where to begin?! We had the most amazing and fun wedding reception and Al is a big part of it’s success… best wedding DJ ever!
Their website is so user friendly and I love that we had our wedding consultations via Skype. I wish more of our wedding vendors used this technology. it saves us all a trip on busy weeknights!
Not only was he a great DJ but he also took care of us that night. keeping us posted on how on track we were on our timeline (intros, speeches, dances etc.)…he was on top of everything and we greatly appreciated it!!!
Our entire group of guests danced from 9:00pm-12:00am…including this bride and her groom. :) We gave him an idea of music we liked. but overall trusted him completely with his choice of music. He IS an expert and you can tell he loves what he does! Don’t think twice… and book Okyne Medialab for your wedding… your guests will also name your wedding reception as the most exciting & fun celebration they’ve ever attended!!! :)

My close friend and I were getting married within weeks of each other, so we ended up doing a lot of researching and planning together. She found Okyne, and I’m glad she did. She contacted them and negotiated with them. When I decided to inquire as well, they gave me a similar deal. Basically it’s their normal package, but they were willing to throw in some extras that I really wanted (monograph, uplights, use of projector for a slideshow) but couldn’t fit into budget. They are easy to work with and very professional.
My DJ was Alan– he was great. Very sweet and professional. I think they were a great value and they helped make the night go smoothly. Thanks guys!