Andrew! You are amazing!…read more
We got married on August 29th at the Stillwell House downtown. We had interviewed several DJs before Andrew, none of whom really seemed to understand the eclectic and pretty much all over the place music selection we had in mind. We met Andrew at a coffee shop one night.
Now, we wanted December 1963 to be our first dance (you know, the Frankie Valli one). The DJ we had met with just earlier that day said she knew the song, and then asked me how it went and who it was by. My exact words to Andrew were, "We were thinking for the first dance December 1963. It's by Frankie Valli." Andrew responded with "Yeah it is!" and proceeded to sing it, while dancing, in the coffee shop. This is the moment I knew it was meant to be!
Andrew was open to our changes up until, like 16 hours before the wedding. Not that he became not ok with them. We added stuff to the toasts during the toasts and he was awesome! But we made changes to our playlist until hours before and he just snapped his fingers (I think...we told him over the phone so I don't know for sure), and it was done!
He listened to everything we wanted, and came up with some great suggestions too! We wanted old timey music when people were entering (think Oh Brother! Where Art Thou), my bridal party was going to walk down to Bruno Mars, I walked down the aisle to Train, we all walked back up to Pharell, we wanted Reggae, Jaco Pastorius, heavy metal, bluegrass, '50s, 60's, Disney, contemporary and jazz played during dinner, we were "introduced" to our guests to The Beatles, our first dance was Frankie Valli, my father and I did our father-daughter dance to Zydeco, had progressing dance music (starting with the '50s going up to present day in chronological order) for the actual dancing part of things, and, finally, our last dance was Frankie Valli. None of this phased Andrew even a little bit.
He was able to change things as we went, and we felt like he truly, really listened and understood what it was we wanted. Andrew really made our wedding a special event, and helped us create a beautiful memory that we get to hold onto forever.