We just had our wedding yesterday & were so disappointed/frustrated w/ Jukebox Jeff. We met w/ him…read moretwo days before the wedding to go over the itinerary & upon leaving, thought, "he's on it, this will be great" (other than him having my name wrong). Ended up being a total shit show from start to finish. He had told my fiancé he had deejayed there before, but when he got there, he acted like he didn't know where he would set up. To be fair, our ceremony was down in a grassy area, our reception was inside, and our cocktail hour/dancing was outside so he tried to find a central area to set up. Beyond that, our issues were: 1. Didn't start the music on time so we had to skip over a song so we didn't go over schedule. 2. He had said he'd fade songs out & then start the next ones so it was a smooth transition, but he just starkly cut them off & there was awkward silence while we waited for the next song to begin. 3. When he did start songs, he would stop it right away & then begin again (almost like he was testing to make sure he was playing the correct one). 4. While we were getting our pictures taken during cocktail hour, I had to send my brother up to tell him to play background music during that time (that was after 15 minutes in of no music being played). 5. When the food arrived, we told him to make the announcement for everyone to head into the reception & find a seat. He made the announcement, but failed to tell people to wait to eat (not entirely his fault, as people should have some etiquette & know not to eat before the wedding party). We were waiting to be introduced during this time & had to keep waiting because people weren't really listening to him (he could not get/hold their attention ). We had to tell him to make the announcement that no one should be eating yet & he took forever so my husband & myself had to go total groom/bridezilla on the guests. 6. Before he introduced the bridal party, he made some announcements about where the restrooms were & how there was no smoking inside the building. That wasn't a problem. HOWEVER, what was a problem was when he added, "I don't care if you smoke & I don't care what you smoke, as long as it's outside." Sooo unprofessional! 7. When we were finally announced, once again, he started, stopped, & restarted our walk-in music. 8. For our first dance, my husband & I stood there waiting for him to finally cue up the music. 9. After our dance, the bridal party was supposed to be announced to go get our food...our photographer had to tell him to do that. 10. The family table was supposed to be dismissed next. We had told him when we met with him two nights prior, that it would be the table closest to the food tables with the reserved sign...he tried to dismiss the tables furthest from the food & the whole bridal party had to point to the table he was supposed to dismiss. He still wasn't listening & once again, our photographer had to clue him in. 11. Father-daughter dance: started song, stopped, restarted. My dad actually said, "Where the hell did you find this guy? He's terrible." 12. Mother-son dance: same thing. 13. Cake cutting: played the song we wanted for that BEFORE we cut the cake rather than during (also, he did the whole start, stop, restart thing again). 14. Bouquet toss: same as number 13 15. Garter toss: same as 13 & 14 16. I wanted to just be done with all the traditions & get on with just music/dancing because you can't mess that up right? Wrong...he didn't play any new hits. It was just one cheesy cliche song after another. I was totally good with Cupid Shuffle, Wobble, & heck even the Chicken Dance, but then he freaking played the Hokey Pokey...really?! Then there was one slow song & that was pretty much it. Most of our guests left early because they were bored to death (and yes, we had alcohol). 17. It started raining & we were actually thankful we had to do our sparkler send off early. We ended our wedding at 8:45 (wasn't supposed to be over till 9:45-10). Long story short: We wish we had just saved the money and played our own music off of Spotify.
