Beware! Out of over 500 reviews, I've only given a handful of poor reviews. I gave all the vendors…read moreat my wedding 5 stars except for Mike. As Mike has been in the business for 20 years and the glowing reviews on Yelp, WeddingWire, and the Knot, I made the mistake of booking him. Mike loves to march to his own beat and is extremely disorganized, ill-prepared, lazy, inattentive to details, unprofessional, outdated, lackadaisical, and quite frankly a bozo. While I was impressed by all of the vendors at my wedding, I was seething and cringing by Mike's countless mistakes. As other Yelpers have noted, Mike is highly skilled at mixing beats for Hindu/American fusion weddings and getting everyone to hit the dance floor. However, Mike caters to the crowd rather than to the bride and groom. There's "no magic", here are Mike's top 8 blunders which I confronted him at the end of my wedding night: #1: Using an old schedule that was 2 months old! After 3 phone calls with Mike and sending him a few revised schedules based on feedback that he provided, he used the 1st schedule that I sent him with wrong bridal party names, songs, and times! He neglected all of the changes that we discussed on the phone and failed to use the new schedule that I sent a week before the wedding like he requested. When 5 names are mentioned, but only 2 women and a man walk out to "Sister Sledge" playing, that's a blunder! #2: Missing Cues/Repeated stepping of glasses. My fiancee and I are highly private people and don't enjoy long kissing sessions in front of our parents and friends. We actually took out all kissing pics from our slideshow. During the reception, after a big frown and shaking of the head after the 1st stemming of glasses, Mike initiated and continued to round up the crowd for additional stemming of glasses. It got so bad that some of the bridal party members broke some of the glasses in retailation. The stemming of the glasses is a topic that I also wish Mike discussed with us before the wedding so we could have easily prevented this embarrassing mishap. #3 Announcing the grooms name first and then the bride's name. A big no-no! "Peter and Aarti Pruitt". Mike believes in men first, even at weddings. #4 Playing songs on the "Do NOT play list". I hate "Gangnam Style" with a passion and it was among the 20 don't play list. Not only did Mike happily play the song, but he refused to change the song when I asked him to! That wasn't the only one... #5 Begging for a Big Tip. Mike isn't shy about charging top dollar $3K and the audacity to ask my father for a big tip before the event! The bozo loves to overpromise and underdeliver. My dad was way too nice to tip him $200. As a firm believer of tips, I honestly would NOT tip him. #6: Trying to Upsell at the WRONG time. Mike and I had a couple of minutes before the reception started. Rather than using this crucial time to discuss making any last-minute changes to the schedule (ex. moving things up as we wanted to skip sunset pics due to the weather), instead Mike kept trying to repeatedly sell us on the dhol guy. I hate BHANGRA, why would I pay extra for it? #7 Forgetting to play the cake cutting song. I was looking forward to hearing my favorite Baby Love during the cake cutting, too bad I never got the chance to hear it! #8 Not taking full ownership. After confronting Mike about all of the blunders listed above, he kept deflecting and making excuses. Despite repeated emails and phone calls before the wedding, Mike was very ill-prepared and was "winging" it at the wedding with sheepish grins. While I appreciate Mike's apology for his mistakes in a follow-up email that he sent, he doesn't take away from the painful memories that I experienced due to his careless mistakes. He single-handedly ruined the reception. Not once did Mike make it about the bride and the groom, it was more of Mike's day and pleasing the crowd. If you want to make your day special, I recommend tuning him out and enjoying the beat of someone else.

Literally the BEST DJ in the area!! I've been to a lot of Indian weddings but by far he takes the…read moretrophy for getting the crowd rolling. He had a great mix of Indian and English songs which brought everyone to the dance floor! The ending of the night he went all out and got everyone together and we all danced away to a great beat! I totally recommend him for everyone! He will have your guests speak for days about your party !

Evan and the team kept our guests on the dance floor all night long! And guests young and "old"…read morehave been raving about it since. We also just loved Evan's energy. He got us so excited for the wedding at every meeting we had!

My husband and I got married in April 2023 and we hired Posh DJs for reception services including 4…read morehours of DJ music, dancing with clouds, spotlights, cold sparklers, and a traditional photo booth. We had a wonderful reception! JP was our DJ and he was personable, responsive to our emails and texts, and knowledgeable in answering our many questions! The music selection website was also easy to use and connect to our Spotify playlist. JP was easy to get along with and he was even kind enough to have a Tide-To-Go pen on hand and cleaned my wedding dress when I spilled chocolate sauce on it! The dancing with the clouds was amazing and elevated our first dance to look straight out of a fairy tale, and the sparklers shot out at the perfect moment of our lift. The traditional photo booth was more cramped than we expected, so if we knew the small size we may have opted for a different type of photo booth, but it seemed to not bother our guests and was a good size for fitting 4 people. We also love the photo booth souvenir book that Posh DJs prepared for us that was really clean and well-organized. JP did play all our must-play songs and songs from our "play if possible" list, and also did play the requested instrumental music during dinner. On the day of the wedding, we were worried that our guests wouldn't dance during reception so we let him know that we were okay if he played some songs off our list to get the crowd going. Later, we weren't sure if we should have given that direction since the first dance set had too many songs that we DIDN'T know. (My husband and I are not familiar with older songs, so we didn't recognize any of those songs in the first dance set). However, JP checked in with us after the first dance set and we asked him if he could play more songs from our playlist and we were happier with our second and third dance sets. We had discussed with JP during our final call that we wanted to do a napkin game to "raffle" off the centerpieces to our guests, but on the day before the wedding we had squeezed in last minute sparklers (we didn't think it was possible to light them since it was pouring rain, but we ended up being able to when the venue told us we could have sparklers on a covered patio), so in all the commotion we had forgotten about the napkin game and most of the centerpieces were left at the venue, which I wish we could have distributed to our guests. But overall, I am happy with Posh DJs and JP and thank you for contributing to our magical wedding!

It was fun! Don't know how they can determine who wins the games with so many folks on the Zoom…read moremeeting!

SUPER FUN! The host was great at keeping the energy up even over Zoom. Fun questions, good music,…read moreeveryone stayed engaged! I would recommend for future online parties! :)

Wonderful Party!!!!! I have used Ben and Create Excitement…read morefor work functions and he was always professional and reliable. Ben is a lot of fun to host the evenings festivities and we always know we will have fun and we have every year for the last 10 years! So it only made sense to reach out to Ben for the entertainment at my Husbands Surprise 60 Birthday Party. EVen when I has to change the date at the last minute and was so nervous Ben told me not to worry he would take care of me and boy did he, It was one of the best parties ever! Everyone was dancing on the dance floor the whole night. Greg the DJ was so accommodating and even came out to remind us all how to do the electric slide - Two days later we are still recovering from all the dancing. I highly recommend Create Excitement for your parties and we always be using them for our future events, work and personally - Thank you guys!!!!!

Ben is amazing and it's obvious that he loves to make party people happy! He is very proactive to…read moreget the playlist and the fun details in place and get the party thrower excited about the event! Very professional and "Creates Excitement"! We've loved his entertainment for several events and loved every moment!!

I used Exit Row Band once for an event I hosted after hearing them perform several times at town…read moreconcerts in New Jersey. They're a cover band that does a great mix of classic rock covers as well as new top 40 hits. What a great band! They were an absolute pleasure to deal with, everyone was extremely professional and on time. They took really short breaks and even played late because everyone was having so much fun. We had about 300 people and the dance floor was PACKED! All my guests were thrilled with their performance and didn't want it to end. If you're looking for high-quality music for a corporate event or a private function I highly recommend them!

Anyone who attended the GYE at Kean's Liberty Hall Museum had the opportunity to view, listen, and…read morejam to this cover band. I was one of those who did. This band performed hits from the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and now. If I was to summarize this type of playlist the band was performing, I would say "Hot Adult Contemporary". As soon as the attendees rolled into the event tent, the band started rocking away. They played a mixture of rock and pop hits throughout the entire event duration. That gave everyone the chance to view, listen, and even sing a long to their performances. What a way to bring great people together, Ed Z! The band was rocking so loud that we could even hear them outside when my friends and I went to the pumpkin patch and house to snap some photos. The original plan was for them to perform outside. But because of the rain, they had to perform inside. This weather-related change didn't hurt their spirit at all. In fact, they performed without even caring about the rain. This band no doubt has an edge over some of the other bands whom I encountered on my previous 25th cruise, which is based on their performance qualities and professionalism. Based on how they performed, it was quite easy for me to see and hear why they are always booked and only have a very limited amount of time for public events. For this case, the General Yelp Event was a private one. Overall, this is an excellent cover band, and probably the best one that I have ever heard. If you can catch them at a public event, then I recommend doing so. I also recommend booking them if you can.

While organizing a toy and clothing drive winter gala for a non-profit, I was tasked with finding a…read morephoto booth vendor. Having previously worked with Above All Entertainment for DJ services at my wedding, I noticed they now offered photo booths and decided to reach out. Mauricio was incredibly responsive and took the time to thoroughly explain their photo booth packages. The pricing was perfect, so we booked without hesitation--and the rest, as they say, is history. Our guests had an amazing experience! They enjoyed texting or emailing their photos instantly and loved using the AI and digital holiday-themed props. Above All truly exceeded expectations, and I'll definitely be reaching out to them again for our 2025 events.

Absolutely disgusting staff and customer service! Stay away at all cost!…read more While attending an all age event that commissioned Above All Entertainment to take photographs, my wife and I attempted to get our photograph taken (a service we paid in advance for). We were told with extreme rudeness that we missed a cutoff time (understandable, but the way we were spoken to was completely unacceptable) and that we would not be refunded. When I asked if I could at least take a photo with the event's backdrop (which they do not own) with my own phone, the co-owner, Melissa, met me with extreme rudeness. Her colleague, Shimmy, then spewed prejudice, racist comments, curses and threatened to physically assault me. The event coordinator and security ended up intervening on my behalf to address the staff. What was otherwise a perfect event was completely ruined for myself and my entire party that I attended with (including my wife who left the event in tears). This was an absolutely horrendous experience. I urge anyone who is considering this company for any event to stay away at all cost!

Made my sweet 16 so much better than i could've imagined. They adapted to the crowd and made sure…read moreto keep us dancing all night. Helped as a host, kept the energy going, and I'm so so grateful for everything.

The service was exceptional, paid attention to request on music. Our guest loved every bit of the…read moreentertainment provided. Arrived early. Would highly recommend and definitely would work with them again! You guys rock! Thank you

Where do we begin…read more.. We could not have asked for anything more on our special day! We are from Australia and were planning a wedding in NYC which is not an easy thing to do from the other side of the world. Rebell entertainment made the whole process and experience easy, drama free and FUN! It didn't matter what time of the day it was Damion would respond almost immediately even tho we are in complete different time zones. He went above and beyond even to the extent of helping out our other musicians on the night and doing so much more to help out with the whole night that not just any standard DJ would do. He really listened to us with the type of music we wanted at our wedding and played every specific song we had requested on our list. Our guests had the time of their lives on the dance floor and are still going on about how much fun it was. Damion even came the the venue early in the day, to set up equipment for us to use during the ceremony/before the reception as our venue was a blank canvas and therefore didn't come with any equipment. He even brought his own camera and took photos and video clips where he then put a short professional video together of our wedding and sent it to us one day after the wedding. We absolutely LOVED this. It always takes so long to get the photos and footage from the photographers and it was so nice to have something like that to watch straight after the wedding. We highly recommend Rebell Entertainment (Damion especially) to anyone and everyone. He caters to all your needs, has quality equipment, goes above and beyond, professional and has amazing energy! Rebell Entertainment will make your night! If we do another event in NYC we will most definitely be booking them again! Thank you so much for everything you did for us Damion!

I've been working with Damion, the owner of Rebell, to have him be the DJ at my Indian wedding next…read moreyear. So far, working with Damion has been very pleasant and very easy. He responds back fast and is very professional. I've done my research of DJs, and Rebell Entertainment gives you a top of the line rate! He suggests what will go well with your budget and the plan you envision for your big day, and works with you to come up with a package suited for you. For my big day it's important for me to work with someone who is personable, experienced and reliable; and so far it has been nothing but those. Looking forward to meeting him in person, as well as playing at the multiple celebrations for my wedding. More to come after the wedding! :)

What a great idea to have for a wedding, a sweet sixteen party, bar mitzvah…read more Julian from Majestic did such a great job with the photo booth at our Elite Yelp Event . The props were so much fun and added a great touch to my pictures. There were a great assortment to choose from. The booth was very comfortable and it only took several minutes from start to finish. Once we were done posing my pictures were instantly ready for viewing and to keep. I got a very friendly vibe and left the booth with a smile on my face. I would highly recommend this company to use for your next party!

Awesome photo booth for a wedding party or any other events. Choices of color, black and white and…read morevideo when taking photos and instant pictures... Went into a booth with my fiancé during an event and had a good laugh snapping pics in this one. It's something I would add to a wedding to entertain guests...