Wedding Blog
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Wedding DJ
I just found this article online, which I thought was interesting:
It’s a nice day for an iPod wedding
professional DJs charge an average of $600 per wedding. A live band can run upwards of $1,000. If a couple has already plunked down $300 or so for an iPod or an iRiver, and spent hours refining their digital-music collection, it’s easy to see why a DJ might seem superfluous.
“What could be easier?“ said Lori Leibovich, editor of IndieBride.com, a Web site for brides. “You bring it, you program it, it sounds great. It doesn’t surprise me at all that more people are doing it.“
We’re doing “an ipod wedding”, and forgoing a DJ of any kind. Our venue is small anyway, and a DJ with equipment would not only take up way too much space, but be way too loud. We have a powered speaker system on a computer that should kick out enough volume (or can buy one for a fraction of a DJ cost!), and that with an ipod will be very compact.
Also, between me, Beth and Lizzie, we should have more than enough music and taste to pick out a good long playlist.
And at the end of the day, this quote from a professional DJ seals the deal
“From a DJ’s perspective, the music is not for you,“ she writes. “You are not playing your favorite songs. You are playing songs people want to hear and that people want to dance to.“
She recommends sticking to crowd pleasers like “YMCA” by the Village People and “Whip It” by Devo.
If a DJ playing at my wedding doesn’t think the music is for me, and isn’t playing my favourite songs, and even *owns* YMCA (or anything else by the Village People) then I don’t want to be paying them $600 to deafen my friends and family!
Nope, it’ll be an iPod and Digicam wedding for us 