Selecting The Right Type of Music For Your Wedding.
By Tim Hazelwood

For your wedding dance, the importance of music is second to none. It can make your guests happy, sad or even miserable. Your choice of music and who plays it can make your party unforgettably good or bad. Here are a few tips that we have developed over the years to make your wedding dance the success that it should be.

1)With the right band your party can be a major "bash", however, most bands take more breaks than they play music and your party will take on the feel of a concert. A concert atmosphere is a great way to socialize and listen to music if most of your guests have traveled long distances and have not seen each other in years. If you still want to have your "bash" this may not be the option for you. Hiring a band can be very expensive and a band is a group of artists that have their own preferences for the way they play the music and what it sounds like.

2)The next option for music is hiring a professional DJ service. Talk to people you know, see who they like but keep in mind music is a very personal thing and impressions of a DJ service can be greatly different from one person to the next.

Other tips:

Book your party well in advance.
Decide early if you are going to have special dances, or other events during the night of your party and let the DJ know. The DJ can ad-lib most of the time but faced with the seventh unscheduled interruption he/she may not be so receptive.
A lot of DJ services also offer more than just music, they offer lighting, sound effects, and talented personalities that can make your party more enjoyable. Ask them what they offer for their price.
Make sure the service uses a contract, this way they cannot back out of the agreement if they should get a better offer.
Make sure the company has backup systems in place should anything fail on the night of your party.
Do they play requests?
Check references.

3) There is also the option of hiring someone you know with a stereo to play some music for you. This sometimes is effective but often the person has no training as a DJ, comes to your wedding in a T-shirt and jeans, and has only a limited supply of music. I have heard many horror stories of a young couple hiring a DJ like this and having their dance ruined by the incompetence of the "person I know with a stereo". Believe it or not, this happened at my wedding, and that is one of the main reasons I entered the DJ Profession.

Tim Hazelwood
Acclaim Music Email : acclaim@efni.com
Mall Email : prodj@prodj.com