entertainment :: Fox DJ Entertinament

BinkyBride2B - 04/12/2006 Poor
For someone that came highly recommended to me from the girls here, I was very dissappointed. Janelle was my assigned DJ. In the beginning, she was hard to reach. The office told me things that made it seem okay that she was hard to reach (one of her good friends just died, etc.) so I didn't put much into it. On the day of the event, She showed up on time and set up and had the music going in the background. The bridal party introductions also went well, but everything after this part was awful. I know that at a chinese banquet, a lot of the time is just people sitting around eating the ten courses. So I didn't mind much that she would dissappear, but whenever I needed her, she couldn't be found. When we started the table visits, the music was up a little high so we couldn't hear anybody. Didn't know the level was a problem until this point in the reception. I wanted to get the music turned down, but she wasn't anywhere to be found, so we just worked with the noise level. The DJ area was put up on a stage and unfortunately I've got a lot of little nieces and nephews that loved to jump up and down on the stage. Guess it didn't bother her any, but it did worry me that the kids were going to knock over the DJ booth. But, she was also never next to the booth to watch over it to make sure the kids didn't knock anything over. Nothing bad happened, but that was one less worry I could have gone without. The big problem of the night though was right before the cake cutting. After the table visits, she came over to check on us (btw, this was her first check-in!) and see if we needed anything. At that time, we were doing fine and when she said she was going to step out really quick to get a drink we said that was fine. Well, within 5 minutes after she left, for various reasons I won't go into, we had to do the cake cutting, toasts, etc. right away. Well, once again we couldn't find her. My DOC was calling her cell phone, my photograher went outside and walked the plaza but she was no where to be found. Luckily, my friends are also technologically adept and know how to work a DJ booth so he just went up and to her booth, switched off the music, turned on the mic and took over. Unfortunately he's not a professional DJ so he couldn't Emcee the event and it wasn't that great. Janelle didn't re-appear until a good 15 minutes later when my DOC finally reached her. And then she never apologized or said anything about where she disappeared to. After she got back, she then handled the bouquet and garter toss and opened the dance floor. When it got close to 11pm, we had to end the night so my DH went over to her and said we needed to stop soon. She said she had just a couple more songs lined up and that would be the end of it. Well, one of her songs was Golddigger. My DH told her not to play that one. We didn't put it on our do not play list originally since we didn't think she would play a song like that anyway. Well, Janelle told him okay and she would play something else instead. But wouldn't you know, she played it anyway. All in all, she really didn't do much more than play music, something we could have done with an ipod and some speakers. Whenever she was active, I could tell she was good. but she was just too hard to reach and gave me huge headaches on the day of the wedding that I can't recommend her to someone else.