Along with my hair trial and DIY bouquet trial a couple of weekends ago, I also met with a good friend of mine from college who will be our DJ at our Saturday evening reception. We went over the basic flow of the evening including which formalities we’ll be including (toasts, first dance, father/daughter dance), which formalities we’ll be skipping (bouquet/garter toss, dollar dance, any unecessary cake smashing), what songs I’d like to avoid (ALL group dances including but not limited to the electric slide, YMCA, and the macarena) and what songs I’d love to hear. For the last few months I’ve been bookmarking YouTube videos of songs as I hear them and get excited. My collection is completely random, but these songs are always guaranteed crowd movers among the party animals in my family. I’m hoping our playlist will include at least some of these sure crowd pleasers.
Completely random? Possibly. Completely fun? You bet your dancing shoes it will be! What about you – do you have any songs you’d love to hear at your reception?
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Hi! Is your DJ friend a professional DJ with professional equipment? We are thinking of having our music guru friend DJ our reception with an iPod. Is this crazy talk, or are you comfortably marching down that same path?
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Hey Becky! My friend is pretty much a professional DJ (used to be a side gig during college and now it’s a part time thing in addition to his full time job), but with that said – had he not been up for it, finding a willing friend to run an ipod was my backup option. And, for our Friday night cocktail party we’re going with an ipod to keep it simple. If your friend loves music and is up for it, I’d say you should go for it and maybe just pack an extra ipod and backup CDs in the event of ipod malfunction.
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