Photography & DJ Details

We recently had a few details we need to sort out with our photographers and dj company.  The photography package we purchased from our photographers included credit towards a wedding album.  Shortly after signing the contract with them, they informed us that one of the matted albums was discontinued from their supplier.  Of course, it was the album we wanted, and none of the other albums interested us.  So they are doing "research" to see if they can find another supplier for the vertical matted album.  We found that most studios we visited offer the photo-book style albums instead of the traditional album.  While we both think those are pretty cool, we both want to go with the matted style for our album.  We'll keep you posted on that.

The DJ company with which we signed a contract has about 18 DJs on staff.  The first step is to sign a contract with them.  Then, every few months, they hold a "Meet the DJs" night, which is basically like a speed-dating for a DJ.  They have drinks and appetizers, and the purpose is to go around and spent 3-4 minutes with each of their DJs to ask them questions about their style and get to know them.  At the end, we were to write down our top three choices.

The whole event was about two and half hours.  This was great in theory  The problem is that most couples ended up spending 15-20 minutes with each DJ, which significantly cut down on the number of people you could meet.  We ended up being about half an hour late, and only had time to speak to about eight or nine DJs.  So we picked our three and that was it.  If you keep up with our blog, you know that the company we hired is the same one Steve and Kati used.  We met with their DJ, who has since been promoted to a salesperson and is now primarily a backup DJ.  While we liked the DJs we picked for the most part, we decided that we really would have preferred to use him.  We have the option to have him be our DJ, but it will cost us an extra fee to do so, and the jury is still out on whether we will go that route or not.