Planning
The part you feel on the night.
Almost everything that makes a wedding evening work happens weeks before it. Here is exactly how that goes — and, more importantly, how little of it you have to carry.
Seven steps
Most of it happens without you.
This is the whole process, start to finish. Your part of it is a conversation, a few decisions about music, and one meeting near the end. The rest is Daniel’s.
You get in touch
Your date, your venue, and anything you already know about the evening you want. If Daniel is free, you will hear back properly — not with a price list attached to a template.
A proper conversation
A call, or a coffee if you are nearby. What kind of wedding is this? Who is coming? What would make the night feel like yours, and what would make it feel like somebody else's? Most of the useful information comes out here.
You book, and then you can forget about it
A booking form, a deposit, and a date held. From that point the evening is being thought about by someone other than you.
The music takes shape
Your first dance. The songs that have to be played and the ones that must not be. Anything your guests have contributed. This happens gradually, in your own time, not in one exhausting sitting.
The practical side gets handled
Access times, power, where the booth goes, how the room turns around after dinner. Daniel speaks to your venue and to your other suppliers so that you do not have to relay it.
The final meeting
A few weeks out, everything is confirmed together: the running order, the announcements, the moments that matter and exactly how each one will be handled.
The evening
Daniel arrives early, sets up before your guests see any of it, and takes responsibility for the rest of the night. Your job is to enjoy it.
You should never have to DJ your own wedding.
Some couples arrive with a spreadsheet of two hundred songs. Some arrive with three. Both are fine. What matters is that Daniel knows what has to be played, what must never be played, and enough about the two of you to fill everything in between — and then takes the decisions on the night so you do not have to.
If you have specific questions about music, timings or your venue, most of them are already answered in the questions couples ask.