To party all night long!

I had a little trouble when it came to looking to pick a DJ. How do you find a good one? How do you know they are going to play good music and keep people dancing and entertained all night. At least when we were looking for a photographer I could go to their web site and see their work. Not a DJ. It is either word of mouth, someone you have seen, or take a chance on someone you have never heard of.

Final decision...Signature Sounds out of Rock Rapids, IA. We were able to see one of their DJs at my cousins wedding this May - Mike and Lyndsay's. We like him well enough, and the price was reasonable. Their dance went until 2 am, and people were still asking for more when he quit playing. We decided that had to be a good sign and we had a blast at the dance!

We are able have the DJ for 8 hours which includes light dinner music during the reception, mics for us to use for speeches, light show, and an awesome dance. The one thing we extra we decided to include with this DJ is a picture slide show of the dance. Two guys show up 1 takes care of the music and the other one takes pictures of the guests and everyone dancing and uploads them to a projector and a slide show plays all night. As new pictures are taken, the slide show gets up dated. At the end of the night we get a disc with all of the photos taken. So when a stranger comes around and asks to take your picture, smile you will be on the big screen soon!

We did talk to other companies, but either we were going to pay $1000 for a 4 hour dance, and anything and everything was extra. Other places we talked to were either booked on the day of our wedding, or the people we talked to really didn't appeal to us. Quite a few places had 14 different DJs on staff so you have no idea who you are going to get. I wasn't interested in leaving the dance up to total chance.

So there you have it. Now we just have to start putting together "Play" and "Do Not Play" lists and keep our fingers crossed the dance is a hit.