The Music Boyz

They were great, Mark was a complete professional. Kept my daughters’ wedding flowing nicely, he knew just when to bring the mood up or down! Trish Jeager was our photographer, and was AMAZING, a total professional, very good at her job!!!

We used Music Boyz for my daughter’s wedding at the Old Lake County Courthouse in Crown Point. Eric was extremely easy to work with from the very beginning of the planning right down to the end of the reception. He has a great voice to MC an event; is very professional in both appearance and demeanor. He did music for both the ceremony and the reception. He was the first vendor at the courthouse that afternoon to set up. For the ceremony, my daughter, had him do about 15 seconds of one song to which he looped so it played over again without any problems. She had some pretty set ideas about what she didn’t want at the reception and he stayed true to that. People were dancing and having a great time all evening! When the shuttle bus was late bringing guests and we decided to delay the ceremony, he offered to go talk to the caterers. He actually worked it all out with them which took the stress off of us. This was going totally above and beyond! We are not from Crown Point, and this is our first daughter married, so we had no experience with DJ’s in the area. I would totally trust Eric and the Music Boyz for any event.

I used these guys for my wedding in Chicago, and they were great! The owner, Eric, is super nice and easy to work with. They have an awesome online planning tool on the website that makes it super easy to pick out songs and plan your reception timeline, etc. I was really nervous picking a DJ cause I’ve been planning my wedding music since I was like 10, and I knew exactly what I wanted– a lot of old school, non-​cheesy, not-​typical-​wedding songs and I wasn’t sure how an experienced DJ would feel about my need for total control LOL! But Eric and my DJ, Mark, were both awesome! like I said, you are able to go online and input the songs for all the traditional dances and intros, then you pick about 60 songs: 20 must-​play, 20 others you’d like to hear, and 20 don’t-play (which was cool, cause I wanted NO chicken dance, hokey pokey, wonderful tonight, love shack, barfy cliché wedding songs). I was also pretty adamant about the slow songs I wanted.
Mark did an AWESOME job of staying true to my list while also adding in some surprise songs that I hadn’t thought of but flowed perfectly with the songs I picked. He was also really good at reading the crowd and played stuff that got everyone involved. The dance floor was packed the whole night, my grandma line-​danced to Robin Thicke, and my husband’s aunt danced on the table to some Motown, so I’d say the evening was a success!
The prices were reasonable, and they had a lot of optional add-​ons like up lighting, slideshows, etc, which I didn’t use but it’s nice to know they are available.
Bottom line: I trusted the Music Boyz with the part of my reception that was THE MOST important to me, and they totally delivered! I would definitely recommend!

We hired The Music Boyz for our wedding in downtown Chicago. They were, in a word, excellent. We had our DJ, Eric, select the dinner music and we selected all the dancing music. His selection for dinner music was perfect — not loud or fast but not too slow. He played always-​great Rat Pack music like Sinatra and Martin and also played more recent artists.
As far as the dancing goes, Eric played all the songs we requested and blended them very well. We’ve probably all been at weddings where the transition from one song to the next was slow, choppy or just sounded awkward. But Eric did a great job of keeping the party going with smooth song-​to-​song transitions and people rarely left the dance floor for any reason other than to get another drink :) But they came right back and kept dancing. Also important: he did not play songs that we specifically designated as «do not play,» such as disco music (we’re just not fans of disco and, hey, it was our wedding so we get to choose). Additionally, the lights Eric used were great, which is important to setting up a good dance scene.
Finally, the pricing was great. Based on our research, multiple DJ’s charged a lot more than what The Music Boyz charged — The Music Boyz had the best price we found.
— T.J., Chicago