DJU Productions / DJ’s Unlimited

This would be a negative amount of stars if the category existed. For my daughters wedding, we contracted with DJU at the Bridal Extravaganza. They were a preferred vendor for our venue, and had tons of great reviews on the web. We had a face to face meeting 5 months prior to wedding with Guy. He told us to get song choices in right away as Dj’s were assigned on first come basis, and based on fit for type of reception. A month prior to wedding, no assignment. Told would be done two weeks prior, not to worry, he had requested a Top DJ for us. Two weeks prior, told delay in assignment due to someone being out in vacation. Finally, just a few days prior to wedding (less than a week) we get assigned, and the DJ ask for our song list? It was sent no less than 5 times. The night of event, while setting up, the manager of the venue tells him his sound tests don’t sound right. He basically says «it is what it is» and doesn’t try to correct. When the bride/​groom go to enter the room, he tells everyone to stand and turn around… So, guests are turned backwards when bride/​groom enter. His sound is garbled, no one can understand anything he says. As a MC, he was completely useless. To add further insult, he begins playing dance music during dinner, when entire playlist for dinner was coffeehouse style music. Even though the groom pulled the email with list up, this guy just couldn’t get it. There were «must plays» throughout the evening, you guessed it, they never got played. I would never consider using DJU for anything, ever. I sent an email right after event, told them honestly that their services were the only service I was disappointed with, and why. That was a week ago. No phone call, no return email. Do yourself a favor, look elsewhere for a DJ. For a wedding reception, they cannot be trusted to deliver.

I hired DJU for our wedding. We needed a basic DJ, but nothing too fancy. Looking around it was one of the best prices for what I needed. They did not try to upsell me all sorts of other junk they had (although at the bridal extravaganza, I thought they were a bit aggressive). Since they were a preferred vendor, it was great that they knew exactly what they needed for my venue (Briscoe Manor). They were on time, professional, dressed appropriately, and email responsive. They checked and double checked the song selections for intros/​first dance/​father-​bride dance/​groom-​mother dance/​cake cutting/​bouquet toss. They played all the songs we wanted and kept everything on schedule.
Criticisms: (1) they kind of garbled the wedding party introductions. Totally skipped a groomsman/​bridesmaid pairing. Not a huge deal. (2) Music mix was great until later that night (the «dancing» part); the mix of music was a bit… umm schizophrenic. I’m not sure if it’s because I banned Ke$ha (barf) or other favorites like electric slide and YMCA, but the music switched from dance mixes to slow songs really fast. Not a huge deal for me because half the guests were outside enjoying the weather, and others were messing around in the flipbook booth. (3) You don’t find out who your DJ is till the week of, and by then, you can’t remember who you met with and what you told them originally.
Overall, DJU did a great job, and followed the planning sheet to a T. I have recommended them to my other friends.

I went to a wedding last night at Kim Son in downtown (11/​12/​2011) and the wedding had a photo booth provided by DJ U Productions. Let me tell you, the person manning the photo booth in charge of the station was AWFUL. He was very rude. I asked him if we could keep both pictures and this is what he said verbatim (in a rude tone), «The bride and groom is supposed to keep one copy, but I honestly don’t really care.» The rest of the night, he did not smile once, was not friendly at all, and was just on his cell phone most of the night. I see that this company has great reviews for their DJ services but if you were looking to rent a photo booth, I’d go to someone else or a different company. You do not want to risk having someone RUDE and OBNOXIOUS interacting with your wedding guests. It just puts your guests in a bad mood and not wanting to use the photo booth that you pay big bucks for.