It depends…but just in case always have your cocktail hour/dinner playlist ready to fade up.
The last wedding I did the wedding party did the grand entrance then immediately went into first dance (no filler music in between). Then they ate dinner, then did “special dances” after dinner. So I played my cocktail hour/dinner playlist during that down time.
The one before that they did all of their dances (first, father/daughter, mother/son) right in a row. I didn’t play anything in between. Just made the announcements.
If there’s ever a time where there’s longer than a 1-2 minute gap, just bring your cocktail hour mix back in ever so slightly. It will save you from awkward silences.
You play nothing.
Because there will not be a gap.
Because before the first dance, you will pre-stage the Father of the bride, and Mother of the groom right next to the dance floor.
Because when the first dance is over, the groom to escort the bride to her father, and pass his new wife to her father.
Because you told him to do that ahead of time.
Right…??? 
Doing logistics tomorrow at the rehearsal. This wedding is going to be a little different since I’m an actual groomsman also. I really need to learn how to emcee >_>
However, for cocktail/dinner, I’m just gonna have a itunes playlist and use the remote app on my iphone. Then once first dance, father/daughter, etc starts I’m on decks for the remaining 2.5 hours
Im pretty much just gonna let entire songs play out :X
Starting to get those nervous jitters :x
That’s means you’re ALIVE! Have a great set.
OK…how’d it go? Any lessons learned you can share with everyone?
Wedding is tonight, I will let everyone know how it goes! All my gear is set up, I have use a mic though and MC, but first time for everything!
When is this wedding? I have a playlist of about 40GB that I use at every wedding. I can give you an excel copy of the list, but it would take you forever to download all the music, and cost you a lot of money to purchase.
So wedding was a success. Since I was a groomsman I was able to mingle with people during dinner and what not. I let it slip that this was my first wedding and people were like during be nervous you’ll do a great job. Throughout the wedding I had people coming up to me saying awesome job, great job keep it up, etc. Note this crowd was much much older so my dance floor would have periods where it was completely empty, then I’d drop a song and people would hop on. Since it was older folks they preferred to sit and chat, DO NOT get discouraged if this happens. They’d get up for one song and immediately sit down. People are still listening to the music you play even if they aren’t dancing.
I also tried something I’ve never done before. I used Spotify along with my tracks (incoming wtf are you doing). It worked wonders, a lot of old people were requesting songs that I didn’t happen to have but I was able to pull up ANYTHING.
I kept everything simple, I’d let songs fade out and go to the next one since I was hopping all over the play BPM wise, granted at the end of the night when all the old people left and there were a few younger people left I went into Top 40 mode and was blending.
I had a guy give me 20 bucks because I was able to play a slow song for him and his wife to dance too, (a lot of other couples danced along also which was cool). It was a Boys Like Girls Song ft Taylor Swift, good song for the collection. Thank you Spotify!
In the beginning I wanted children and parents to get up and have some fun so I played, I Gotta Feeling, Raise Your Glass, Aaron’s Party, some T Swift, and Call Me Maybe, and so one and so on. The floor stayed packed and till I got a shit ton of “old people music request” and shifted over. Oh well.
The photographer was a friend of a friend and was like hey man do you have a business card, I do some weddings and some people need DJs. We exchanged cards. Networking!
Overall it was a great experience trying something out of norm, however, weddings really aren’t my thing. I prefer club/bar djing and getting people crazy with house music. Granted I’m still pretty young, 22, but this may be something for when I’m older.
Awesome!!! Glad to hear it went well and it sounds like you could parlay it into more gigs with the photographer(if that’s what you want). I figure, if you make enough money doing a wedding or 2 to pay for gear or software then everyting after that is gravy.
Annnnd I already have a teenage girl from the wedding friend me on Facebook wtf I didn’t even talk to her lol
Check her ID first, my friend. 
My thing is that I’m horrible at MCing, I just don’t have “that voice” and that kind of deters me. I spoke a little for the wedding tonight, but I didn’t really enjoying doing it. I have a bit of a speech impediment where words tend to slur a bit so I had to talk really carefully which I’m not a fan of
Lol she’s like 14 and has a Marilyn Manson cover page >_> He’s still relevant? What.
Nice work, buddy. No sweat, right?
Spotify is my crutch too. It’s impossible to have everything people like, way to be resourceful.
No sweat! Got a bit bored in the middle though with the old folks tunes
Please don’t tell me the “old folks” tunes were 70’s & 80’s tunes. 