wedding music
Ok so a friend of mine has asked me to DJ at his wedding and I couldn’t be more excited. The age range is mostly 30-60 or maybe a little younger. The music I plan on playing is geared towards top 40 and dutch house. what music is recommended here? Any help on certain tracks would be great!
Thanks
DON’T play house music at a wedding - please.
agreed!
weddings are about the Bee Gee’s, disco and the cheesiest music ever that everyone refuses to admit they love, but gets em dancing every time.
+1
There may be an opportunity to play something bouncier at the end of the evening, but you really want to be hitting the Motown/Disco/Pop for the majority of the event.
Ask yourself - would a 60 year old have a good time at a party where high bpm Dutch House was being played?
Have you ever seen Raja Ram? He’s 70 and still does the full PsyTrance festival circuit. Just sayin’ ageism makes people look sort of uncool…and if you think a 60 year old dancing to high BPM Dutch House is uncool…you need new attitudes. 
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No, just no. I mean, you might be able to get away with some top 40, but as people get older they tend to stop being up with what’s in the charts.
This is all very well and good, and the OP might even be able to find an over-60 at this wedding who knows what Dutch House is. But playing Dutch House to a load of over 60s on this basis is a terrible, terrible idea.
OP - you need to find out exactly what Bridezilla wants you to play, and play only that. There’s a time to educate the audience in your exquisite taste in music, but a wedding isn’t one of them.
We edit posts to avoid making two or more replies. Just sayin’. <3
NO DUTCH HOUSE
Play current Top-40 and older Top-40 hits. Throw in some slow songs.
And don’t mix like you do in a club. This isn’t a club. I’m not saying trainwreck songs, just there isn’t any reason to do minute-long blends. Simple fade in’s and out’s.
this
And “you’re” more than welcome to carry on doing that
If “you” like
OK, 4 consecutive replies may be a little excessive
I’m assuming that this chap is the exception, not the rule?
People can dance to what the hell they want to - I didn’t say it was uncool for them to do so, I just really can’t imagine my Mum or my mother in law, both in their 60’s, enjoying a 4hr banging Dutch House set at a wedding - and my old dear is really quite open minded when it comes to music - I was playing her Flying Lotus & DJ Shadow the other day, but at the end of the day she prefers Steeleye Span and Cliff Richard
So this.
And when you’re looking for tunes to include and you find any that are borderline or just plain cheese shite. Get them. That’s what everyone else will be expecting to hear.
Having said that, and agreeing with all the other posts, I played my mate’s wedding a couple of years ago and didn’t play much cheese. A few obvious jokers, more for ironies sake though (Celebration, You’re The One That I Want, etc), and it was quite a mixed crowd. It was actually amazing, it was a boat party on the thames in oxford. Finished the party with ‘Baba O’reilly’ and had everyone singing along. Ah, memories…
Do you have your timetable worked out? Have you ever MC’d a wedding? Do you have table games ready that aren’t cheesey, but entertaining? Do you know what times to do first dance, mother/son, father/daughter, garter/bouquet, money dance, and in what order? Do you you have proper working wireless mics? What are you going to play when it’s not the last hour or two of the reception since house/top 40 don’t fit or belong during those times?
If you don’t have the correct answers for any of those questions or even have to think about them, you aren’t ready to do this, and you are putting yourself in a position to fail. Not only that, but potentially ruin the biggest day in the life of your friend, but 1000 times moreso, in the life of his fiance. Hope your ready to have a possible strain in that friendship.
That’s a great rule of thumb to be a shit wedding DJ too. Just because it’s what they are expecting doesn’t mean that’s what it should be. I learned several years ago that wedding DJ’s can play great music for that type of event, and cut out the cheese (for the most part) too.
I still recall this thread (see post by JimBob5000) as the point in my life where i said
Weddings? No thanks.