Wedding DJs who play everything

How to pick one, when they all look good on paper

Every profile here lists genres, and genres are the least useful thing on the page. Most of this roster can play most of it. What actually separates them is what they do when a floor starts to thin at half eleven, and whether they will take a mic and hold a room together or would rather stay behind the decks and let an MC do it.

So the questions worth asking are duller than they sound. How many events are running, and does one DJ cover all of them or does the roster rotate? Nobody reads a floor well on night four having played the previous three. Is there a live act, dhol or a playback singer, and who is responsible for the handover in and out of it? That handover is where most wedding nights lose their momentum, and it is a rehearsal question, not a talent one.

Our honest view: the DJ matters less than the pairing. A brilliant open-format DJ in front of a crowd expecting three hours of bhangra is a bad night for everyone. Tell us the guest list, the languages in the room and roughly when you want it loud, and we will put forward two or three names and say why. If the one you want is booked we say so, rather than sending someone else and hoping. You can see the rooms they have played in the portfolio and on the destination weddings.