Look no more - Henry is absolutely amazing. Seriously. I'm not paid for this review - feel free to contact me if you're still deciding. We weren't going to have dancing, and thus weren't going to get a DJ. Then someone said "just talk w one, since it's really important to have someone flow and navigate guests, etc." In high yield form:
Wedding on 8/5/2012 - 8 hours of joy.
PROFESSIONALISM: Henry was early to all of our meetings, answered all of my emails within 2-3 days, sometimes a few hours later, had our timeline down sometimes in 15 minute intervals, was clear about what we needed to do, and took over when I was exhausted and didn't want to do anymore wedding planning.
COMPETENT: Our wedding had multiple moving parts, using different spaces/places. Henry had a unique gift of lightly commanding guests here and there, while not being loud or taking too much space.
DIVERSE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE: This man knows his music. Everything from "you know - that song? That Indian one? No, not the Slumdog one, the other one?" He knew almost every song we asked for. We got tired of choosing songs and just told Henry to fill in all the dance music, but to avoid the overplayed wedding stuff... he played awesome songs without the awkward ones that many DJs do.
ACCOMMODATING: We kept changing our minds about music, how involved (or not) we wanted to be - Henry was completely fine with us choosing every song, or none at all. He gave us a CD of songs, which we lost 3 times, and he kept sending them. We changed plans throughout - even up to the few days before, and it was no sweat for Henry.
GOES WAY BEYOND: Henry was basically our wedding planner. I feel very bad about relying on him so much, but he was just so over the top knowledgeable and efficient. Examples:
1. After our first meeting, he made an extremely detailed list, highlighting only the things we need to do (great for my husband who can't read more than a paragraph, and for me, who wants details).
2. After meeting with the venue manager, Henry also met with her and updated her, etc. so that I didn't have to.
3. We wanted a Korean ceremony, and needed a large (7ft x 7ft) screen. Henry offered to not only have the screen delivered to him, but then he went to the site, took multiple videos of where the screen would look best, went out and bought props to help support the screen, then helped set it up on the wedding day and organized w the caterer to take it after the wedding ?!!! This is WAY beyond what a DJ should do.
Guests actually asked us who the DJ was, and commented on how fantastic he was. Henry was by far the best part of the wedding planning and I'm so thankful that he was organized, available and so on-top of things, since planning can get overwhelming. read more