Just do it - hire Alan. He is a professional, experienced DJ & MC that provided excellent value at a fair price point. Alan came to us as a recommendation from a couple who previously had him as their DJ, and through a story of how Alan swooped in to save part of their wedding, we knew he would be a great choice. And we weren't wrong. Alan's process to prepare for our big day was thorough and thoughtful. Music and dancing wasn't a particularly big part of our day, given most of our guests weren't big dancers, but Alan's wealth of experience led him to provide value in other, much needed, ways. He advised us on the flow of our timeline, offered suggestions on the best photo opportunities, and integrated a clever way to get as many guests on the dance floor to start the night off right. What I saw in Alan, that I didn't see in any other of the 7+ DJs I talked to, was his ability to see himself as a part of the bigger picture and not "just a DJ." He wasn't just thinking about the music, but about where the guests were, how to flow from one activity to another, and the pacing to make the experience for the couple AND guests an incredibly memorable one. On the day of, we had to remain flexible with the timeline & Alan stepped in to coordinate with the vendors on real time, live changes. He was part of a handful of the vendors we hired that kept the event together. Alan was one of our BEST vendor decisions on our wedding day. read more

Working with Puget Sound DJ was a breeze. Dale and DJ Kelli are very professional and accommodating and understanding. DJ Kelli made our wedding super fun and was helping with every aspect of the wedding. We highly recommend working with them. Thank you guys. read more

Alan is a master in his field. He is the *perfect* wedding DJ. He has deep dived into furthering his education in event planning and public speaking. The best emcee you can get. He always gets people up and dancing and is an all around perfect professional. You won't regret working with him. read more

5+++ Stars!! Working with Alan from the Puget Sound DJ is by far one of the best decisions we made for our wedding this past weekend! Even in the beginning of our communications, Alan was always very prompt in answering our questions or concerns (we always heard back from him within 12 hours of sending him an e-mail, most of the time even earlier than that!). When we first had our initial meeting with Alan to discuss roughly what we would like for our wedding, we knew we found the right person. Alan is very knowledgeable in not only the different types of music but also how the wedding events flow. He's really the best with not just as a dj playing your favorite type of music but also as an mc who can make your event a memorable one (in a good way!). On the day of our wedding, Alan even worked directly with our officiant and our venue person to make sure that our ceremony and reception went as smoothly as possible. In addition to that, he also made sure to work with our photographers so that they could help capture the moments for us with the best possible lighting. What I love most about Alan was his genuine care about how he could make the event a memorable one for both us and our guests. Even several days before our wedding, Alan voluntarily called us to check up on the details and even offered to bring additional lights and an outdoor speaker that could help improve the ambiance. We were so thankful for his kindness. There were also soooo many aspects and details of our wedding event that, if it wasn't because of Alan's suggestions and perfect facilitation, the event wouldn't have turned out as well as it did. We HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend Alan! He was definitely one of the best decisions we made for our wedding event and we were extremely happy with how the event turned out. Even my friend who happened to be planning a wedding elsewhere for her sister loved what Alan did and plans on incorporating the details that Alan suggested in her sister's destination wedding. If you wanted somebody who not only plays good music but also cares about how to make your event the best that it can be, pick Puget Sound DJ! It's hard to go wrong with someone as dedicated and detail oriented as Alan is. THANK YOU SO MUCH ONCE AGAIN ALAN! We love working with you! read more

Wedding in 4 weeks? No DJ selected because you've procrastinated? No music available on your laptop because you've switched laptops and all your favorite songs are not there? Want your guests to have a blast with great music and no stress for you? Choose Puget Sound DJ! Alan is awesome and saved the day for us!! Below is a detailed review that my hubby and I wrote for Alan: "Alan was highly recommended from our photographer, Lucas Mobley. We needed someone who would come in a do a great job and do most of the heavy lifting in terms of song selection and setup, etc. We first met with Alan and instantly got along. He's very easy going and listens closely to what matters to us. He was able to work independently and give suggestions along the way. Also his DJ style was such that he wants to keep the flow of the party and listen and adjust to things as they happen. He told us this when we met him but it wasn't till the actual event where we actually came to appreciate this. Everything that he promised us (setting up, having a mic, lights, song selections, queuing, introductions) happened without us knowing. Once the plan was in place (which he created about 95% of the way, the few details from us were needed) he executed it flawlessly such that we had one less thing to worry about on our big day. He most certainly was committed. The week before he consulted with us a second time to find out exactly what songs we wanted for the key parts. We had enough control in the areas we wanted control. In the areas that we had no preference, he filled in the gaps to make the night completely seamless. Also, the great part about Alan is that he doesn't nickel and dime you for every extra piece. He charges a flat rate which means he's there from start to finish without any question about extra money or time. He's there for you and committed to the event. He knows the basic elements of an American, Jewish, and Asian wedding. This is not an easy task. He was able to suggest certain things that we might want to do in the night like mother/son dance, bouquet toss, cake cutting, introductions, etc, etc. We really had no idea of how we wanted the night to flow and Alan came in and suggested different parts, the ordering of each, and really became the glue for everything to fit together. The comparison I have is that, we went to a wedding a few months after ours. One song was playing and everyone was up and dancing. The very next song was this old crusty old song that made everyone stop moving, even the 88 year old grandpa! THIS WAS NOT ALAN. Alan in contrast was professional in the sense that he has the experience to know how to monitor the guests and keep the sound moving in a way that keeps people flowing. On the equipment side, he has his own sound system, mixer, laptop, mic, etc and it was of great quality. The people in the back had no problems hearing. Alan came dressed in a suit and bow tie and acted professionally the entire time. After questioning us and finding out our interests, he was able to find the music that we enjoyed and that fit with our personality. Timing and volume were great. As an MC, he stayed out of the way for as much as possible since, according to him, each time the MC speaks it's an interruption to the party. So he treated that responsibility with great respect and only spoke when necessary. He also did intros for the wedding party. His delivery was spot on and made the commentary very enjoyable to listen to. HIRE HIM! The amount of work he put in for us in such a short time was phenomenal. And the fact that he made the night seamless for our guests is something we could never have done without him." read more

To put it directly, this is who you want to DJ your wedding. Alan's attention to detail and execution throughout our wedding made the day flow perfectly and created an amazing experience for our guests. Alan's dedication to getting to know us prior to the wedding both as a couple and as clients ensured that the day was personalized to us, and allowed us to relax because we knew Alan had it covered. With Alan, you get more than a DJ, you get an MC, a collaborator during your planning phase, and a friend. Throughout our meetings he was able to provide suggestions and recommendations not only from a music and sound standpoint, but from a coordination and timing perspective. Alan was able to travel to a remote location and provide flawless sound quality outdoors for our entire day as a one man team. Alan is a collaborator and will help you make your vision come true. Our guests said it was the best dance party of their lives - and we agree! We are so glad we chose Puget Sound DJ (Alan) for our wedding - we couldn't have pulled it off without him! read more

I cannot recommend Alan's services enough. He is a consummate professional who is client-centered and cares about your event's success. I interviewed a ton of DJs, all of whom were high pressure and high priced - at times, I felt like I was dealing with car salespeople. Our experience with Alan was a very welcome departure from that experience. Prior to our booking, Alan did an extensive phone consult with me. Later, my husband and I met with Alan and knew instantly that we had found our DJ. He knows his craft and it showed in that first meeting. In our experience, Alan goes above and beyond to make your day complete. After a major storm prevented my maid of honor from making the wedding, he worked tirelessly to come up with a solution to make her present virtually, and he was a truly comforting presence in a hectic time. I was both surprised and overjoyed to walk into my reception and see my best friend on an iPad and a projector as they tested out the technology. Later in the evening, my MoH was able to give her toast from 3,000 miles away (even if the venue's wireless was spotty at times). Without Alan's hard work and dedication to his clients, none of that would have been possible - I will truly remember that experience forever. As far as the music at the wedding proper is concerned, my guests were really pleased with the music selections throughout the night. We gave him a roadmap of music we liked, and he read the room accordingly. His suggestions for what we should do throughout the night such as choosing a song to close the evening or play the Shoe Game were on-point and very well received. My husband and I danced virtually all night and had a blast. Alan treats his clients as friends and, by extension, will certainly work hard to make your event a success. Between the rain and the missing bridal party, our event could have been a disaster. Thanks to Alan and our other vendors, it was perfect! read more

Alan is a very nice guy and i understand that in the lead up to our wedding he was dealing with some family health issues. That being said we weren't impressed with his DJing and communications leading in. He didn't seem prepared for the space issues/limitations , our entrance and despite assurances that we wouldn't be "bothered" during the reception, we had to follow up and make choices on the evening that really should have been addressed by scouting or planning on Alans part. So i'd go with he was passable but if we had to do it again likely would just use an iPod. read more

TLDR Version: Highly recommended for any event, incredibly personable and professional. Alan DJ'd our wedding, and the experience working with him was absolutely wonderful. First, we met him at a local wedding show, and while all of the other DJs were loud, obnoxious, and had the "used car salesman" vibe, Alan was the complete opposite. He wasn't pushy, he was just honest about what he could do. Leading up to the wedding, we worked with us to get the venue setup planned, the timeline details set, and the playlist. He asked us questions that we never even thought about, and he was full of wisdom and experience. I ran out of time to give him a list of songs, so I had about 2 songs on my "play" list and about 4-5 on my "do not play" list. Between that and our conversation, he had enough to create a full playlist for our wedding that kept people coming back to the dance floor for hours. During the wedding itself, nothing particularly stood out, and that's a GOOD thing. Usually, if a wedding is extra memorable, it's because something awful just happened. Since everything went seamlessly from the ceremony until we left at the end of the night, and that's a huge credit to Alan. His understated personality, ability to control the flow of the event, and enthusiasm for helping out wherever he could definitely gave him an A+ in our book. read more

Alan is more than a DJ he is more like a wedding planner who also can get the party started! Alan gets to know you and your love story and individualized your entrances and songs to help guests get to know you and your wedding party on a more intimate level. He is in constant contact with the caterers and the venue to make sure all the visions and plans and our schedule runs smooth. Alan played music to get the people on the dance floor and also was into playing games and fun "win the centerpiece" table challenges. We had the best stress free night and we know a lot of it was because of Alan the best DJ/Wedding Planner! read more

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Having Alan as our DJ and MC was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding celebration! We met Alan was at a tasting done at Ray's Boathouse (the venue we had selected for our Wedding celebration) and signed up with him on the spot. We had been looking for someone to tie everything together and it was clear just from talking with him, that Alan has exceptional skill, diverse experience and the ability to communicate proficiently. We needed someone to bring people together who are from diverse backgrounds and walks of life. So, after talking with Alan just two minutes, we realized that he was our guy. Working with Alan was a dream. He was full of amazing ideas to keep the crowd engaged, while simultaneously being attentive and open to our ideas, facilitating both planning and execution seamlessly and flawlessly. He asked us what we wanted our of our event, and after we went over everything, he helped us choose the right order, timing, and brought in his experience to work out all the logistics. Alan was self-directed and considerate of our time. Both my husband and I have hectic schedules, as we both work full times jobs, so the fact that Alan could take the essence of what we wanted and weave it together himself helped us tremendously. We only had to meet twice, once in person, to go discuss the timeline and vision for the event and the next time over the phone to review plans and finalize details. Along the way he was responsive over email and we felt assured that everything was going to come together smoothly. He spent just the right amount figuring out our timeline for the evening and did a fabulous job culling our long playlist, while at the same time making sure to include the songs that were most important to us. He was even able to scrub the Josh Krajcik version of At Last for our first dance. Alan had a couple of suggestions for how to make the event fun including two games that were interactive and especially engaging for our guests. Every step of the way, Alan infused his wit, humor and spunk into the occasion and many guests spoke highly of his service saying that he really added to the celebration and that they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Every song was perfectly timed and we ended up dancing all night along with many of our guests. Alan was even able to get all the Hindi songs that I had requested for the Indian guests who thoroughly enjoyed themselves dancing! We highly recommend Alan without reservation! read more

Hiring Alan as our dj was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding. He was personable, honest, and really knows how to liven up a party. You will not regret working with him!! read more

If all started when we engaged with Alan in the beginning. We had exchange a couple of emails and decided to interview him for the DJ role in our wedding. The first few weeks he was completely unresponsive and we were looking at other people but then he contacted us back and apologized promising that he would make it up to us - that should have been our first clue. We talked, he seemed nice and we decided to go with him. That turned out to be the worst decision of our wedding planning. We hired Alan for our wedding that happened a couple of weeks ago. We had started planning the day of the wedding about 5 or 6 months ahead of time, staying in touch and going over the plan and what we wanted to do. The day before the wedding we had gone over the final plan and had all agreed on it and thought that everything was on track. Suffice to say that the day of the wedding Alan didn't follow the schedule and the plan and the performance was very disappointing. First of all, we had a agreed that he would place a mic on me and the officiant. The day of, I realized that he hadn't mic'd me yet and I called him over right before and asked him to add a mic, he said no need everything is under control. We walk down the aisle and the time for the vows is there, there is a lot of static and no one could hear neither my vows nor my wife's. Everyone who talked to me about it was disappointed because the sound was not clear and not loud enough. Right after the ceremony, Alan comes to me and apologizes but the damage is done. The second strike was when Alan informs me that he would like to play a video we had prepared before the grand entrance. This was another surprise as the video was supposed to be played after the entrance and was on the schedule this way. I had to go and deal with this firedrill in the middle of the wedding which is definitely not a fun thing given the amount of stress you accumulate on the wedding day. The third strike is that we had asked if people wanted to toast or not and a couple of our close friends. They informed us the second day that they had signed up for a toast but that Alan had completely skipped them and they never got to speak. He also had forgotten about the bridesmaid (even though it was on the schedule) and only after my mother in law went and talked to him to remind him did he call the bridesmaid to make her speech. The last strike was that the music was really bad and the DJing part was less than amateurish. We had chosen a full set of playlist, I was going back and forth with Alan on raising the volume and during the "Dance" part the music volume and quality was so bad that we could hear people talk... He also was replaying the same songs over and over again, and had lots of difficulties with Virtual DJ. All in all, if you want to deal with less issues and less risk at your wedding and really want to make sure that the DJ and MC part goes well, I would NOT recommend Alan at all. Despite the fact that he seems like a nice guy, he comes off as inexperienced and the equipment he has didn't seem good at all. read more

Not only would we recommend Alan to anyone as a DJ/MC for their wedding we would tell them that they should ask Alan to serve as their officiant as well. Alan ran our entire wedding without a hitch to make sure that we had the most amazing wedding day possible. As everyone else has said Alan is a great DJ, he is able to fill every moment with the perfect mix of music for a fun and lively wedding day. He is also a fantastic master of ceremonies, coordinating with all of our other vendors and becoming familiar with our story in order to create a reception that was unique to us. Alan didn't stop there though, when our officiant backed out on us in mid-March he immediately stepped up offering to serve as the officiant for our ceremony. Even though he had never officiated a wedding before we were confident that he would handle the situation masterfully and boy did he deliver. We had so many guests come up to us and say that we had the best wedding ceremony they had ever been to and they were shocked to learn that we were Alan's first ceremony. If you want a personalized, stress-free wedding day, book Alan as one of your first vendors. read more

Alan and Puget Sound DJ did a fantastic job as the DJ for our rehearsal dinner and wedding in Seattle! We had a baseball-themed wedding, which took place at Safeco Field, and Alan was the perfect fit for this event. His passion for baseball, professionalism as a highly trained DJ, and flexibility with our complicated logistical requirements, really helped to improve the quality of our event, and he was a joy to work with. There are a lot of DJs in the Seattle area who care more about their paycheck than about their customers, and Alan was the exact opposite. He cared about us first, which is hard to find in the wedding vendor community. We highly recommend Alan and Puget Sound DJs for your wedding DJ needs! read more

Alan was recommended to me by a colleague. He had DJ'd her wedding and she had nothing but great things to say about him and the quality of his services. My wife was approaching a milestone birthday, so we decided to do more than just plug an iPod into a speaker...we called Alan. During our first conversation, he was genuinely interested in our event and made sure he was not booked for the night we proposed. We penciled him in and then, after checking around, called him back and hired him. He kept in touch with us during the weeks leading up to the party, and asked us many questions about what we were looking for and how we wanted the night to unfold. He even allowed us to hand pick some songs that had to be played, as well as some that were off limits. Alan delivered. By mixing some classic hits with some recent songs, he kept the party going throughout the night. A lot of our friends came up to me and thanked me personally for hiring Alan, which was a pretty cool. I've got to say, we were not disappointed in any way. He brought the music, the mixer, the mics, lights, and even a projector that we requested at the last minute. He showed up early and was set up well before our guests arrived. He was very polite to all of our guests and I won't hesitate to hire him again, next time we haev a need for a professional DJ. read more

If we could give Alan more than 5 stars we totally would!! Alan surpassed our expectations! He was absolutely amazing, we cannot express enough how thankful we are that he was able to be there on our special day. Everything from the ceremony up until the very end of the reception was absolutely perfect. He worked closely with both our photographer and planner to ensure that everything was running smoothly. He truly made our day special in more ways than one! We 100% feel that Alan was personally committed to making our day what we wanted! During our multiple phone calls he gave us suggestions and made sure that everything was exactly how we wanted. We felt more like an extension of his family than his clients. Alan was so helpful! I don't know what we would have done without all of his great advice. He has so much knowledge and information, it is beyond fantastic! We had no clue a week before the wedding what songs we wanted for some of our major events but he was quick to give us amazing suggestions. Choosing Alan to share our big day with us was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding! read more

Alan is absolutely phenomenal at what he does! He is absolutely in love with his career and will do whatever he can to help his customers. He was involved in every inch of our wedding planning and checking in very often-such a FRIEND. He offered books and material to help ease our planning and offered to help where he could. We had a lot of meetings where we all met at my parents house. He was very concerned about meeting the needs of every one of my family members, and of course the needs of me and my husband. The night of the wedding was kind of all over the place and unforunately everyone left really early (Mothers day, and Sunday night) and so only a few songs were played) I was really upset about that-but it was not his fault and he did fantastic! read more

After speaking with several DJ's in the Seattle area over the phone and meeting a few in person, Alan by far stood out as the best and most personal DJ for our wedding. Not only was Allan a great DJ, but he also helped in so many areas of event planning and coordination prior to our Wedding Day. His experience and commitment to further bettering himself by attending numerous DJ/Wedding conventions throughout the year definitely proved his commitment to professionalism. He was able to use his expertise to direct us towards the wedding we envisioned and beyond without making the mistakes a less experienced DJ would make or that we would have allowed due to our inexperience. Alan constantly communicated with us, listened and incorporated his ideas into suggestions that ultimately made our wedding day event intimate, special and fun. He certainly catered to us, but better yet - he was able to adapt according to the vibe of our guests and guide their energy to match the type of reception we planned for. Several guests after the wedding complimented us on the job Alan did. The photos we received from our photographer of different events & games Alan suggested and coordinated were outstanding and showed how involved our friends and family were during the reception all because of Alan's master of ceremony skills. We highly recommend Alan (Puget Sound DJ) to anyone planning for their wedding. He can cater to whatever type of wedding event you desire and truly cares about making your event the one you envisioned. Thanks Alan! read more