This little diatribe is being posted in response to a common question clients ask me during our initial meeting…
To each his own, but I personally would never, ever display any type of advertising banner or propaganda at an event I DJ. That’s about as tacky as it gets, if you ask me for my 2 cents. I see DJs doing this all the time, and it really bugs me, especially at a wedding.
Shoot, I’ve never even mentioned my own name (or the name of my business) on the microphone at an event I’ve handled. In my eyes, promoting yourself on a client’s dime shows a complete lack of class.
WELCOME!
DJ JEREMY PRODUCTIONS IS A SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA BASED MOBILE DJ SERVICE. WE HANDLE WEDDING, CLUB AND CORPORATE EVENTS. WE ARE CAPABLE OF HANDLING EVENTS OF ALL SIZES, FROM AN INTIMATE 50 GUEST WEDDING TO A 2000 GUEST CORPORATE GALA.
IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR A SKILLED DJ WHO STAYS FAR AWAY FROM SILLY WEDDING GAMES, OVERBLOWN EMCEEING, BAD JOKES AND EXCESSIVE MICROPHONE CHATTER, YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
If this is your first time here, the following three blog pages will give you a GREAT sense of our style (and approach to events), how we price events, and some valuable tips on comparing potential DJs. We’d absolutely love it if you could have a look at the following three pages before exploring the rest of the blog!
Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers,
DJ Jeremy Downing, Owner
1. DJ JEREMY PRODUCTIONS – AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR STYLE AND SERVICES
2. DJ JEREMY PRODUCTIONS – PRICING
3. COMPARING POTENTIAL DJS – ALL DJS ARE NOT THE SAME PRODUCT
PS – Many potential clients want to make sure we can play standard 50s-60s-70s-80s-90s music at their events. Of course we can!!! While some of the blog content found here is NOT intended to be wedding (or corporate event) related, almost ALL the mobile events we handle involve playing music aimed at appealing to a wide range of ages and backgrounds. While we do offer some off the beaten path mixes on this blog (Bollywood / Bhangra, house, electro, obscure disco and funk), this is not what we would generally play at events – unless requested of course!
On that note, please feel free to have a look at the following blog posts which highlight some of our wedding DJ mixes aimed at a mixed age / mixed demographic crowd, and how we play for such events. While we CAN skillfully mix music many wedding DJs have never heard of (house, electro, dubstep etc), we play all the crowd-pleasing favorites as well:
1. FLOOD MANSION WEDDING MIX
2. PLAYING TO A MIXED DEMOGRAPHIC CROWD, PART 1
3. PLAYING TO A MIXED DEMOGRAPHIC CROWD, PART 2
4. MIXED AGE, MAINSTREAM LIVE WEDDING MIX FROM THE BRAZILIAN ROOM
DJ Jeremy Productions
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Here’s my opinion…your wedding is your wedding. Just because 50 million other couples incorporated certain events into their weddings, it certainly doesn’t mean you need to bust out the cookie cutter and follow suit.
I’ve done lots of weddings this year where my clients didn’t want to be formally introduced, or didn’t want to be invited to the dance floor for their first dance (they just wanted the music to be played, and felt that an announcement wasn’t necessary). In fact, it seems to be a trend here in Northern California…
However, I’ve run in to multiple recent occasions where either the venue coordinator, photographer or another random vendor has literally freaked out when I’ve explained to them that we won’t be doing a formal announcement for these events. I guess many of these folks are so set in their ways that they can’t accept that a wedding couple might find formal announcements cheesy or distasteful.
Even though I’ve pointed out to these folks that it clearly shows on the day of wedding time-line/ schedule (I have all my clients put a day-of-wedding time-line together for me to follow) that no announcement is to be made, 9 times out of ten they’ve run over to the bride/ groom to confirm, as in their mind there’s no possible way this could be correct. Too funny…
Moral of the story is, its 2009, and wedding vendors need to wake up to the fact that times are changing. There’s always more than one way to skin a cat, right? 
