As I Wait for Courtney and Brad…
April 23, 2011
I have a meeting at 2:00 today with Courtney and Brad from Cleveland. Their reception is on June 11th, so we’ve decided to meet today. And as I sit here in the office waiting for them, I try to imagine what parts of their evening I’m going to be able to help them personalize and make really special.
Every couple is different. But my mission as their DJ is always the same; to put the focus on them.
There are lots of ways to achieve this. But until we sit and talk, I won’t really know which way to go. Some couples are very outgoing. Some are shy and retiring. Some have very close families and/or groups of friends. Other’s have very small families and aren’t close.
Some couples have physical handicaps. Some are older and perhaps on a second or third marriage.
They may arrive with books and ideas and lists and questions…or they may arrive with nothing but an expectation that I can help them.
So, as I sit here in the office waiting for Courtney and Brad, it’s my job to try and have as many options for them as possible. I’ve gone over the planning forms they’ve completed on my website…I’ve checked the names of the people in their bridal party (even though we’ll do that together)…I’ve even made up a schedule sheet with everything they’ve indicated they would like to do during the evening.
All that’s left to do is set out two bottles of water and wait for them to pull into the lot. When they do, we’ll discuss their schedule and music and what their vision of the evening is. There are a lot of things I could easily skip over at this point. Sometimes when I’m preparing all the little special touches we add I think, “I could easily just not do this.” And yes, it would save time. And yes it would make things easier for me.
But this is their big day. I just can’t let them down. It wouldn’t matter if I charged them $5,000.00 or was doing their wedding for free. It really is all about them.
Just what I was thinking.
