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There are only approximately 24 prime wedding dates each season and with most weddings happening on Saturdays, dates fill in fast for the most requested wedding DJs (and wedding venues/vendors)

A wedding DJ doesn’t just grab some gear online and start DJing weddings the next weekend.  You need to learn the craft from a seasoned professional.  That takes time.  Our associate DJs start out as assistants and work their way up to DJ with one of our seasoned MCs for years before they are ever entrusted going out on their own to DJ someone’s wedding.

If they don’t have more than 50 weddings under their belt, then they have not experienced or learned enough about being a truly professional wedding DJ.  If they are not doing 15 or more weddings each season, then they are not in the game as full-time wedding DJ professionals.

Back 20+ years ago, wedding venues would stack weddings on top of weddings and it was not unusual for wedding DJs to do more than 1 wedding per day.  Imagine how tired they must be.  Would they even remember if they had played 24K already at the current wedding? Or the couple’s names?  That’s just too much and you would never want to be the 2nd wedding on a Saturday.   Be sure they only do 1 wedding per day. We only do 1 wedding a day and normally limit ourselves to 2 weddings per weekend.

If you are not personally in direct contact with your wedding DJ and not working directly with them to go over things like name pronunciations and music selection, then run!  There is no way that all the details needed for your wedding day can be relayed to your DJ via a form or a quick phone call the week of your wedding.  

For our clients, you will be directly working with your selected DJ from the first time you reach out to us to the planning process which normally starts around 3 months prior to your wedding (and all the way up until your wedding day)

We have worked at 100’s of venues throughout the New England area (and beyond) over the years.  If you want, we can meet you at your venue and do a walk-through during the wedding planning process.  Don’t worry, we have the gear necessary to work at both large, small, or broken-up facilities – both indoor and outdoor.

We don’t rely on cheesy DJ antics or line dances to get your wedding dance floor going.  We don’t talk between every song and we are by no means your average wedding DJ.  

Our clients are looking for a unique experience at their wedding and that requires a boutique-style or luxury wedding DJ experience that only we can provide to you on your wedding day.   All our wedding DJs are trained by Rob Alberti to avoid the cliche and lean into the personalized experience we provide to all of our wedding couples.

Read our reviews online and dig into our blog and website and you will see and hear the difference that a luxury wedding DJ from Rob Alberti’s can bring to your wedding day.

We can provide music and microphones for your wedding ceremony needs so that your guests can hear the emotion as you exchange vows.  

We also have photo booths for rental and custom lighting design from dance floor lighting to uplighting and string lighting for your tent and barn weddings.  We even rent and install chandeliers and have custom wood arches for rent.

Many area wedding DJs say they are wedding professionals but if you question them, they spend more time DJing at bars and doing bar trivia – that’s not us.  Weddings are what we do.  
More than 85% of our business are weddings.  Sure, we do the occasional corporate and school event, but you won’t find us doing karaoke at the local dive or reading off trivia questions at the 99 Restaurant on main street.  We are too busy doing weddings.

Yes – you can find reviews for us on Google, The Knot, Wedding Wire, Facebook and throughout our website

Yes – you can look through our blog for REAL WEDDINGS including highlight video reels from past weddings.  You can also hear us do wedding introductions and mix sets of music of various genres on our MixCloud accounts and throughout our website.

Yes – we will start sending you suggestions about 6 months prior to your wedding to get you to start thinking of things like the style of music you want for cocktails and dinner and all the way from your ceremony music to the last song played at your reception.

You can also browse our online planning tools, blog for more helpful wedding music suggestions for your wedding day soundtrack

We have clients that can’t decide or choose anything and we help them narrow down their selections or we have clients that provide Spotify playlists for social hour, dinner, and dancing.  It’s your choice how involved or uninvolved you want to be.  We are here to offer suggestions on what we’ve seen that works and does not work based on past weddings that we’ve performed at.  We’ll help fill in the gaps when you want us to.

Yes – we will take care of the necessary announcements and keep both you and your guests informed as to what is happening NEXT at your wedding.   Sit back and relax – we’ve got you covered!

We use subtle crowd manipulating tools to refocus you and your guests when it comes to dancing.  There will always be an ebb and flow of energy on the dance floor based on what is going on.  It’s our job to ride those waves and keep the energy going at your reception.

Sometimes it’s as simple as asking all the couples to come out on the dance floor for a slow song and then following it up with a fast song or maybe it’s changing up the genre of music to bring out more of your wedding guests.  Either way, we’ll work within the scope of your PLAYLIST and NO PLAYLIST to keep with the flavor and style that you want to set at your wedding.

Yes – if that is what you wish.   Some of our couples don’t want guests making requests at their wedding in order to keep to their style.  Keep in mind, just because someone requests a song doesn’t mean that we will end up playing it.  It might be on your NO PLAYLIST or it just might not fit with your feel.  Of course, at any point in time at your wedding, you can come up and request the next song from one of our luxury wedding DJs.

On our price list and on your custom wedding proposal – everything that is included is clearly listed.  No surprises.

Our packages are based on PERFORMANCE TIME (typically 5 or 6 hours depending on if your ceremony is onsite).  We will arrive early to setup (1 – 2 hours prior) and will typically break down in less than an hour after your last song (for some custom lighting installations, we come back the next day to remove lighting – but that will be stipulated on our agreement/proposal ahead of time)

Our overtime rate is clearly marked on your proposal.  You can add in increments of 30 minutes (half an hour rate) as needed on your wedding date.  Overtime is normally paid that night via cash or Venmo if needed.

Our deposits normally range between $200-$600 based on the package price and will be clearly stipulated on your proposal.  You can pay deposits online or via CC or check as desired.

Any travel fee will be clearly stipulated on your proposal.  For most of our weddings in the New England area, we don’t require a travel fee.  If logistics of your event require us to stay over, we will note that at the point of our initial quote.

As soon as you’ve secured your venue and wedding date, it’s time to start looking at locking in your DJ and Photographer.  Recently, it’s not unusual for us to book a year and a half out.  
Most of our clients are securing their wedding date with their DJ at least a year in advance in order to guarantee that they get the best available DJ for their wedding.

Yes – many area wedding venues require that all your wedding vendors provide copies of their business liability insurance policy.  We do this all the time for our couples.  

We only use professional-grade DJ gear – no entry-level crap.  Your wedding only deserves the best quality sound.  Our goal is to bring the right style and size gear that matches your wedding needs. That’s not the same for every couple or wedding venue.  For most weddings, we bring in nearly $10,000 worth of gear and we bring FULL BACKUP GEAR on top of our main system.  That means, no matter what goes on, we have you covered.

We don’t rely on Spotify, Youtube, or Pandora for our music.  We have a professional music subscription with multiple DJ music pools so that we have the latest music as well as CLEAN VERSIONS of current chart hits and some of the hottest remixes available.

It’s not about what we like as your wedding DJ, it’s about keeping to the tone and music style that you want set at your wedding reception and about keeping everyone dancing at your wedding.   You do want to set a party atmosphere at your wedding, right?