Opelika’s coach was suspended for their playoff game vs Hoover. They lost. Allegedly used a media pass to record or take notes in the game.
Hoover had already suspended their coach preseason.
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We gave just a couple instructions to the DJ, and I would co-sign again:
- No slow songs (with one exception- see #4)
- No line dance songs (ie chacha slide, etc)
- No Journey
- Must play my wife’s parents’ wedding song (“Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis Presley)
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Possibly a controversial take but outside of the “important” wedding songs (first dance/mother son/etc), your playlist should be whatever gets people out on the floor. I’m firmly in the camp that the dance is way more for the guests than it is the couple.
I attended a wedding once where the couple DJed it with an iPod. The problem is they love swing dancing so like 90% of the songs were meant to dance with a partner.
On the flip side, probably the most fun I’ve ever had was a buddies wedding where they likely just turned on a “100 most popular Wedding dance party songs” playlist and let it run. The dance floor was pretty much full the whole night.
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My friends wedding a few months ago had Call on Me → Levels → Truly Madly Deeply back to back to back and it went so incredibly hard I still haven’t gotten over it
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Shane and the lads coming off the high of Levels, straight into a deeply moving and emotional rendition of TMD
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“last week’s Encinitas oarfish was just the 21st such specimen to have washed up in the state in more than 120 years.”
Now its 22 times in 120, 3 this year.
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Same - we had a no coordinated dance song rule.
My no play list was longer than must play (Pitbull, LMFAO were popular at the time and big no goes, my brother/best man was big on LMFAO since Wis ftball played and still does and he tried requesting, we both hate bro country crap, etc), but we were one of the last marriages in my friend group and had just gone to dozens of weddings in the preceding couple years, the hate list was fresh.
As a guest, I’ve found no play lists can be negotiated with some crisp USD.
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I went to a wedding and they let their buddy do his amateur DJ set. Not a single person was on the dance floor, he refused requests and we couldn’t even visit because it was so loud
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This is why I played Quad City DJs for 3+ hours at my reception.
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100%. We made sure with our DJ that the priority was people dancing. No short song mixes and keep the wild stuff for after 10 when the olds were headed out.
Other than her absolutely missing the cutoff for the transition between our first dance and the father daughter dance, she was solid because people care way more about being able to listen to the majority of good wedding songs over anything else.
Also my wife and I were slightly confused by her being a weirdo literally breaking it down on the dance floor and running around with like a bubble gun and stuff but outside of the food and the ceremony (very short with an immediate champagne toast) the DJ was probably the next most commented on thing that people liked which we were pleasantly surprised about.
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My girlfriend and I were thinking of this as a solution for me to be able to have rap songs I’d like to hear without scaring the extended families on each side who haven’t heard a rap song since Empire State of Mind came out.
We’d play the traditional stuff for the majority and then in the last hour could cross over into the harder stuff.
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I cannot remember how many outspoken Russians have unfortunately died from falling out of windows. But it’s a lot.
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I’ve seen a couple weddings that have a no-play list but for $20 to the honeymoon fund you can get it played. Hurts nobody, grows the economy.
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if i put something on my no play list and I find out someone pays the DJ to circumvent it i’m gonna have a real issue with that person
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I think I broke this on playlist not no play back when I knew popular bangers to liven it up. Now I’m old and belong nowhere near a DJ.
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Also for the record the song that had the most people on the dance floor at my reception was “My Baby” by Lil Romeo and I take full credit for putting that on the “must play” section of our playlist.
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Our most danced to song was “Love Shack” by B-52s! Definitely recommend keeping the slow/sappy songs to a minimum. We did play a few oldies bops for the Olds before the sun set just to satisfy them though lol.
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One song was played twice at our wedding.
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One song got played 5 times at my wedding
Got married the night of game 7 of the western conference finals and the DJ played the chorus every time the Blackhawks scored.
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