Wedding entertainment. We talk about it quite a bit here on the blog and that’s because it’s a really important aspect of your day! There is so much choice and for some it can all seem just a bit too expensive. Planning a wedding can be costly. And to keep budgets down, it?s understandable that for most of us; something?s got to give ? whether that?s the date, the dress or the entertainment. But before you cross wedding DJ off your priority list and create a free playlist instead, we asked the UK?s wedding DJ of the year, Alan Marshall of Alan Marshall Celebrations, to share why it?s so important to have a wedding DJ.

Your DJ can ?feel? the room
While putting together your own playlist will be filled with floor-filling faves, by working with a wedding DJ, they can sense what?s appropriate to play and what the crowd actually wants to hear, right there and then.
I know, from working with couples months before their big days, how important music is to them ? what they like and what they really don?t, and this helps me to tailor the tunes to their day: without it being prescriptive.
Ready-made playlists can work, but unless they?re really thought about, they can lack flow and feel a little stop-start for guests wanting to party. For example: one minute you can be all dancing to an indie classic you loved from a festival and the next, a gorgeous, romantic, slow tune comes on, leaving just couples on the dancefloor. I enjoy reading the room, working with the vibe a...