Soundwave DJs

Apr 2020

Hiring Soundwave DJs proved to be one of the best decisions we made during our wedding process and well worth the investment. When we first planned our wedding budget we didn’t give much emphasis to the DJ and even considered just having someone babysit a premade playlist. A friend convinced us to look into a few professional DJs and we came across Fred, owner of Soundwave DJs. Fred was very easy to talk to and helped explain the various responsibilities of the DJ, including the importance of communicating with all vendors throughout our wedding day so everyone was in sync. Imagine announcing the first dance just when the photographer has to change batteries, this is why communication is key and Fred did a wonderful job staying on top of things. There were a lot more aspects to being a DJ/MC than we ever thought possible, and Fred excelled at each one. Since we live 6hrs (by plane) away from our wedding location, we had several long conversations with Fred over the phone which gave us a lot to think about. Then during a visit to Pennsylvania several months prior to our wedding we met with Fred at the Manor. During this visit we discussed all our preferences with Fred while he continued to provide his expert opinion where needed, he demonstrated how he’d use his software to loop some of the music we wanted for the ceremony, how and when the music will fade in/out, we practiced various entrances to determine how long the music should be, he demonstrated uplighting for us, and at the end of it all we had a great time simply chatting with him as a friend and enjoying some time with his dog. Fred demonstrated a great level of commitment to our wedding, even attending our rehearsal the day prior. This was a life saver as he is a natural leader and helped collect everyone to get the rehearsal started. As we practiced many of us realized that we weren’t sure how certain aspects should be done, in particular the ceremony entrances/exits and the reception entrances, but Fred was able to provide suggestions and direct us. On our wedding day Fred showed up with his crew and did an outstanding job. If he saw the need to make small adjustments he’d quickly run them by us and we agreed with each of his suggestions. He orchestrated the day perfectly and we couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. We hope to have an opportunity to work with Fred again.

Jun 2018

Fred was awesome at our wedding, he kept everything moving and on time. I had a guest who arrived a few minutes late make the comment "I've never been to a wedding that started on time, except for yours" that was all thanks to Fred. Our guests were up and partying all night long, most were sad to see it end. I received a ton of compliments after our wedding on how smoothly it went and how much fun it was, I attribute a lot of that to Fred!