We love to take requests. Requests are an important part of reading and understanding your crowd. For Weddings we will provide a Do Not Play and Play Only If Requested section on our Online Wedding Planner. This way we don’t play that song you absolutely don’t want to hear at your wedding. For other events like School Dances, we make sure that everything we play is appropriate to the event and audience.
Appropriate Requests
One important thing to remember about requests is that we do train our DJs to use their best discretion. This means if a guest at your event requests something inappropriate or incompatible with your event or theme our DJs will politely let them know that we can’t or won’t play it. Also, we train our DJs to read the crowd and choose the best time to play a request. This means it might not always be the next song played, but we will always do whatever we can to get it mixed in.
Downloading Requests
The last thing we like to remind people is that if we receive a request for a song we don’t have, we will absolutely do our best to download it and play it. However, this is another occasion where our DJs are trained to use their best judgement. We provide Hotspots in every DJ kit, and often have access to WiFi. However, getting a song downloaded and into our library is not always a quick procedure.
If your DJ feels like trying to download a single request is taking them away from interacting with your guests and playing the best set possible, they may use their judgement and decide not to play it. It’s all about using good judgement, and measuring the importance of a single request versus the success of the event as a whole.