Sandra Say's...DJ Didn't Show For My Wedding

O.K., so it seems like something right 0ut of a movie, where the DJ does not show up for your wedding, but it happened to me. Nathan and I were married on Saturday, October 24th at Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN followed by a reception at the VFW in Hopkins, MN. I spent a year planning and sewing cloth napkins for this party and also, the dance portion. I am a HUGE fan of karaoke and had paid for and booked our DJ for a dance AND karaoke. We were so excited, but as we waited in the hallway to enter our reception hall, we were informed that the DJ never showed up. There were no lights, microphone, music...nothing. We entered the hall and went to the headtable and I had to make an announcement, albeit a little shouting without a microphone, that there was no DJ and please get some food. I then proceeded to the bathroom to (you know!) and CRY. To back up a little, as we got to the headtable, you could hear a pin drop it was so quiet and I am guessing everyone was waiting for me to melt down up there. I didn't, I held it in because what else could I do? The DJ company is national and been in business for over 24 years and I thought everything would be great. It wasn't. I STILL have not heard back from the DJ as to why he never showed or called, but the company itself did nothing to rectify the situation during my wedding. Not even an apology. We didn't get a backup DJ, nothing. So, we didn't have karaoke, a toast, father/daughter mother/son dance, bouquet toss, garter toss, chicken dance, dollar dance, limbo, introduction, nothing. Seriously, anything else could have gone wrong and I would have went with it. No food? No problem, order pizza. No flowers? Big deal, no one will notice, no limo? Ha, we would have taken a lift from family and friends...but come on! NO DJ? No music? No dancing? No party??? Wow. I cannot even express enough my hurt. We paid for extra time with the photographers to get pictures of our evening, but there wasn't anything to take! We weren't doing all the things we paid for. Ah, yes. Not just a deposit for the DJ/Karaoke. We paid in FULL beforehand, months ahead of time.

So, here it is. Other than a refund, can we sue? The emotional stress/distress from this is crazy. The pictures we paid to have taken couldn't be taken. Just. Wow.

Well, I AM married and happy to be so and happy to be back home and THANK-YOU...to all of you who have expressed concern over what happened without the DJ showing up on our wedding night. All the invites for our dance and options for flowers and a cake (YUM! Yes, Please! lol) are very appreciated.

Thank-you to FINZ for hosting our CMA party tomorrow night from 7-9pm, as we draw a winner to fly to Nashville to the CMA's and also for decorating with my wedding colors and having Nathan and myself to do our dance tomorrow night. Yay! We will finally get 0ur dance with Joe Cocker "You are so Beautiful."

Please stop out tomorrow night (Wednesday) from 7-9pm at FINZ as we will have an opportunity for you to qualify for the drawing to send you off to the CMA's. So if you do not get qualified on the air with The Jeff Elliott in the Morning Show tomorrow, please stop out to FINZ as you may get qualified!!!!

Cheers!

Sandra

sandra@wirk.com