The Music Factory

We hired The Music Factory to DJ our engagement party and they were great. We asked them to play some Christmas music, being that it was around Christmas time and they played just the right amount. When it was time to start dancing, they played great music that got everyone up and moving. High five guys! See you at the wedding!

The music was great at the reception itself, but we were starting to wonder if they were going to show up. The Music Factory was supposed to send us something through the mail and set up another meeting before the ceremony. We kept calling and they were not returning our phone calls. Finally we went to Pam and she called for us, to which they actually answered the phone. I was very disappointed by their unprofessional behavior before the wedding.

I had so many problems with them, but by the time everything started to go wrong, it was too late for me to find another DJ. They were a 1/2 hr. late for my 1st appt, and didn't call--I had to call them. I couldn't get another copy of my contract when I realized it was a carbon, and I wrote on some papers I had laid on top of it. I specifically asked them to go easy on the 70's music, that was most of what they played. I asked them just to play one verse of my father-daughter song and then fade it in to my dance with my husband, they played the whole song! So i was on the dance floor for close to 10 minutes before anyone could come up. Three people requested songs, nothing out-of-the-ordinary, they never got played.

Everything started out great with these guys, we thought we really clicked with them and decided to book with them after interviewing quite a few other DJ's for our wedding.

It all went wrong on our wedding day, the one day that it should NOT have!

My husband and I had been taking dance lessons for about 6 months or so before the wedding and had a whole routine planned to dance to. We had worked VERY hard on this. We gave them a CD with our first dance on it, and then the entrance songs on it too. Just regular MP3's. When the wedding day came, they couldn't get them to play! He did not test it out before the wedding. I mean really?! Come on!!!

This meant that they also couldn't play our entrance songs that were very meaningful to us as well. We waited for a bit to see if they could get the CD to work while Angela went to their house to grab a different piece of equipment, or to reburn the first song or something. We had to wait in the hall to enter forever, and for no reason. The entrance songs were awful that we had to chose/put up with.

Thankfully, Angela did return (an hour later, yes we waited a long time for entrance stuff) and we were able to do our custom first wedding dance.

They started playing music, and no one was into it. They finally caught on, and started playing from the list of music I had told them to play (hey, I know my guests!). Then the party got started! Anytime they tried to play something that was not on my list, people stopped dancing. They learned after a few more failures, but that is not acceptable.

I was extremely dissapointed with how things went. I wasted an hour of my reception because they didn't test something out before the wedding day. We should have got all our money back, but we got nothing back as my dad helped pay for it and would not call to complain. I was just too tired from all the wedding stuff to care anymore at that point! In other words, I would not recommend using these guys. Very nice, but can't read a crowd and aren't prepared.

Angela and her husband were very nice and professional. We met with them 3 times. Angela helped immensely at the wedding! She helped bussel my dress and fixed our plates to eat.