Weddingbee boards

  My wonderful husband and I got married about a week and a half ago. Everything went alright. Of course there were things that went wrong but all and all I loved my day.....except for one thing.....

  Me and my husband have been together for 4 years and have a son but have never once slow danced together. The reason behind this is that my husband really hates dancing and feels very insecure about it. He knew that we would have a first dance and was all for doing our "first" (litterally) dance together. I could not wait to dance with him and knew that it would probably be one of the only times we would dance together.

  Well we picked out "our" song and it was a song that has significant meaning to us and we told our DJ. Well at the reception the big moment came. We slowly got into the "high school sway" dance posistion and began our very first dance ever together....until about 10 seconds into the song the CD started to skip. About 20 seconds into the song something happend and the song skipped about a minute and a half and jumped through most of it. My husband and I only danced together a total of about 45 seconds and I could tell this was his worst nightmare with everyone looking at us and wondering whats happening.

  We just laughed it off and went about our business. Our DJ didnt have any modern hit and no one except a few little kids danced to songs. Most everyone even left the reception by 7:30 and at 8 the DJ announced without my permission that he would be playing the last song of the night.

  This guy was a friend of my dads and we didnt pay him. He said he would do it for free. Its weird that this is starting to bother me now....and I'm not sure what to do about it.

We got married the same day and our DJ was a friend of mine who 'did us a favor' by only charging us $550.  He was AWFUL!!!  He was rude to people, took forever to set up, played the wrong song for my husbands walk in with his mom, my song for the bridesmaids (then switched to the right song), played our ring ceremony song a minute and a half AFTER we did the ring ceremony and spent 3 minutes setting up his mike for my nephews solo.  Then he had to move his equipment 300 feet from the ceremony to the reception and it took him TWO HOURS.  Luckily I'd asked a talented friend to play piano during our cocktail hour.  Then one of his speakers went out during our first dance.   An hour into the dancing he disappeared completely for over an hour.  Thank God we had a DOC to save the night!  It would have been a total disaster without her!!!  At the end of the night he told my husband we owed him $450 even though he told me he wanted to give us a huge break and only charge us $350 but I insisted on our original agreement of $400 but had already given him $100 for a down payment so he ended up getting $550 from us. 

But we'd set up all the music on CD and everyone loved the music and danced all night and had a kick ass time so I'm trying hard to focus on that :o)  I still sent him a thank you note because he meant well but wasn't as experienced as I thought.  You get what you pay for!