{"id":1612,"date":"2011-01-04T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T17:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2017-03-09T21:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T02:32:32","slug":"cant-we-just-use-an-ipod-why-do-we-need-a-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wedding-music\/cant-we-just-use-an-ipod-why-do-we-need-a-dj","title":{"rendered":"Want to Have an iPod Wedding? Here&#8217;s Why That&#8217;s a Really Dumb Idea."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10785\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10785\" alt=\"wedding music ideas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10785\" alt=\"wedding music ideas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_3105682577-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spencerfinnley\/3105682577\/\">Spencer Finnley<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> cc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the time comes to figure out wedding music, some of the wedding music ideas that pop out seem really logical. &#8220;Hey, we have all this music on our phones or iPods, why don&#8217;t we just do it ourselves rather than hire a disc jockey?&#8221;\u00a0The answer is simple. It is a dumb idea and here is why.<\/p>\n<p>DJs are live humans beings that create and match the energy and mood of the crowd- iPods do not know what is happening and cannot adapt. If you want your wedding to have life and excitement: hire a DJ. If you are just looking for background\/ambient music, maybe an iPod is fine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10786\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10786\" alt=\"wedding music ideas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10786\" alt=\"wedding music ideas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_824398310-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/markjsebastian\/824398310\/\">mark sebastian<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Determine what you want your wedding reception music to be like for you and your guests. If you want people to be dancing and moving around, a disc jockey may be the way to go. This is especially true if the guest-list includes diversity of age, background, geography, gender, education, economy or culture. Diversity makes predictability of choosing wedding music challenging since the iPods play-list may not reflect what <em>all<\/em> the people want to enjoy. Remember; it is your day but everybody\u2019s celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Example: A birthday party for a six-year-old girl with <em>only<\/em> her friends from the neighborhood as guests probably will have a more predictable play-list than a wedding with guests from Korea, Ireland, Spain and Germany. The latter I did a few months ago and was amazed at the variety of music requested to meet the needs of this culturally diverse group of people celebrating a wedding. Truthfully, not only would a play-list on an iPod have been a failure, even carrying six racks of records back in the days when I still played vinyl would not have prepared me enough to make everybody satisfied the way they were.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10787\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10787\" alt=\"wedding dance music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963-500x318.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10787\" alt=\"wedding dance music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/medium_4620204963-500x318.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sjixxxy\/4620204963\/\">K. Praslowicz<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They had a great time and I needed to have the whole 125GB of my music library to be ready for the different styles and periods of wedding reception music requested and honored. If you want your friends and family to be able to request and dance to the music they enjoy as well, please let them do so. We all know that having guests involved increases participation and energy at a wedding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10788\" style=\"width: 712px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10788\" alt=\"music for wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-556x800.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-500x719.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-672x966.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10788\" alt=\"music for wedding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-556x800.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-500x719.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.topweddingsites.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/large_2589525599-672x966.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpoff\/2589525599\/\">Stephen Poff<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> cc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An iPod is perfect for a family dinner where everyone will sit at the table afterward talking and drinking coffee or maybe a pool party with just a select group of old friends as background music for catching up with each other. If you want people to be actively participating in your wedding; hire a good DJ and make it an event to remember and worth the huge effort and expense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple: DJs are live humans beings that create and match the energy and mood of the crowd- iPods do not know what is happening and cannot adapt. If you want your wedding to have life and excitement: hire a DJ. 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