Chris. You would be great at it. You have a great radio voice and you already MC, annouce and use the mic. I think with some training you would do great and make extra money!

I hear ya. In reality, I don't necessarily like djing weddings but when someone hands me $1000 and says good job that sometimes overcomes my resistance.

I sometimes force myself to do them cause I need the money but overall I always get good feedback.

I have never (and probably will never) MC'd a reception.  I would hate that, too.  I'll bring the mic and the sound system, but I always strongly encourage for someone close to the bride groom, preferrably someone who knows the wedding party, to be the MC.  It's always worked.  I've never had to do it.  My check is for playing music, not MCing.  And if they ask about that ahead of time, I flat out tell them they'll have to find someone for that.  Then, they usually tell their coordinator to find someone and that's that.  Besides, chances are they know someone who is both close to the bride & groom and known for making people laugh.  Having that person MC the reception usually puts a more personal touch on it I think.  And if the coordinator comes over and says there is an announcement that needs to be made, I simply hand over the mic.  Problem solved.

nice, why didn't I think of that.  That's another thing with the last wedding I had to do, announce the dances and events, ugh....


well this is about same thing I'm in, I want to do music and video for living, but with crappy place I live, will have to resort to computers.  I would agree with Pat, you'd be a better MC than I would, i know that for a fact.

Seriously! there are a lot of dumb and pointless things at weddings, simply because it's "tradition" to do them.

Especially true about the eating cake and going home part.

I live in Indiana, Keith.

In the UK, we usually have a sit-down meal in the afternoon, with speeches & cake etc.
(4 weedings and a funeral) The DJ isn't involved in this.

Then in the evening the DJ plays, some guys insist on announcing every song.....
I just do the minimum,
Say Hi,
Announce the bride and groom for the 1st dance
Announce the food is open (usually a buffet in the evening)
Announce the bar is closing

People want to hear tunes and have fun.
They're not that interested in mixing or hearing the DJ talk.

I have two wedding gigs this summer...you're all making me nervous! And i wasn't when i said i'd do them...after the fact.

I don't / haven't DJ'd since high school('92) and tht was before i was into dance music.

My wife does their hair and they were looking for dance Djs who played 'real' dance music and "christian/happy" dance music. My wife booked me without telling me and now i guess i'm the DJ. 0_o

So i've been picking up tools the last few weeks. 1st one's July 12th. For a friend who likes dance/industrial. But her groom to be is a total hillbilly/motocross junkie. So who knows what will show up on his side. But i told them..."what do you want for free and short notice"?  they're down for whatever,and i'd rather play country than gansta crap anyday.

But , you know what? It'll be better than sitting in the crowd trying to hide my irregular gastro intestinal vulgarities ... 

A friend of mine has been doing weddings for yrs, so i'll have to get some tips from him. I know he has a sampler with all kinds of fun stuff specific for weddings. So he'll do 50% MC and 50% sample MCing. Alot of pop movies clips. He says the crowd really gets into it. So i'll have to look into it...eventually. And when ppl question how long i've been DJing, i say I'm not a real DJ, i just play one on TV.