When did you book your dj?

lealfrantz

Our wedding is 10.23.11 and we haven't booked our dj. We planned on using a guy my FI works with. He owns his own company and is a great guy we trust. However, he just got promoted to a sargent position so we aren't sure what his schedule would be and none of us will know for about a month.

We would still like to use him, but I also need to secure our date somewhere. I know October is a very busy month, but we are also getting married on a sunday afternoon. When did you ladies book your dj? Am I cutting it close or do I still have a few months?

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we booked ours 14 months out. FI wanted to make sure we had this vendor. (LG entertainment)- he books failrly fast.

Most vendors do for October weddings- its the month Houston has "perfect" weather

akg0053

Our DJ was super popular, so we emailed him originally about 10 months in advance, but then met to finalize everything about 9 months in advance. Our wedding was on a Friday evening, so I wasn't overly worried about people booking up.

If I were you, I'd at least do some research about who all would be willing to do a Sunday wedding. I had a friend recently get married on a Sunday and as it turned out, quite a few people were happy taking the loss of business than have to work on Sunday. 

Good luck!

JosieMarie00

Our wedding is in Sept and we just booked ours a couple of weeks ago.  

REB1003

Our wedding is also in September and we booked our DJ last week.. I am not really sure what the norm is though.. but if you find one you like.. just book them in case someone else rolls around with your date! 

Mandan5

My wedding is in March and we booked in September.  I researched a bunch of DJs and they all had availability 6 months out.  Hope that helps!

bRooklynRocks

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-houston_did-book-dj?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:121Discussion:5da01f36-8e87-43a9-a843-8189c094ba54Post:2cefb447-4baf-430e-9036-c4e25e61916b">Re: When did you book your dj?</a>:
[QUOTE]Our DJ was super popular, so we emailed him originally about 10 months in advance, but then met to finalize everything about 9 months in advance. Our wedding was on a Friday evening, so I wasn't overly worried about people booking up. If I were you, I'd at least do some research about who all would be willing to do a Sunday wedding. I had a friend recently get married on a Sunday and as it turned out, quite a few people were happy taking the loss of business than have to work on Sunday.  Good luck!
Posted by akg0053[/QUOTE] It's been the other way for me. I've found many vendors free for that day.

lealfrantz

Thank you so much ladies! That really helps. To be honest, I am not to particular about who the dj is. I just want a reasonable price. I don't want to sound cheap, but I don't want to spend much. It just wasn't a priority for us. The good news is that my FI's coworker should find out his schedule sooner than expected so I should know something in the next few weeks. 

icekitty37

Our wedding was October 2, and we booked LG in February/ March.

We piggybacked and got a great deal: $600 for 30 uplights and 4 hours of DJing because the DJ (Cesar) was already going to be at the venue later in the day for another wedding.  I suppose otherwise, he may have been booked for our date, but we were not SET on him particularly, just the deal, if that makes sense!

akeptwoman26

I would do it now. He had booked me without knowing he was already booked for that day so I'm now in search of a DJ! Do it now, what's the purpose in waiting, that would be another check off the list