My younger brother is in his last semester of college for sound and music editing. He does some DJing out at college, and my guess is its typical college party type stuff but I'm not positive. My initial reaction when I got engaged was that my brother could DJ the reception and we could save money, only needing to rent the equiptment for him. So I asked him and he said yes.
After thinking about it a bit and talking to my parents, I'm not sure this is the way to go. My brother has only been to 2 weddings and neither of them was DJed or had the traditional dances or reception party. My concern, and my parents, is that he isn't going to know how to properly run the show, since basically that's the job of the DJ. My fiance works out at the gym with a professional DJ, who he already spoke to and has our date open and would love to do it for us. My little brother is still going to do the ceremony music, but he's extremely easy going and doesn't really have strong emotions about things like this.
Problem is, my dad just let me know that he thinks my brother is really into doing it for me, that he really wants to help me this way. It got a little stickier than I had hoped, because he's family and I don't want to hurt his feelings. I am just extremely concerned he won't do the type of job I need him to, and a bit piece of how my reception goes lays on his shoulders. My dad suggested looking online and printing a "script" for my brother to follow...but I don't want my DJ following a script, I want him to know what he's doing.
...help??