Wedding Mix CD Tips

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So I'm putting together two mix CDs for a friend's wedding this weekend. There are supposed to be two... one 'early' mix for the whole crowd, and one 'late' mix for the younger / hipper kids who will dance.

Any tips? Great songs I should put on there? And since I've never actually DJ'd before and will have no control over the set once it's started, what's a good ratio of slow songs to fast songs for something like this? Like how often does the mix have to get slow?

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

If you want to get everybody dancin', take 'em to Love Beach...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033P6/qid=1122922847/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6324149-9492658

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 1 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Take 'em to Love Beach!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033P6/qid=1122922847/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6324149-9492658

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

If you want the reception to really cook, take 'em to Love Beach...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033P6/qid=1122922847/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6324149-9492658

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

There are already a bunch of wedding DJ/general DJ playlist threads in here if you search around, but in my experience: early mix (first half of the night) needs a LOT of slow songs, and put them in blocks of two or three back to back. Basically, any time you have built up the tempo and think you should play a similar uptempo one, or an even faster one, don't! Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles want LOTS of time to come out and slow dance with the bride and groom, and will love you for not trying to bust out the crunk too early.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I saw a bunch of those other threads--this is great advice Daniel, thanks.

That's my main concern--I want the kids to have fun later but I want the old folks to have fun too.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Every time I attend a wedding--which has been quite frequently as of late--I always bring my copy of Remain in Light in the car so that the DJ, who never has "Once in a Lifetime" in his zillion disc collection, will play it. The lyrics reference marriage, of course, but everyone loves the song anyway no matter the setting. Play it!

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Monday, 1 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

this is really tough to do with mix CDs--so much of DJing is reading the crowd! Daniel otm though.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

PLAY ALL JOURNEY

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 1 August 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm planning on doing this for my own wedding early next year and I was thinking of taking the same approach as you. My feelign was to start with a soem 60s soul - motown, stax, etc. - coz ecerybody loves that, both young uns and my parents are of the right age. Then move into more poppy stuff - recent hits, mainstream r+b, mainstream dancey stuff, indie classics to get the teenage boys dancing around and of course the better dancing eileen weddign staples.

The hey with the late disc, I think, is to focus one what you and your friends - or at least the ones that are likely to dance - will like. I was goign to to for a mizture of house, disco and slightly more obscure funk and soul.

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

"You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

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