DJ was terrible. Photobooth was a joke. Got a partial refund.
I'm absolutely gutted. I chose this place because it came recommended and they had good reviews.
Well. Here's an honest review. I owe it to other brides.
I had a terrible experience with the DJ and photobooth. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
My wedding was in a reputable hotel downtown edmonton. I paid for the experienced DJ who could read the crowd and accommodate requests. I paid extra for the photobooth with unlimited printed photos.
My recommendation to brides: Don't waste your money on the photobooth. It's an ipad with a small ring light. The attendant didn't have it set up properly. It was too far from the backdrop and he admitted he "forgot" to adjust the brightness of the ring light. The set up was inadequate to ever have a chance of taking a decent photo. Out of 133 photos I received... only about 35 are salvageable. I am gutted. I thought it was just the printer on the night of showing bad photos, but my digital album confirmed it was the whole thing. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND NOT TO USE THE "PHOTOBOOTH" (blurry ipad with ineffective ring light). I don't understand how this went so wrong. The attendant was there monitoring every photo taken... and didn't fix anything. I asked to see the "originals" and I have photos taken by the attendant of himself, testing the equipment, AND THEY ARE BLURRY. He never got it set up correctly. I don't... I don't understand how he came to set it up, took photos, saw they were blurry, and didn't do anything about it.
I splurged for unlimited printed photos. They were terrible and dark. But nothing you can do about that if the source material was inadequate. That was my experience.
ALSO - they don't have physical props. I've never heard of a photobooth that doesn't bring props. FUN: I had left some cheapy props under the photobooth table to "supplement" the photobooth props. Turns out the attendant saw the props and somehow decided on his own that no props were better than some props. I just.. ugh I want to cry.
DJ: DJ was terrible. played the wrong songs for mother-son dance. panicked. couldn't recover. didn't invite people to watch us dance for the first dances, so everyone was still sitting when he tried to switch over to... okay now the dance is starting? IT WAS SO AWKWARD. No one knew what to do. He played the special songs at the wrong times. couldn't transition between songs. sound issues throughout. played 3 breakup(!?!) songs. in a row. at a wedding. Couldn't handle requests. couldn't mix songs. would then choose to play the same entire song for the entire 3-4 minutes of the song.... I assume because he was scared to try the transitions? So many hard stops and computer noises and error-message-sounds. Dance floor was pretty much empty the entire night. My family loves to dance (we're not good at it, but we love to dance). And no one was dancing for most of the evening. I tried to make the best of it but... it was heart breaking. I didn't blame anyone for not dancing... it was.... sigh. I didn't want to dance to what he had going either.
The customer service (partial refund) was appreciated, but it wasn't enough. It doesn't fix how cringey it was. I hope one day I can laugh at the terrible, terrible experience. Right now, it makes me want to puke thinking about it.
Take away: if you hire, don't get the photobooth. If you do, don't trust the attendant to set it up properly. Have a trusted person there right at the beginning to make sure that things are set up okay. I trusted the professionals to do the job, and they didn't. Make them do printed photos in front of you. Don't leave until they set it up correctly.
DJ: .... I don't know what to say about this. Apparently this DJ was just having an off night. I don't know how to avoid this. I know we are human but ... but you just can't have an off night at a wedding.