Great DJs Transform a Wedding with Jodi Harris – E147

Introduction

Matt Campbell: Welcome everybody to the Wedding Songs podcast. I am Matt Campbell. Today we’re gonna be talking about how a great DJ can transform a wedding. And to help me with this topic, I have Jodi Harris from Sight and Sound Events based in Las Vegas, and she is the CEO of Fun. Welcome to the show, Jodi.

Jodi Harris: Thank you, Matt. Hi everybody. Thank you guys for having me, Matt. Thank you. I’m so excited to be part of your podcast. I listened to it and I’m truly honored that you had asked me to be on. So let’s do this. Let’s create some fun.

Unique Wedding Moments

Matt: Awesome. I’m excited too. And I have to ask you, like I ask everybody, can you just share a unique wedding moment that you had as a DJ?

Jodi: Well, they’re all unique, right? Every single wedding we do is unique. No two weddings are exactly the same. But I could tell you that with me being a huge member of the WWE universe and a big fan, it’s always nice when I get a couple who appreciate my love for the WWE and their fans too, or their members of the WWE universe. We had an opportunity to do a grand entrance complete with the belt. It was super fun. I have some belts, and I have a belt behind me right now that I won at an auction, believe it or not. It is autographed by one of the wrestlers who was the champ at the time. So, I have this WWE Belt. The couple knew I was a fan, and we brought them in to the Stone Cold Steve Austin glass shattering and did a whole entrance like I was the ring announcer. It was definitely really cool, and people were so surprised that I was able to pull it off. We got some great photos, and they were happy. It was just a unique, fun moment.

Challenges with Sparklers

Matt: That’s awesome. Just as a side question to that, because I know sparklers are a little bit tricky. Is that something that was added, or is that still allowed in certain venues in Vegas?

Jodi: In Las Vegas, the hotel partners that I work with do not allow it. They call them cold sparks. I’ve seen them done, and generally, they’re usually done at smaller banquet halls. But when it comes to weddings, specifically weddings, they’re not too crazy about us doing it. If you have a big budget and you’re a corporate, you wanna do something at a big major hotel, they’ll make exceptions for that because they have the budget for it. Cold sparks still involve a fire marshal, and that costs money to get the fire marshal to approve it. So, you always have to ask your venue, even if you are having your wedding reception at a venue that’s not a hotel. You still need to ask because it’s a pretty large expense to get them in, and you gotta do it correctly.

Role of a DJ Entertainer

Matt: Well, before we go any further, why don’t you introduce yourself to our listeners?

Jodi: Jodi Harris, CEO of Fun, self-proclaimed, I guess, right? Nobody’s ever officially, although people tell me. But self-proclaimed CEO of Fun. I’ve been in the wedding entertainment world for a very long time. I have many years of experience and own and operate Sight and Sound Events with my husband, Patrick Harris. His role in the company is just making it all happen. A lot of times you’ll see Pat behind the scenes. He’s the one that is up to date on the latest gear, making investments, researching it, doing all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Me, I’m more on the frontline along with my team. I have a team of six DJs that work for Sight and Sound Events. We have a wedding planner also on staff, Heather, who takes care of stuff. I still perform regularly, over a hundred events a year, still in very high demand. People wanna have that fun. We’ve been around in Las Vegas since 1994 when we moved here from Los Angeles, and we did some of this in LA as well. That’s our background. A big component of networking and just knowing who’s out there, going to conferences, seeing the latest trends, and just keeping up to date. You constantly have to change and evolve.

Transforming Weddings

Matt: Totally agree. Well, we are the wedding capital of the world. So let’s talk about transforming weddings because there are so many that happen here every single year. How would you describe a DJ entertainer?

Jodi: I would describe a DJ entertainer as the person that pulls all the strings. The person that just needs to know everything. It’s not just coming in and playing music. A good DJ entertainer wears many, many hats. They’re not only the DJ, they’re the MC for the event. They’re also the planner when it comes to creating the timeline. They’re also the liaison between the venue staff, the banquet staff, and what’s on your sheet. They’re the director. I like to think of it as, back in the day, we had this title called Wedding Entertainment Director, and I think that’s a really good idea of what we do. We’re wedding entertainment, but we’re the director. Every movie that you go to has a director, and that’s where your DJ falls. Your DJ is like the Steven Spielberg, and then you have the bride and groom as the stars, and then you have the supporting cast. That could be the caterer, the photographer, the videographer, the florist. It’s just everything. You just gotta know everything. We’re also the psychologist. We’re the ones that, when we have our meetings, our final meetings, we call them design sessions with our clients. We create the timeline, but then we find out a lot about music choices. We talk a lot about the playlist and find out that there are songs that are on the do-not-play list for a reason. We always like to ask, especially if it’s a common song, let’s say it’s “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran, and it’s on the do-not-play list. As a DJ, I might slip that one in there. Can you ask me why it’s not? Oh, well, we were married before, so if I hear that song, this is my second time around, I’ll freak out. Got it. So we play the role of psychiatrists. We’re also a security guard. How many times have people crashed weddings that shouldn’t be there? You’re looking at that person going, I don’t remember them, and they’re out there getting crazy with people. So we wear many, many hats. At least a good DJ wears many, many hats. Some of them just put their head down, Wiki, wiki, wiki, slide in, slide out, fade in, fade out. They have no idea what’s going on. They don’t know when the toast is happening. They don’t know that there’s no champagne in the glass. A good DJ will be everything I just told you about.

Reading the Room

Matt: Definitely. And the experience that you’re bringing for sure. That’s a great transition into, okay, people are starting to arrive, and you’re trying to figure out what to play. How do you read the room to decide what music to play?

Jodi: With us, and I hope with every DJ, you would ask that question in your design session just before the wedding. Usually, it’s about a month to two weeks before the actual wedding date. You need to sit down with your client and ask them those questions. Six o’clock doors open. But what are you guys feeling when it comes to background music? A lot of times, because we’re in Vegas, we recommend that they go with a vintage Vegas soundtrack. Do some Rat Pack. Do like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, throw in some Frankie Valli, some Tom Jones. It’s not unusual, believe it or not. Wayne Newton doing “Danke Schoen.” Elvis, but not the high-energy Elvis. Maybe it’s “Now or Never” Elvis. People are coming in, in our market, people are coming to Las Vegas. So you wanna give them that for when they have the cocktail hour. You also look at the age range of the guests. Maybe some of the guests are a little young and might not be too familiar with the Rat Pack, but believe it or not, they know Vegas, they know Elvis, they know Frank Sinatra. Very rarely do we shy away from that. But there are people, if you look at the dynamics or you talk to your client on the phone and find out they’re a little bit younger, you might point them in the Guardians of the Galaxy era. The Redbone “Come and Get Your Love” kind of vibe because they all grew up watching Guardians of the Galaxy, and that soundtrack blew up. People were discovering Brandy and “Come and Get Your Love” and Jay and the Americans and “Come a Little Bit Closer.” You just gauge it on your audience. You gauge it on the couple. Even if they say just play vintage Vegas and you get a little bit bored, just look at the age range of the people that are sitting around you. As we get later into our cocktail hour or dinner, we might now go into a little bit of the eighties, like Spandau Ballet “True.” I played it last night at a wedding, and they all went, “Oh my God, I haven’t heard this song in forever.” Because of the wedding singer, a lot of our music is influenced by a lot of the soundtracks from movies that we watch, and the wedding singer was a big movie, and it chronicled the eighties. Everything old is new again. TikTok is bringing back a lot of those songs too. A lot of people bash TikTok because they’re on it too much, but they’ve really helped bring a lot of older songs to the forefront as well.

Tailoring Music to Fit the Couple’s Personalities

Matt: How do you tailor the music to fit the couple’s personalities and vision?

Jodi: It’s a question that we ask in the design session. Like I knew the couple was into wrestling and stuff, so we ask them, what year did you graduate high school? I don’t wanna know how old they are. That’s fine. But I’m specifically asking them what year they graduated high school. The reason why I ask them that is because during your high school years, that’s what forms what you listen to, what you grew up with, and what you like now. That to me is a very, very important question. If I found out they graduated, let’s say in 2015, I would know that for them, the oldies are probably like music from the eighties. They would think that would be old. They grew up listening to a lot of eighties in the house, and they listen to nineties and early 2000s. That’s how we design and tailor. We give them an option too. A good DJ will also say, “Hey, listen, there are tools out there that we use as DJs, like a DJ event planner.” I always tell them, “Our music database is kind of like Spotify and Apple Music got together and had a kid.” If you want to, you can go in there and drop as many songs as you like to give us an idea of what you like. A lot of them do it, but we’re certainly not looking for you to program the whole four-hour event. We wanna know what you like and what you don’t like, but don’t feel like a good DJ should be able to read the crowd. Finding out when the couple graduated high school gives you an idea. Just looking at the crowd, like how old are these people? If they look like they’re in their sixties or fifties, then you know they grew up with eighties music and nineties. They still like it. When we started DJing, the fifties were huge, right? The Chubby Checkers and all the songs from the fifties, that old Jive Bunny mix. Not anymore. You hardly play that stuff. Going back to the Redbone “Come and Get Your Love” era, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Vintage Vegas is like old. Even if they say they’re old is the eighties, maybe that’s the parents’ era. But the eighties could be new wave, it could be hairbands. It could be so many different styles of music from that. To get those examples in there, then you know what direction to start. When they say they like rock, it’s very generic. You just hit the nail on the head. You know, rock. We like rock. Okay, well, what kind of rock? I like classic rock. I like some Rolling Stones. But then also I grew up in the eighties era, so I might wanna hear some Van Halen. It’s very generic. For the younger generation, rock could be Imagine Dragons. Or Maroon 5. It’s just so different. That’s important too, knowing what you just said. I like rock. What kind of rock? What do you listen to on XM? What’s your station? Especially the local vibe. Being from Vegas, are you Imagine Dragons or The Killers? Because that’s two totally different styles of music. But they all love “Mr. Brightside.” I don’t get it. But they all love singing it and jumping up and down. Talking with the kids, they get it. It’s fun. That’s definitely a party song right there for sure. And you’ll let them go for it. Being fun, being the CEO of Fun and being fun. If you get people singing along, they love that stuff. So you have a little fun with the volume, and people love it. You’re creating that TikTok moment for them.

Handling Unexpected Playlist Changes

Matt: Can you share a time when you had to switch up the playlist unexpectedly?

Jodi: Oh yeah. Very early in our Vegas journey here in Las Vegas, we had a couple who had told us that, and at the time my husband and I were DJing as a husband and wife duo when we first came to Vegas building our company. We had a couple very specifically that said, “Country, country music. That’s it. Leave the other stuff at home.” At the time, the other stuff was CDs. We used to DJ with a CD case before digital. “Leave it at home. We’re not gonna use it. We’re not gonna play it. No one’s gonna request it. It ain’t gonna happen.” I said to my husband, “Just bring everything with us anyway.” Thank God we did because nobody was dancing to the country music. The only two people that loved it were them. People were actually coming up going, “Do you have anything else but country?” We were like, “Unfortunately, yeah we do. But our couple specifically asked for this, and this is all we’re allowed to play. But if you talk to them and they say it’s cool, have them come over to us and we’ll see what we can do.” Sure enough, the bride and groom came over and said, “Listen, we were totally wrong on this. I know we told you country, did you happen to bring some of your other stuff?” I’m like, “Yeah, we did.” So we just got out of that vibe, and everybody had a great time, and the wedding went an hour overtime. As you know too, you’re having those conversations beforehand to say, “Because it’s not the common music, what are we gonna do if nobody’s dancing? Are you guys flexible?” “No, we’re not flexible.” Well, at least you’re putting that seed in their head to say, “This may not work.” I had one time when the bride gave me a strict playlist of just, I don’t remember the genre, but it was just not party music. A guest came over to me and said, “Listen, I’m playing off the bride’s list.” She said, “Okay.” Then she came back to me later and said, “I told my husband that you are a good DJ. He didn’t think you were a good DJ because he didn’t recognize any of those songs. But I told him you were a good DJ because you listened to what your client said and you played off that list.” I said, “Well, here, show him the list.” I gave them the list at the end of the wedding. I said, “Look, I crossed everything out of what I played,” and they agreed, “You are a good DJ because you’re doing what your client said they wanted.” I think that’s tough today because guests can give reviews on Google just as much as the mother of the bride or whoever. It gets tricky. I know DJs that have review cards at the event. When people are leaving, if the DJ had some interaction with a guest, they would hand them the card and say, “Hey, when you get a chance, can you review me as a guest?” I’ve seen it. It’s a thing now. It’s crazy. I was on another podcast, and they were talking about how DJs today are not only getting reviews from the couple and the guests, but they’re trying to get reviews from the photographer, from the venue. So now instead of one review from the couple, I can potentially get three to five reviews. Interesting. It was something we learned at a wedding MBA too. I think Shannon Tarrant had talked about it where you could write a review for a venue. Let’s say you do weddings at Caesar’s Palace. You as a vendor could write a review on your experience working with Caesar’s Palace and their team, and they like it because here’s a vendor writing a review. Then email them, “Hey, just so you know, I gave you this review.” Schmoozing a little bit. But it’s a way to do it. Absolutely. Great tip there.

Keeping Guests on the Dance Floor

Matt: What’s your strategy on keeping guests on the dance floor all night?

Jodi: You are never gonna keep everybody on the floor all night. As much as they’re having a great time, they’re gonna gas out. But you just look at the vibe. You just look at the people and see. If you see it coming, then you fade into something slow. Go in a different direction. Never play the same genre of song all night long. Try to switch it up. If they like country, give them like three country bangers and then maybe go into an eighties set. Or if you’re playing some hip hop, give them that and just look at the crowd. That’s the best way to determine how to keep them on the dance floor all night long. They’re burnt out, they’re gassed out, and then all of a sudden that slow song comes in. Maybe it’s an Elvis “Can’t Help Falling in Love” because we are located in Las Vegas, and what’s a wedding in Las Vegas without a song by this guy? Everybody loves it. That’s just being able to look at the crowd and read the crowd. If you have a playlist that the bride and groom created for you, just figure out a way to program that. Don’t go down the list. Look at it, mold it, play with it, and tell your client that. You say that to the couple, and your DJ should be able to do that. You gave them a list. They’re not a jukebox. They’re not gonna play it all one by one. They’re gonna take that list, look at the crowd, see that they’re starting to get a little tired, and throw in a slow one. Or there are people of a certain age that are sitting down like of a certain age. Let’s get these people of a certain age or a certain look out to the dance floor because maybe by the way they’re dressed, they are into like rock, they might be into the killers and that kind of stuff. Just looking around again, one of the things you asked me about what a DJ’s role is, you gotta be looking, you always have to be looking around. You cannot never be looking down. You always gotta look up and put the phone away, put the phone away. Nobody’s text message is that important. In the middle of an event, you shouldn’t be checking your emails or anything like that. You need eyes up front. You need to be looking around. That’s exactly how you’re transforming that wedding because you’re paying attention to what they’re doing. If they’re dancing and they’re all going to the bar because they’re exhausted, then you know, okay, that’s about how many songs I can play right now. Let’s slow it down and then gradually build that back up to get them back on the dance floor. People wanna dance slow too, you know? They do. I mean, think about it. They get all dressed up, they buy a nice outfit, and they just want that. It’s not just the bride and groom that want the first dance, the slow song, but it’s the guests too. How often do you get to go out where you get to get dressed up and dance with your partner to something nice? So yeah, they look forward to that as well.

Trends in Wedding Entertainment

Matt: Great stuff. So have you noticed any trends in wedding entertainment?

Jodi: As far as the entertainment goes, I see a lot of accompaniment. Like there’ll be a live musician there, a sax, a bongo player. I’ve seen that. I personally haven’t done it or although I should take that back. ‘Cause this Saturday we are working with a saxophone player. But I think it’s cool when you have that accompaniment with the DJ. You’re always going to, when it comes to entertainment, you’re always gonna. Especially us with being in Vegas, the blingy stuff, people love the light up the rings and the foam wands like they’re at EDC. That’s always gonna be a great add-on to any event. And somebody listening might go, oh, that’s so cheesy. It’s not when you’re in the moment. It’s not when you’re playing party rock anthem or something like that and you’ve got the sticks in your hand. Or if you’re doing single ladies and the ring is lit up, it’s not. And the people that will surprise you because it’s your guests are ripping them right off our fingers. We can’t hand them out fast enough. They love that. So I think adding that fun and lighting, making sure that you light the room. If the room is giving it a blue sheen or a gold color, that also enhances it because now you’re not in a drab boring ballroom. It enhances the entertainment and a lot of times the music and the lights, the decor light will kind of sync, it’s like intelligent lighting. So not only are you getting the old, I call it the high school prom kind of look, with the spinning multicolor, but you’re also doing things with the wall, the decor in the room. So that’s kind of exciting. That’s definitely one of the best things that’s happened in the DJ industry is all of the mood, what I call mood lighting, because it’s so important. Oh, absolutely. And it changes just with a flicker of a remote control, which is really good, and it’s a great investment. Your photos look amazing. It looks like a party.

Advice for Couples Selecting a DJ

Matt: So what advice would you give to couples when selecting a DJ for their wedding?

Jodi: Never, ever, ever. Just send an email. Don’t send an email. Don’t go, “Hey, I’m getting married on May 15th, and I’m looking for a DJ. How much do you charge?” That is so bad. That is so bad. I think a lot of DJs now have chat bots on their websites where you can just make an appointment, do a Zoom call with them, find out a little bit about what they offer. I know some DJs put pricing on their websites. I think putting pricing on your website is just a way of just like, you just don’t know. You don’t know what you’re getting for the money. You see a number and it might be too low, or you see a number and it’s too high and it needs a conversation. Just like a job interview, right? When you go on a job interview in the real world, after you go to college or even when you were in your first job, you went for a job interview. The job interview wasn’t an email. “Hi, I wanna work here and this is why.” Then you just, “Okay, you’re hired.” You need to interview. You need to interview the person you need to be because this is the person that’s gonna be driving the bus the day of your wedding. And to just send out an email. “How much?” is just rude. It’s just not the right way to go about it. It drives me crazy.

DJ Team Dynamics

Matt: So let me ask you, because you have six DJs. If X, Y, Z DJ, do you have them talk to the couple during the planning to say this is gonna be yours? Or how does that go?

Jodi: Yeah, absolutely. It definitely varies meaning that we have really good bios on our website. So somebody, if they’re Spanish, let’s say bilingual, if they’re looking for a bilingual, we got an awesome, amazing bilingual DJ. They can request him. We also have a premium event DJ Kevin. We have two Kevins, so Kevin Lum, premium DJ, and it says right on our website, premium DJ. And it goes into reasons why he’s a premium DJ. If they wanna have a meeting with that DJ, absolutely. We’ll do a Zoom. We can get them, we’ll coordinate a time where they can get and talk to each other on a Zoom call. Or if they just don’t wanna do that. And that’s fine. Once I have the design session and once, even in the sales process, when I find out a little bit about them, I’ll know who’s good for them. Like last night being, it was a Monday we do weddings ’cause we’re Vegas all the time. My couple was a little bit more mature. I knew that going in. So who on the team would probably make the best DJ? Me. I’m right around their age, their friend’s age, and it was a banger. We had a great time. It wouldn’t be good for the Spanish DJ to do that party. Could he pull it off? Of course. But you gotta be able to relate to the couple. And for me, I wouldn’t be relating to a couple that’s 21 years old. Right, exactly. So you’d have somebody in your team to do that. Right. And let’s say for example, Matt, you know what, Matt, I think this 21-year-old guy might work for you. Let’s have you talk to him and you decide whether or not, but yes, you should be able to look at the website. And see, and I just wrote a blog about it actually. I actually wrote a blog about it, like about demos. And don’t be fooled by a demo, right? Because on a demo we show our best stuff. We’re always showing the packed dance floor and the DJ bopping in the background. I have it. I just did it. It gives you a good idea. But again, getting back to what I was just talking about, it’s all about the interview. It’s all about the job interview. You just wanna talk to them. You wanna see if they mesh with you. That’s what it’s all about. You have to have that vibe together too. And some people care about it and others don’t. Others are like, “No, just send me, this is what we like. This is what we don’t like.” And that’s cool too. But we always have our DJs. And this goes for anybody, your DJ, whoever’s DJing your wedding. When I talked about the design session, the final meeting before the wedding, they have to talk. Because once you submit your paperwork to your DJ and you type it all up and you give it to the couple and you’re like, “Okay, Matt, does it look good?” “Yeah.” “Okay, I’m gonna have DJ Kevin call you in a week, the week before your wedding and just kind of go over this with DJ Kevin, even though it’s already done.” And that way you’ve got familiarity with each other. You’ve talked to each other on the phone. You’re not strangers on the wedding day. He knows this. You know that. That to me is, there’s no way around that. That is super important.

Discussing Wedding Flow

Matt: Totally agree. So what’s one thing every couple should discuss with their DJ before the wedding?

Jodi: I would have to say obviously the flow of the wedding. One thing, you know, the flow of what their vision is. Like when I tell you, if you’re my client, Matt, and I say, “Okay, Matt, you’re getting married on May 15th, you’re having at Caesar’s Palace. I want you to close your eyes. I don’t want you to think about May 15th at Caesar’s Palace and tell me what that looks like. Close your eyes and what do you see?” And then they describe it and that’s how we kind of also make that connection. “I see people dancing a lot. I see drinks. I see, you know this. I see my Aunt Maryanne and Uncle John dancing the old time Rock and roll by Bob Seger.” You know, whatever it is. But yeah, that to me that is super important. “I see everybody by the bar drinking and nobody dancing.” “Oh, we’ll change that Matt. Especially after a few drinks. Why do you think about an hour later it’s gonna change? They’re gonna go from the bar to the floor.” That’s awesome.

Transforming Weddings

Matt: So, we’re just talking about transforming the weddings and having a great DJ. Is there something that we missed today that you wanted to share?

Jodi: I know everybody’s on a budget and I think what a lot of people also think is that we’re gonna hire a DJ. Let’s say we have the ballroom from six to midnight, or our reception’s from six to midnight, and really the party isn’t gonna get started till eight o’clock, like eight to midnight. It’s gonna be great. But for those first two hours, we don’t need a DJ. We don’t need to pay a DJ. That drives me crazy. We see a lot of that too. Like we don’t need somebody for cocktail hour ’cause the place will just play in-house music, while we’re eating dinner. We don’t need that because they’ll just be in-house music and that’s so wrong. It’s wrong on so many levels because it’s like walking into a movie in the middle. You buy a ticket to a movie and instead of getting to the movie theater early, you’re getting there in the middle. It looks bad. One, two. Your DJ has to set up early for the event, so now you’re paying them either an early setup fee. Or let’s say you’re not, you’re just like, “Yeah, you can come in an hour before everybody’s eating dinner.” They’re looking at the DJ like, “Dude, you are late. It’s seven o’clock and we’ve been here since six, and you’re just getting here.” That’s bad too. It looks, it just looks bad. And even though you, the bride and groom or the brides and the grooms know that you requested this, your guests don’t know. So right away the DJ looks like we’re coming in bad. People’s perception of us are bad. You cannot do that. Literally people need to start the DJ when everybody gets in because we’re also setting the vibe, the tone, and you need somebody there. Didn’t I say we’re the MC, we’re like the Seacrest. We’re the Tom Bergeron, we’re the Carson Daley of the event. We need to guide people. We need to greet them when they walk in, because they don’t know. It’s like cattle or herding sheep. “Where’s the bar? Is that for us? Is it open? Is it closed? Why is there a sign there? Oh, those hors d’oeuvres. Are we allowed to eat those?” You need to be the host. You need to be the perfect host.

Reading the Room

Matt: One other thing I’ll say on that too is you can get this playlist, have it all planned out, and then like we were saying, get there and the cocktail hour really will tell you what people are into. They’re gonna bob their heads, they’re gonna tap their toes. If you give them a list of yacht rock and nobody’s doing anything, then you kind of get the vibe that this is not what I should be playing when people are dancing.

Jodi: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. You’re always, again, reading the room, you always have your eyes open, you’re always just looking around, and you’re also finding out who the big dynamic personalities are. And that’s something too that if you do have a dynamic personality coming to your wedding reception, let’s say Uncle John and he likes to steal the show and the spotlight. You need to let your DJ know that we have a crazy Uncle John. He’s nuts. He loves Michael Jackson songs, but we don’t wanna hear any of those Michael Jackson songs at our wedding. So, if he could request a song, just tell him there’s no Michael Jackson. And that’s a situation that happened to us. We had an uncle who had to hear like Michael Jackson, the couple didn’t want it. She goes, whatever you do, he will bribe you. He’ll give you money, he’ll try to make you play it. Don’t do it. And you got to, you gotta honor that. You got to honor. And uncle, the uncle like threw $300, three $100 bills on the DJ booth and says, I’ll get that Michael Jackson. I’m like, no, you won’t. And we gave him his money back and he kept insisting and I’m like. I just gave the 300 to the bride and groom. I’m like, here, talk to Uncle John. This could be a gift. And, and on the flip side too, if they do know and the couple love Michael Jackson, then do you know to incorporate that? And that’s gonna be your party starter? Yeah. Absolutely. And, and also family dynamics. If, if the parents of the bride and groom are divorced, and they don’t get along, you need to know that too because when you see some hostility and you don’t know the backstory, you’re like, why of those two you, you know, you just need to know.

Conclusion

Matt: Well, great stuff today, Jodi. I appreciate it. Thank you. Where can listeners connect with you and find you?

Jodi: They could find me on Sight and Sound. So it’s S-I-G-H-T-N, like Nancy, S-O-U-N-D.com. I’m also at Jodi Harris.info INFO. So, but yeah, just Google my name, it’ll come up. Sight and Sound, Las Vegas, everything. I’m happy to talk to anybody. If you guys have any questions, want some advice, just you can find me that way.

Matt: Awesome. Well, thanks Jodi. Thanks for everybody for listening. Stay tuned for two weeks for another episode, and I’m gonna be interviewing another great wedding professional. Thanks for listening and have a great day.