September 15, 2007 & September 16, 2007

Bridal Shows are an exciting opportunity for everyone planning a wedding. You can actually meet the vendors, get a feel of their personality, see what they offer, win free stuff and more importantly, get the discounted rates that many vendors offer. So you save money, win free stuff and feel good about your choices, what more can you ask for?

You can see a sample list of some of the vendors that will show up on their Wedding Professionals Page.

There will be:

• Wedding & Grooms Cakes
• Reception Halls (Venues)
• Honeymoon and Travel
• Health and Fitness
• Photographers
• Professional Houston Disc Jockeys (DJ’s)
• Chair Covers and Table Cover Linens
• Ministers
• Limousine Services
• Dance Instructors
• And many other services offered for you to plan your PERFECT WEDDING DAY!!

So HOW do you tackle a Bridal Show????

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I just got off the phone with Maria of Dougie Jam Productions, LLC in Connecticut. It was a real pleasure talking to her about the way we do Quinceañeras here in Houston. She was very insightful and even gave me some ideas on providing a way to educate other Houston DJs or even other DJs around the Nation on how to properly run a Quinceañeara’s reception.

Maria mentioned that in Connecticut, Quinceañeras were not as big as they are here in Houston, Texas, Florida or California. They are just becoming popular over there because of the popular MTV show, My Super Sweet 16. So if my planning information, or my Sample Quinceañera Itinerary helped her get her foot in the door of doing high end Quinceañeras in Connecticut, I will be very pleased.

It’s amazing how much Prices and Wedding Packages vary from State to State. Her wedding DJ Prices average in the $1,400 price range, where my Highest Wedding Packages is $1,400. My average Price range is in the $800 price range for a wedding, and in the $600-700 price range for a well planned Quinceañera.

C’mon Houston, I know we can do better!!!

BTW, if you want to download a copy of the Sample Quinceañera Planning Itinerary, the link is below…

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This month I have my first Quinceañera of the month on Friday, August the 3rd. It will be in the east side of Houston in a Beautiful Venue. Of course I will be the DJ for that Quinceañera and I’ve talked to the Parents and the Quinceañera. The parents are a traditional Mexican Couple in their 40’s and this is going to be their very first Quinceañera they plan, so I was able to give them a lot of advice in making it flow smoothly.

I went with them last Saturday to the Wedding of mutual friends and they did not like the way the Wedding Reception flowed. The arrival of the guests was at 6:00pm, the dinner started at 6:30pm and was over at 7:30pm where normally, in a Hispanic Wedding, I would start the toast, the cutting of the cake and then do their first Dance, Parents Dances and a Special first dance for the family and guests. It looked like the DJ did not know what was going on, and worse it looked like he expected the Bride and Groom to tell him what to do, so at about 8:30pm the Bride and Groom were behind the DJ booth going over how they wanted things to happen. (????!!!!???) Not the place to do it, it took them nearly an Hour to figure out what was going on and by 9:30pm, all the formalities began. This of course was the DJ provided by the facility. It was easy for the parents of the Quinceañera to tell me what they wanted: To not have to go through all that at their event. It was horrible, the guests were complaining about how long it took to start dancing, some left before the first dance, and really it felt like nobody knew what was going on or what was next. I mean you tell me, who’s job is it to make sure things run smoothly and are completely organized and pre-planned???

Well, we discussed the planning and in about 1 hour, we had a completely planned Quinceañera Reception to their specific liking and even worked with the Choreographer to make the transitions run smoothly. I guess that is the difference between a Professional DJ, he just takes extra time to prepare, plan, and organize the Reception. Which is what I love to do.

So we discussed some of the songs that they wanted at their event.

Quinceañera Songs: Parents

They wanted music to cater to their adult guests, music like Cumbias, Norteñas, Merengue, Mexican Tejano. Some of the Names of some songs they mentioned were:

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