Yesterday I wrote a quick post about my Tony’s Wedding, but I forgot to mention the songs selected. So let me take a quick second to mention them

First Dance: Brad Paisley - She’s Everything

Father Daughter: Heartland - I Loved her First

Mother Son: Vicente Fernandez - Vals de Alejandra

Bouquet Toss: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Garter Removal: Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs out

Vibora de la Mar: Vibora de la Mar

Dollar Dance: Cumbias by Pegasso, Socios del Ritmo, Grupo Topazz, etc..

Here they all go, before I forget.

Happy Planning!

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DJ Francisco
Your Professional Wedding DJ in Houston

This past Saturday, April 26th was my brother, Tony’s and his wife Myriam’s Wedding.

CONGRATULATIONS MR. AND MRS. PEREZ

Surprisingly a lot of people came to celebrate, more than I anticipated. We have half of our family (a large Hispanic family) in the Forth Worth / Dallas area and they ALL came down to celebrate this joyous occasion. A couple of my cousins had not been to Houston in 10 Years!!!

We enjoyed the live music of my High School buddies, Grupo Alazzan, who always bring a crowd to a dance floor. Their music was great and everyone enjoyed themselves. People were talking the next day about how good of a job they did in keeping the dance floor full.

I provided the music while the band rested and I feel I did a good job of playing the styles of music the band did not cover.

The dance hall was was a large and well decorated and was located in Channelview, the name of the hall was Moreno’s Reception Hall. I would recommend it to anyone.

I’m still recovering from the weekend. It was fun, and it was an event I was able to enjoy a couple drinks and dance with my wife and daughters, since it was a family event.

Hope your Weddings are as fun and successful as ours was this weekend.

Happy Planning!!

DJ Francisco in Houston
Professional Bilingual Wedding DJ in Houston

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“L… is for the one I LOVE”…

Weddings are about Love… As wedding professionals it is our responsibility to help our clients celebrate the love they have for each other and the commitment that they are about to partake on…

A quick search on Google.com for the word Love comes up with lots of different websites and suggested search terms such as: love poems, love quotes, making love, love stories, etc…

What is LOVE though?

Is it a feeling? Is it a commitment? Is it supposed to last forever???

I believe everyone who has experienced love, has their own answer to these questions.

Wikipedia on Love:

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure (”I loved that meal”) to intense interpersonal attraction (”I love my girlfriend”). This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love

One thing is for sure, Love is an deep uncontrollable emotion.

In the context that will explore it during this post is the love you have for a girlfriend, wife, or fiance and how it relates to the Wedding Industry.

TV does a terrible job at portraying weddings as Love events. They portray weddings as money sucking, bad attitude getting, stressful, bad service oriented, bridezilla, negative events. But then again, they need drama to attract viewers.

And the term Bridezilla, that’s also another negative word that gets passed around from vendor to vendor. Most of the time, if you listen closely to the vendor telling a story about a bridezilla, you can tell that the bride was not happy with his service.

To me a bridezilla is bride who did not get what she paid for or what she expected. The wedding vendor did not meet her needs or expectations.

How can you do a wedding with that type of mentality week after week? After a while, I’m sure it’s so repetitive for some of these vendors, that they begin to forget that weddings are a celebration of a couple’s Love for each other.

I’m not saying that wedding vendors should let their hand be bent so far back that it breaks, but if something is misunderstood, or there is some kind of mis-communication between the bride and the vendor. Then things need to be explained in an apologetic, kind manner. Not in the, you-should’ve-known-matter-of-fact tone that a lot of vendors use. There are vendors that actually get mad and upset because their brides don’t understand exactly what they are paying for. It happens all the time. Who’s fault is it that the bride does not understand what she is paying for and what she needs to pay additional for?

In order to help brides celebrate their Love, their special day, the day they will remember for the rest of their lives, wedding vendors must, first love their brides and their families. It’s annoying to hear other DJ’s or other wedding vendors call their passionate brides; brideszillas, B-word brides, terrible headaches, etc… They are emotional human beings who want and expect the best, the day of their wedding.

If you, the bride, don’t feel loved, respected, or appreciated from your wedding vendor, you should demand it and expect it. You shouldn’t have to ask for it because a real wedding professional knows and understands that good customer service means to love your customer and to be of service to your customers.

Happy Planning!

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DJ Francisco
Elegant, Bilingual Wedding DJ in Houston

Well I know you guys are always looking for the latest and greatest when it comes to songs to use at your upcoming event. Whether it’s a wedding or a quinceanera, you always want the newest or the most popular.

This year March was a blessing to me. In actuality all this year has been a blessing. I’ve stayed busy every weekend of the year (Except for the weekends that I take off to spend time with my daughters) and am booked all the way up to July (With a couple of dates to fill, and many Fridays still open) as I type this article. And I’m even thinking of raising my prices just a bit since I normally do A LOT more for my customers than most DJ companies in Houston.

So what I am going to do this post is write out the more popular songs that have been used by my brides and a few quinceaneras for their father daughter dances as well as for the first dance and any other traditional dances. Now I will not include every single on, but just the top songs that I enjoyed and I thought were really emotional.

OK, let’s get to it.

Bride and Groom First Dance

1. Aerosmith - I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing
2. Mana & Juan Luis Guerra - Bendita tu Luz
3. Etta James - At Last

Father and Daughter Dance

1. Rascal Flatts - My Wish
2. Stephen Curtis Chapman - Cinderella
3. Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses

Mother and Son Dance

1. Boyz II Men - A Song For Mama
2. Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up

This is just to give you an idea of what’s been requested recently. For a more comprehensive list of songs, check out my extensive
Song List.

Thank you.

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Happy Planning

Francisco H. Perez
Your Wedding DJ in Houston

As stated on my previous post, there were two major events going on at the beginning of this week.

1. The Master of Ceremonies Workshop - By Mark & Rebecca Ferrell
2. The Premier Bride Presentation - By Jennifer Schaffer and Myself

This was a very interesting week as far as learning and teaching goes. Learning the role of Master of Ceremonies was great. There were many things that were new and others that were strengthened. It’s great to have a mentor, a person who can guide and direct you on your profession. I would recommend that class to anyone that is interested in public speaking or in performing the role of MC, not just in weddings, but in any ceremony.

The Premier Bride Presentation was also pretty successful. I was able to talk about online marketing and it seemed that for the most part the attendees were very interested in Blogging and in Building and maintaining an email list. As a result, I started a new blog called Bloggin’ForWeddingVendors.com. Here is a link to the outline I used in that presentation:

Premier Bride 04-01-2008 Meeting Bullet Points

If you are a wedding vendor and would like to:

1. learn how to and why blog
2. increase traffic to your website
3. Learn to do successful email marketing
4. Learn about website usability

Or anything else online marketing related, visit the site, and subscribe!!

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Francisco H. Perez
Your Professional Bilingual Wedding DJ in Houston