Three DJs, four hundred weddings, and a rule about not talking too much on the mic. We read the room. We don't run it.
No quote forms and no "starting at". What's on the page is what a Saturday in Riverbend costs. Weekdays and winter dates come down a little; the fine print says how much.
Cocktail hour through last dance, with the setup and teardown happening outside your five hours.
Vows, cocktails and the party, with sound that moves with your guests from one space to the next.
Everything above, plus the room lit properly and a photo booth your guests will queue for.
Prices are for Saturdays within 90 miles of Riverbend. Fridays and Sundays are $200 less, and any date from November through March is $300 less. A $500 deposit holds the date. Extra hours are $250 each and can be decided on the night.
Six weeks out, you sit down for 45 minutes with the DJ who is playing your wedding. Not a coordinator, the actual person. We walk the timeline hour by hour, decide when dinner music ends and dancing starts, and practice every name in the wedding party out loud. That meeting is why the night feels planned without feeling scripted.
Your do-not-play list is a contract, not a suggestion. If a song is on it, it does not get played, no matter who asks or how many times your best man tries. The reverse is true as well: the must-plays go in, and the DJ finds a moment where each one lands instead of dropping it in at random to get it over with.
We talk when it helps and not otherwise. Introductions, the toasts, the cake, last call. No games, no crowd hype, no narrating the party back to the people who are at it. The music does the talking. If the floor is full, that was the announcement.
Each of these can be added to any package, on the contract or later. Everything below is already in The Works.
The DJ you talk to on the call is the DJ at your wedding. Pick by taste, or tell us the music you love and we'll match you.
Started on house and disco in 2013 and still builds every set toward a peak. Will find the one soul record your grandmother knows every word to.
Hip-hop and R&B first, with a folder of clean edits and an instinct for the exact minute the aunties want Motown.
Indie, pop, and more country than his record bag admits. Prefers the booth to the camera, so here are his hands.
Most couples go from first email to signed contract inside a week. The planning happens closer to the day, when you actually know the answers.
Email the date and the venue. If we're free you'll hear back within a day, usually within the hour, with which of the three DJs are open.
Twenty minutes with the DJ you'd actually get. Music, the room, who's giving toasts, and whatever you're nervous about.
A two-page contract in plain English and a $500 deposit hold the date. The balance is due two weeks before the wedding.
Timeline, must-plays, do-not-plays, and how to say every name. Then the 45-minute planning meeting with your DJ to walk it all through.
We gave Nadia one song we didn't want, and it never came on, even though half the wedding asked. Our friends are still asking who the DJ was.
Marcus said maybe eleven words on the mic all night, and every one of them was a name, pronounced right. The floor never emptied. Not once.
The uplighting turned a community hall into somewhere we'd have chosen on purpose. My dad danced. My dad does not dance.
If yours isn't here, put it in the date-check email. After four hundred weddings we've heard most of them.
All black, a suit or a dress, and the jacket comes off once the floor gets going. Tell us the dress code on the planning form and we'll match it. We've done black tie and we've done a barn with the doors open, and we looked right in both.
If you want them to. On the planning form you choose one of three settings: open requests, requests filtered against your do-not-play list, or none at all. Most couples pick the middle one. Either way the DJ decides when a request fits, not whether the floor is ready for it.
Every wedding travels with a second controller, a spare mixer, a backup laptop with the whole library offline, and a wired mic in the bag. In four hundred weddings we've swapped gear mid-set three times, and nobody on the floor noticed any of them.
Anywhere within 90 miles of Riverbend is included in the price. Beyond that we add mileage, and past 150 miles a hotel night so nobody drives home at 2am. We quote both on the date check so there's nothing to discover later.
Yes, as long as the venue allows it. Half an hour before the end the DJ finds one of you and asks, quietly. Extra hours are $250 each and get invoiced the following week. You won't be asked to decide anything at the planning meeting that you'd rather decide with a full floor in front of you.
Two million in liability, and your venue gets a certificate within a day of asking. Most venues we work at regularly already have one on file, so it's usually one email.
Send the date and the venue. That's all we need to start, and it's all the email asks for.
Email us the dateRiverbend and anywhere within 90 miles, included.
Planning meetings at the studio, 210 Millrace Lane, Unit 4, Riverbend, or on a video call if that's easier. Map
Every other Saturday is open for at least one DJ. Fridays and Sundays almost always are.