Don’t pay attention to the number of events. There are planners that only do 5 $5m+ weddings a year… but what you don’t see is the weeks at a time worth of traveling to destinations, designing custom elements, meetings w EVERY vendor etc… all the outside sees is “they only work 5 weddings”. Each of my events has a minimum of 3 meetings… that’s close to 200 meetings a year that I do, guaranteed.
I was just using that as an example for the number of bookings in a year. The thing is it's about making a certain amount of money to maintain a person's livelihood. Some like Ricky B have a day job and are also a DJ. In his case he's not solely dependent on the DJ business yo survive.
Goal was 50 weddings, hit 52 but one cancelled. I’ve closed my calendar for 2026 with exception of maybe one weekend in December. I still get inquiries for 2026 events, but availability is literally zero for the fall. I have 65 total events for 2026. 5 less than last year, but profit wise will be on par or higher, as my avg ticket is up almost $300 over last year per event.
Even when I was a full time dj I had many other sources of income, I’ve never had just one job,
Reread what I posted. I asked that question because someone doing this full time will need a certain amount of events to do for a certain amount of money to survive. That DJ can't just accept anything that comes their way. Now it's up to the individual DJ how much to charge to an event. What also needs to be the case is that they have a lot of potential clients wanting to book them for their event.
I did over 200 events a year for several years and still had other sources of income,
Mix I would venture to say that most of us in this forum have multiple sources of income, even when the majority of our income has been DJing . It’s part of the drive that makes successful people successful. We tend to not sit still and wait for things to happen
It’s called being an entrepreneur, there are income opportunities everywhere, investments, I have a realtors license, several rental properties, a storage facility and a few other irons in the fire.
I understand you now. You took the money that you made from DJing and invested into other things to make you money. It wasn't a job like I had. I had a day job. So I wasn't depending on the DJ business to maintain my livelihood.
It’s too late now, but when you were younger and since you say you weren’t depending on it, the extra dj money could’ve been used to invest in the stock market, invest in a home as opposed to renting, etc.
When I was young I had a day job that I worked about 55-60 hours a week, nights and weekends I DJed and typically made more money per week than my day job paid I had bar gigs Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights from 9-2 am the private events on Saturday, work always started at 8 am the next day
You're the second person who suggested investing in the Stock Market. I don't know anything about the Stock Market and I'm skeptical about investing in something that I'm not sure I won't lose my shirt.
