Usually I am an easy going person and it takes a lot to upset me. However, at last Saturdays wedding the venue people had me livid within 30 minutes of my arrival.
{begin rant}
I enter the room and was starting to unload my equipment on the DJ table. This is a table placed near the dance floor and was decorated by the Bride's family in the same decor as the head table, cake table, gift table, with blue skirting and blue/white lights in tulle. I was quickly told that this was not my table, my table was 'over there in the corner'. I asked why this table was decorated like the others, yet my table, which was over 60 feet from the dance floor, had red skirting. He told me no comprende, that was my table. I begged and pleaded my case, but since I am in their house (and don't habla) I had no choice but to set up on that table and run cords to speakers and lights, approx 75 ft per run of XLR.
After I was too far into setting up to move, someone else came in and said that the original table was indeed for me and that the worker was looking at the wrong diagram. No apologies from anyone, in fact I had to move the blue skirting and lights/tulle to my table myself to match everything else. I wasn't asked once all evening if I wanted a glasss of water or ice tea.
During the event the people who decorated asked why my table was moved, and I did not have any problem telling them. It was almost impossible to read the crowd because I could hardly see the dance floor, and I also couldn't judge volume levels. There was also some dead air during the evening while I worked my way from the dance floor thru the crowd to my console for music ques. By far not my best gig, but the B&G were very happy and thats all that mattered (I did not mention anything to them).
Top picture- my table was originally in front of the picture on the wall -venue re-arranged tables to fill in the void when they removed my table
Middle picture-I'm standing on the dance floor facing my console back in the corner of the room
Bottom picture- Notice all the empty room in front of me- can you see the dance floor?
{rant off}
BTW- in the top picture, notice how some of the napkins were in the glasses and some tables had the napkins folded on the table. This was not on purpose- the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing.
{begin rant}
I enter the room and was starting to unload my equipment on the DJ table. This is a table placed near the dance floor and was decorated by the Bride's family in the same decor as the head table, cake table, gift table, with blue skirting and blue/white lights in tulle. I was quickly told that this was not my table, my table was 'over there in the corner'. I asked why this table was decorated like the others, yet my table, which was over 60 feet from the dance floor, had red skirting. He told me no comprende, that was my table. I begged and pleaded my case, but since I am in their house (and don't habla) I had no choice but to set up on that table and run cords to speakers and lights, approx 75 ft per run of XLR.
After I was too far into setting up to move, someone else came in and said that the original table was indeed for me and that the worker was looking at the wrong diagram. No apologies from anyone, in fact I had to move the blue skirting and lights/tulle to my table myself to match everything else. I wasn't asked once all evening if I wanted a glasss of water or ice tea.
During the event the people who decorated asked why my table was moved, and I did not have any problem telling them. It was almost impossible to read the crowd because I could hardly see the dance floor, and I also couldn't judge volume levels. There was also some dead air during the evening while I worked my way from the dance floor thru the crowd to my console for music ques. By far not my best gig, but the B&G were very happy and thats all that mattered (I did not mention anything to them).
Top picture- my table was originally in front of the picture on the wall -venue re-arranged tables to fill in the void when they removed my table
Middle picture-I'm standing on the dance floor facing my console back in the corner of the room
Bottom picture- Notice all the empty room in front of me- can you see the dance floor?
{rant off}
BTW- in the top picture, notice how some of the napkins were in the glasses and some tables had the napkins folded on the table. This was not on purpose- the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing.
There is such a feeling of disconnect with the dancers when working there. Thank goodness we've only booked 2 events there.
