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A professional wedding DJ will do a lot more for your wedding celebration than simply play dance music. Here’s what you can reasonably expect from any experienced pro.

Even the best-laid wedding plans aren’t enough to protect you from a wedding album full of spoiled pictures. Here are some red flags that can pop up in the middle of what were supposed to be treasured photos — and how to fix them before they become a problem.

If a lot of your guests are friends with whom you’ve often partied into the early morning hours, there’s every reason to believe they’ll want to keep the party going after your wedding reception is over. Here is some common-sense advice to make your after-party just as memorable as your reception.

This article is just for fun. I want to tell you what some of your wedding guests are going to tell your DJ, to try to get him to play their requests ahead of everyone else’s requests.

For the most part, our couples are flexible about their dance music request lists, because they know their guests may or may not share their musical tastes, and they want their guests to have a great time. But each couple wants to personalize its request list to some degree. Otherwise, every wedding would be just like every other wedding. Here are some request list guidelines.

A lot of considerations must go into the length of your wedding celebration. Here’s a guide to determining how much time you’ll need to schedule for the biggest party of your lives.

The best wedding photographer in the world can’t manufacture energetic, happy pictures of bored wedding guests. Forced smiles always come off as just that – forced. Your Chicago wedding DJ plays a bigger role than you know in creating an atmosphere conducive to memorable pictures.

How can you streamline the process of post-ceremony photos as much as possible, while still getting what you want out of those shots, pleasing the parents and getting some frame-worthy stuff? Start with our 5 ways to Painless Post-Ceremony Photos!

A second wedding can easily become more stressful than a first wedding if you don’t take control of it right away. Parents still have lots of suggestions; but now, so do the kids from your first marriage. But regardless of what friends and families want you to do, there are certain rules that people in polite society must follow when planning second weddings.

The best weddings are those that are planned by a couple, not just by one person. Men often need some coaxing to get them involved in wedding planning. Here are 10 secrets to enlisting their help.