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| - I recently attended a wedding where Billy J was hired to provide DJ services. However, he provided so much more.
At the rehearsal, there were twice as many groomsmen as bridesmaids. Which meant that each lady would have two escorts. That scenario led to a discussion by Billy J about how a threesome is every guy's fantasy but usually with two girls instead.
At the dinner, the bridal party was still upset over those remarks.
During the wedding, just before the introductions of the bridal party before dinner, he walked out to the center of the floor and introduced himself and then asked the audience to say as a group "Hi Billy J!"
Maybe 10 people out of 200 mumbled the response he was looking for. He then lectured the audience about how that made him unhappy and how that's not the thing to do. Because it was relevant, he then brought up his Hawaiian heritage and then tried to get the audience to say aloha a couple times. All in all, at least 3-4 minutes of inane banter that wouldn't be well received at a middle school dance was forced on the audience before introducing the actual bridal party.
A few other highlights, he couldn't remember anyone's names during the rehearsal, was loud and unorganized, and then couldn't remember the father of the bride's name for the father-daughter dance section. During the introductions before dinner he mispronounced the newlywed's last name.
Positives were that his two flashing light bars worked the whole evening, and his cd collection didn't appear to have any scratches, which is impressive considering how old they must be. His assistant was actually just fine, played good music and didn't make a spectacle of himself while Billy J took multiple breaks to eat and look at women.
The sad part is all of this is true. The venue had many acoustic challenges, and for that part he actually did as good as you could expect, music was not full of echos and the mic's were minimally affected during speeches. Outside of that, he was ridiculous.
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