I hate to say this but the bills are piling up and the clients are becoming cheaper than a $40 whore. The past weeks I have
been wrestling with brides, grooms, parents on spending $600 to $1,000 on their weddings and they just don't get it.
My partner quit on me because all we have this year are 3 weddings.
My rates are cheap and we do a great service. But the clients are getting so damn cheap. I had a bride ask if I can DJ for 8
hours for $450. C'mon dude. I'd liike to strangle the mother f***er who started 6-8 hour weddings as a DJ. I tell them 5 hours.
Its like they want you to start playing music at 4pm and end at 12 midnight for under $700.
So with my partner gone, I'm just going to bring one tripod with 2 lighting effects, a 43" tv and 2 speakers and call it a wedding for $350.
Plus drink as much as I can, not have a meeting with the couple just emails, look at the itinerary the day of the wedding and wing it from there.
Thats what these bottom feeder clients want. Sure I wont mess things up but things like up lights and monograms which I used to throw in are all
options now.
I hate budget weddings. Visually they suck. I did one last year. No up lights in a Marriot Conference room sucks balls. Its a cheap ADJ Mini Dekker and Chauvet FXArray,on a light stand-- thats all she wrote. Basically all they will get are 2 effect lights. I have a dozen of them, but will just bring 2.
I'm also thinking about getting a full time job and selling all my equipment. The economy and the ease of a nobody DJing really upsets me. i see low ballers everywhere and they really infiltrated the business, so I'm going to do a few more gigs, while selling off some gear and then call it quits.
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