How Can a DJ Help Create the Perfect Wedding Day Timeline? DJ Scotty J

A wedding DJ will curate the entire soundtrack of your most important day. He can use his skills with music to move the timeline forward, organize the chaos of a group setting, and evoke the appropriate emotional response from your guests!

Take it from DJ Scotty J, a long-time professional Utah wedding DJ, that your day can be curated perfectly with the right guy on the mic. Here’s some of his advice from years of experience DJing the best Utah weddings around. He knows a thing or two about how to structure your timeline and make everything run smoothly.

He’ll make sure everyone is paying attention at all the important moments!

The Perfect Start: Setting the Tone for Your Utah Wedding

The whole day starts when the ceremony starts. Your wedding DJ is the one playing the music you’ll walk down the aisle to (and then back it up as the brand-new Mrs!), and the one who will be curating the background music to your most intimate and exciting moments. Let’s be honest, you’ll be much less stressed with a real DJ running the show than your little brother on his iPod.

Your grand entrance is often a moment that’s overlooked, but Scotty knows how much the rest of the day hinges on it.

“That’s typically the first time that I really jump on the mic and try to get people’s attention and try to get people all excited for it. And then we jump right into the grand entrance.”

After that, there are a few different ways to move into the rest of your wedding day celebrations. “You can do all of your special dances there. If you’re not going to have an open reception, you can just do your first dance or you can go right into your dinner service. That’s a great opportunity to draw attention to the couple—so the first dance there is super great.”

A DJ is going to be the one to announce all of your big moments. And DJ Scotty J knows better than anyone how important it is to get everyone’s attention on the couple for moments like their first dance. Both you and your guests would feel a lot better with a professional Utah DJ service on the mic instead of your great uncle Bob who has an affinity for cracking bad jokes.

Smooth Transitions From Cocktail Hour to Cake Cutting

You can keep the party going with dinner, more dances, and more celebrations—like your cake cutting.

“I recommend not doing the cake cutting right after dinner if you’re going into an open reception, because a lot of your older guests feel obligated to stay until the cake cutting. If you delay cake cutting just a bit, I’ve seen a lot more retention.”

“Instead of doing the cake cutting right there, maybe do your parent dances, first dance, and a type of anniversary dance.”

What exactly is an anniversary dance? There are two different ways to do it. “You can either find out who’s been married the longest, and have all couples on the dance floor, and then weed your way down until the grandma and grandpa or the older couple that have been married for like 60 or 70 years are left.”

“Or—my personal favorite way is to fill up the dance floor. You start with everyone that’s been married, like, 50 years or more, and then work your way down until those who have been married for an hour or more. Everyone claps for the bride and groom when they come on and then you invite everyone on the dance floor. And that way you jump into a first dance set.”

A great Utah wedding DJ like Scotty knows all the right moments to bring everyone together on the dance floor with the best tunes! Much better than a random playlist on the best man’s phone.

Don’t Forget Your Fun Utah Wedding Traditions

And here’s the best part—your first dance set doesn’t have to be the only one. “I always like having two separate dance sets because, with the first dance set, you trick people onto the dance floor, you throw on maybe some more throwback-ish music to keep those people on the dance floor and keep them going because they’ve been there all day.”

Here’s where you add in your fun traditions, like cake cutting and bouquet tossing—all with amazing music in the background of course. Scotty uses these as a way to break up the dance sets.

“That first dance set gives you that opportunity to hit that throwback music, all of that stuff, but not your rage party music that like the bride and groom want to have. Typically you push that until later on in the night for two reasons: first, grandma and grandpa don’t want to mosh—typically. They don’t want to hear Chris Brown and try to do some dance moves, they’d much rather listen to Frank Sinatra or ’80s, ’70s, ABBA kind of stuff.”

Unless of course, your grandma can break it down better than anyone in the room. Someone turn on Get Low for Grandma!

Adding Personal Touches with DJ Scotty J

“The second reason that you have a first dance set is to allow your bride and groom, if they’re still greeting people after the first dance set starts, to go back to greeting people. So they don’t feel like they’re missing out on their party music.”

We know exactly what it’s like to hear a song and feel the need to rush to the dance floor!

“The second dance set is more of your party music. It’s that stuff that you’ve been dying to just dance to.” This is where we bring in the good stuff. Alexa, play Scotty’s ‘Absolute Wedding Rager’ playlist.

At the end of the day, you want your wedding not only to run smoothly but have the best music, whether you’re cutting it up with Grandma or running hand-in-hand with your new spouse out to your getaway car. A great Utah DJ like DJ Scotty J will be a seasoned expert who knows how to set the perfect tone for every moment. With him at the helm, your Utah wedding will run smoothly and leave you with memories to last a lifetime.