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How to be a bad wedding guest

Wedding etiquette matters when it comes to guests as well as the wedding party. In an era of increasing informality, this blog believes some practical reminders on how to avoid being a bad wedding guest are timely and appreciated. After all, most people want to do the right things when…

Columbus Pro DJsJune 16, 2025

Dance

The quest for the perfect wedding song

There is no such thing as a perfect wedding song, because we’re all different. Tastes vary. Nonetheless, beautiful love songs from today and yesterday pop up from time to time with which you’re not familiar, but would be a good fit for your wedding celebration. Amazon’s list of the…

Columbus Pro DJsJune 9, 2025

Dance

Top wedding love songs you’ve never heard of!

On a whim, we did an AI search on “wedding love songs you’ve never heard of.” Here’s what came up, in no particular order: “Home” by Phillip Phillips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoRkntoHkIE Really nice song. And we kind of think you’ve heard of it. After all, Phillip Phillips sang it in his award-winning…

Columbus Pro DJsJune 2, 2025

Dance

Amazon’s 100 Greatest Wedding Songs

Brandi Carlile Today’s wedding advice is simple: don’t be a music snob. Or perhaps a more positive way to put it is: keep an open mind to music from different eras. That’s why Amazon’s 100 greatest wedding songs list proves helpful. It exposes young and old wedding attendees to a…

Columbus Pro DJsMay 26, 2025

Wedding planning

The latest rap against destination weddings

Regular readers of this blog know we’re not big fans of destination weddings. A Reddit thread shared the latest problem with the concept: "Awhile back my sister went to our parents to ask for help to pay for her destination wedding, our parents don't have it like that. Our parents…

Columbus Pro DJsMay 19, 2025

Entertainment

Music balance at weddings is a big deal

A couple wrote Miss Manners about how the wrong music balance at a wedding they attended ruined the experience. They struck up a nice conversation with a couple sitting at their table. However, the background music made it difficult to converse: ”… it was simply one guitarist/singer, but his amplification…

Columbus Pro DJsMay 12, 2025

Toasting

How many wedding toasts are enough?

Question: do wedding guests like speeches or dancing the most? It all depends on balance. No one likes endless wedding toasts when they could be dancing up a storm to some great wedding entertainment (provided by us!). We’re reacting to a piece at BuzzFeed on tacky weddings people had attended.…

Columbus Pro DJsMay 5, 2025

Toasting

How to give a wedding toast with a broken heart

Everyone loves movies about weddings. That’s why Hollywood, the Brits, and the French keep cranking them out. In particular, the rom-com wedding toast has become something of an art form unto itself. There are some really good ones. Two movies made seventeen years apart provide contrasting views on how to…

Columbus Pro DJsApril 28, 2025

Wedding cake

Some stupid wedding ideas never die

And they lived happily and ever after… pic.twitter.com/FKo0F0jOUC — Restricted Vids (@RestrictedVids) April 7, 2025 One of the stupidest wedding ideas to come along over the years is the wedding cake smash-up. Someone posted the latest atrocity on X, generating quite a backlash with comments like these: “She spent hundreds…

Columbus Pro DJsApril 21, 2025

Tuxedos

Are ties in or out?

TieMart says that “ninety-five percent of the time, you’re going to wear a tie to a wedding.” Our experience suggests that number is a tad high. Nonetheless, when it comes to guest attire at a wedding, most men wear ties for evening weddings. Less for afternoon and summer weddings.…

Columbus Pro DJsApril 14, 2025

How to be a bad wedding guest

The quest for the perfect wedding song

Top wedding love songs you’ve never heard of!

Amazon’s 100 Greatest Wedding Songs

The latest rap against destination weddings

Music balance at weddings is a big deal

How many wedding toasts are enough?

How to give a wedding toast with a broken heart

Some stupid wedding ideas never die

Are ties in or out?

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