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A groom said he wasn’t pleased with the “annoying” MC at their wedding who came with the DJ they hired
He said the MC “mispronounced my wife’s name as we entered the reception” and “made a dirty joke that went a little too far for our conservative family,” among other things
He said that he and his wife did not write a review for the DJ due to their unhappiness with the MC and declined a partial refund from him
A groom wasn’t too pleased with the MC he hired for his wedding.
The man shared in a post on Reddit’s popular “Wedding Shaming” forum that he and his bride-to-be had hired a DJ for their wedding and met with him ahead of time to make sure that they were aligned on the wedding reception music.
“He was kind of soft spoken, so we wondered how he would handle making announcements and moving the evening along, but he seemed pretty professional so we figured he knew what he was doing,” the groom said.
However, on the day of his wedding, he said he and his bride found out that they had actually “hired a DJ and MC duo,” with the “soft-spoken guy” playing the music and another “outgoing” man making the announcements.
He said that while the “music/dancing” was “awesome,” he had different feelings about how the MC handled things and said he was “so annoying.”
“This VERY outgoing gentleman proceeded to yell over the microphone the whole evening, mispronounce my wife’s name as we entered the reception, told the guests that ‘the bride wanted them to shut up’ during one of the speeches and made a dirty joke that went a little too far for our conservative family,” he said.
For context, he noted in the comment section that they had over 280 guests, which is why he guessed that the MC “felt like he had to yell in order to reach the room.” He added that while “that alone would have been fine,” the “other comments were really what rubbed us the wrong way.”
He noted that it was a “bummer” that he and his bride weren’t able to meet him before the nuptials and “possibly find out what we were signing up for, or for him to get a chance to understand our vibe.” He also said that he didn’t have time during the ceremony to talk to him about it either.
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“I don’t think we would have ever thought to have a talk with him about [that] before they happened,” the room said. “Maybe a more assertive couple would have.”
He said that after the wedding, the DJ they worked with “kept reaching out after the wedding to have us leave a review,” but his wife “explained” to him “that if we left an honest review, it might not look great for his business.”
“We really liked the DJ, and the music really was well done, so we didn’t want to do that to him,” he continued. “He was very apologetic after that and actually offered a partial refund, but we declined.”
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