This episode’s drinks: Hot toddy & seabreeze
Topics we covered:
- How a Manhattan girl came to LA and became a wedding DJ
- How the hipsters are bringing back bowling, skating, and other group activities
- We tell the stories of our first professional weddings
- Why we take our payments before the wedding
- We shout out to planners and coordinators (we love you!!)
- How we introduce the wedding timeline options to our couples
- We divulge our band nerd history
- The skill that allows DJ Maasha to keep the party going, aka “reading the crowd”
- We discuss how where couples spend their money tells you their priorities
- Whether officiants should have PA systems or not
- The big differences between East Coast and West Coast culture, even in weddings
- How weddings differ from other gigs DJs do
- Why it’s about how you handle mistakes, not just preventing them
- Finding flow state in your weddings
- The differences between a professional and an amateur
- My bone to pick with friendors who bail on couples the month of the wedding
- Why the vibe matters
- How gender affects the way people interact with us professionally
- We chat about bridezillas, groomzillas, and my dreaded, momzillas
- How the energy you put out there can attract unexpected results
- Why Maasha thinks mitzvahs are more stressful than weddings
- How Maasha uses music to reflect her couple’s history, backgrounds, tastes, and love story (like a movie score!)
- How my personal wedding experience affects the way I do business
- We talk about the busiest wedding months in California
- How running our own businesses makes us take better care of ourselves
- How to know who your market is
- How we handle sexism within the wedding industry
- We describe the feeling we want every couple we work with to have with us
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