We’re all about transparency in our pricing. When you contact us, we’ll send you a general overview and will then provide some official options after we’ve talked and determined your needs and vision.

A safe bet for a wedding is a year in advance. Nine months is pretty common, meaning that’s when the floodgates open and you have a lot more competition. We currently have events scheduled up to 2 years in advance, with my record being 3 1/2 years.

Step 1: Contact us with details to confirm availability and fit.

Step 2: Set up an initial consultation with the owner of Day One DJ, Joe Osterberg.

Step 3: We’ll send you a proposal / contract that you can look over and complete if you want to move forward. Once we sign on our end and receive the retainer, the event is officially considered booked. And we all live happily ever after.

Our perfect clients are the ones that want their event to be a party.

They went to one of their relative’s weddings and the DJ sucked. Then they went to their friend’s wedding and the DJ was awesome. Everybody was on the dance floor all night. Then, they went to another friend’s wedding, and the DJ sucked again. They left early and nobody danced.

Our perfect client wants to be the one with the awesome wedding that nobody stops talking about.

Weddings

Proms / School Events (High School and Above)

Corporate / Company

Private Parties

Public Events

Fundraisers / Galas

Our goal is to play music that makes as many people happy at the same time as possible, but your own personal vision is our priority.

Because we mix our music, it’s entirely possible (and fun) to find ways to drop tracks that fall into the classic category without compromising your vision of bangers, throwbacks, and vibes.

Our planning process includes a music planning section that helps us shape the night. Some clients use it to its full extent, and some just tell us their vision and trust us to make it happen.

Through beatmatching and creative transitioning, it never sounds awkward to “quick mix” a song.

We’re in the TikTok era, and most people simply don’t have the attention span for a full 4 minute song. Some songs are untouchable and will absolutely be played in full, but those songs are becoming an increasingly rare exception.

The entire goal of mixing the way we do is to keep people from leaving the dance floor. If they don’t even realize the next song is starting, they’ll never have the chance to ask themselves if they know the song or if they like the song. And hey, if they don’t like it, they know they don’t have to wait too long for the next one. If it was 4+ minutes long, they’d know they’d have time to hit the bar or the bathroom and would have to go through the process of convincing themselves to get back on the dance floor all over again.

Hosting / MCing / Coordinating are absolutely essential for a successful event. We’re there for cocktail hour and dinner regardless, even if you have live musicians playing… especially if you have live musicians playing. It’s really hard to coordinate things while playing an instrument.

Plus, we’re not loading gear in during dinner and accidentally hitting your great aunt in the head with a speaker stand.

😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
(Actual photo of the 200 guests at your wedding. Not to scale.)

Part of our planning process is your option to add to a
DO NOT PLAY LIST,
PLAY IF POSSIBLE LIST, and a
MUST PLAY LIST.

The MUST PLAY list is limited to 25 songs, because we’re playing them regardless of what happens on the dance floor. We can only handle the danger of looking like we don’t know what we’re doing for so long. Even if you’re 100% sure all of your songs are bangers…

The PLAY IF POSSIBLE list is great, and gives us some great ideas! The DO NOT PLAY list also tells us a lot, and there are millions of other songs that we can drop instead.

It’s totally acceptable for your parents to be on the call, but this is YOUR wedding.

Parents paying for it? Awesome! It’s still YOUR wedding.

We often get asked if we have to deal with any bridezillas. Nope. Well, maybe one. Mother of the Bridezillas are way more common. I mean, your mom is pretty cool, but hell hath no fury like a mother-of-the-bride (MOB) who insists on playing “I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock & Roll” after dropping 5-6 figures on the dream wedding she wasn’t able to throw herself for her favorite person in the world.

Seriously, your mom is probably pretty cool… but put on your big girl pants and act like you’re about to get married.

Look, we get that your grandma needs to hear a polka. Lucky for you, we love to watch your grandma do the polka. How does she still have the energy to do that? Amazing.

The point is that we don’t pull that stuff out by default and try to keep it to a minimum. So put it on your must play list and prepare your grandma.

If you want your night to revolve around this type of music exclusively, we’re not the best fit.

We play country all the time, but if you’re country to the core, and you want your wedding to be country to the core (BIG DIFFERENCE), then we’re probably not the best fit for you.

Trust me, several of us can crush a 90’s country set it that’s your jam.

After hundreds and hundreds of weddings, we’ve learned that most people who listen to mostly country, all end up wanting to dance to throwback 2000s bangers as soon as they get a few drinks in them… except for that one guy with the lip full of chew and the fancy cowboy hat. He only wants to hear Waylon Jennings.

Unconfirmed Fun Fact: More successful relationships have been formed at country music festivals than on Tinder.

Yes!

We’ve done many weddings and events across the country. I’m still looking for my first international gig, so maybe that’s you…

Travel is assessed beyond a one hour radius from our home base in Stillwater, MN. Anything beyond two hours requires one night of lodging to be provided by the couple.

Travel events that require a flight will receive a quote based on details specific to that event.

No.

We do occasionally make an exception if you’re working with a well known professional wedding planner whom we’ve worked with before, but you’re going to have to talk us into it.

If you’re debating a private residence vs. booking a venue… book the venue. Trust me. Your wedding will be less stressful, better coordinated, and probably less expensive.

Requests are suggestions. Your requests are instructions.

If you want to hear the dirty version of W.A.P. at 8:00 at night, we’ll do it and take the hit from the judging eyes of your concerned guests. If your drunk co-worker has the same request, we’ll make her feel good about it and then send her on her merry way back to the bar where she’ll promptly forget about it and then ask us again 15 minutes later. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Many requests we hear throughout the night are either a good idea or something we know will work, in which case, we’d find a good spot to mix them in.

We’re constantly evolving and adding services. Our current extra services include (but are not limited to):

-Uplighting

-Photo Booth

-Ceremony Sound

-Monogram

-Projector / Screen

-Co2 Cannons

Yup! Keep in mind that this list is always evolving. It’s not a definitive list, but it’s much better to have a shorter collection of VIP “starting places” versus a list of 10,000 vendors.