I’m a DJ and co-founder of MagiCali Entertainment, a DJ company that depends on people hiring us, and I regularly tell couples not to hire a wedding DJ. That statement tends to surprise people, but it reflects how different weddings get built. Some celebrations benefit enormously from live musical leadership. Others function beautifully with a…

Southern California has an oversupply of DJs and an undersupply of nights that actually land. That sounds like a contradiction until you’ve been to a few “mid-market” events. The kind where the client pays real money (say, $1,500 to $5,000) and still ends up with some combination of: the cheesy MC voice, the tacky booth…