Three readers, three questions
- The couple: will this person get our families and our friends on the same dance floor, and will they listen to us?
- The planner: is this supplier reliable, easy to work with, and does the price fit the budget?
- The venue: is the equipment safe, insured, and within our rules?
Each section below answers one of them. Put the couple's answers first: they decide.
1. Which parts of the day you play
A wedding is several sets in one day: ceremony, drinks, dinner, first dance, party. Say which ones you cover and how each sounds. This line from the invented example does the job:
He plays the whole day, not only the party: jazz and bossa for the aperitivo, the first dance mixed from the couple's own edit, then a dance floor that runs from Italian classics to disco and house and whatever the friends from London asked for on the planning call.
Then the practical version, as a list a couple can compare with another DJ's:
Ceremony: [music for the entrance, signing and exit; microphone for the officiant and readings] Drinks: [style], [time to time] Dinner: [style, at a level that lets people talk] First dance: [from your track, or your own edit] Party: [style], until [time] Languages on the microphone: [list]
2. How you work with the couple
Couples want to know they will be heard. Say how: how many meetings or calls before the date, a music questionnaire, a do-not-play list, how requests on the night are handled. One short paragraph.
3. A sample of the music
A club mix tells a couple little. Give them what they can picture: a playlist for drinks, one for dinner, one for the dance floor, or a short video from a past wedding, if the couple agreed to be filmed and shared. On a club press kit the mix comes first; here it can come after the description of the day.
4. What you bring
If you bring the sound, the list is longer than a club rider, and it is the planner who reads it. Speakers and for how many guests, microphones, ceremony speaker, lighting, backup. Then what you need: power, a table, parking, arrival time, the day's timeline.
Ask the venue first. Some have their own system and rules about it. The Great Barn in London lets DJs bring their own playback equipment but not speakers, and plugs them into its PA; it also allows music from 10.30am to 10.30pm.[1] A full template for this case is in the DJ tech rider template.
5. The documents venues ask for
Some venues will not let a supplier in without paperwork. Two examples, both in England:
- The Great Barn asks music providers for “A list of equipment”, “Public Liability Insurance” and “PAT testing certificates”.[1]
- Gaynes Park asks every supplier to have “a minimum of £5 million public liability insurance”, PAT-tested equipment if it connects to the venue's power, and copies of the certificates, and warns that suppliers without them may be unable to work there.[2]
PAT testing is the British name for electrical safety testing of portable equipment; other countries have their own rules, and the amount of cover differs too. Do not put a number in your kit you do not have. Put a line saying which documents you can send, and send them when asked:
Documents on request: public liability insurance ([insurer], cover [amount], valid to [date]), electrical safety certificates for all equipment, equipment list.
6. What other couples and planners said
On a club kit this section is press quotes. On a wedding kit it is couples and planners. Use real words from real people, with their permission, and say who they are and when: “Sophie & Daniel, married near Siena, 2025” reads as a person; “A happy client” does not. The quotes in the example are invented, like the artist; yours must not be.
7. Price, or how to get one
A planner working to a budget wants a number or a range. If your price depends on the day, say what it depends on (hours, travel, ceremony sound) and how fast you reply with a quote. Say how far ahead your busy months book. If you hold a date while a couple decides, say for how long.
The page, in order
1. Name, region, the one line (e.g. "Weddings in [region], from the aperitivo to the last dance") 2. One photo of you working at a wedding, one portrait 3. Which parts of the day you play (the list above) 4. How you work with the couple 5. Music samples: playlists or a short video 6. What couples and planners said 7. What you bring, what you need, documents on request 8. Price or how to get a quote, how far ahead you book 9. Contact: email and phone
Hospitality, such as a meal for the DJ, goes in the rider, not the main page; Digital DJ Tips keeps it to “the absolute necessities”.[3] For the bio itself, there is a wedding example in DJ bio examples, and a reply to a couple's first email in DJ booking email templates.
On PRESS-KIT.CLOUD
See the example first: Duccio Vanni, an invented wedding DJ in Florence, with highlights for the day's parts, quotes from couples and a planner, and a tech section that lists his own speakers and microphones and asks for one 16 A socket. The quotes, like the artist, are invented.
You fill in one form and get a public page and a PDF a planner can forward, free. The ivory “Wedding & private” PDF style in the example is on Pro (€19 once); the free plan has the Basic style.
Sources
- Hillingdon Council, The Great Barn (a wedding venue in London), “Entertainment guidelines”, undated
- Gaynes Park (a wedding venue in Essex, England), “Supplier Terms & Conditions”, undated
- Joey Santos, “All You Need To Know About DJ Technical Riders”, Digital DJ Tips (a DJ school), last updated 26 March 2018
All read on 2026-10-22.