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I just finished talking with an upper end venue here fairly local to me. One of the venue managers had been to a wedding I did recently and apparently discussed me with the other owners and managers of the venue!
So while I am more than pleased with the offer they are making I am also a little afraid of it as well, here is the situation.
This venue did 79 weddings between April and and September 30th this year and still have 16 on the books for October and November.
They are looking for a "house" DJ to sell as a package deal to the B&Gs, this venue has multiple ballrooms, and a very large guest facility as well as doing all food and beverage services on site. They want me to contract with the facility to cover all weddings sold as a package, offered pay for this is $1000 with a 25 gig minimum, but I am restricted from doing any other contract events on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from March 15th to October 30th!
Although I have always looked down on House and Package DJs this one is peaking my interest, I have done one gig at this place about 3 years ago and it is truly a wonderful resort, the food was excellent although on the expensive side about ($200 for a couple to have a 4 course meal with wine)!
I am seriously considering it is my minimum rate for weddings anyway, but I have concerns about not being able to take other gigs if I am not booked there! The biggest problem I have with it is they don't want my company to book any events period during that time frame for myself June or Dustin. Their reasoning was if I had another Dj booked for a gig and something happened I would be doing that gig and would not be available if they needed me on short notice, and if something happened to me then Dustin would be available to fill in for me, (June was not a consideration as they wanted a male DJ only)
Needless to say if I could get 50 or better gigs during that time frame I wouldn't be concerned but the contract will cut me out of any extras during prime wedding season.
For those here the question is, other than the problems i have already laid out what other red flags do you see?
So while I am more than pleased with the offer they are making I am also a little afraid of it as well, here is the situation.
This venue did 79 weddings between April and and September 30th this year and still have 16 on the books for October and November.
They are looking for a "house" DJ to sell as a package deal to the B&Gs, this venue has multiple ballrooms, and a very large guest facility as well as doing all food and beverage services on site. They want me to contract with the facility to cover all weddings sold as a package, offered pay for this is $1000 with a 25 gig minimum, but I am restricted from doing any other contract events on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from March 15th to October 30th!
Although I have always looked down on House and Package DJs this one is peaking my interest, I have done one gig at this place about 3 years ago and it is truly a wonderful resort, the food was excellent although on the expensive side about ($200 for a couple to have a 4 course meal with wine)!
I am seriously considering it is my minimum rate for weddings anyway, but I have concerns about not being able to take other gigs if I am not booked there! The biggest problem I have with it is they don't want my company to book any events period during that time frame for myself June or Dustin. Their reasoning was if I had another Dj booked for a gig and something happened I would be doing that gig and would not be available if they needed me on short notice, and if something happened to me then Dustin would be available to fill in for me, (June was not a consideration as they wanted a male DJ only)
Needless to say if I could get 50 or better gigs during that time frame I wouldn't be concerned but the contract will cut me out of any extras during prime wedding season.
For those here the question is, other than the problems i have already laid out what other red flags do you see?