Intermountain West Wedings with Richie T. of Best DJ In Utah – E92

Richie T. of Best DJ in Utah and Matt Campbell of My Wedding Songs sit down and chat about weddings and music. Listen to a fun-filled episode with topics including:

Memorable Weddings

Live Musicians & Magical Moments

About Richie T. and Best DJ in Utah

Current Hits Filling Dance Floors

Song Requests

Typical Wedding Moments including receiving line

Picking Wedding Music Tips

DJ = Film Director

Line Dances

Wedding Playlists

Accepting Choices

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Podcast Transcript

Welcome to the Wedding Songs Podcast. I am Matt Campbell. And today I'm very fortunate to have Richie T on the podcast. He is based in Utah and go ahead and say hello, Richie.

Well, hello everyone.

Today, I am going to just have a conversation with Richie to talk about music and, learn about him and about weddings in the Intermountain West area.

So, Richie, you know, just to get things started, I always want to start off with an icebreaker. So tell me a little bit about your most memorable wedding.

Memorable Weddings

Well I, I thought about this I'm going to tell you two and I'll be brief with them. One is the most like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this happened.

And then one was like, oh, this was pretty cool that this happened and I'll tell you the disaster first. So this was the last wedding I did before COVID shut everything down. We're getting to the toasts and the maid of honor had started drinking probably the day before. Easily, maybe days before, I mean, the fact that she was able to stand was pretty remarkable and she gets up and she's doing her maid of honor toast.

And she says to everyone, well, we all know that they don't really love each other. This is her toast. And you know how sometimes within a toast, you can hear like, someone will start out with that bombastic phrase. And then you're like, okay, the punchline is coming here. They're going to bring it around and we're all going to laugh. It put us on our heels, but it, it, it ended up being okay.

That was not what she did. She's like, we all know that they don't really love each other. And, and the only reason that they're getting married is because she's pregnant, which she was. And very few people knew they had told me because they said we don't think that you ever will say anything like this.

But I do feel like I'm starting to show a little bit and we don't want any sort of jokes. And I was like, I would never, but I appreciate you letting me know. So she says, and the only reason they're getting married is because, you know, she's pregnant. And we'll be doing this wedding thing again in a couple of years when she finds someone that she loves.

And, and it was just unreal. The response that was in the room to the point that people started booing her and then she just tripled down where she was like, come on. I know we're all thinking about it. I know we're all feeling it. What? I'm the only one that's going to tell the truth. A couple of groomsmen, this was at one of our ski resorts, picked her up and took her to the lift.

Told the security people, do not to let her back up here for any reason. And then, you know, sent her down the mountain. And then what was, and this is the kind of person I am? I became a Facebook friend with this bride. Cause I was like, I got to see how this pans out. And then as it turns out, she did get divorced like six months later.

So now my question is, is that made of honor and that bride friends, because she was the only one that was being honest with her, or was it like, I can't believe how tactless you were, or whatever? So, that's my disaster. Most memorable moment that I've ever been a part of. One that this just recently happened, but that I was pretty proud of actually at a different ski resort.

We do a lot of that in Utah, a lot of people, especially in the, in the mid summertime, because it's so hot down in the valley like it is in Vegas for you.