Getting Value

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Value -- Getting the Best for Your Special Day

Most couples work on a fixed budget for their wedding. Consequently, one of the most important issues for many brides & grooms is the value of the price they are paying for each particular wedding vendor.

When dealing with a budget, the tough part is deciding which components of the wedding day should get more of the budget to make it a success for you and all your guests (DJ, photographer, florists, etc...). If you spend less money on a less important area, then you have more to spend on the most important aspects. For example, if you spend $10,000 out of $15,000 on the food, you are left with $5000. If you spend $8000 on the food, then you have $7000 for the rest of the professionals.

If couples shopped purely by finding the lower priced services, they would just serve Peanut Butter and Jelly for dinner (sounds ridiculous, but that option would be really low priced). Why don't couples do this? Because they feel that the dinner is important to the outcome of their reception and, therefore, are willing to set a higher value to the meal and thus, a higher percentage of their budget for a good dinner (often higher than any other area of the wedding budget). The sandwiches could fill a need of hunger, but they would not bring any value to the quality of the wedding reception. In many people's eyes, the sandwiches would lower the value of the reception.

Likewise, you want to be careful of wedding vendors that will offer "low prices" to get your business. You never want to take the chance of lessening the value of your wedding reception memories -- for the 2 of you and all of your guests. How important is the entertainment to the outcome of a reception? In relation to the total outcome of the wedding day and reception, we understand the value that a DJ service has:

For this reason, you do not want a low quality DJ for your reception. Instead, you want a DJ service that will ADD value to your wedding reception.

How do you find the right DJ? Get the Best! If you get a low quality DJ service, can you never "redo" the memories. Your wedding reception is a "once-in-a-lifetime" event and so you need professionals who take that responsibility very seriously. Here at Universal Sounds, we take this responsibility extremely serious. In fact, our customers state that our DJs are responsible for 70% - 90% of the success of their wedding reception (these percentages are based on evaluations that each of our customers fill out after their wedding reception). Do most DJ firms average a 70% - 90%? We are the exception and we take the time to show couples what makes our DJs worth more (in an appointment with us, you get to read all of the evaluations from our customers and see why they say "we are the exception" to the industry).

1. We invest into each of entertainers with the most extensive training program of its kind in the Midwest (one of the only of its kind in the country). Since starting our training program, we have not lost one entertainer from our firm to a competitor! We provide ongoing paid-training to our entire staff. We are the ONLY firm in Wisconsin to have entertainers attend EVERY major DJ convention in the country each year!

2. We pay our entertainers more - thus helping us retain the best entertainers in the state. Consequently, we do not deal with the issue of turnover that most DJ firms have. Most important, you get incredibly talented and customer service-oriented entertainers.

3. We provide our entertainers with the best sound and lighting equipment for 2 reasons....1. They have reliable equipment that can keep them focused on providing you and your guests with great entertainment and 2. They have the ability to create and a fun and exciting atmosphere for everyone with great sound and lighting.

4. We are constantly creating new concepts for entertainment services and new options for interactive entertainment. By doing so, your reception becomes unique and memorable.

5. We have 1 extra amplifier, 1 extra mixer, 1 extra microphone, and 1 extra CD players at every event for emergency purposes (not back at our office - actually at your event). That means you have 2 sets of sound equipment at your event. None of this backup equipment is used except in emergency situations.

6. Our music libraries are updated on a weekly basis and are all ORIGINAL cds (no illegally copied CDRs or mini-discs which is what many DJs operate with). We even make this guarantee in our contract. We believe that there is only ONE way to do things right - the RIGHT WAY (no cutting legal corners simply to save money).

7. YOU - THE CUSTOMER. We take as much time with you and as often as you want to plan your reception and to address any questions and/or concerns that you may have for your wedding reception. Three weeks before your reception, you get to have a one-on-one meeting with the exact entertainers who you will work with at your reception.

8. How can we afford to do all this? Our customers believe that we are worth the extra money to get all that extra quality and assurance that their reception will be a huge success for them and all of their guests.

Entertaining is a service industry. In service industries, low price can often lead to lower service and lower quality. Universal Sounds was created to provide entertainment services for couples looking for extremely high quality entertainment for their reception at an incredibly high level of customer service -- couples who want a great value for making their reception a huge success.

Here at Universal Entertainment, our customers believe that taking the chance of getting a low quality entertainment service and/or team is never worth the risk of the entire reception's success. We love what we do here at Universal Sounds and have a passion for making couple's receptions a success for everyone involved. We certainly understand that not every entertainment company is right for every couple. We understand that we are one of the highest priced entertainment services in the state. When you setup an appointment with us, you will have the opportunity to learn if we are worth the price -- our customers say that we are "worth every dime" (see testimonial below):

"Karen and Tony were wonderful entertainers. All of our guests told us that this was one of the best wedding receptions they had ever been at. They were able to get people out on the dance floor, keep them entertained, and keep the mood light and fun and family oriented, which was exactly what we wanted. We told Karen this, and wanted to repeat it. We originally weren’t going to go with Universal Sounds because we felt that you weren’t within the budget that we could afford. In the end, because we looked over the material sent to us again, and the in-depth details of the event menu, we made the choice to go with you. As David said to me when we left the reception, “Universal Entertainment was worth every dime!” Neither of us had to worry about anything, because as soon as we walked in, we could tell that Karen and Tony had everything under control and things were going to run smoothly. Thank you so much for making our reception a night to remember!"
Mr. & Mrs. Kudla

Keep the following in mind:
The highest priced DJs will only cost ten to twenty percent of a total budget. If the DJ costs 10% - 20% of the total reception budget, but they will be responsible for 70%-90% of the success --you are getting an amazing value for your investment in choosing the BEST!