Mike Staff Productions

iring Mike Staff Productions. To be clear, my DJ and Photographer were WONDERFUL I had the best experience working with Amy and Dave. I had the worst experience working with the office staff and Michelle at the company. Every inch of planning with them was a fight. We had to constantly ask them to get us in touch with our photographer so we could schedule our engagement shoot (which they then charged us for when it was included in our package which led to another battle to get that taken off our bill!). We were told when we signed our package that Mike Staff would be there to help us at every step along the way. All this meant was two extremely outdated and not user friendly forms that we had to fill out and vague articles emailed to us that “should answer all of our questions”. When I asked if we could meet with our DJ one week prior to the week of our wedding I was told that the DJs are only able to keep one event in their head at a time so it wouldn’t be fair to us or the other couple to have him meet with us one week early. The DJ planning form included our names, pronunciations, do not play songs, must play songs, order of announcements, order of speeches, etc. The photo editing was the worst offense in my opinion. Our photographer was not in charge of editing it was all on Mike Staff’s team. They call their style “true to life” but what that actually means is “we don’t edit anything”. They advertise on their website and social media their “bonus enhanced” photos. THESE ARE NOT THEIR STANDARD EDITS!!! So if you’re like me and you like their “bonus enhanced” edits, just know that won’t be your album. For your official wedding album they just slap a brightening filter on all the photos and call it a day. They included a photo of my husband with an editing mark on his face. They also included test shots in our official album. Posed photos that my husband and I were clearly not smiling, in the middle of talking or looking the other way. These were clearly staged formal portraits NOT candid shots of the day so WHY ON EARTH were we not given the correct shot??? Please learn from my mistake and do not book with Mike Staff. Their DJs and Photographers were incredible and did an awesome job. Their office staff made planning my wedding a nightmare.

ng any questions we had. I loved how our DJ, photographers, and videographer all worked together to time everything just right - all moments we wanted have been captured, and our DJ was amazing! We're still poring over our photos and obsessing over our video - we can't thank Mike Staff Productions enough for helping to make our day so memorable!

eel comfortable. We had our dogs at both our engagement shoot and wedding and she rolled with it so well and knew they were an important piece to our wedding. We got our sneak peek photos from our wedding back and I love them and am SO excited to get the rest! She also really helped me with finalizing our day of schedule too which was such a huge relief for me. I would highly recommend Mary as your wedding photographer!

f it was super easy. They scheduled a call with us where they answered all of our questions and we’re super easy to get in touch with if we had any kind of follow up. For both the photographer and the DJ we were able to look through a bunch of different individuals and pick the style of DJ and photographer that seemed best fitting for us. They picked the videographer for us, which was fine with us as we were not super particular. I feel like for all of the services we got and the quality of services we got, the price was very reasonable. Especially compared to some of the other things we had seen online. Starting with the DJ we had DJ Tim. He was amazing!!! Truly full on DJ vibes and made the night so much fun. Had people dancing literally all night long. We shared with him a couple songs that we wanted to have played, but otherwise we told him we trusted him and we were going to let him do his thing and we could not have been happier. If you want to dance all night long, DJ Tim is your guy! For our photographer, we had Jenny. Jenny also did our engagement photos so it was really nice getting to have her for both so we got to build a relationship with her. Jenny is amazing and so kind and makes you feel so comfortable. My husband and I are a little awkward sometimes with the camera, but she made things easy and fun, and gave us all kinds of suggestions for things that we could do if we felt like we weren’t sure. Her photos are beautiful and I feel like she does a great job of capturing some traditional style photos, but also beautiful candids that really capture all of the emotions and memories that are held within that photo. She also really helped us work through our timeline of events during the day, which is very appreciated as that is such an important part. We love Jenny!!! For our videographer, we had Daniel and we also love Daniel! He told us to basically pretend like he wasn’t there and what I loved about him was he made himself present without feeling overwhelming. We were nervous if it was going to feel like we had a video following us all night long, but it did not feel like that at all. He did a great job of going with the flow and blending in with the events of the day and made everything just easy and fun without us feeling like we were being watched all night. He was definitely working hard to get all of the angles and shots that we wanted and him and Jenny worked together amazingly. We couldn’t have asked for a better team!

this day! Chris was our lead photographer and he captured some of the most beautiful pictures we've ever been in. I can't wait to frame them for our house! Randy was our DJ and he did such a great job honoring our requests for music, understanding our taste in music and he had that dance floor packed all night! The team approach was one of our best decisions in wedding planning because everyone kept us on schedule and they worked wonderfully together with minimal coordination from us. Truly, truly cannot thank them for their work and expertise for our wedding!