Spinning Truths & Dropping Wedding Bombs: DJ ESG’s No-BS Guide to Your Big Day
- In a world where weddings are both chaos and perfection, DJ ESG—aka Eric Scott Gold—emerges as the wise-cracking, truth-dropping, mic-spinning legend the Philadelphia Tri-State area never knew it needed. Armed with nearly 175 thousand streams across 15 separate platforms, he’s the proud host of the region's number one wedding podcast, where advice flows freely—sometimes for couples, sometimes for vendors, and always delivered with the subtlety of a confetti cannon.
DJ ESG is not your average private event DJ; he’s a walking wedding encyclopedia with a sarcasm filter permanently set to "off." With 30+ years in the biz, over 3,500 events rocked, 1,000 glowing reviews, and a résumé so sparkly it could double as a disco ball, this guy doesn’t just sugarcoat reality—he skips the sugar altogether. Millennials and Gen Z? He sees you. He knows your flea-sized attention spans. That’s why his micro tips are short, snappy, and unfiltered, served with a heaping side of "you're welcome."
The accolades? Oh, they’re endless. Seven-time "International Mobile Entertainer of the Year" finalist. Multi-time "Best Of" winner in Philadelphia, San Diego, AND Bucks County. The nation’s loudest, proudest LGBTQ wedding advocate, and the first to hoist the Pride flags at the International DJ Expo like the hero weddings never knew they needed. Oh, and did we mention he’s officiated over 200 weddings? Including 50+ same-sex unions? Or that he had the honor of MCing THE Jason Kelce wedding with his buddy Bob on the decks? Yeah. #GoBirds indeed.
So, buckle up for DJ ESG's wedding wisdom—raw, real, and straight from the heart. Peace, Love, and God Above!
Spinning Truths & Dropping Wedding Bombs: DJ ESG’s No-BS Guide to Your Big Day
Dress Drama Averted: DJ ESG's Guide to Bridal Backup Plans and Seamless Celebrations
Ever watched a bride's big day spiral into chaos because of a wardrobe malfunction? DJ ESG has seen it all on the wedding dance floor and is here to share the untold tales of bridal dress disasters. From ripped seams to runaway bustles, these hiccups can turn a joyous celebration into a stressful scramble. But there's a silver lining—and a solution. Learn from DJ ESG’s candid experiences and find out how a backup dress can preserve your day from turning into a fabric fiasco. We've got stories of brides who turned potential catastrophes into unforgettable memories with a simple plan B—like switching to a playful knee-high number that kept the night alive with carefree dancing.
Through engaging, real-world anecdotes, DJ ESG paints a vivid picture of why having a backup wedding dress isn't just an option; it's a wedding day essential. With a knack for storytelling, he recounts mishaps that have left brides missing pivotal moments of their celebration, and how a little foresight can keep the party going. Prepare to be inspired by practical advice that ensures your wedding remains as magical as you envisioned, free from sartorial stress. Tune in to get the lowdown on avoiding dress dramas and making your special day as seamless and blissful as you deserve.
Peace, Love & God Above! :-)
what's up, guys? Dj esg, season number 12 honest wedding advice. And today I'm talking about the back up wedding dress. Yes, out of my last 10 brides, three of them had a massive dress issue, like into the dancing portion of it, and it was terrible because one of the dresses broke another bustle, fell off a bead or whatever you call those things button and then something just happened totally where one of the seams got ripped out. So I had three out of my last 10 brides have a massive dress problem where they were trying to have a good time and it hindered their good time during the dancing.
Speaker 1:Now, dress Awesome. Dresses are great man. Dressmakers, seamstresses, everybody that's involved in the dress process. They love what they do and they want to see you look good. Come down the aisle, get married, get your pictures, have your first dance. After that's done, man, you want to party. You don't want to worry about fixing or holding up your dress or going in the hallway and missing your song.
Speaker 1:I had a bride miss the most important song to her of that evening. Now, granted, I had 200 and some people there. I saw her from where I was standing. I saw her from where I was standing. It was like across the room, but I didn't know she was getting her dress fixed. I couldn't see that. I'm not going to jump out of the back of the DJ booth every five seconds to make sure that you know she's good, she's in a good, good French, she's good, she's good to go. You know, I see her in the room. My job is to make sure that she's there.
Speaker 1:Okay, once I know that she's there or he's there, the groom or the couple, then I got to play that song or I'm able to then play the must-play song. It's not my job to go over there and be like are you okay? Do you feel good? Does your head hurt? Does your stomach hurt? Is your dress fixed? Do your shoes work? Do you have you know? Are your heels still up? Do you need the bathroom? Like, that's not my job. There in the room now I'm playing your song, the song that you wanted me to play.
Speaker 1:So I start playing the song and I look up and everybody's jamming and she gives me this look from like across the dance floor, but I didn't know she was looking at me and then she starts like spittling behind her and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? Like, because, like I was going to the next song, I was like, okay, she's there, she heard it, she gets it. Like her face was like that. I was like, okay, so she knows. You know, lo and behold, they're behind her fixing her dress because her fucking bustle fell apart and she missed her song. So they walk up to me, they go, can you do that again? I'm like I guess, sure, we'll play it again. And you know, I waited until the very end to play it again dress and I was like man. I felt so bad. We had to tie it up because somebody stepped on it and it pulled and I was like man and she was sort of upset because she wanted to dance and she couldn't really dance.
Speaker 1:Another one lost a button and another one. It wasn't made to be bustled, it was just sort of laying on the ground. She had one of those things that go through your wrist and you hold it up the whole time and she was trying to drink and dance and it was just a pain in the ass. So I had another bride recently that had a dress change. Now the dress that she wore was beautiful and then the dress that she changed into was shorter, I mean it was like knee high so there was no way of tripping over. I mean it was white, but she got changed, came back and she had this, she had a blast. I mean she had such a good time.
Speaker 1:Um, now, I know it's a little bit more money, I know it's a little bit more of an expense, but you don't have to literally put that on top of an expense. You can take something that's like this is not so important or not so relevant, and we'll exchange this for this so that the bride's comfortable Groom doesn't matter. He breaks a belt, he gets another belt, he splits his pants. So well, you know, if he takes off his jacket and shirt comes out, it is what it is. But you know you're not bustling a groom's, you know, whatever you call this down here, his fucking hem, like you're not grabbing on the hem and pulling it up, you know, and making sure the pants aren't enough. The pants are going to be long, regardless If you lose your belt or start dropping. Your pants are sweating or you have no ass or it's flat. They're going to sag down. You step all over them like a kid back in fucking high school when he was wearing Jankos, when it was cool to step all over your pants Whole different story. But I'm telling you, as a bride, you don't want to have that issue happen.
Speaker 1:So if you want to make sure that that dress is is, you know, multi-bustle dress, or you don't have a sleek thing with like one bustle that pulls it up and it's just straight around, or like you don't have the perfect body and you have to have a certain kind of dress made, where it's a big princess dress and there's a lot going on, you know you might want to think about having a secondary option so you can dance and have a good time. Maybe you go to the after party. Anyway, you're going to say, oh, I'm going to go home and get changed and put on something more comfortable. What if you just went to the after party wearing what you were wearing? Now you don't have to worry about it. You know what I mean. Just go right there so you look at it from this perspective.
Speaker 1:I tell everybody to have two dresses To have dress A, which is the nice dress for everything you're going to be doing the pictures, the formalities and then have in it for two and a half hours, not have to worry about it touching the ground or falling over shit and you can have a blast and have a good time at your wedding. Listen, some people have thought about it, some people have done it, some people haven't done it. I'm telling you, seamstresses are great, but they're not expecting people to pull or tug or step on it or shit does happen. You know what I mean. Like I had a $200 pair of cowboy boots one time and I was dancing and all of a sudden I mean cowboy boots cost anywhere between you know, $200 and $10,000 and like the boot ripped and I'm sitting there doing the party and the fucking boots like this in the front, I'm like my toes hanging out. Luckily I got nice feet. You know what I mean. So I had to worry about that shit. But