
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
Golf Gaffe: DJ ESG's Tale of a Groom's Unplanned Emergency Room Visit on His Big Day
Ever wonder what happens when a golf ball meets a bride and groom’s first look photo session? Let me take you on a wild ride through one of the most chaotic yet laugh-out-loud funny wedding disasters I've ever seen. Picture this: a groom, excited for his big day, ends up taking a golf ball to the face instead of a graceful stroll down the aisle. One moment he’s saying cheese, and the next, he’s off to the emergency room with a smile that’s two teeth short! Join me, DJ ESG, as I relive this unforgettable tale from my 30-plus years in the wedding business, reminding us all that even perfect plans can go hilariously awry.
You'll hear about the comical chain of events at a country club, where one shout of "fore" wasn't enough to prevent this groom from becoming an unwitting target. Despite the initial chaos and a trip to the hospital, this groom's resilience—and perhaps a few painkillers—brought him back to the celebration, albeit with a newly modified grin. If you love weddings, golf, or just love to hear a good yarn about the unpredictability of life’s big moments, this episode is packed with humor, lessons, and a reminder to always know where those errant golf balls might land.
Peace, Love & God Above! :-)
What's up guys? Dj ESG on Sweating Advice, season number 12. And it's almost Christmas, it's almost Hanukkah and I'm telling funny stories again from past weddings, from 30 plus years of events, and every year I tell the stories. They get funnier every year. I mean now they're funny. They weren't funny when they happened because clearly somebody was not happy about the situation. But nowadays you can look back and you're like, okay, that shit was funny.
Speaker 1:Today involves one groom, one golf ball and one four that just didn't get there in time and it was a bride and groom out. We'll leave the country club nameless right now because I don't want to throw them under the bus. And they were out getting pictures prior to the ceremony started, which is called the first look. When you have your ceremony at the venue, you go out and you sometimes get pictures prior because that way you can be in your cocktail hour. You get them all out of the way and it's just the thing to do. When you don't have a ceremony at a church, they're out there. They're getting pictures.
Speaker 1:Now, if you're familiar with golf, there's 18 holes, so there's nine going out and then nine coming back in. So the way that this country club is set up, 17 goes out, 18 comes back and where the bride and groom were taking pictures was in between 17 and 18. I think 17's a par 4, 5, and 18's a par 3 over a pond. So you know 18, they're chipping up over your head. If they hit you with the ball, you know it's not the end of the world. You may get a lump on your head, but they're not hitting the driver. I'm not a golfer so I don't really know how fast these balls are really going. But I've seen John Daly do it before, like I'm telling on ESPN the longest drive contest and that boy can hit the ball. He's got the weirdest outfits but he can hit the ball.
Speaker 1:And they're standing there taking pictures, guys on 17 teeing off. You know what happens? All of a sudden they're sort of like down to the right, they're taking pictures. He yells four and instead of turning away from what you're supposed to do when somebody yells four, you're supposed to sort of turn away from where the tee is and, I guess, duck down. I guess that's the way to go.
Speaker 1:The groom turned towards the tee and looked up, almost like he was trying to figure out where the four was coming from, what the guy was screaming at Boom, not one, but both front teeth by blood everywhere. I mean we're talking gushing out of the mouth, down the chin, on the shirt, the groom was out. I mean we're talking gushing out of the mouth, down the chin, on the shirt, the groom was out. I mean he just got hit in the face with a driver which is probably the hardest club in the bag to master, but also the fastest club in the bag when it comes to the golf ball coming off the tee. I think I got that right. The golfers will be very happy with me on that one. And it's also supposed to go the furthest and you're swinging it the hardest.
Speaker 1:So not only did this guy miss the fairway, which is what you're trying to get the ball, and he kind of swung it this way and the ball, the groom, the positioning, everything that could have went wrong went wrong. Guy went to the hospital, had to get his teeth fixed, had to come back to the wedding. I mean it was a disaster. He, they gave him enough drugs, he came back. He partied like a rock star. He couldn, couldn't drink, and man, I don't know what those photos actually look like, but yo, if you're ever, ever, ever, ever give me this wire.
Speaker 1:If you're ever on a golf course taking pictures, please know where the balls are coming from. So if you're standing out there under a tree and you see people teeing off or you're looking around, know where the tees are, which is where the people tee off from, because you don't want to get hit in the head with a ball and if you hear somebody yell for you want to turn away from it and duck. You don't want to turn into it and stand right up. It's the greatest advice I can give you today. It's a story that's better told and best told by the people that were there, even though I got the story firsthand the next day at the same venue. But I'll tell you this, it's one for the ages.
Speaker 1:I seen one of the pictures. You don't ever want to see that picture, I'll tell you. But you know he was a trooper man. He took it and, from what I heard, he had a great time and the golfer that hit him, from what I also understood, took care of the bill and also gave him a really nice wedding present. So you know, moral of the story is sometimes shit happens. So he's got to deal with it. I know you're going to call Tiger Woods yo.