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
Groom's Garb Gamble: DJ ESG's Tale of Last-Minute Fashion Frenzy for a Wedding Day Save
Picture this: your wedding day is on the horizon, and a seemingly minor oversight sends the groom and his groomsmen on an unexpected adventure. Join DJ ESG as he recounts the hilariously chaotic tale of a group of groomsmen who learned the importance of timely dry-cleaning pick-ups the hard way. Listen to the story of their frantic dash to Kohl's after discovering the dry cleaner closed, and imagine the scene as these guys race through aisles, trying to assemble matching outfits under pressure. It's a rollercoaster ride of panic, problem-solving, and some good old-fashioned luck, guaranteed to leave you chuckling.
Meanwhile, experience the emotional rollercoaster back at the bridal headquarters, where DJ ESG finds himself comforting a stressed-out bride who's witnessing the chaos unfold from afar. With humor and resilience at the heart of this story, there's much to learn from the unpredictable nature of weddings and the unexpected solutions that often emerge. Whether you're knee-deep in wedding planning or simply love a good laugh, this episode is packed with tales that showcase the lighter side of one of life's most anticipated events. Tune in for memorable anecdotes, hearty laughs, and a few lessons from the front lines of wedding planning.
Peace, Love & God Above! :-)
What's up, guys? Dj ESG on it's Wedding Advice, season 12. And we're coming to the end of 2024, and it's still story time and I tell some of the best wedding stories that you can possibly ever hear. There's my dog, spalch is chilling hanging out in the back. We, you know, we, I, we, whatever.
Speaker 1:30 plus years I have been doing this and there are some serious stories that I have from events Anywhere, from a groom getting sick and being in the bathroom for three hours to a grandma God forbid having a heart attack and having to go to the hospital. But she made a huge comeback and came back and YMCA'd herself right out at 12 o'clock midnight. I had a guy OD on a dance floor before during the Cupid Shuffle. They just picked him up, got him out. We went right back into the Cupid Shuffle. The groom was like he does this all the time. I was like, oh, okay, whatever, I don't know Does it all the time. Okay, great.
Speaker 1:So this is one of my favorite stories, uh, to tell and it's something that I, I swear to god, I I don't know if you could make this up in a movie, but it. It's interesting because the dynamic of guys sometimes is just they don't think. Sometimes guys just don't think. And this particular situation I had a bride and a groom. The groom thought that him and the groomsman didn't have to go pick up their um dry cleaning and their outfits until the day of the event. You can kind of kind of see where this is going right about now. So they, um day before they were supposed to pick it up, they're like nah, I'm going to drink, we're going to go out, we're going to have fun, we'll just pick them up tomorrow on the way to the wedding. Right, did anybody call or find out if the dry cleaner was open the next day for the wedding? Nope, show up at the dry cleaner about six dudes and one father, I think it was and dry cleaner's closed.
Speaker 1:So they're calling, calling and you know the dry cleaner, their phone's ringing inside. They don't put their cell phone numbers out there, you know, once they leave, they leave. You know, especially, you know and I know a lot of Asian families that do that that they don't give out their cell phone number to anybody, you know, unless you're family. So the one guy he wants to kick the door down, he's like nah, I called the police to come over. The police are knocking. They're calling the guy's like we just break in and get our.
Speaker 1:No, you can't just break in and get your stuff. You know how the thing it's this big, long, you know train or whatever you call that. I don't even know what the dry cleaner calls it, but it's you know thing. You push the button, then the clothes come flying around and then they're all covered in plastic and then, like they know what yours is, but you don't know what yours is. You need to rip the whole thing apart trying to find your clothes. You can't break into the dry cleaner, so the costs are just like yo, I don't know which ones are yours. You're not going through the entire machine. You don't even know how to work the machine. You know your clothes could be all the way up on the top. You're not going up there and ripping everything apart. No, it's not happening.
Speaker 1:So the pride gets wind of it and they are like, oh my God, what do I do? So they go to Kohl's, they all go to Kohl's together and they're running around. I wish I was there for this. I wasn't at Kohl's, but this was like. The story was just too good. It was repeated so many times that you could just visualize what happened. And they're running through and they grab a couple people that work there and they're throwing on clothes and they're doing sizing and they're in the changing room and stuff's flying over the top and they're trying to get a shirt that matches with a tie that matches and we're talking about six or seven people here.
Speaker 1:Now I'm back with the bride. She's crying her eyes out. I mean we're talking about she is halfway between she's crying and she's pissed. First she goes off on the dry cleaner, like how can they be closed? I'm like that's not the dry cleaner's problem. You're fucking your future husband's an idiot, you know. Like why would you blame the dry cleaner? Like that's not their fault. It's like I don't know what you're doing. And then finally she put the blame where it was supposed to be and I'm just like dude dudes at cole's right now trying so they show up in outfits.
Speaker 1:I can't even tell you it was three hours late. I I don't even know how to explain the wardrobe choices that came into this wedding, but they eventually got married and they partied and uh, it wasn't a long party. I'll tell you that. Then they had the nerve to ask the venue because we started late. Can we stay later? No, sure, if you pay for it Because we're not. You know, I mean I feel bad but you got me the photographer, the videographer, the guy driving the bus, the staff, the janitor, the cook. You know, you have all these, the bartenders. You have all these people that are staying later for you that need to get paid. You know it's not their fault that your future husband's a moron or your current husband's a moron. We didn't mail him the paperwork. He's still your future husband or possible husband, so they can't. I mean, we all felt bad, don't get me wrong. We were like, you know, go an extra half hour. We're not going three extra hours. You know what I mean and partied a little bit. You know they ate. We did what we could. I played music through dinner. I didn't like slow it down so people could talk. We got married on the middle of the dance floor.
Speaker 1:Because story, I mean I, if I really told it with animation and explained it to you the way that I remember it and and kind of animated like different pieces of this, we could be here for a while and it would be a fucking funny ass. I mean I can make a docuseries out of this one. It was that. That's how good it was. But um, for the point of this podcast and just getting out there like that happened. That's one of my favorite stories. I mean now they laugh at it. I've seen them since and you know it's I when I see them, they.
Speaker 1:The first thing that happens is she gives me this look and then looks at him and then he's like well, you can totally tell there's nothing to say, it's just funny, it's just a really good story. And they know I tell it on here. I've told it two or three times in the last three years. Every time around this year I tell it and it gets better every time. But I leave out a couple things. So I don't want to embarrass him too bad, but there's a couple things that happened during that run around the coals that I'm not even going to say. I'm just going to leave that one alone. I mean anything and everything can happen at a wedding. I'm telling you, be prepared. It's great advice. I'm DJ ESG Peace, love and God above, and I'm out Bye-bye.