Dueling Piano Reviews

The musical performance was legitimately great. They did an amazing job learning our requested songs, both for the ceremony and the reception and had people dancing the whole time (in particular, shoutout to Robert Deason for some pretty amazing rapping). Unfortunately, on the MC side / running the wedding itself, they had some meaningful misses 1: We requested to be introduced as Mr. and Mrs. [John] and [Jane] [Doe] -- i.e., same last name, but both first names. Instead, they just introduced us as Mr. and Mrs. [John Doe]. My family (understandably) makes a pretty big deal out of this--the bride is not just Mrs. Groom--she has her own identity, so this was a pretty big bummer. 2: On the mother-son dance, we requested it to be started 28 seconds in (we had learned a routine for it, and practiced against that part). They started it at the beginning of the song, and since we had been practicing the shortened version, this messed up the routine a pretty good bit. Again, this doesn't seem like a huge deal, but my mom had asked be at least 10 times ("Do they know to fade it in at 28 seconds?") and I assured her they did--we'd put it on the long questionnaire they ask for and discussed it in the pre-wedding call with them. So pretty disappointing for them not to do this. 3: We had 9 songs on our do-not-play list (maybe that's a lot, but I don't think it's that crazy?), and they played one of them (Uptown Funk), and seemingly a pretty extended version of it. 4: As their last song, they called my wife and I up and basically had us do a second first dance (they told everyone to make a circle and for us to come to the front to dance) as they played the full version of Piano Man. That's a fine song, but we had already done a first dance and no one had told us / asked us if we wanted to do another dance in front of everyone (and if so, what song we would have wanted it to be). If we had been asked, we would have said no. Instead, we just kind of swayed up there for 3 minutes in front of everyone, for some reason. All these things were covered on the big questionnaire we filled out and on the call before the wedding, so I'm honestly not sure what we could have done to make them do what we asked for. Still think they're a super fun musical entertainment act and would recommend them in that sense, but I'd be a bit nervous about having them 'running' the event, or would make sure coordinators are very on top of every detail--reminding them of everything the day of / right before, etc.