Do You Bring Back Up Equipment?

For weddings that are require ceremony, cocktail hour and reception sound I always bring 5 speakers. Two will be for the ceremony. Most ceremonies only require one but I bring two since I believe its important for everyone to hear the vows and the officiant and the bride and groom. So anytime there is a speaker issue I have 4 others to choose from. From the ceremony, I bring a lapel microphone, a wireless microphone and a wired microphone. Those are back ups to my back up mentality.

I bring two laptops with all the music requested. For some reason one is deciding to not work I have any one that can finish the job. Also I have a connection to hook up to a phone in case I need it so some odd reason. My laptops that I use are only for djing. I do not use it for internet searches. Their only purpose is to play music. For my back up I bring a mini controller incase my main controller malfunctions. It is a small tool that provides a big sound. I have my main headphones and I have regular earbuds in my back pack incase the main ones stop working.

There is no such thing as too few cables. I bring enough for 3 events. I have multiple speaker cables and extension cables that I bring for a great piece of mind. Sometimes the photographer wants to connect to my mixer and I give them the cable to use for that if they do not have it.

I always bring more than I am supposed to but I like to be two steps ahead. A professional dj job is to be prepared.