What’s The Story: The Day We Caught The Deckheds

Shooting awesome weddings means we also get to hang out with some super-cool talented wedding suppliers. Our all-day wedding photography coverage means we will most definitely still be around when the party time kicks in! Here at ZT Photography we sure do love some epic dancefloor action shots. An amazing wedding DJ can make all the difference! We know that recommended wedding DJ Deckheds, Karl and Kate, will always bring the floor-fillers so we are in for a treat!

RECOMMENDED WEDDING DJ: DECKHEDS

Bangin’ tunes (check!) Crazy mixing skills (check!) Cool name (check!) Great guys (check!) So without further ado, let’s find out more about what makes Deckheds tick. There’s some great advice here for couples looking for an awesome wedding DJ too!

Tell us a bit more about Deckheds and what you do?

Karl and Kate: Karl has been a club and festival DJ for over twenty-five years. For quite a few years his best friend who is a wedding dress designer kept telling him that her brides would often bemoan the lack of non-cheesy DJs that were available and the fear of the stereotypical wedding DJ with his bad jokes and that overplayed playlist that seems to have been stuck on a loop for decades. Karl was invited to DJ for fifty wedding photographers at a workshop and that night a plan was hatched and Deckheds was formed. Within five months of having the idea we did our first wedding and in less than three years we had already done over one-hundred weddings. Karl’s friend was right!

Karl does all the DJ’ing and Kate does all the admin but we respond to every couples enquiries together and every decision is a team decision. It’s a 100% ‘husband and wife’ company.

Dancing with the deckheds at The Inn at Whitewell

What is your desert island disc? (The eight tracks you would take if you were castaway on an island)

Do you have any advice for couples when choosing their awesome wedding playlist?

K+K: Open a bottle of something fizzy and have an evening going through records, CDs and MP3s. You will soon be transported to times in your lives that you treasure and the music from those days can form the basis of your requests. Add some tunes you love today and some of your friends and families favourites and there you have it, the soundtrack to your wedding. Oh and don’t be afraid to tell your DJ what you DON’T want to hear…it’s your day, it’s your music.

What is your favourite pizza topping?

K+K: Pepperoni!

Recommended wedding dj Karl from the deckheds.

Where else can we see Deckheds in action?

K+K: You can catch Karl at his weekly Indie/Retro club night at The Warehouse night club in Preston that famously played host to Joy Division & The Stone Roses plus hundreds of seminal bands. Annually, at Kendal Calling Festival where he is the resident DJ and closes the festival every year with the Late Night Indie Disco. Plus at various events that you can keep up with on our Deckheds Facebook page.

Bride and groom dancing in the marquee at The Inn at Whitewell

What’s the best thing about being a Deckhed?

K+K: Knowing that we played a big part in the happiest day of so many couples lives and that they will look back on it and remember the music that we played. We love that!