Wedding DJ & MC · Asheville & the Blue Ridge
Floor full
by 8:15.
Marcus plans your night song by song, runs the mic and reads the room until the last dance. Barns, ridges and backyards across Western North Carolina since 2015.
- 5.0from 212 couples
- 430+weddings since 2015
- 0missed weddings
- 2of everything in the van
Cue 01The night
Your night, as it sounds.
Every wedding I play has a shape: quiet for the vows, warm through dinner, loud from the first dance on. Drag across it, or press play, and see what’s happening at every minute.
First dance
- On the speakers
- Your first dance, then the parent dances, and the first floor-filler is already cued under the last chord.
- On the mic
- “Everybody who loves these two, the floor is yours.”
On the floor
70%Cue 02Packages
One DJ. One plan. Three lengths.
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The reception
4 hours
$1,250
- Dinner, toasts and dancing
- Marcus on the mic all night
- Wireless mics for the toasts
- Dance lighting
- Most couples
The night
5 hours
$1,650
- Ceremony sound included
- Cocktail hour to the send-off
- The planning call and the timeline
- Dance lighting and wireless mics
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The whole day
7 hours
$2,350
- A second system for a ceremony on the ridge
- 12 uplights in your colors
- A walk-through at the venue
- The late-night playlist, yours to keep
Add to any night
- Uplighting, 12 lights$250
- Another hour$250
- Cold-spark fountains for the first dance$450
- A second ceremony site on the property$200
Cue 03The planning
Nothing on the night is a surprise.
- 01 · Right after you bookThe first call
Forty minutes on the phone. How you met, who dances, who doesn’t, and what the night should feel like at 10 pm.
- 02 · Three months outYour planner
A shared page for your must-plays, your do-not-plays, the first dance, and every name I’ll say on the mic, spelled the way it sounds.
- 03 · Ten days outThe timeline
I build the night minute by minute and send it to you, your planner, your photographer and the caterer.
- 04 · The dayThree hours early
Gear in, tested and hidden before your guests park. Backup of everything in the van, down to the cables.
The do-not-play list
Every couple gets one. A real one, with their OK:
The chicken danceAnything from his brother’s weddingThe song from that one breakup in 2016A line danceunless Grandma asks
Cue 04Marcus
I learned this from the back of the room.
I grew up in Hickory running the sound board at my grandmother’s church. Nine years old, a stool so I could reach the faders, and one rule from her: if the room can’t hear the words, nothing else matters.
At App State I did a Friday-night show on the college station, then spent four summers carrying speakers for a wedding DJ in Boone. He played the same forty songs at every wedding. I watched floors empty and thought, I could read this room better.
I started Cue Up in 2015 with one speaker, a borrowed van and three weddings booked. Now it’s over four hundred nights. I still call every couple’s grandparents to practice their names, and I still hide the cables.
Marcus Bell
Cue 05Nights
A few recent Saturdays.
Weaverville · a barnJune, 10:20 pm, shoes off
Burnsville · a ridgeSeptember, the ceremony at 5:30
Leicester · a barnMay, the grand entrance
Black MountainOctober, the first dance
Marshall · a terraceAugust, cocktails at golden hour
WeavervilleJune, the sparkler send-off
HendersonvilleApril, the toasts, on time
Fairview · a barnSet up and tested at 2:30
Cue 06Reviews
5.0 from 212 couples.
“He pronounced my grandmother’s name right. Nobody gets it right. She cried.”
Priyanka & SamBlack Mountain, October“Our friends are not dancers. By 8:30 my dad was on a chair.”
Kelsey & RuizWeaverville, June“The ceremony was on a ridge with no power. You would never have known.”
Hannah & TheoBurnsville, September“He asked who the shy ones were, then got every one of them on the floor.”
Jordan & MaeMarshall, August
Cue 07Where
Barns, ridges and backyards.
Based in West Asheville. No travel fee within 45 miles: Black Mountain, Weaverville, Marshall, Hendersonville, Brevard and everywhere between. Boone, Highlands and Lake Lure are $150.
- Asheville
- Black Mountain
- Weaverville
- Marshall
- Hendersonville
- Brevard
- Burnsville
- Leicester
Cue 08Questions
Before you book.
How do I hold my date?
Pick it below and pay the $500 deposit. The date is yours from then on, and the $500 comes off your total. The rest is due ten days before the wedding.
Can we give you a do-not-play list?
Please do. Everyone gets one. I’ve never played a song from someone’s do-not-play list, and I never will, even if your cousin asks twice.
Will you play requests from guests?
If they fit the night and they’re not on your list, yes. You can also tell me “no requests” and I’ll handle it kindly.
Our ceremony is outdoors with no power. Is that a problem?
No. The ceremony system runs on batteries for six hours, and the mics are wireless. Ridges, meadows and riverbanks are most of my Saturdays.
Do you travel outside Asheville?
Anywhere within 45 miles is free: Black Mountain, Weaverville, Marshall, Hendersonville, Brevard. Boone, Highlands and Lake Lure are $150.
What if you get sick?
I have never missed a wedding. If it ever happens, a DJ I’ve trained and worked beside for years plays your night from my plan, and you get $500 back.
Cue 09Your date
$500 holds your Saturday.
Most May, June, September and October Saturdays go a year out. Pick yours, and Marcus texts you within the day to set up the first call.
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