With over 30 years of experience, you can trust that your event is in good hands. We are with you every step of the way to ensure there is complete communication between everyone so the night goes off without a hitch. Celebrating our 30th year serving the Chicagoland area, Music Mania has provided high quality DJ entertainment at thousands of events. Imagine being able to manage all aspects of your event using an online planner to see how the night will flow, what will happen, and what you will hear.
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Music Mania has provided high quality DJ entertainment at thousands of events, including Nick Nolte's birthday party, The Michael Jordan Charity Auction, we've performed with Gina Glocksen, Jim Peteric- lead singer from the group Survivor, and also appeared on FOX 32's "Wedding of the Week." Our goal at Music Mania is to help you capture the vision you have for your wedding or special event. We accomplish this through pre-event planning and the availability of our interactive on-line event planners and music request forms.
Our customers simply rave about us! We work incredibly hard to make sure every face is smiling at the end of the night, and when a client takes the time to leave comments like some of these, we cannot help but share them with you! Thank you so much for being so wonderful to work with on our wedding day!
If you would like to reserve Music Mania or Photo Mania for your event, please contact our office. We're a little old school and prefer to mail out the agreement package to you. If because time is of the essence, we can email agreements to you. Music Mania/ Photo Mania requires a $200 initial payment to reserve and guarantee your day.
Reviews (18)
Denise Gross
May 12, 2022
Szwick
May 05, 2022
Easy to work with and tons of fun Music Mania Inc was incredibly professional and helpful from the time we signed our contract through the day of our wedding. Dwayne is super easy to communicate with and very responsive. We got tons of comments about how fun the dance floor was and the photo booth was a hit. I would love to attend another wedding or event DJed by Music Mania Inc.
Go Oswego
Dec 20, 2021
Music Mania was absolutely fabulous at the Oswego Holiday Drive-Through at the new Venue 1012! They lit up the band shell in a way that was most impressive, with rotating snowflakes, green and red up lights, and white "dancing" lights, too. The Christmas music selection was varied and consistently provided holiday cheer for hours. The music came through perfectly via the FM Transmitter to everyone's cars could also be heard throughout the event by staff and volunteers. We had provided some sponsor shout-outs ahead of time and each of them were given professional in the quantities requested. They exceeded our expectations in every way!
John Fagan
Nov 09, 2021
A great company to work with from planning to execution in order to have a great time at a 40th surprise birthday party! The DJ - Matt - was awesome with music selection and interaction with the participants. He even made sure the younger group (ages 9 to 5) were made to feel part of the party festivities. Dwayne - the owner - was on top of everything from beginning to end in the planning! I highly recommend MusicMania for any event. They are great and we had a great time!
Shoshana Frank
Nov 05, 2021
What an outstanding experience, not only was their sound phenomenal both from speakers and via car radios, but they went above and beyond to make our event a success. Music Mania's DJs jumped in to help with our outdoor event set up when it was clear the high winds were going to be a challenge. I would 100% recommend to anyone needing exemplary DJ services. I look forward to working with them again in the future.
Gwen Bauer
Oct 25, 2021
Important things to me when working with vendors is their responsiveness and accountability. Music Mania does an awesome job on both accounts. We have rented Music Mania's equipment for our neighborhood 5K Races. They are dependable, have excellent equipment and provide all the technology support we need. I've also attended numerous events that Music Mania has DJ'ed for. They have very cool lighting effect equipment and really bring the party. We love Music Mania!
Nicoletta Markos
Oct 10, 2021
All I can say is WOW! Awesome DJ (walked me through everything and really got everyone on the dance floor) also, really helped keep the wedding flowing - everything fit in perfectly, from the speeches to our first dances, etc! We also had the photo booth Mirror for the night, which to say the least, was a BIG HIT- everyone took pictures and had a blast doing so!
The guy running the photo booth was amazing, super nice and really walked everyone through the steps! Would 100% recommend them to any venue, any party, any time! We LOVED them!
The guy running the photo booth was amazing, super nice and really walked everyone through the steps! Would 100% recommend them to any venue, any party, any time! We LOVED them!
Jenny Holstead
Jan 07, 2021
We hired Music Mania for our end of season picnic for the neighborhood soccer league. It was a beautiful day and many more families attended than they had in previous years! Our DJ Matt did a fantastic job rolling with it and keeping ALL the kids entertained. He was professional and friendly as well. We would use Music Mania again for sure!
Andrea Dimer
Dec 31, 2020
Dwayne and his entire crew were fantastic. Dwayne was a huge help with overall planning how the entire reception would go and was so attentive, always checking in on me and my husband during the reception. My husband, wedding guests, and family can't stop raving about how great the music was. We highly recommend Music Mania!
Susan D.
Nov 08, 2020
My first experience with Music Mania was at a 60th birthday bash with an 80's (fun!) theme just BEFORE Covid turned our world upside down. It was at Bolingbrook Golf Club, (which is BTW a beautiful venue) Matt was the DJ. He kept the group going all night. He had the right music mix for the age range in attendance to keep everybody happy and dancing.
The Photo booth was a huge hit. They also had some special effect lighting that added to the party atmosphere. Flash forward to a couple weeks ago. We were all depressed over Covid. I wanted to have a party with my friends because we were retiring and moving out of state. I called Dwayne to ask about possible venues and protocols. He helped me contract with a smaller venue.
The party was a huge success. The music, the Photo Booth, the lighting were outstanding, but I was most impressed with the Covid protocols he had. There were hand sanitizer dispensers, the personnel were masked, signs reminded people to be safe. He had paper wrist bands that were different colors to let people know your comfort zone: maintain distance; standing close with masks ok; or comfortable hugging. I don't hesitate to recommend them.
The Photo booth was a huge hit. They also had some special effect lighting that added to the party atmosphere. Flash forward to a couple weeks ago. We were all depressed over Covid. I wanted to have a party with my friends because we were retiring and moving out of state. I called Dwayne to ask about possible venues and protocols. He helped me contract with a smaller venue.
The party was a huge success. The music, the Photo Booth, the lighting were outstanding, but I was most impressed with the Covid protocols he had. There were hand sanitizer dispensers, the personnel were masked, signs reminded people to be safe. He had paper wrist bands that were different colors to let people know your comfort zone: maintain distance; standing close with masks ok; or comfortable hugging. I don't hesitate to recommend them.
Joey B.
Oct 13, 2020
We had Dwayne as our dj for our wedding, and he was amazing! He had a helper who was great and Matt with the photo booth was a blast! He was dancing to the music over by the photobooth which was very inviting for our guests to go take pictures over there. Dwayne was probably the most helpful person at our wedding. He came up to us several times throughout the night to ask if we needed anything and brought us drinks when we were outside taking pictures.
The music was great, he played songs we wanted plus added in other song's he thought would fit with our crowd and everything was perfect! I highly recommend using music mania as your dj for any event.
The music was great, he played songs we wanted plus added in other song's he thought would fit with our crowd and everything was perfect! I highly recommend using music mania as your dj for any event.
Terri R.
Jul 05, 2019
Music Mania was wonderful to work with for our wedding date! We originally met with Dwayne, who was prepared for all of my questions and had many years of experience. John ended up being our DJ for the wedding and he was wonderful as well! He has been a DJ since he was 18 years old and you can tell that he truly loves and takes pride in his job. Going over every detail with him for the wedding was a breeze and he made sure that every song matched our theme.
The night of the wedding, John made sure our guests were having a good time and dancing! Our wedding was a month ago and I still hear compliments about how amazing our DJ was! If you're looking for a DJ for your wedding, your searching has coming to an end because these guys are AMAZING!
The night of the wedding, John made sure our guests were having a good time and dancing! Our wedding was a month ago and I still hear compliments about how amazing our DJ was! If you're looking for a DJ for your wedding, your searching has coming to an end because these guys are AMAZING!
John A. Campbell
Jan 19, 2019
Despina G.
Apr 02, 2018
For our New Years Eve wedding, Music Mania was in charge of the backlighting, monogram, Photo Booth Mirror, and NYE Confetti Machine. Everything Music Mania did came out even MORE amazing than we had anticipated. First off, Dwayne and the entire are team are professional and genuinely want to help you make you event the best in can be! Second, if you are on the fence about a photobooth, DO IT and use Music Mania's interactive mirror photo booth.
Our friends and family are STILL talking about our photobooth. It is hard to describe in words, but check out their website for a video! Third, the monogram and the backlighting were perfect. The backlighting can be changed throughout the night to match your music which gives the event a very cool vibe. At midnight, we had a surprise confetti blower over the dance floor. SO COOL!
Only my husband and my parents knew about the confetti and even we were surprised at just how beautiful an element it added to the night! Music Mania also provides DJ services. We are Greek and chose to have a traditional Greek DJ. But there is no doubt in my mind that Music Mania would be an AWESOME DJ for your event. Truly a class act from beginning to end!
Our friends and family are STILL talking about our photobooth. It is hard to describe in words, but check out their website for a video! Third, the monogram and the backlighting were perfect. The backlighting can be changed throughout the night to match your music which gives the event a very cool vibe. At midnight, we had a surprise confetti blower over the dance floor. SO COOL!
Only my husband and my parents knew about the confetti and even we were surprised at just how beautiful an element it added to the night! Music Mania also provides DJ services. We are Greek and chose to have a traditional Greek DJ. But there is no doubt in my mind that Music Mania would be an AWESOME DJ for your event. Truly a class act from beginning to end!
Bethany J.
Apr 07, 2017
Kimberly A.
Jun 29, 2016
Dwayne was the DJ at our wedding a few weeks ago. Before the wedding I had asked if we could decide the dinner music and then he could have flexibility with the dance music based on the type of music we tell him we like. I re-iterated this in our phone call before the wedding. He had no issue with this. At dinner, he played a song from the list, then started playing his own music for dinner.
We had to go over and tell him to stick to the list, and even then he kept slipping his songs in. It was extremely disappointing. We had pick very specific important songs to us and people at the wedding and they did not get played. Besides the fact the amount of time and thought we put into picking those songs. Second, I told him most important to me was the he did not play the wrong first dance, father daughter song and mother son song.
He literally played the wrong mother son song. It was supposed to be Across the Universe by Fiona Apple. A guy was singing instead. When I went over to tell him it was the wrong song he pointed to his computer and said "the computer says it's Fiona Apple." Then, he just stopped the song in the middle forcing their dance to stop. Dance music was fine, but I didn't want an average DJ I hear at every wedding, I wanted to work with him to make this special.
We had to go over and tell him to stick to the list, and even then he kept slipping his songs in. It was extremely disappointing. We had pick very specific important songs to us and people at the wedding and they did not get played. Besides the fact the amount of time and thought we put into picking those songs. Second, I told him most important to me was the he did not play the wrong first dance, father daughter song and mother son song.
He literally played the wrong mother son song. It was supposed to be Across the Universe by Fiona Apple. A guy was singing instead. When I went over to tell him it was the wrong song he pointed to his computer and said "the computer says it's Fiona Apple." Then, he just stopped the song in the middle forcing their dance to stop. Dance music was fine, but I didn't want an average DJ I hear at every wedding, I wanted to work with him to make this special.
Alicia S.
May 25, 2016
Our wedding was 5/21/16 & Dwayne of Music Mania made our reception a huge success! I recommend this company to anyone. My siblings used this company for their weddings & always had a lot of people on the dance floor. Same thing happened at our wedding. Dwayne kept the crowd entertained & the dance floor was never empty! Thank you very much Dwayne for everything you did. You made great memories!
Mandy M.
Nov 01, 2011
Music Mania was recommended to us through our wedding venue and they did NOT steer us wrong. Our initial meeting with Jimmy sold us. He was experience, had back-up plans, was clear, up-front, and while stayed professional the entire time, we could tell he would put on a good party for us. For an extra $200 we could confirm that Jimmy would be our DJ and we wouldn't have whoever was in the rotation, and we gladly paid the money!
There are no words to describe how awesome Jimmy was. He was funny, entertaining, worked with us and was glad to play all of our songs (even a silly Backstreet Boys one that, shockingly, was for the groom), made suggestions when we needed them, encouraged all of our choices to assure we would be having a great night. He kept the room alive and moving, he got everyone energized at the beginning of the night and kept it going until midnight.
Which was great, he didn't start to close down before-hand, pack up his gear, he kept playing! He was dressed professionally, was gracious to everyone he encountered. Sought us (the bride and groom) our before hand to say hi, calm our nerves, assure us that everything would be going as planned. He even made sure that we had what we needed to have our first dance outside on the golf course to fireworks, without giving us a hard time about the late notice (it was going to be a surprise for the groom and decided against it) with only a week ahead of time. Jimmy made sure we could contact him about all of our worries/concerns/comments.
Music Mania's website was easy to use to choose all of your songs, it looks a little dated, but for the couple's purpose, it works. Reasonably priced considering after you shop around, and worth it! We received so many compliments and people specifically saying "You know a DJ makes or breaks your reception and it's 8pm and he has already made it."
There are no words to describe how awesome Jimmy was. He was funny, entertaining, worked with us and was glad to play all of our songs (even a silly Backstreet Boys one that, shockingly, was for the groom), made suggestions when we needed them, encouraged all of our choices to assure we would be having a great night. He kept the room alive and moving, he got everyone energized at the beginning of the night and kept it going until midnight.
Which was great, he didn't start to close down before-hand, pack up his gear, he kept playing! He was dressed professionally, was gracious to everyone he encountered. Sought us (the bride and groom) our before hand to say hi, calm our nerves, assure us that everything would be going as planned. He even made sure that we had what we needed to have our first dance outside on the golf course to fireworks, without giving us a hard time about the late notice (it was going to be a surprise for the groom and decided against it) with only a week ahead of time. Jimmy made sure we could contact him about all of our worries/concerns/comments.
Music Mania's website was easy to use to choose all of your songs, it looks a little dated, but for the couple's purpose, it works. Reasonably priced considering after you shop around, and worth it! We received so many compliments and people specifically saying "You know a DJ makes or breaks your reception and it's 8pm and he has already made it."
