Do you charge a travel fee for Princeton, IN weddings?

No. Princeton is a Zone 1 city on my service map — my home market — so no travel fee is added to any pricing tier, ever. The tier price on this page is the complete number, and it appears on your quote exactly as it appears on your invoice.

Do you take a deposit to hold a date?

Once you meet with me, your date is held for 7 days with nothing paid. A non-refundable 50% retainer then locks it the moment it clears, and it transfers if plans change and the new date is open. The balance is due on the first of the month before the wedding.

Will Terry Tunks personally DJ my Princeton wedding?

Yes. I DJ every event myself — no subcontractors, no rotating staff, no second crew booked under my name. I've been DJing since 1987, producing weddings since 1992, and across 1,200+ events I have never missed one or sent someone else in my place.

Do you play everything on our must-play list?

Yes — up to 40 songs, and every one gets played. Your special-moment songs are locked to the minute. The rest I place where they work: floor-fillers on the floor, slow songs and sing-alongs at dinner or cocktail hour. If a song would empty a packed floor, it moves earlier; it never disappears.

Do you provide ceremony sound in addition to reception DJ services?

Yes. My Ceremony & Reception tier at $1,850 and the $2,100 full-day tier both include complete ceremony sound — wireless mics for your officiant and vows, processional and recessional music, and coverage built for indoor or outdoor ceremony spaces alike.

Do you DJ weddings for Toyota Indiana families in Princeton?

Yes, regularly. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana is the largest employer in the Greater Evansville area, based right in Princeton, and many of my Gibson County weddings connect Toyota coworkers, their families, and transplants who settled here after the plant opened in 1996.

Can we add the photo booth to our Princeton wedding?

Yes — the PicsPhotoBooth open-front booth travels with the DJ: $300 self-serve or $450 attended for three hours, on the same contract and the same invoice as the music. Digital 4x6 prints carry a personalized overlay with your names and wedding date.

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Q: How much does a wedding DJ cost in Princeton, IN?

Wedding DJ pricing in Princeton, IN runs $1,550 for reception-only up to $3,500 for the Ultimate tier — and Princeton is Zone 1, so no travel fee is ever added. The most popular tier, covering ceremony, cocktails and reception, is $2,100. Off-peak dates start at $895 with a 4-hour minimum.

Spectrum Sound · Wedding DJ · Princeton, IN · Gibson County

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Your Princeton Wedding Deserves More Than Someone Pressing Play.

Anyone can make a playlist. The value is in knowing what to play, when to speak, when to stay quiet, when to change direction and how to keep the night moving without making it feel managed.

Princeton, IN · One DJ, Start to Finish · Since 1992

1,200+Weddings since 1992 · countless other events

4.9★103 reviews

ZeroNo-shows since 1992

9–18Hours of preparation and performance

Wedding DJ booth framed in white florals and greenery with the bride, groom and guests dancing at a reception. Call or text 812-431-8085.

The person you plan with is the person who shows up. I handle your conversations, music plan, timeline details and the wedding itself. That continuity matters because I already know the names, priorities and decisions behind the night before I ever pick up the microphone. Call or text (812) 431-8085.

One Person Accountable From Your First Call to Your Last Song

I'm Terry Tunks. Princeton is the Gibson County seat, north of my office on Highway 41 and inside my home market — no travel fee, and no substitute, because Spectrum Sound is one person. I have produced weddings in Gibson County since 1992, and the two rooms I send Princeton couples to first — the Toyota Event Center and the hillside at Shinnyville — are rooms I have set up in more times than I could count. I have DJed since 1987 and never missed a date.

You can taste the cake. You can see the photographer's last twenty weddings. You can tour the room. The one thing you cannot preview is the four hours a DJ spends with a microphone and your guests — which is exactly why so many Princeton couples end up with a company name on the contract and a stranger behind the booth. My answer is simple: meet me. I am the one who answers the phone, walks your venue, builds your timeline and runs the night, and I have been since 1992.

01 — The Preview. Stand in your Princeton venue with me before you sign — the head table, the floor, the ceremony spot if it's outdoors, the outlet I'll actually use.

02 — The Timeline. Built minute by minute with you, then sent to your photographer, caterer and coordinator. For a mixed-family room, the first hour is planned as carefully as the last.

03 — The Introductions. Your wedding party walks in by name, with a line about who they are to you, so two hundred people who have never met know who is who before the toasts start.

04 — The Backup. Second mixer, second playback, spare mics, spare speakers — on the truck to Princeton every time. A failure is a thirty-second swap, not a silent room.

A Plan Built Around People, Not Assumptions

A familiar ballroom does not make two weddings alike. The people change. The memories change. The meaning attached to a song changes. That is why I prepare for the people first and the room second.

Music is only one layer. I also prepare the timeline, names, formalities, special dances, microphone work and room logistics, then stay in communication with the photographer, caterer and venue. The work your guests never see is what helps the night feel easy to them.

I prepare for the wedding we discussed and stay ready for the wedding that actually unfolds. That is the balance I want for your Princeton wedding: enough structure to protect the important moments, enough flexibility to respond to the people who actually show up.

Princeton Wedding Venues I Know

Toyota Event Center — Princeton. A large, purpose-built event space with a real floor and real power. I set the booth on the head-table wall so the floor stays in front of the couple, and the large-format system reaches the back of the room without leaning on the near tables.

Shinnyville Hill — Rural Gibson County. A private hillside event venue out in the country. Ceremony on the hill under open sky, reception below; I run the outdoor rig against the wind and have the reception system live before your guests come down.

Also in reach a few minutes down Highway 41: Pine & Company, Cambridge Golf Club, Oak Meadow Country Club, Old National Events Plaza, Old Post Office Event Center, Hawthorn Estates. More Princeton venues are being added as I verify them.

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Testimonials & Reviews

★★★★★ "Crystal-clear sound, a full light show, and an A+ night from start to finish."Joe Chamberlain · Review

★★★★★ "Every word of the ceremony was heard clearly and the dance floor didn't empty once. People were dancing until they asked us to leave."Kelli A · Review

★★★★★ "Fair price, professional, and he read the room exactly right all night. Could not have asked for more."Kelsey Held · Review

Different Memories, Different Dance Floors

I do not judge a reception by whether every person dances every minute. I look for momentum: different groups finding their moment, energy building and resetting naturally, and people returning to the floor because the music keeps giving them reasons.

The library behind me contains more than 250,000 songs, organized so I can move when the room moves. That flexibility matters when a reception turns out to be different from what any of us could have predicted on paper.

There is no universal perfect wedding mix. I am trying to find your room's Baby Bear setting: the point where the music feels familiar enough to invite people in and fresh enough to keep the night moving. Not my definition of “just right” — yours, interpreted through what we planned together and what the room is telling me in real time.

Wedding DJ Pricing — Princeton, IN

Tier	Price	Coverage
Off-Peak	From $895	Sun–Thu / select Jan–Mar Sat, 4-hr minimum
01 — Reception Only	$1,550	Up to 6 hrs
02 — Ceremony & Reception	$1,850	Up to 6 hrs performance time
03 — Ceremony, Cocktails & Reception ★ Most Popular	$2,100	Cocktail hour music, full-day coverage, vendor coordination
04 — Deluxe	$2,500	Upgraded lighting, extended coverage
05 — Nightclub	$3,000	Large-format concert systems, nightclub-style light show
06 — Ultimate	$3,500	Everything included, full production build

No travel fee — Princeton is Zone 1, home market. Overtime is a flat $250/hr, settled afterward. An outdoor ceremony on the hill at Shinnyville is covered from Tier 02 up, not added on.

Every tier includes 9–18 hours of preparation and performance, sound for up to 250 guests with Shure wireless mics, a 250,000+ song library with live request access, five-category planning with up to 40 must-plays and a do-not-play list, arrival 60–90 minutes early, and a full backup system on-site. Setup, sound check and teardown are not billed — you pay for performance time only.

What Each Tier Adds

01 — Reception OnlyDJ and MC for the reception, sound for up to 250, Shure wireless mics, the planning consultation with me.

02 — Ceremony & ReceptionAdds a second system for the ceremony and a lapel mic for your officiant — then covers cocktail hour free.

03 — Ceremony, Cocktails & ReceptionAdds a third system so cocktail hour runs in its own space with no gap between rooms.

04 — DeluxeAdds eight LED uplights in your color — the biggest single change to how the room photographs.

05 — NightclubAdds the full light show: lasers, liquid sky, moving fixtures, run on-site all night.

06 — UltimateAdds a custom 8–12 minute video montage from your photos, delivered on a USB keepsake.

Off-Peak — from $895. Qualifying Sunday–Thursday dates year-round, plus select January–March weekends. Same prep, same gear, same person behind the booth — the only thing that changes is the date. Those dates fill earlier than most couples expect.

Add Anything You Want. Nothing You Don't.

Each of these is its own line on the quote, priced before you sign.

Enhancement	What it is	Price
Night-before setup & rehearsal	Full system up the night before, mics tested in the real room, ceremony walked end to end	$350
Ceremony at a separate address	Second system and setup for another location or room	$200
Additional wireless speaker	Large rooms, courtyards, outdoor ceremonies	$200
LED uplighting — single color	Per fixture, your color	$35
LED uplighting — multi-color DMX	Per fixture, programmed color changes	$50
Link the rig to dynamic multi-color	Whole uplight rig moving together	+$200
Nightclub light show	Lasers, liquid sky, moving fixtures	$350
Monogram gobo spotlight	Your names projected on floor or wall	$250
Video montage — I build it	You send 100–150 photos and the songs, USB after	$500
Video montage — playback only	You supply the file, I display it	$300
Extra performance time	Booked ahead, per 30 minutes	$150
Extra wireless microphone	Readers, soloists, second officiant	$50
Dancing on a Cloud	Low chilled-fog cloud for the first dance	$300
Photo booth	Open-air booth, same contract, same invoice	From $300

Photo Booth — From $300, One Invoice

The booth comes from PicsPhotoBooth.com, my sister brand since 2010, and it rides on the DJ contract — one signature, one invoice. $300 self-serve, printed strips from $500. In the Toyota Event Center lobby it becomes the place two families finally mix. Booked with the DJ, the booth is priced as part of the night rather than as a separate rental — we set that at the consultation.

Wedding guests and the bride and groom laughing together at a PicsPhotoBooth open-air photo booth during a wedding reception. Call or text 812-431-8085.

Dancing on a Cloud — $300 Add-On

Chilled fog rolls across the floor at ankle height for your first dance and holds there — a white floor under you and your partner, clear air above so the photographs stay sharp — then clears in minutes with nothing left behind. It's made for an indoor floor like the Toyota Event Center's; on the open hillside at Shinnyville it won't hold, and I'll tell you so rather than sell it. For the first dance and the parent dances, on the same invoice.

Bride and groom sharing their first dance on a low cloud of chilled fog covering the dance floor at a wedding reception. Call or text 812-431-8085.

How Booking Works

1. Call or text(812) 431-8085 — tell me your date and venue.

2. We talkyour vision, timeline, and must-plays.

3. Date held 7 daysno payment required yet.

4. Retainer clears50%, non-refundable, locks the date.

5. Walk-throughof the Toyota Event Center, Shinnyville, or your venue — on site or on video, in the weeks before your day.

6. Your weddingI'm there, from load-in to last song.

Payment & Terms

Date Hold7 days after you meet me, no payment.

Retainer50%, non-refundable, locks the date.

BalanceRemaining 50% due 1st of the month prior.

OvertimeFlat $250/hr, every tier.

Princeton Wedding DJ Questions, Answered

What does preparation look like before my Princeton wedding?

We form a team before the wedding. Your song choices give me clues about what “good music” means to you, and we also work through the timeline, introductions, special dances, family considerations, do-not-plays, microphone style and venue details. I use that preparation as a framework, then stay flexible when the actual room gives us new information.

How do you decide what to play at a Princeton reception?

I start with the musical clues you give me, then read the room live — who is dancing, who is not, which generations are responding and whether the energy needs to build, breathe or change direction. My organized library of more than 250,000 songs gives me options; experience helps me choose the option that fits your people rather than somebody else’s wedding.

What venues in Princeton do you work?

The Toyota Event Center and Shinnyville Hill in Gibson County, plus Pine & Company, Cambridge Golf Club, Oak Meadow Country Club, and a handful of north-side Evansville rooms a few minutes down Highway 41. More Princeton venues are being added as I verify them.

Is it really you at my wedding, or someone you send?

Yes, it's me. I am the only DJ at Spectrum Sound — the person who takes your call, walks the venue with you, and runs your reception is the same person. No substitute has ever been sent in 1,200+ events since 1992, and I book one wedding per date.

Half our guests are coming from out of town. Does that change how you run the night?

It changes the first hour. A room that doesn't know each other needs a longer cocktail set and an entrance that introduces the wedding party by name and story, so two families become one crowd before dinner. I build that into the timeline at the walk-through.

How much does a wedding DJ cost in Princeton, Indiana?

A Spectrum Sound wedding in Princeton costs $1,550 for reception-only coverage up to $3,500 for the full production build, and there is no travel fee — Princeton is the Gibson County seat, north of my office on Highway 41 and inside my home market. Off-peak dates start at $895 with a four-hour minimum.

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Preview the Person. Then Decide.

Tell me your date, venue, and what you want the night to feel like. We’ll talk for 20–30 minutes, answer the important questions, and see whether Spectrum Sound is the right fit for your Princeton wedding. If you can imagine it, I can do it. If I can't, I'll tell you.

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Terry Tunks, owner of Spectrum Sound, at his DJ setup. Call or text 812-431-8085.

Terry Tunks — DJ since 1987, producing weddings since 1992. Owner, Spectrum Sound.

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