The Last Song Is Never the Whole Story: An Engineer and a Teacher: True Stories from Behind the Wedding DJ Booth

What really happens at a wedding when things go wrong?

Most couples see the smiling DJ, the seamless timeline, and the dance floor that somehow fills itself at exactly the right moment. What they don't see is the speaker fire discovered ninety minutes before the reception. The power outage that lasted until five minutes before the batteries died. The blizzard that nearly prevented a Remembrance Day ceremony. The lawsuit over a five hundred dollar deposit that ended in front of a deputy judge.

They don't see any of it. That's the point.

Paul Nuyens spent twenty years as a mechanical engineer before a layoff, the death of a close friend, and a birthday all fell on the same day in July 2019. That evening he told his wife Jennifer they should start a wedding DJ business. She said yes. Neither of them has looked back.

The Last Song Is Never the Whole Story is a collection of true behind-the-scenes accounts from over 150 weddings and 300 events across southwestern Ontario. It is funny, occasionally heartbreaking, and completely honest about what it takes to make someone's most important day look effortless. From a pandemic butterfly conservatory wedding to a boat cruise past Billy Bishop Airport to a barn with no air conditioning and an owner who would scare Lucifer himself — these stories are stranger than fiction because every single one of them actually happened.

Part memoir, part cautionary tale, and part love letter to the wedding industry and the woman who makes it all possible — this is the book that pulls back the curtain on the day you thought you knew everything about.

"If you want nothing to go wrong, hire Starlight DJ Services."