How did you handle music and audio at your ceremony?

Our ceremony will be held in a courtyard in New Orleans FQ, so there's bound to be a decent amount of street noise. Our reception is elsewhere. The venue does not offer any audio equipment, so we have to figure that out.

My first question is: did you go with a dj, musician or self-made playlist?

- My instinct is to use our reception dj so that we have someone that can source and blend the songs, manage the timing and provide audio equipment. I'd love to be able to just hand it off to a pro and not have to worry about it, but $$$...

- I do love live music at a ceremony, but we will be having a jazz band for our secondline and they will play a short set at the beginning of the reception as well, so it might be overkill to have a different band at the ceremony. I'm also pretty partial to the original version of at least some of the songs I'm using. I think we would be responsible for the audio for this as well based on something my planner told me, but correct me if I'm wrong and bands usually have their own.

- I love the idea of using my own playlist for the sake of saving money, but I hate the idea of having to worry about that going properly, the timing working out, songs getting switched at the right time, sourcing all of the songs myself and having to rent audio equipment that someone is going to have to figure out how to set up. Has anyone done this and regretted it?

What did you do? Anyone that has a shitshow on this front have advice on how to avoid that? I know I'm overthinking it, but as we all know, that sort of par for the course in wedding planning.