The Wedding Journal
Notes from the magical
Wedding Host
My own personal notebook collated over time
Well isn’t this delightful?
Here you will find my thoughts, musings, and chronicles of Love. Over decades of work as a professional Magician and Magical Wedding host, I have seen (almost) everything.
Here you can read hints and tips to enhance your day, ideas that I have seen and loved, and read about weddings that I have hosted, and why (in my opinion) they were excellent.
So whether you want to read, watch, or listen, sit back, relax, and enjoy.
The Hidden Timeline
What Most Couples Forget to Plan on Their Wedding Day There’s the schedule… and then there’s the real schedule. Most couples plan their wedding day with military precision — ceremony at 2pm, drinks at 3, dinner by 5:30, speeches somewhere in between. And yet, when the...
The Wedding Day as Theatre
Why every celebration needs a director Imagine this: The big day has arrived. Your guests take their seats. The music begins. There’s a hush across the room as someone walks down the aisle, and for a moment — however brief — time stands still. That, my dear reader, is...
Creative Guestbook Alternatives That Reflect You
The humble wedding guestbook is often treated as a token gesture — a blank book at the edge of a table, half-filled with “Congrats!” before disappearing into a drawer, forgotten for all eternity. But it doesn’t have to be that way. A guestbook can be so much more than...
Wedding Speech Etiquette
Who speaks when, and what to avoid There comes a moment in almost every wedding when the clinking of glasses dies down, your guests lean in, and all eyes turn to the microphone. The speaker steps up and almost everyone is thinking one collective thought: “Please don’t...
Is Wedding entertainment actually worth it?
A guide for the thoughtful coupleWhen it comes to planning a wedding, most couples, understandably, start with the big three: venue, food, and fashion. After that, it's easy to get wrapped up in the excitment of the planning process and working out who you want to...
What actually happens on a Wedding Day?
A step-by-step guide with a touch of Magic When you first get engaged, it's all excitement and magic, just like it should be, but then it finally dawns on you... You have to plan a wedding. Planning a wedding when you've never done it before (which let's face it, is...