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Hi everyone..

I'm getting married at the end of November and would like to do some table hopping (with a couple of tricks per table) with some simple and quick, mainly card based stuff.

I've trawled through my repetoire (such that it is) and decided that I can confidently do the following..

NFW
Ambitious Card (a simplish version)
Twisted Sisters
Three's A Crowd

and maybe

FLRT (rubber band stuff.. but I'm just starting to learn this so it could be a tall order)

I may also go for Colour Fusion (simple version) and the ID (although I'm still not too confident about this one as I always have trouble spreading them)

However.. what I really would like is your opions on the above and any suggestions (again mainly cards.. but I will consider anything else that I could learn between now and then) that you have on other tricks I could do.

I'm really impressed with NFW.. everytime I perform it the reactions are just fantastic. People just seem to look at you as you turn the jokers (yeah.. yeah.. that's really impressive they say (a bit disinterested.. which tends to be their initial reaction) and not really give the credit deserved until the killer end, which always wakes them up and gets the "wow" response. So ideally I'm after simple (NFW is fairly simple is it not) tricks that really do blow people away.

I know I could look through the reviews (in fact I have for most of them).. but I would really like all your suggestions from your performance experiences about tricks that you find have a real wow factor.

(Please remember that I've only been doing this for 8 months.. but I am willing to put in the practice)

Thanks

Slippery.

First up let me offer my congratulations. Well done. I hope the day goes really well.

Second up, let me politely suggest that you do NOT do any magic at your wedding. This is meant to be a day for yourself and young lady.

By all means hire another magician for the entertainment, but I would say that unless your wife to be is also very very keen on magic, it wouldn't be advisable for you to do this.

Obviosuly I don't know exactly your circumstances, but I would think that it is not a good idea

I was married just over a year ago, and the only magic I did was to pull a rather corny bunch of flowers from my sleeve during my speech (this was very tongue in cheek). I did have a deck of cards with me (I mean you have to dont you), but I decided early on that the day would be shared totally with my new wife. I mean struth, it's a stressfull/hectic enough time as it is without having to worry about doing magic!!!

hire someone. that's my advice....

Can't offer any suggestions - other than don't do the 'Sawing The New Wife In Half' effect - but congratulations to you and the soon-to-be Mrs.Slippery Penguin on your forthcoming Wedding!

I agree with bananafish entirely.

Table-hopping on your wedding day is a bad idea. It's about your future together as partners, so you should be with your lady as much as possible that day.

If you really want to do some magic, and your wife won't make you sleep on the floor that night, how about this? I was saving it for my own wedding, but what the hell, it's not going to be any time soon.

You do a speech that you've been researching wedding customs. You've read of a gypsy custom about how the card selected by a bride can show if she is going to be happily married.

Force a card on your wife. If you can, do some research into cartomancy and look up what card is best. It's likely to be a heart. The Queen of Hearts is perhaps the obvious one.

Do a little reading (should get gooey reaction from romantics). Then say that there was a related custom. If the groom could find the card chosen by his bride without looking at the faces, happiness was guaranteed for the union.

Nope, you don't find it. Embarrassed silence.

Move on to cutting the cake. Hey, what's this inside the cake we've just split open? It's the Queen of Hearts! Hold the revealed card up so everyone can see. Kiss. Live happily ever after.

The end.

Related trick: You produce a pack of cards, split in two. Each of you chooses half a card. Not only do they match, but it's the Queen of Hearts. Or you can do this with two decks.

Obviously the weakness is it could have been set up with your wife, but it's your wedding day. People will cut you some slack to be romantic.

Force a card on your wife.

And the best of luck Mate!

Mandrake wrote:

Force a card on your wife.

And the best of luck Mate!

Nah, should be a doddle. If need be, really do fix it all up with her in advance. Effect is everything.

Nah, should be a doddle.

You obviously haven't met Mrs.Mandrake, have you?!

Mandrake wrote:

Nah, should be a doddle.

You obviously haven't met Mrs.Mandrake, have you?!

True, but Mrs Slippery Penguin will be a newlywed with (I assume) a few glasses of booze inside her!

sorry m8 but I'm on tour all of november and first week in december so can't help otherwise i'd be happy to accomodate you.
if you realy want to do table hopping then might i sugest haunted key, our marks equal / unequal ropes, and hopping halfs.

good luck in your new voyage.

Ok..

Advice taken..

However.. our wedding is going to be quite informal and when I say "table hopping" I meant after all the fuss whilst people were sat talking and drinking (we arn't having a disco etc.. just some background music and lots of people sat around chatting) I was going to circulate and do some tricks. In fact I wasn't going to do any magic.. but my wife-to-be suggested it as she thinks that some of the stuff I've shown her was really good.

I really like the idea of incorporating a trick into my speach though.. means I wouldn't have to talk so much (speach wise that is). I've taken Part-Timer's idea on board but I don't want to do a card in cake if I can help it. I thought about Zamiels Rose (the Derren Brown effect) as this would be truely squishy.. sorry.. romantic.

So.. have you any ideas for doing someting really squishy please ?

Like I said.. I lack the depth of trick knowledge I know you all have, but I am gaining in skill and any suggestions would be grately appreciated.

Oh.. and thanks for your congratulations.. I shall pass them on to my fiance (but like finance.. fiance.. strange coincidence I guess.. but still just one letter different !)

Anyway.. any suggestions for squishy, romantic tricks that I could do during my speach ?

Thanks

Slippery

my wife-to-be suggested it

In which case, you have no option but to obey!

OK, folks, squishy, romatic ideas would be warmly welcomed!

I can only agree with several of the other posts, and sugest that you get someone else in. And i am not just saying this because i am local, and free towards the end of november.



I may have a few ideas, if you want to drop me an email.
Cheers..
Dale

daleshrimpton wrote: i am local, and free

Wow. no charge, what an offer

I guess that's a fine example of how to take a message out of context)

ok, I am negotiable at the end of November.

okey dokey theres a nice story line you can do with the cut and restored rope:-

firstly you have two people....cut rope....they are joined in holly matromony....tie rope.....the lovers pull and push to assert ther identeties.....not slides up and down rope......finaly the couple come to realise they are part of the same whole and so the knot is push right out of there relationship and they are given the knot to symbalise ther relationship and remind them that they must strive to be a whole piece of rope .