Somebody has to look after the guests.
For an hour or so on the day, you are not in the room. You are outside with the photographer, and behind you is a roomful of people who mostly do not know each other: your side and their side, meeting for the first time, holding a drink and waiting to be told where to sit. Eric works that hour. He moves through the room doing close-up magic and mentalism for a few people at a time, and the guests who watched something impossible happen together stop being strangers rather faster than they would have on their own.
Where it fits in the day.
Cocktail hour
The hour nobody plans for. You are outside having photographs taken, and back inside are two families who have mostly never met, holding drinks and working out who anybody is. Eric goes to the small groups and gives them something to react to together, which is a faster introduction than any amount of standing near the bar.
Table to table at the reception
By the second course everyone has talked to the people either side of them and run out of road. A few minutes at each table restarts it, and because he comes to them nobody has to move, the food keeps coming and the schedule you agreed with the venue does not shift.
A set for the seated guests
If there is a natural gap, after dinner or before the dancing, everyone can get one moment together instead of a few tables at a time. It needs a microphone and somewhere to stand, and it is worth doing when the crowd is the sort that will sit still for it.
Who books him the rest of the year.
Most of Eric’s work is corporate, for clients who audition entertainment carefully and do not book twice unless it went well. It is the same act, and the same reason to trust it with a day you cannot do again.
Questions couples ask.
Cocktail hour on its own runs $2,500 to $5,000, depending on the date, the guest count and where the venue is. Adding the reception, whether that is table to table or a set for the seated guests, takes it to $5,000 to $9,000. Saturdays in season go first, so send the date and you will hear back.
Cocktail hour, almost always. That is the stretch where you are off having photographs taken, your guests have just met each other, and the only thing organizing them is the bar. It also works between courses at the reception, when people have talked to everyone at their own table and the evening needs restarting.
Sometimes, and it is worth asking about. It is not a standard part of the booking and it only works when it genuinely suits the couple and the officiant, so it gets worked out in the planning rather than dropped in. When it does fit, it is the moment people talk about for years.
Yes. It is modern and conversational, built on your guests taking part rather than on props and punchlines, so it suits the whole guest list, from your college friends to your parents' friends. Nothing in it needs explaining and nothing in it is off color.
As soon as you have the date and the venue. Saturday evenings in spring and fall are the first dates to go, and Eric only takes one wedding a day. Nothing else needs to be settled before you ask.
Yes. Eric is based in Brooklyn and works across the five boroughs and the surrounding area, and travels for the right wedding, anywhere in the country or internationally.
Is your date free?
Send the date and the venue. Nothing else needs to be settled yet.
The date and the venue are enough to start. You do not need a timeline, a guest count or a decision about what you want yet.
Fifteen minutes to work out which parts of the day it should cover, and whether anything belongs in the ceremony.
Built for what your day actually needs. There are no packages to choose between.
