Weddings

[Emaresee]

Yesterday i attended a glorious wedding..as you get older you go to more and more. I've had plenty of cigars at weddings before, but usually they were a mix of theatre prop and bestman or usher uniform. This was my first wedding in recent years where i took a few sticks for my own enjoyment (davidoff short t and HdM LE '11 petit pyramides which was stunning thank you [MENTION=294]ACMCC[/MENTION]).
Anyway, the power of a well chosen cigar at a well chosen moment was astounding ..... People come over wanting to chat, wanting to know about the stick, and wanting to check out the lighter and cutter etc.
Then later, much later, the half cut ushers and groomsmen sought me out like some sagely wizard to cut n light their occasion smokes. Just brilliant fun to be seen as some one who holds the keys to a special bit of man kit, man knowledge and social ceremony. There was genuine (ok... Booze soaked) reverance for the 3 jets of cigar lighting happiness!!!!

It was nice to experience a cigar bringing non-cigar folk together to talk and share a few moments mucking about with blade and fire. I know most of the boys will wake with cracking heads and burning lungs from inhaling their sticks when they shouldnt have, but they experienced a few moments of the special comeraderie that we BOTL's and SOTL's enjoy.

And for those who didnt partake, they enjoyed the theatre of the cutting n lighting, the scent of puros in the air and had fun inspecting the kit.... Cigar lighter, cutter n cigar case. I sense a few might be bought just for the pleasure of owning well made man cave gear!

Hope you all enjoyed long ashes and good company this weekend too.

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[cigarmo]

Yesterday i attended a glorious wedding..as you get older you go to more and more. I've had plenty of cigars at weddings before, but usually they were a mix of theatre prop and bestman or usher uniform. This was my first wedding in recent years where i took a few sticks for my own enjoyment (davidoff short t and HdM LE '11 petit pyramides which was stunning thank you @ACMCC).
Anyway, the power of a well chosen cigar at a well chosen moment was astounding ..... People come over wanting to chat, wanting to know about the stick, and wanting to check out the lighter and cutter etc.
Then later, much later, the half cut ushers and groomsmen sought me out like some sagely wizard to cut n light their occasion smokes. Just brilliant fun to be seen as some one who holds the keys to a special bit of man kit, man knowledge and social ceremony. There was genuine (ok... Booze soaked) reverance for the 3 jets of cigar lighting happiness!!!!

It was nice to experience a cigar bringing non-cigar folk together to talk and share a few moments mucking about with blade and fire. I know most of the boys will wake with cracking heads and burning lungs from inhaling their sticks when they shouldnt have, but they experienced a few moments of the special comeraderie that we BOTL's and SOTL's enjoy.

And for those who didnt partake, they enjoyed the theatre of the cutting n lighting, the scent of puros in the air and had fun inspecting the kit.... Cigar lighter, cutter n cigar case. I sense a few might be bought just for the pleasure of owning well made man cave gear!

Hope you all enjoyed long ashes and good company this weekend too.

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Sounds like a good day

[Simon Bolivar]

Good post, check out Simon Bolivar's catch up thread for my recent experience at a friends wedding. Similar withthe addition that a took a few smokes to hand out.

[ACMCC]

Your welcome Matt, Glad to hear the wedding went well!

[Joncon]

There is a bit of alchemy to smoking cigars at weddings I have found.
1. What to take for yourself.
2. What to take for those who want one.
3. What to take for the groom or bride in some cases.
4. Timing is key.
5. Location also important.

A small humidor is helpful or a good case.

Glad you had a good one.

[SHAMZ84]

Sounds like a good day...I'm actually thinking what to take to a wedding in a few weeks time...I'm in two.minds of taking something I really want to smoke incase i don't get time to enjoy it properly or all my friend who don't appreciate cigars will come with me and smoke it and just be wasted...or just something cheap and cheerful that people will enjoy.

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[Emaresee]

There is a bit of alchemy to smoking cigars at weddings I have found.
1. What to take for yourself.
2. What to take for those who want one.
3. What to take for the groom or bride in some cases.
4. Timing is key.
5. Location also important.

A small humidor is helpful or a good case.

Glad you had a good one.

agreed! getting it right is difficult.

I was fortunate in that it was a cracking day weather wise and it was a pretty much 'out doors' event with the wedding breakfast and reception in a marquee at the Brides parents home.

I had one after the ceremony with drinks and canap?s (the lighter davidoff short t).. this started the interested and envy! and then the HdM LE '11 short perfecto in the gap between wedding breakfast and evening party.

As i was a non-family guest in the midst of a pretty big wedding, I simply took a brace of relatively modest sticks to keep me ticking over. If I was closer to the grooms party I would have probably packed the herfador with some HUHC's. I was tempted to make it a Behike day, but glad I didn't. I don't think I would have sensibly had the time and attention to enjoy it fully.

The groomsmen were on Don Ramos Honduran handmade tubos no2's which I didn't sample but cut n' lit for them. they were in good nick, they cut well, lit well burned evenly and smelled pretty acceptable as they smoked them.

[Simon Bolivar]

Cheap & cheerful Shamz, not good to smoke Cohiba's if you only have R&J to hand out. ERDM DT & Vegerous's new lines worked well at my last wedding.

[Niela]

I have a few cigars that didn't cost much and which I usually smoke when playing golf or handing them out to people interested in trying one. I would have no problem sharing my finest cigars with a BOTL any day of the week. Enjoying a good thing together only makes it better. But I have had my share of half smoked cigars that were tossed away by people that just want to give it a try. And a fine cigar would simply be wasted on them.

I also explain this to people that ask me to try a cigar. I give them one I think is right for them (mild, large, cheap) and explain that you have to develop a taste for it first before you can appreciate the flavours of a nice cigar. Everybody understood that so far and was always happy with my choice. If it's someone I am close with I also have no problem to let them have a drag from mine to taste the differences.

What I haven't tried yet is to give a newbie a NUB. I think those could be great as they are short and people are not in danger of a nicotine hit. Though they can be a bit pricey for these occasions sometimes.

[Emaresee]

I have a few cigars that didn't cost much and which I usually smoke when playing golf or handing them out to people interested in trying one. I would have no problem sharing my finest cigars with a BOTL any day of the week. Enjoying a good thing together only makes it better. But I have had my share of half smoked cigars that were tossed away by people that just want to give it a try. And a fine cigar would simply be wasted on them.

I also explain this to people that ask me to try a cigar. I give them one I think is right for them (mild, large, cheap) and explain that you have to develop a taste for it first before you can appreciate the flavours of a nice cigar. Everybody understood that so far and was always happy with my choice. If it's someone I am close with I also have no problem to let them have a drag from mine to taste the differences.

What I haven't tried yet is to give a newbie a NUB. I think those could be great as they are short and people are not in danger of a nicotine hit. Though they can be a bit pricey for these occasions sometimes.

I reckon that a NUB is a great idea... if bought abroad! Too expensive by far at UK prices... but they are short, wide and theatrical which would do the job for most people. A Connecticut or a Sungrown would be ok taste wise too... not too fulsome.