What a Great Night!

So it is eight o’clock and the end of my shift. I’m pretty happy with the first time I’ve been to the restaurant and I feel I made contact with some people who are some movers and shakers. I get my money, hand them the invoice and I’m about to hang out with the friends that decided to come out and see me on my first night.

I get a tap on my shoulder and a server tells me something interesting.

“Table 16 would like you to help him propose to his girlfriend.”

She continues to tell me that she has been friends with the people since she was a little girl.

I made it clear that it needed to be the guy’s idea and not her idea to be cute.

She said, “No, he specifically told me to ask you if you could present the ring in a cool way for him to propose.”

I’m thinking, this is one of the biggest moments in both the guy’s and girlfriend’s life. I’m pretty nervous not really for me but for the guy.

So the server hands me the rock and I stick it in my pocket and walk over to the table. I introduce myself like I normally would to a table and proceed to do my Ambitious Card routine which is the equivalent to Tommy Wonder’s card in box, though I finish things off with a card in wallet.

Anyway, the girl picks the Ace of Diamonds. (Imagine that…) Both of them sign it and I go into my routine that finishes with the card in the wallet. (Sorry magic dudes, no Anniversary Waltz here because 1. I think the trick is too cheesy for my style of magic.
2. I think the guy wanted it to be a surprise and I didn’t want to ruin it with being suggestive.
3. Didn’t have the special things to do it.)

I then tell the guy to fold the card in quarters and I explain the ace of diamonds is a magical card and funny things happen when I use the card. At this point the card gets wrapped into a silk handkerchief and the girl held the bundle. I have the guy wave the magic marker over the handkerchief and have her unwrap it. Her face was priceless and I think it’s one of the greatest things when girls’ eyes get as big as saucers in surprise because in the silk was a diamond ring. (For those of you who have to know, I used the basic gypsy switch.)

I then grabbed the marker, the silk and left. I felt I no longer needed to be there and that the guy needed to have his moment.

After she said yes, I walked back to the table sometime later and gave them the ace of diamonds they signed and dated it. My friends who were their thought I should have signed it, and I disagreed, because this is their moment not mine. If they wanted my signature they would have asked for it and if they want it later, they know how to find me through the restaurant. I didn’t even give them a business card.

I didn’t think it would have been classy to give them a business card, or to sign the ace of diamonds without their permission. I just wanted them to have their moment.

I try hard and take advantage of business opportunities, but what an honor to be a part of something so special for two people, to truly give them a moment they will never forget.

Worrying about the business part is important, and I made a big enough impression to have probably sold this couple anything, at the same time, I feel like I got enough to be a part of something truly magical.