Reviews of Toastmaster & Celebrant Paul Deacon

With Paul as our celebrant, our meetings and other sessions, email exchange, the overall follow up and most importantly on the day was amazing from your side!

We both said out of all the ‘suppliers’ you were the most hands on and better than the wedding coordinators! You were with us from the beginning and made sure everything ran smoothly right until the last minute. We honestly couldn’t thank you enough for making our day perfect.

We honestly couldn’t have asked for a better celebrant and toastmaster than Paul for our wedding. From start to finish, he was professional, organised, and an absolute pleasure to work with. He kept the day running smoothly and seamlessly, ensuring everything happened at the right time without ever feeling rushed or forced.

Paul’s presence added a real sense of occasion, and his confidence and charm put both us and our guests completely at ease. He handled announcements effortlessly, coordinated perfectly with the venue and suppliers, and dealt with any little changes calmly and discreetly — which meant we could simply relax and enjoy our day.

So many of our guests commented on how fantastic Paul was and how much he contributed to the atmosphere of the day. We are incredibly grateful for the role he played in making our wedding so special and memorable, and we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking for a truly excellent toastmaster.

Many thanks for all your help,

Paul has worked with us on a number of large-scale events and his knowledge and input has been invaluable. Not only does he perform his primary role as Toastmaster superbly, but his experience of events has helped to spot issues and contributed enormously to the smooth running of very successful events.

Excellent communication prior to the event. Able to adapt to whatever unexpected challenges presented themselves at the event.

A crowd pleaser.

Highly organised & articulate.

Paul is 'simply the best'. An average event can turn into an A+ event with his understanding and management of how to make things tick. Since we started using him for our busy awards ceremonies we have never looked back. We wouldn't consider running an event without him.

Long may that continue!

I have worked with Paul on many great corporate and large masonic events.

I was very impressed with his attention to detail and would recommend him for any occasion that requires a true Professional.

Colin Roy CR Entertainment.

We wanted both Marguerite and I to thank you very much for your essential role at our wedding last month on 12 July.

We have had indeed many of our guests who told us rightfully how impressed they had been by you.

As we had told you, to our knowledge, Toastmasters are not very common in weddings across the Channel. Your presence brought a great combination of English pomp and style with a wonderful smoothness all along the evening that enabled both of us to fully enjoy the moment.

We are aware French people can be a little bit more unruly with keeping time and you did wonderfully! The fact that you made the announcements both in English and in French or your attention to such details as the right pronunciation of names made such a difference.

It was a “tour de force”!

We’ll be always happy to corroborate how happy we have been with your wonderful and bilingual contribution on our wedding day, and of course to recommend you warmly any time we will have the opportunity to.

Encore Mille Mercis.

With our very best wishes et notre meilleur souvenir,

On behalf of this year's President of Chelsea Lodge W.Bro. Glyn Harvey and myself & John Logan, the Chelsea Lodge and all the audience, cast and crew I would like to sincerely thank you for being a part of the 2019 Chelsea Lodge Ladies Festival. Another very busy night which even through our critical eyes gets the thumbs up.

Thanks for running the formal section so well, the speeches came over very well. We didn't wrap up until around 01:00 but the floor was still pretty full even at that time. It seems quite a number of guests were still in the room nearly an hour later and I saw the bars emptying around 03:00 which is something of a late night record for this event. So I think you can conclude a good time was had by all.

Thanks very much indeed for all of your efforts on our behalf and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed you being involved.

Please receive my sincere thanks for the flawless organisation of the IRSE Annual Dinner last Friday. This evening will remain in my family's memory as very special for the rest of our lives. Please also extend my thanks Paul, the Toastmaster, who did an excellent job in an at times “adverse environment”, and who also took care of the children's music playing in a very gentle way.

Thank you for your excellent "crowd-guidance and encouragement" and organisation activities during our wedding. Your style fitted perfectly with our desires for the occasion and your invaluable assistance, unobtrusive coordination and sympathetic attention to detail was a delight that played a huge part in the fact that everyone attending had a fabulous day and did not want to leave.

Our memories of your kind and generous advice and assistance throughout will always be gratefully and fondly remembered.

Jo and I wish you all the very best for the future, and very many thanks again for your kind assistance.

Thank you so much for all your help. Everyone had a fabulous day and evening. Many guests said it was a fantastic wedding and one they would never forget. We are all so pleased it went well. Thank you again Sir for all your input and wisdom which was much appreciated by everyone and especially me and my wife

Wow! You truly made our day a fairy tale wedding celebration. You were remarkable and attentive to all our needs and the needs of our guests. You put everybody at ease and ran everything like clockwork. From the moment we drove up to the venue and saw you so perfectly dressed in your red tailcoat, you greeted us and it was the start of an amazing journey through our wedding celebrations. You were there every step of the way and all our guests thoroughly enjoyed you being there and what you did for us to bring everything together.

You did warn us we would be having fun during the receiving line and we had so much fun! It was particularly touching when you announced Auntie NIta. As for the introduction of the best man for his speech, it was hilarious and a great ice breaker and pulled together the speeches remarkably well. You created a truly memorable funny moment we will treasure with beaming smiles. It eased Lee into his speech perfectly :-)

We are eternally grateful to you for helping us before the wedding as well as during the wedding celebration itself. It took the pressure off us and brought our wedding celebration to life. Thank you for creating and being a part of our and our guests' memories of this wonderful day.”