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A wedding with its own whiskey and cigar bar, and a roller at the table

A cigar bar with its own printed sign, the boxes laid out and the cutters ready.

Franklin rolling under a small lamp in a houndstooth fedora
1 of ~28hands trusted with the Opus X — the same ones at your partyCigar Journal, 2016
6 minfrom loose leaf to a cigar in your guest’s handHis own words
150+nights that ended with the room around his tableFranklin’s own count

The night

A bar with its own name

A wedding in October 2024, and a bar that had its own sign. A printed arch read “Whiskey & Cigar Bar — Enjoy!”, a round black one said “cigar bar” in script, and between them ran a long wooden table on a brick floor, the boxes open at either end and his framed card propped beside the board.

The table

Rolled where everyone could see

He sat behind the table in a dark jacket and a houndstooth fedora, a small lamp bent over the round board. In his clip from that night the whole craft is there: the leaf laid flat, the chaveta trimming it, his palms rolling the bunch into shape, the finished cigar set down for the next guest. He posted the next day that it had been another great wedding.

Your wedding

A cigar bar with someone behind it

A cigar bar on its own is a table of boxes. With him behind it, it is the place guests gather: he arrives before they do, works from a table you provide, and rolls without stopping for as long as you have booked him. In the same post he invited anyone with questions about a cigar roller at their venue to reach out to him directly.

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How he works a wedding

Trusted with the Fuente Opus X—At the Fuente table since 1995—Formula 1 Miami’s official roller—Featured in Cigar Journal—Chosen by Hublot, Tudor and Bell & Ross—

The same hands can be at your event

Franklin Pichardo has been rolling since 1995, the year Arturo Fuente released the first Opus X — and he is one of the few in the world the family cleared to roll it.

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