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His station set up in the foreground and, behind it, the marquee full of guests

Weddings

At some point in the evening, the party moves to one table.

He sets up where you tell him to and rolls without stopping. Everyone leaves holding a cigar made in front of them, with your two names on the band.

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What happens at the table

One guest comes over alone. Ten minutes later there is a crowd.

Someone stops to watch him bunch a cigar, waves a friend over, and it builds from there without anybody organising it. Guests who never light one stay anyway — what holds a room is watching the thing get made.

The table
The chaveta
The crowd it pulls

The band

Your names, printed on the band.

He rolls the cigar in front of your guest, so the band you choose is the only one it will ever wear — two names and a date, in gold. It is the last thing they read before they light it, and the first thing they look at when they find it in a jacket three weeks later.

One of his cigars with the blue Hublot band, in front of the watches on display
A band printed for a brand
A green and gold cigar band with a crest and a monogram, made for a wedding
A real one, from a wedding last November

It is the smallest thing he makes and the one people keep. A band is the first thing a smoker reads and the last thing they throw away — some of them come off in one piece and end up in the album, next to the photographs.

Favours get left on the table with the empty glasses. A cigar goes into an inside pocket, and gets smoked in March, on somebody’s porch, with your names still on it.

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How it looks in your room

It arrives dressed.

The round table draped in black to the floor, with the letters, the boxes and the candles
New York, September 2025
The station dressed with its sign and the boxes, with nobody in front of it
A cigar bar set up indoors, October 2024

Linen to the floor in a ballroom, a wooden bar in a barn. The boxes open along the back, the press and the blade laid out where people can see them, candles between. It is dressed for the room it is going into — which is the whole idea.

Where it lands in your timeline

He works to the hour you give him.

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Cocktail hour

The table is up before the first guest walks in. It gives people who have never met something to stand around.

After dinner

Speeches are done and half the room wants air. This is where most couples put him, and it is where the queue gets long.

The last hour

The ones still there at the end are the ones who will talk about it on Monday.

What he needs from the venue

A table, and somewhere with air.

A table

Six feet is plenty. Everything that goes on it travels with him.

Air

A terrace, a tent, a lawn — which is where your guests want to be by then anyway.

Cover, if the forecast turns

A marquee or a doorway. The table needs shade, not sun.

Weddings he has worked

Four years of other people’s Saturdays.

A hall, a barn, a marquee on a lawn. Every one of these is a wedding he worked, with the month it happened.

The man behind the table

He has stood at a wedding as family, not as the help.

Last July he rolled at his own nephew’s wedding, and wrote afterwards: “When it’s family, everything is done with extra love, pride, and perfection.” Eight strangers who met him once have written the same word about him without being asked — family.

Franklin at his table, at his nephew’s wedding
His nephew’s wedding
Franklin rolling at the long table, the finished cigars already lined up
Mid-service

He has rolled for more than twenty-five years, and learned the trade inside the Arturo Fuente factory in Santiago.

The whole story

200+ reviews

They all reach for the same word.

Family. Eight different people reach for it, eight years apart — written by guests who had known him for an hour.

Franklin sat down with my wife and I and enjoyed a cigar with us. He treated us like family and gave us hugs on our way out. Papo is the real deal with a heart of gold and a sense of humor that can make anyone laugh.

Robert Kinnane

Recent nights

He worked these.

Twenty weddings on record. These are the most recent.

A black-tie wedding, in a gardenA black-tie wedding, in a gardenJul 2026A wedding and a lounge, the same nightA wedding and a lounge, the same nightNov 2025A barn wedding outside BostonA barn wedding outside BostonBoston, MA · Oct 2025A ballroom wedding, New YorkA ballroom wedding, New YorkNew York, NY · Sep 2025A Saturday night weddingA Saturday night weddingAug 2025His nephew’s weddingHis nephew’s weddingJul 2025An outdoor wedding, the table working till the endAn outdoor wedding, the table working till the endNov 2024A wedding with its own cigar barA wedding with its own cigar barOct 2024A reception hall lit purple, New JerseyA reception hall lit purple, New JerseyNew Jersey · Oct 2024

Before you book

What couples ask.

A tent or a covered terrace is enough — the table needs cover, not sun. Most venues have somewhere in mind already, and it usually takes one phone call to settle.
One per guest is how the trade sizes a night, and how he sizes yours. The count settles the hours; nothing else about the evening moves.
They stay at the table anyway, and most take one home for somebody. Watching a cigar get made is the part people describe afterwards, to everyone who missed it.
Almost none do. A terrace, a tent or a lawn is where it goes — and by that hour of the evening, that is where your guests want to be anyway.
As long as you book him for. He arrives well before your first guest, works without stopping, and packs up after the last cigar.
He has worked weddings from Boston to West Virginia to Portland. Travel is settled with your date.
Enough time to have it printed. It is settled when you book, along with the date.

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