A highly experienced professional Toastmaster with many years experience in the City of London and at the highest possible level.

After serving for 24 years in the Regular Army, I worked as a City of London Livery Company Beadle and Toastmaster, during which time I officiated at every kind of event, including Weddings, Banquets, Dinners, Presentations, Luncheons, Graduations, Livery Companies, Ward Clubs and other organisations.

I have attended upon Royalty, Ambassadors, Members of Parliament, senior members of the Armed Forces and the Church, captains of industry, sports personalities and entertainers.

I was honoured to be selected to officiate at the 100th and 101st Birthday celebrations of Her Majesty the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, on behalf of the Sheriffs' Society of the City of London.

Qualified by examination as a member of the City of London Toastmasters Association, I am also a Member of the Federation of Professional Toastmasters, Past Chairman of the City of London Beadles' Guild and a Freeman of the City of London.

Your Wedding Day should be the happiest and most important day of your life. Every single second should be remembered with joy and pleasure and to do that you need the freedom to meet and greet your family and friends: to socialise, chat, eat, drink and generally have time for what you want to do. Time for yourself. Time to sit back, smell the roses and smile.

Let me take the strain and look after the organisation, the Receiving Line, the speeches, the caterers, the timings, presentations of gifts or flowers and all the nitty-gritty management of the day.

After a recent wedding, the Mother of the Bride commented that she was so pleased and relieved that I had been "Mum for the day" instead of her.