This past weekend, we went to San Jose to celebrate the engagement of my Son David to a beautiful girl named Danielle.

It was magical.  At the engagement party, Danielle’s father gave a very touching speech about his little girl; and I did a special magic tribute to the couple:

“This 1 dollar bill represents David and his family and this one dollar bill represents Danielle and her family.  If we put both together, we end up with two (the two bills become a 2 dollar bill) amazing people meant to be together.”  I followed this with a silk, ring, rope routine with a theme about tying the knot.  For the finale, I said that “David and Danielle could not get married unless they passed my test with a deck of cards”:

They each select and sign cards that are obviously put in different halves of the deck. When she squeezes the deck and thinks fondly of him, his card and only his card mysteriously turns face up in the deck.  Then he squeezes and thinks of her, and her card does the same.  As a kicker, the two cards are shown to have moved together in the deck.  Then as the final straw, when the two cards are put together in her hand and his hand covers the cards, the two cards become one in their hands.

They passed the test.

It was an amazing time had by all!  The food, drink, cake and party were a total success.

BTW:  During our visit, my son told me that Houdini had performed at the San Jose Improv.