Everything you need to host your own Burns Night, except the Haggis and Whisky. Whether you'd like a checklist to hire Professionals, or to host the evening yourself, here are all of the resources and tools you will need. The 25th of January each year marks the celebration of the life of Robert Burns, Scotland's National Poet. We celebrate on the anniversary of his birth rather than his death because Burns' work celebrated the joys and passions of life. A Burns Supper or Burns Night is a reflection [...]

Reel Time Events recently provided conference entertainment at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. As part of the social program and evening entertainment for a conference at the EICC, we provided a whisky and gin tasting, a fighting display from Scottish fighting experts and highland warriors 'The Clan', and a Pipeband. The museum after dark is like a kid’s dream. Or a Ben Stiller movie. Either way, it’s thrilling to be in that giant old building, wandering through the exhibits, secretly hoping something that isn’t supposed to move might just [...]

A look back to a Midsummer Gin Festival, to the warmer days that already seem so far behind us, as it seems the colder ones are fast approaching. At the height of this past summer, right around the summer Solstice, Reel Time’s Master Gin tasters went off to Loch Fyne Hotel & Spa for a weekend filled with gin fun! The Perfect Serves The weekend kicked off with the “perfect serves” drinks reception and a BBQ dinner. Guests were offered a French 75 gin cocktail as a welcome drink before introducing [...]

In Glasgow Ceilidh news this year, we have been fortunate to secure a great run of conference ceilidh events with Merchant Square. At the epicentre of Glasgow’s happening bar and night-life, Merchant Square also has another side to its events: the conference event takeover! Glasgow Convention Bureau does a great job of attracting large conferences to the city. And by a good job, I mean they have been named top conference bureau in the UK 12 years running by the Meeting and Incentive Travel Awards.  Over the course of each summer, [...]