Everything You Need for Burns Night – Except the Haggis and Whisky This complete Burns Night Toolkit provides everything you need to host a traditional and well-structured Burns Supper, whether in a hotel or as a corporate event. From poetry and ceremony to bagpipes, food, and entertainment, this guide covers every essential element of Burns Night. Everything you need — except the Haggis and the whisky. What Is Burns Night? The 25th of January marks the annual celebration of the life and work of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Poet. Burns Night is [...]

There is a specific moment every event planner fears. It’s that lull in the conference schedule, or that polite, quiet gap during a gala dinner where guests are checking their watches rather than engaging with the room.Corporate audiences today are sophisticated. If they have travelled to Scotland for your incentive, awards show, or conference, they don’t just want to see a slide deck. They want an experience that is authentic to the location, undeniable in its energy, and worth capturing on their phones.At Reel Time Events, [...]

What better way to embrace the culture of Scotland than to enjoy some ceilidh dancing?  Ceilidh dancing is fun Scottish group dancing. Which can be taught to international groups with zero prior experience.  It gets people interacting and enjoying traditional Scottish activity, and is a memorable part of their Scottish Visit.   We have just completed three days of ceilidh dancing, over 7 different exclusive Scottish Venues.  Putting on a mix of traditional ceilidh and also rocking modern ceilidh.   The functions have been organised for International conference clients visiting Scotland, corporate [...]

One of the most spectacular highlights of the Scottish summer is the Highland Games season. Highland Games Competitors come together to compete for who is the strongest and most talented Athlete. Tossing Cabers, hurling Hammers, putting the Scots stone, as well as bagpiping and dancing competitions. It truly celebrates many of the iconic Scottish cultural pastimes. If you don’t have time to visit one of the organised Highland Games, or maybe feel like you want to actually compete yourself  (against your colleagues, friends [...]

Today marks 20 year anniversary of Reel Time Events opening.  1st May 2005, I decided there was a distinct lack of young Scottish talent getting booked on events.   What was getting booked was a stereotypical Scottish shortbread tin image.  Scotland needed to move into the 21st Century.  With this I had ideas to play some bagpipes with dance music, get interactive with some of the Scottish cultural icons that we represent, and launch Reel Time Events as a One Stop Scottish Shop.  Whether it be Highland Games, Whisky tasting, hiring [...]