People bring me all kinds of questions: love, money, a new job, a loved one who has passed. I hold every one of them with the same care. But if you asked me which work makes me happiest, I would not have to think about it. I love being a weather witch.
More than 1,500 times someone has handed me a date and a sky and asked me to hold it. It has never become ordinary. So this letter is not about how I do it (I wrote about how I do a weather spell elsewhere). It is about why I love it.
Because it begins with a worry and ends with a letter
Almost every weather order arrives with a little tension in it. A forecast with a rain icon on the wrong day. A percentage that will not come down. A bride who has checked the app so often that she is embarrassed to say how often. Sometimes the message is one line, sometimes a whole page, and I can feel the shoulders up by the ears as I read it.
And then, weeks or days later, the other message comes. The one written after the wedding, still full of the day.
"My wedding day arrived, and the weather was wet and gray; I even had umbrellas packed for the taxi ride to the venue. But once I arrived, the skies miraculously cleared, and I enjoyed dry weather for the entire day. The sun shone over the water, and I knew my wish had been heard."
Naomi, August 2026
Between those two messages sits the whole reason I do this. Being someone's weather witch means being there at the most anxious point of their planning, and still being remembered on the happiest day of their year.
Because it is always about more than the weather
Nobody really orders sunshine. They order the walk to the ceremony without an umbrella. The grandmother who can sit outside. The photographs in soft light that will hang in a hallway for forty years. The first dance under the sky instead of under a marquee roof. When I hold a day, I hold all of that, and it is some of the most tender work I know.
And very often, it is not even the bride who writes to me. It is a sister, a best friend, a mother who cannot watch her daughter refresh a weather app for ten days. Those orders move me every time: someone who loves someone else enough to hand their sky to a weather witch, quietly, as a gift.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Patricia, mother of the bride, September 2026
Because of the moments I get to hear about
I never know which details will come back to me. A break in the rain just long enough to walk to the registry. Pink sunset pictures after a day of warnings. A rainbow during cocktail hour at a best friend's wedding. Every one of them is someone's story, and they let me be part of it.
One of my favourites did not even happen at a wedding. A bride I had held the sky for wrote to me again on her honeymoon, on safari, where thunderstorms had sent the animals into hiding and cancelled the activities.
"I contacted Ivy as my dream is to see an elephant in the wild. The next day the sun came out and we saw herds of elephants."
Tarnya, September 2026
I still smile when I think of those elephants.
Because weather witches are an old and lovely line
I love that this work is so much older than me. Long before anyone had a weather app, people asked someone to be kind to the sky on their behalf: the wind-sellers of Finland who tied a breeze into knots for sailors, the old woman on Orkney who sold fair winds in the harbour of Stromness, the couples who still bring eggs to the Poor Clare nuns and ask for a clear wedding day. When I light a candle for your date, I feel that long line of women behind me. I wrote more about it on my page about being your weather witch.
Because it teaches me trust, every single time
A weather ritual is the purest version of what I believe about all my work. Words have power, and feelings have power, and when you speak something as already true and feel it until it is whole, something moves. I cannot command a cloud, and I never pretend to. What I do is hold one clear picture with everything I have: the dry path, the light on the faces, the relief. Then I let it go, and I trust.
Brides learn the same thing, and that may be my favourite part. The moment they hand me their sky, they stop guarding it. They sleep again. They enjoy the last week instead of fighting it. Whatever the weather does, they walk into their day lighter, and a day met with trust has a way of unfolding more kindly than the one you feared.
"Ivy's message put me so at ease. Even if it had rained, I was able to relax a bit in the days leading up to the wedding."
Emma, September 2026
Why I keep it kind
Weddings are expensive, and the weather is the one thing no budget can buy. I never want the worry about the sky to become one more big bill, so my Good Weather Ritual is €8.88, held the same day, with a report written for you alone, a check-in afterwards and my little guide After Your Reading. I want every bride who is lying awake over a forecast to be able to say yes without thinking twice.
And I stay honest. I will never guarantee sunshine, and if your report does not land the way you hoped, you tell me within seven days and I put it right. That honesty is part of why I can do this work with a whole heart.
If your day is coming
If there is a date circled in your calendar and a forecast you keep checking, let me be your weather witch. For a wedding, begin with the Good Weather Ritual. For a party, a festival or a photoshoot, the Good Weather Spell for Your Event. For the trip you saved for, the Vacation Weather Spell. And if you are still wondering, read my honest answer to whether Etsy weather witches actually work, or how to choose a weather witch at all.
Then close the weather app. I have the sky for a while.
Ivy
