Your weather witch, for the day that matters

The sky is the first thing I look at, every single day.

Weather witch

I am Ivy, and I have been the weather witch for more than 1,500 wedding days and big days. A bride, a sister or a mother hands me a date, a place and a forecast she cannot bear to look at anymore, and asks me to hold the sky for her. I light a candle for that day, speak it into being at my table, and write back, so she can close the weather app and start looking forward again.

This page is everything I would tell you if you sat down across from me: what a weather witch is, where the tradition comes from, what I actually do for your day, what I will never promise, and how to book me.

What is a weather witch?

A weather witch is someone who works with the weather through ritual and intention. Not a forecaster, and not a sorceress who orders the clouds about, but someone who takes one day under one sky and holds it with her full attention: your names, your date, your place, and the picture of that day going well. People ask a weather witch for sunshine on a wedding day, a dry hour for the photographs, a calm sea for a crossing, a clear night for a festival.

These days most people meet their weather witch the way they met me: on Etsy, somewhere in the final weeks before the wedding, when the forecast turns grey. It has become such a familiar part of wedding planning that newspapers and magazines write about brides who hire a witch for their weather. What they rarely write about is why it helps, even for people who are not sure what they believe. That part I can tell you.

An old trade, and a long line of women who asked the sky

Weather witches are much older than the internet. In 1555 the Swedish writer Olaus Magnus described the wind-sellers of Finland, who sold sailors a leather thong tied with three magic knots: untie the first and a gentle wind came, the second brought a stronger one, the third a storm. When Sir Walter Scott visited Stromness on Orkney in 1814, he met a woman of more than ninety who made her living selling favourable winds to the sailors in the harbour, and she found her way into his novel The Pirate. And in the early ninth century an archbishop of Lyon was already writing against the villagers who believed in the tempestarii, the weather-makers who could bring on the hail.

I do not sell wind in knots, and I am glad nobody has ever asked me for a storm. But I like knowing that when I light a candle for your wedding day, I sit in a very long line of women who were asked to be kind to the sky on someone else's behalf.

Why brides hire a weather witch

Almost nobody comes to me certain that a ritual will move a rain front. They come because the forecast has quietly taken over the wedding. The seating plan is done, the flowers are ordered, the photographer is booked, and still every conversation ends in the same place: and what if it rains?

A weather witch gives that worry somewhere to go. Someone takes the sky off your list and holds it for you, on purpose and with care. Brides tell me the calm arrives the moment they read my report, often days before the weather does.

★★★★★

It was the best money we spent on the whole wedding.

Justine · Etsy, September 2026

★★★★★

I recommend even just to receive the kind and reassuring words before your big day.

Emma · Etsy, September 2026

What I do as your weather witch

1. You tell me about the day

   Your names, the date, the place as precisely as you like, and what the day means to you. The more you share, the more of your day there is on my table.

2. I hold your ritual the same day

   Your names and date go on paper in my handwriting, beside a candle. I speak your day aloud in the present tense, as if it is already happening: the dry path to the ceremony, the light on your faces, the photographs in soft sun. And I stay with that feeling until it is whole.

3. I write to you

   Your report arrives the same day, written for you alone: what I sensed around your day, the sky as it came to me, and one sentence to say whenever the worry comes back.

4. And I stay with you

   Afterwards I check in with you, you receive my small guide After Your Reading, and I love hearing afterwards how your day was.

If you want to see it step by step, I wrote about how I do a weather spell as an Etsy witch.

What couples write to their weather witch afterwards

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How to choose a weather witch

Whether you book me or someone else, look for reviews that talk about weather and weddings, not only about readings; someone who has done this many times and says so plainly; a real person who writes back; something in writing for your day rather than a one-line "done"; and honesty about what cannot be promised. Be careful with anyone who guarantees sunshine, talks about curses, or asks for more money after the day.

I wrote a longer guide on how to choose a weather witch, and an honest answer to the question do Etsy weather witches actually work?

When to book your weather witch

Two to four weeks before the day is the sweet spot: your report has time to settle in you, and you walk into the final week lighter. Most people find me in the last week, when the forecast appears, and that is fine too. Even the day before is not too late, because your ritual is held on the day you order and your report arrives that same day.

Where you are does not matter. My table is in the Netherlands and the days I hold are everywhere: a two-day wedding in Todi in Italy, a ceremony right on the coast, a honeymoon on safari. Your report comes in English, German, Dutch, French or Spanish.

Book your weather witch

For the whole wedding at once, The Perfect Wedding (€27.77) holds the weather, a Marriage Blessing, a Wedding Day Reading and the honeymoon sky together. A Wedding Day Reading beside a ritual is always half price. And everything about the wedding ritual itself is on my good weather spell page.

Questions about weather witches

What is a weather witch?

A weather witch is someone who works with the weather through ritual and intention, holding one day under one sky with her full attention. Today most people hire a weather witch for their wedding day, usually when the forecast turns.

Can a weather witch really change the weather?

No honest weather witch will promise you that, and I never do. I hold your day at my table and write you a report that gives your worry somewhere to go; what couples describe afterwards, you can read in my reviews.

How much does a weather witch cost?

Prices vary a lot. My Good Weather Ritual, held the same day with a written report, costs €8.88, and The Perfect Wedding, with the Marriage Blessing, a Wedding Day Reading and honeymoon weather, costs €27.77.

Are you the Etsy weather witch?

Yes. My good weather ritual was ordered more than 1,500 times in my Etsy shop, IvyVeilReadings, where it holds a 5.0 rating. Etsy no longer lists rituals like this one, so it lives here now, on my own site.

When should I book a weather witch for my wedding?

Two to four weeks before is ideal, but the last week or even the day before works too: your ritual is held the same day you order and your report arrives the same day.

Can I hire a weather witch for someone else's wedding?

Yes, many people do. Order in your own name and give me the couple's names, their date and their place; you can forward the report or keep it as a quiet gift.

Do you need to be near my wedding?

No. My table is in the Netherlands and I hold days all over the world. Tell me the place as precisely as you like: the town, the venue, the garden.

What if it rains anyway?

Then it rains, and I am sorry, because I wanted the sun for you too. A ritual is not a guarantee; if your report did not land the way you hoped, tell me within seven days and I put it right.

My rituals and reports are offered as spiritual guidance and for entertainment purposes; nothing is promised or guaranteed, and your own choices remain the strongest force. You must be 18 or older to order.