Desperate brides are paying witches to conjure the perfect $100K wedding amid soaring costs

When your wedding budget is pushing six figures — what’s another 15 bucks to bargain with the universe?Frazzled brides are increasingly turning to Etsy witches to cast “good weather” spells, hoping a little supernatural intervention will protect the most expensive day of their lives from Mother Nature’s mood swings.Newlyweds and wedding vendors alike are crediting mystical spellcasters with delivering blue skies and sunshine — or at least conveniently timed rainstorms — in a viral trend that has exploded across TikTok.One couple, posting under @allisonandwillow, shared photos from their picture-perfect ceremony alongside simple advice: “Hire the witch.” They doubled down by telling followers to “get the premium weather spell,” directing viewers to the Etsy shop “Crystal Conjure Magic.”Wedding photographer Ellamae Ciesilk (@ellamae.c.photographs) admitted she didn’t believe what she heard after shooting one bride’s big day.“The weather on the day of the wedding was due to be AWFUL,” she wrote in the caption of another recent clip. “We were all shocked to see the sun shining and later in the day I found out the bride had paid a witch to bring the weather.”She later revealed: “The bride paid a witch on Etsy for good weather on her wedding day … and the weather delivered.”Even when the spells don’t completely work, believers say they somehow still do.TikTok user @emlay.rose shared footage of guests huddled under umbrellas as rain poured over her outdoor ceremony. But she insisted the spellcaster deserved some credit anyway.“Paid my Etsy witch to keep the rain away on my wedding day … so naturally it all dumped at once when we went in for dinner, then it stopped again when it was time to go outside for dancing,” she noted.“Etsy Witch really outdid herself.”The phenomenon has even spread overseas.Another wedding photographer filmed an Australian bride this spring holding up her phone while basking in the sun’s ra...