Christening — Tallinn

The christening starts at two. By eleven the room needs power to three points, a microphone that works when an eighty-year-old speaks quietly, and enough light that the ceremony photographs without grain. Most venues in Tallinn were built for other things—the hall was a canteen, the manor house has three-phase supply in the basement only, the restaurant's PA is voiced for background music and nothing else.

We rig for the room you actually have. Cable runs, stands, a mixer someone can operate when we leave. The microphone works or the toast doesn't, and no one remembers much else.