Weddings 

Your wedding – your way

I LOVE weddings!
Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life and it would be a privilege to work with you to design your perfect ceremony

One of the many benefits of choosing to work with an independent celebrant is that you can truly have the service that you want.

Because a celebrant service does not include the legal part of the process (you will need to conduct that in the days or weeksbefore, at a registered location such as a registry office) there are no restrictions on how or where you hold your ceremony or what you choose to include to make it unique and special, just for you.

I have been working with couples and helping design bespoke ceremonies to meet all budgets for several years. I will work with you to help create a ceremony as unique as you. This will include helping to create readings (including your personal lovestory), personal tributes, any special ceremonies or cultural traditions that you would like.

Your ceremony can be traditional or unconventional or a combination of both – it’s up to you! It truly is – your wedding your way!
Included in the wedding package:
  • A minimum of two meetings to plan, create and design your ceremony. 
  • • The initial meeting should be in person but follow-upmeetings can be via Zoom if preferred.
  • • Follow-up phone calls, e-mails as required
  • • Drafting the wedding service – your personal story and vows if requested
  • • Rehearsal – a visit to the venue and attendance at a rehearsal if required
  • • A printed copy of the service as a keepsake to help remember your special day.

Wedding F.A.Q

Is the ceremony legal?

A celebrant wedding is bespoke, beautiful, creative, meaningful – but not legal. You will need to do the legal bit in a registrar office. You might like to think of it as the wedding admin. You can do the legal bit before or after your celebrant wedding. That’s your call. If you want to be heart-married but not legally married, then you don’t need to do the registrar bit at all.

Where can I get married?

Absolutely anywhere! Unlike legal weddings that need to take place in a licensed venue, a celebrant wedding can take place wherever you like. In a big top, on a boat, at your favourite nightclub, at the beach, in a pub, in a field – the possibilities are endless.

Can you include children in the ceremony?

Absolutely. I’m delighted to include the small and not so small young people in your life in the ceremony and adapt on the day (or in the moment) if they go off-piste.

Can we include religious elements?

If you would like to absolutely yes. This is your ceremony your way. For authenticity I personally would not perform any religious aspects but you would be welcome to invite a friend or family member to do so and I would incorporate this into the ceremony.

What’s a unity ceremony?

It’s a symbolic often creative ritual to represent the union of two people. Examples include sand ceremonies, wine rituals, creating an anniversary capsule, tea ceremonies, tree planting and handfasting’s. 

What’s a handfasting?

A beautiful ancient Celtic tradition with pagan roots that see’s the celebrant bind the couple’s hands together with rope or ribbon to signify the union. It’s where the phrase tie the knot originates. You can use one chord or friends and family can add one’s to it. In some ceremonies couples are asked if they want to handfast for a year and a day, for while love lasts, or for eternity. Your choice! I personally LOVE handfasting’s.
I believe that every couple deserves a truly unique ceremony, which is why every ceremony I create is as personal and lovingly crafted as the last.