Some comments from families and friends:

“Many thanks for Tuesday. We had a really lovely day full of happy memories with lovely people. We also have had such lovely comments about how special it was. So thank you for being a part of that.”  July 2024

“Thanks so much for last week. Your support and ease with organising the service was very much appreciated during a very difficult time.”  June 2024

“We had some lovely comments about the ceremony…. Thank you for your sensitive handling of the preparation and the giving of the tribute. I felt it all did him justice.”  Mar 2024

“Thank you for pulling together such a wonderful service. I actually felt comfortable there and that was in huge part thanks to you.”  Feb 2024

“Bryony conducted a lovely service. She also gently helped us to formulate our ideas beforehand with her kind and thoughtful manner. It was absolutely what we had hoped for and what we believe my sister would have wanted.” Nov 2023

“Thank you for your ongoing sensitive support throughout my sister’s funeral planning. It turned out to be a lovely, personalised service….It’s been such a difficult time, your help has made the whole process clear and more manageable.”  Oct 2023

“A lovely evening that could not have gone better – a real celebration of love for P. She would have been very happy!” (memorial/celebration of life, held in a woodland café)  Oct 2023

“Thank you….for a very thorough process in making the cremation service so personal and seamless.” June 2023

“Thank you for your graceful and calm approach to mum’s funeral, you helped us achieve a huge amount in such a short time….We were all so happy with how the service went and have been bowled over by the compliments afterwards…..Thank you for helping us to lay our parents to rest.” June 2023

“Thank you for giving me confidence in the service….and for a wonderful script.”  June 2023

“Thank you for creating the service we wanted and for being supportive on the day.” May 2023

“Bryony was fantastic – empathetic, flexible, insightful. The result was a really personal tribute to our mum and we’re very grateful.”  Jan 2023

“Bryony was very helpful, guiding us through the process of planning a ceremony that combined an affectionate farewell to my husband and a celebration of his life.”  Nov 2022

“Bryony was very understanding, helpful and flexible. The last was necessary because of a misunderstanding between the undertakers and the crematorium. If there was a box for exceptional, I would tick it.” Sept 2022

“Thank you for your help and support. You definitely hit the right tone and made it easy for us to compile a fitting service.” Aug 2022

“Bryony was fantastically helpful and generous with her time and insights – beforehand, on the day, and subsequently. We could not have had a better outcome, thanks to her.”  June 2022

“Bryony was fantastic from start to finish. We had a few delays but she was patient with us”  (memorial service for a care home resident’s mother)  May 2022

“Thanks so much for holding it all together for us on the day.”  Feb 2022

“We were pleased that we were able to put together a fitting service for Mum in such a short space of time. Thank you again for working with us on the timeline, and for delivering the service so well. This was very much appreciated by us all.”  Feb 2022

“I am pleased with how it all went and thank you for your guidance and words. Everyone seems to have been exceptionally complimentary and uplifted.”  Jan 2022

“I can’t thank you enough for all that you put in to giving my Dad the send off that he wanted and deserved. You made a difficult time a little easier.” Jan 2022

“My brother and I were both very happy with mum’s send off, as were the other attendees.”  Nov 2021

“Thanks for your professionalism and efficiency. I didn’t know how we were going to pull something together when we started organising it, but am really pleased with how it turned out….I think my Dad would have really liked it.”  Nov 2021

“From organising to delivery, Bryony has been very supportive. Her words encapsulated my deceased relative wonderfully….I couldn’t ask for a better service.”  Sept 2021

“Many people have complimented me on the funeral and said that they found it interesting and joyous. Which is not what I expected but I find myself very pleased about this….The framework that you devised out of your sensitive conversations with us made this all possible. And hearing your excellent biography of Dad…..gave us some objectivity and made giving our orations much easier…..It really was a pleasure working with you on the funeral, I have had lots of messages which express appreciation of you as a celebrant.” August 2021

“C and I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your support and the lovely script you put together for Dad’s funeral yesterday. You really understood what we were trying to achieve and made us feel very comfortable in your hands. Everything went just as we hoped and was a wonderful tribute and send off, which we know he would have loved. We have had so many complimentary messages about how lovely it was.”  July 2021

“Bryony was exemplary. Most importantly she made my mum (the main mourner) feel at ease and fully supported.”  June 2021

“Bryony could not have been more helpful and lovely at such a horrible time, and she has done my mum a great service.” March 2021

“Thanks to you for your lovely tribute to our mum. Everyone thought it hit the right note and did justice to the mum, grandma, mother in law, friend who we all knew and loved. I’m so glad we were able to have such a fitting, humanist ceremony for her.” Feb 2021

“S was so happy with the service, thank you so much” (e mail from keyworker writing on behalf of S, who lives in residential care due to mental health needs, and who wanted to be fully involved in planning his late wife’s funeral.)  Jan 2021

“Having a funeral during Covid is a very strange experience, but Bryony did a wonderful job. There was space for everyone to pay tribute to my sister C through music, poems and readings. I feel that we gave her as good a send off as was possible, given the situation. My heartfelt thanks to Bryony”.  Dec 2020

“Thank you, on behalf of my mother and all the family for the great job you did for us at the funeral….and glad we could help with N, the trainee celebrant” (family agreed to her watching the ceremony as it was live streamed.)   Aug 2020

“A huge thanks to you for your moving and articulate summary of Mum’s life and times, and for striking just the right note on the day. We were so pleased with how everything went and feel that we gave Mum the best possible send off. Many of those present were impressed by the humanist dimension, so hopefully a few converts to the cause!”  Aug 2020

“Bryony met with me and my siblings and had a lovely warm and open manner about her. She asked the right questions, and the right number of questions. She was incredibly positive and supportive and in particular, was keen to ensure the sign language interpreter was able to hear the service through a video call, and that my partner could see the interpreter throughout. She conducted the service with grace which meant we all felt Mum was given the respect and dignity she deserved.”  July 2020

“We are so grateful for help with Mum’s funeral. You were brilliant and although you never met my mother you sounded like you knew her, which shows what a good listener you are.”  July 2020

“Thanks so much for presiding over my father’s funeral. You were so sensitive and compassionate.”  Feb 2020

“Thank you for all you have done”.  Sept 2019

“It was wonderful to work alongside Bryony to accomplish a moving memorable funeral to be remembered by all the friends, some who had never attended a Humanist funeral before. Thank you Bryony.”  Aug 2019

“5 out of 5”.  June 2019

“I found Bryony warm and responsive from the moment she made contact with me. She listened well, bringing her own ideas but fully encouraging what I had planned for my mum. On the day, her tone and pace and energy were perfect for a celebration of someone’s life who was still sadly missed. After the service many told me they thought she was spot on.”  June 2019

“Both Mum and I were over the moon about the service, and the poem you suggested for me to read.”  May 2019