Fee for weddings in 2024: £599; for weddings in 2025: £625 – I don’t charge VAT

• An initial phone or video conversation
• A detailed planning meeting, ideally face to face (but that might depend on how local you are to me or whether you’re visiting the venue at some point that fits timewise)
• Suggestions and help with logistics, vows, readings, symbolic acts, props etc
• Writing and agreeing the ceremony script
• As much contact by email, text, phone, Zoom, Teams or WhatsApp, as necessary
• An additional two planning meetings, to include a rehearsal at the venue (if required and/or practical for all parties)
• Overseeing and delivering the ceremony on the day
• A commemorative certificate (if chosen as part of ceremony)
• A keepsake presentation copy of your ceremony in a folder for you to keep and treasure
• *Travel costs – for meetings and ceremonies within 30 miles of home (3 miles NW of Harrogate town centre; or 2 miles S of Llandysul)

*Additional mileage is charged at 45p a mile. Any other expenses – including travel and accommodation for overseas ceremonies – are pre-agreed and charged on a cost recovery basis.

Payment terms

£100 to secure me for your ceremony date, payable prior to our first in-depth planning meeting.

£250 on delivery of first draft of script – usually six to eight weeks before the Big Day.

Balance (£249) payable on confirmation of the final script and at least three days before the ceremony itself.

How we work

All celebrants accredited by Humanists UK work on a self-employed, franchise basis. As such, there is no one fixed price, but we usually work within a recommended range so you know what to expect. This is published here.

I pay a quarterly levy to Humanists UK, which contributes towards celebrants’ training, CPD and quality assurance standards and to the promotion and development of the Humanist Ceremonies network.  The levy also provides me with full public liability and professional indemnity insurance cover. I am also DBS checked.

N.B. Being part of a network of accredited celebrants also means that in the unlikely event of me not be able to deliver your ceremony on the day, one of my colleagues will be able to take my place at short notice.