Photo: Aga Hosking

My top priority as your wedding celebrant will be to make you feel calm, joyful and inspired throughout the process of co-creating your ceremony. I’ll be a reassuring, warm and safe pair of hands to support you, from start to finish.

I believe that wedding ceremonies should be as unique as the people they are for. They can be joyful, moving, funny, serious, creative, simple, traditional or unusual – whatever makes you feel most yourself as you make this commitment to one another. Most of all, I believe that your ceremony is an important moment to think deeply about what marriage means to you, and to share that meaning with your community – the people who love and support you. Together, we will find the right words and acts to mark the transition that your ceremony symbolises.

How we will work together 

Once I hear from you, we will have a quick, free call or in person meeting to get to know each other and for you to ask me any questions you have so that you can make the right choice for you.

We will then work closely together to co-create your perfect wedding ceremony. Once we have a good idea of what you want to include, I will write a first draft of your ceremony script. Over the months leading up to your wedding, we can go back and forth to get this draft perfect. There is plenty of time for new ideas to emerge and be included to make your ceremony meaningful to you.

I’ll be available to attend your wedding rehearsal on the day before your ceremony – this is an important moment to make sure everyone knows what they need to do.

Then all that is left is for you to get a good nights sleep and to gather to enjoy your unique, personal, meaningful wedding ceremony. Once the big day is complete, you will receive a presentation version of your wedding script to help you remember your ceremony, long into the future.

What your ceremony will look like

Photo: Aga Hosking

The beauty of a humanist wedding ceremony is that it can be whatever you want it to be. There is no set script to follow. It is is YOUR ceremony, and anything goes! We will begin the process by discussing what marriage means to you and if you already have things in mind that feel symbolic, and start from there to build something unique and personal. I will be able to share plenty of ideas and examples with you to feed your imagination, if needed.

Some things that you might want to consider including in your ceremony are telling your love story, describing what marriage means to you, making vows to one another, symbolic acts and even readings, music, and special roles for friends and family (or pets). Ceremonies often take anywhere between 20 and 40 minutes, depending on what you want to include.

Symbolic acts can include things like:

• Exchanging rings
• A ‘ring warming’ where your friends and family imbue your rings with their love and wishes
• Handfasting
• Lighting a candle
• Drinking from the same cup
• Oathing stones

They might also be taken from your own background, traditions or culture, or invented by you to represent who you are as individuals and as a couple.

Photo: Aga Hosking