As soon as you are ready to start thinking about your wedding ceremony, I suggest that we meet up for a coffee or glass of wine with absolutely no obligation – so that you can see if I am the right person to conduct the ceremony for you. I can talk to you about different possibilities and share my advice and experience. If you think I am the right person, then I will draw up a ceremony plan for you free of charge. If you would like to go ahead, I ask for a deposit to secure your wedding date in my calendar. We will then arrange to meet again for a longer, more detailed planning session, after which I will write a complete, detailed script for you to review and edit until you are completely happy with everything.

My service includes:

• A personalised wedding ceremony based on your wishes
• Support and ideas to write your own vows or other special elements if you choose
• Suggestions for poems, music and symbolic gestures
• Contact with friends and family members for background information as necessary
• Rehearsal at the venue or alternative location
• My undivided attention on the day to ensure your ceremony is perfect
• A certificate of your wedding ceremony, if you should choose, for you to sign on the day and keep
• Presentation version of your wedding ceremony script for you to keep
• All travel for meetings, rehearsals and on the day within 30 mile radius of WA14 (any distance outside of this radius will incur additional mileage costs)
• Professional indemnity and public liability insurance
• Alternative Humanist wedding celebrant in the unlikely event that I am unable to perform your ceremony

A typical wedding ceremony lasts about 25-30 minutes and can include any or all of the following:

• Wedding party enters ceremony area to music of your choice
• Introductory words about marriage
• Readings or poems selected by you or a friend or relative
• Your love story, which I will create with you
• A symbolic action or actions, which can include hand-fasting, candle lighting, sand blending etc
• Exchange of vows, which I can write with you
• Exchange of rings
• Declaration of your marriage, and call for guests to support you
• Poem or song selected by you or a friend or relative
• Signing of your wedding certificate, accompanied by music of your choice
• Closing words
• Wedding party leaves ceremony area to music of your choice followed by guests