Blog posts in the 'Ceremony' category
Testimonials – They make my heart sing! February 14, 2016
Filed under: Celebrant, Ceremony, Testimonials, Thanks and Testimonials, Weddings
It’s true that charging a fee for ceremonies helps to pay my bills, but the thing that really motivates me about being a celebrant isn’t the money, but the appreciative notes, emails and cards I receive, like the lovely one below from Em and Bonz after their wedding at Fawsley Hall, where I am the recommended Celebrant. Em […]
5 Top Tips for speaking in public March 29, 2015
Filed under: Ceremony, Readings, Speech, Weddings
Have you been asked to read at a wedding? What do you do? Panic? Refuse? Or accept, but feel very nervous about it? Research shows that more people would rather be buried alive than speak in public – 74% of us admit to ‘Glossophobia*’ – not something I suffer from, thankfully, or I would be […]
Testimonials – Check out your wedding supplier January 18, 2015
Filed under: Celebrant, Ceremony, Outdoor weddings, Suppliers, Thanks and Testimonials, Video, Wedding Fair, Weddings
Wedding Fairs, Blogs, Magazines, Social Media… Wedding suppliers are everywhere, enticing and inviting the bride to be to use their services. Photographers, cake makers, florists, dress shops, candy carts…. But – on the Internet especially – anyone can profess to be an expert. How do you KNOW that the supplier in question really IS competent? How […]
Celebrant Wedding? Insist on the best! November 28, 2014
Filed under: Celebrant, Ceremony, Readings, Weddings
When we discuss and agree the readings for your wedding, I carefully print them up on quality paper (in a large clear font), and I put them in a beautiful folder that ties in with your wedding theme. I sometimes include ribbon, or Swarovski crystal. They have the names, date, and title of the reading […]
Christmas at Fawsley Hall – how grand! November 28, 2014
Filed under: Celebrant, Ceremony, Gay Weddings, Wedding Venues, Weddings
Congratulations to Fawsley Hall, Northamptonshire and elegant stately home hotel – according to the Sunday Times, it is the seventh best hotel in which to spend Christmas! http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/travel/weekends/Places_to_stay/article1480341.ece As the recommended Celebrant for the 4* Tudor Country House Hotel, Fawsley Hall (owned by the HandPicked Group) , I have another wedding ceremony there 28 December, which […]
Lark Ascending… an inspiration November 3, 2014
Filed under: Celebrant, Ceremony, Funerals, Poetry, Symbolism, Weddings
After a Cherish ceremony, people often ask where I get my ideas from. Well, firstly, it comes from whoever I am writing for. We will have had many conversations, so that I get a really good ‘feel’ for their personality, to enable me to get the mood exactly right, whether the ceremony is for a […]
