First meetings

First meetings

Getting a feel for one another As a Humanist Wedding Celebrant, the first meeting with my wedding couples is all about getting to know one another. What differentiates a celebrant from a Registrar or a Vicar (with the exception of a legal ceremony – which often...
Be my valentine?

Be my valentine?

What’s the point of being in love? It makes you happy, that’s the point. Today I have travelled on 4 different trains over 5 hours, and fetched up in Stockton on Tees where I am working over the next couple of days. Open suitcase, hang clothes on hanger,...
Love lost love found

Love lost love found

Come into these arms againAnd lay your body downThe rhythm of this trembling heartIs beating like a drumIt beats for you, it bleeds for youIt know not how it soundFor it is the drum of drumsIt is the song of songsOnce I had rarest roseThat ever deigned to bloomCruel...
Humanist wedding in a tipi

Humanist wedding in a tipi

The tipi was divine. Huge. Yet intimate too. A Humanist wedding was going to be perfect in this setting.  Standing there in the middle of one of Martin’s fields. A rush-mat walkway lit by lamps. And a straw-bale maze for the kids to one side.  Inside, a bar, seating...