“love is the bridge between you and everything” - rumi
Photo by Patrick Phillips
To the lovers,
First of all, congratulations - I am so glad that you and your partner have found each other.
A wedding, elopement or vow renewal is an opportunity to share your own beautiful version of love with each other and those who mean the very most to you. Whether your words are heard by a thousand guests, a close few, or just you two and the elements, this is a place where magic happens.
For a long time, the wedding ceremony has been an overlooked and often rushed part of the day, because it has followed old structures and scripts. It doesn’t have to be that way. Your ceremony can be a manifestation of all that you are together. My dream is simply this: to work with you to create something sacred. I hope the ceremony we create together will be something you remember forever with fondness and truth; the truth of your story as individuals and as a couple, and the truth of your faith. Whether you consider yourself to be agnostic, spiritual or belonging to religion, I am here for all of it. Likewise, I love to work with all sexual orientations and gender identities. On such an important day, I want you to feel you can completely be yourself.
Together, we can create a wonderful experience. You are welcome to include sound, song, readings, ritual, poetry, movement, meditation, blessings, or really anything else you can think of. In my process as a celebrant, I love to work with everything you bring: The history of the location you’ve chosen, the symbolism of your colours and flowers, the seasons, the feeling in the air; let’s weave it all through your day, knowing that there has never been another like it and there never will again.
I can conduct legally binding marriage ceremonies in Scotland, and symbolic ceremonies everywhere else.