Each ceremony a unique life moment
Celebrancy Services
Ceremonies are a vital part of our humanity; they mark and honour beginnings, endings and special events.
Each ceremony holds our unique and precious life stories, and it is important that these are given space and time to be spoken and heard.
Whatever your life event, by listening with gentle curiosity, compassion and creativity, I will work with you and your family to create a bespoke ceremony that reflects your personality and desires.
Your ceremony is yours – as a celebrant I can guide you through the practicalities and can offer suggestions, but it is your voice and your story that I’ll bring to the fore.
A Little About Me and My Work
You may have arrived at this page and be asking what I can bring to your unique ceremony – it is a vital question to ask. Whoever you choose as your celebrant, it’s important that you feel confident they can work with you to create the ceremony that you envisage. So, here I offer a few lines about me and about my qualifications, skills and training and the way I like to engage in my work.
It’s always hard finding a photo that will fit the bill perfectly and portray something of one’s essence. But this photo says so much about what makes me tick. The beach and the sea offer me a place of contemplation and peace – two elements I try to channel into my work.
It was after writing and delivering eulogies for 3 close family members that I realised that working as a celebrant would be a very enriching way to marry all the skills and passions I’ve developed over my working life and so, I did my celebrancy training with The Fellowship of Professional Celebrants.
Being invited to write a wedding text or a eulogy – or any text for any ceremony – is a true privilege and honour and it is a part of my celebrancy work that I find incredibly rewarding. I am always aware that you are sharing something incredibly precious: the stories and experiences of your and your family’s life. Thus, I pride myself on holding these stories safely and on portraying the person or people ‘within the text’ as sensitively and accurately as I possibly can.
Mindings and Musings
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A Breath Between Two Moments – in praise of the Haiku
Not only is this weekend an important celebration or holiday for many, it’s also National Haiku Day. ‘Hoorah! Put down the chocolate egg and pass me my haiku anthology immediately,’ I hear you cry!
The ‘Holding Moment’
I’ve been thinking about moments of comfort. I think I’m fairly safe in saying that to live fully means that at some points in our lives we have to navigate dark times. And with the benefit of time we realise we can survive and learn, and that we can discover new ways of being in the world.
Stop. Breathe. Wonder.
Sunday afternoons are when I head to my poetry books, mindfulness texts and the laptop to make my notes for the meditation sessions I’ll be running in the week ahead. And here I am…blank page and a blank mind. Well, it feels like a blank mind but an image keeps coming back to me – something I came across on my walk home from work the other day.