More and more couples planning their wedding day are discovering that they don't just have to choose between a church wedding or registrars, either in a Town Hall Ceremony room or paying £000s for them to visit your "licensed" venue. A Celebrant Wedding can give them the freedom to plan their wedding, their way.
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Sharing a life with another person requires a leap of faith. So when a couple jump the broom at their wedding the leap they take together is both actual & symbolic. The broomstick represents the couple’s wish to sweep away the old to make way for the new.
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Here are 3 lovely reviews from my first three weddings of the year.
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Not all relationships last forever, and so when couples find new love later in life, there is no reason why their wedding ceremony should not be as unique & special.
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Whether it’s a meaningful poetic verse as part of your wedding ceremony or a track you choose to play as part of your ceremony soundtrack, Barbra Streisand’s “I finally found someone” is a perfect choice.
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I love that glow that couples have immediately after their wedding ceremony. It’s partly a release of the excited tension that builds immediately before the ceremony but it is also the pride & happiness they share in making personal & meaningful vows to each other in front of their family & friends. But it doesn’t happen by accident!
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A Beautiful poem about love and marriage is a wonderful way to make your wedding ceremony romantic and relaxed. It gives time for the couple and their guests to pause, relax and listen to some wonderfully crafted words. This is one of my favourites.
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Classical music has a timeless quality and dignity to it and many couples choose a selection of classical music to have played during their wedding ceremony. Here are a few classical favourites that are beautiful for “the processional” - to walk down the aisle to.
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There is a beautiful, appropriate and special poem or reading for every couple’s love story at their wedding. This poem by Laura Hendricks is particularly fitting for a couple who were friends long before their relationship developed and they became lovers.
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When I meet with couples I love to hear their proposal stories. You can tell a lot about a relationship and the personalities involved by hearing about how a couple got engaged. Including a couple’s love story: how they met, their dating experience and how the proposal of marriage occurred, is a beautiful and wonderful way to make a wedding ceremony personal, intimate and meaningful.
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Many wedding ideas from the USA have arrived in modern UK weddings, the sand blending ritual is one example. The “first look” is a big moment in US weddings, where the groom sees the bride for the first time, not necessarily as she walks down the aisle to arrive at the ceremony but sometime before.
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There are so many poems & passages from texts which can reflect the style, personality & love story of the couple in their wedding ceremony. Used either as extracts or as readings by friends or family, I will help you find the right words to make your wedding ceremony unique, personal & meaningful. This wonderful poem by Mari Nichols-Haining appeals to many couples.
There is somebody for everyone in love & life. I also believe there is a suitable, appropriate & beautiful reading for every type of relationship to celebrate in the wedding ceremony. What about this poem about a marriage between equals.
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If you are looking for an epic love story to read or to gift, I recommend A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It is not for the feint-hearted. It is both compelling & devastating to read. At times I never wanted to put it down, at others I daren’t pick it up to read on. It made me cry on more than one occasion. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days after finishing it.
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I love live music at a wedding & I am definitely looking forward to enjoying live musical performances once again. As wedding bookings are picking up again, today’s blog post is to honour all the amazing musicians out there who haven’t been able to perform for such a long time.
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Many couples feel a bit nervous about having a reading or two at their wedding, thinking perhaps they don’t want some deep, philosophical or spiritual text read at their wedding ceremony. Here is a wonderful poem that can add warm humour to a wedding ceremony.
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This beautiful passage from Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy makes an excellent short reading at a wedding. t is a reminder that in real life, which sadly at some point will end, true love doesn’t have a happy ending because with true love there is no ending.
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Passages from Canadian poet & novelist Margaret Attwood’s work are a popular choice at weddings. But which to choose and which to miss?
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Probably the most requested wedding first dance song in the last 30 years is “(Everything I do) I do it for you” by Bryan Adams. It still holds the UK record for the longest uninterrupted period at No1 in the charts (16 weeks). It was released to accompany the film Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves in 1991. But what was the true love story?
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Whatever your love story, I can turn it into a beautiful and meaningful wedding ceremony. With some lines from an extract of the poem “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” by Rainer Maria Rilke, we explore what is love.
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