Hello, I’m Louise and I am an experienced wedding and funeral Celebrant with a passion for creating and delivering bespoke services for all life's celebrations and ceremonies; weddings, funerals and namings.
When you’re planning a wedding you’re no longer restricted to a church, Registry Office or using a Registrar in a licensed venue.
Using a wedding Celebrant for your special day means that you can have whatever you want, wherever you want, however you want. You can have your ceremony at whatever time of day you like; how romantic would it be to get married by candlelit, or at sunrise or sunset. Your choice of location is limitless; on a beach, in your garden, in a woodland area or a field, on the top of a mountain, abroad, or on board a boat for example.
You are in complete control of content too when you use a wedding Celebrant and can have whatever vows, music, readings, poems, hymns, prayers you like. We can tailor your ceremony to completely reflect you as a couple, your beliefs, values, personalities and humour. Friends and family can join in too, your children can be an integral part and the length of the ceremony is entirely up to you. It can be a quick 10 minutes or as long as you think your guests will listen!
What is a funeral Celebrant?
In the same way as having a Celebrant for a wedding, with a funeral Celebrant you can tailor make a completely bespoke funeral service to celebrate the life of your loved one. You can include whatever readings, poems, music or ceremonies that you’d like to make the service incredibly personal.
For me, it is an absolute honour to meet the family and friends of the deceased and be able to support them through a difficult time in their lives. I do my very best to write a fitting eulogy and heartfelt ceremony, which truly represents the person that they were and the life that they led. This can seem like a daunting task for someone in the early stages of grief but I will help guide you through it and give you as much help and support as you need.
A bit about me
I lived abroad for 10 years in my 20's, travelling and working my way around the world, having the time of my life! When I returned to the UK in 2003, I moved to Bournemouth and was keen to do something a bit more meaningful, rewarding and worthwhile. I originally bought into a weight loss franchise and worked as a Weight Loss Counsellor for 5 years, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but sadly lost my business in the recession in 2010. Luckily, I was half way through my Counsellor training by then, and once I was qualified, I set up my own private practice in 2012, which has been very successful.
I initially started thinking about training to be a Funeral Celebrant because nearly every client I work with, has suffered a bereavement at some stage in their lives. I know from experience that we all deal with grief in our own different ways. Listening to my clients and their personal experiences of death and funerals, I began thinking that this was an area where I could, and would like to make a difference too. After the death of my friend and attending her funeral, I was inspired by her service, and the Celebrant who conducted it, and decided to train as a Celebrant myself.
I have since completed the Wedding and Naming Celebrant training and can now offer my professional and personalised ceremonies to anyone who wishes to celebrate an event in their lives such as a marriage, civil partnership, renewal of vows, namings and welcome to the family celebrations.
I am a good listener and get a lot of satisfaction and enjoyment in creating a bespoke and personalised eulogy, ceremony or set of vows that truly represent the persons they are about.
