I am a creative celebrant but my credibility comes to the fore because I am interested in you, I want to know how you tick and then I want to get alongside the dreams you have and create the most magical story of your love to be shared with friends and family. I come to your ceremony without judgement, and I leave behind memories. I will be honest – I cannot deliver unicorns, but please don’t doubt that if I could I would! I listen to your words with a curiosity to hear more and I enjoy hearing them. I strive to ensure that my words celebrate you and your love and leave your guest with memories to speak about for years. I am a modern Celebrant and if you want to think outside of the box, I can be there every step of the way – dare to be different and I will there making sure that it happens. My values in life are to see the individual as the person they are, to respect their personal story and understand how they came to be part of my life. A name is a defining point in anyone's life - it sets you apart as the person you are in your family and along with Life Guides, Parents, carer's and all the other important people in your family we can mark your start in life with a ceremony of welcome. If the name you were given no longer holds with the person you have become, we can open up celebrating the new you, the real you, leaving behind the old name and creating the space for you to emerge into life and friendships and family as you want it to be. In completion of the life circle, right at the end of their days, I can support you and ensure that the one last thing that you can physically do for a loved one, is provide the celebration of their life, and the farewell they deserve. While many now choose to hold no formal service, let us not forget that a funeral is for the living, and they too hold many different opportunities from memory recollections to be shared to full celebrations of the life that was led. The values I hold in life, creativity, and integrity that encourages us to challenge the assumptions in society and develops honesty, trust, fairness and responsibility run through the relationships I build with the people I work with. Seeing people, either in my conversations with them, or in hearing them as the memories of other’s is a skill I developed in a previous ‘life’. I enjoy learning about the individuals and couples and then creating a story that can be shared. It is completely important to me that my words leave behind a vision in the minds of the guests, either about aspects of a love story they did not know before, or a celebration of the person that lived. There is integrity in my creativity. I work hard to ensure there is credibility in my words and there is not a template that is drawn and redrawn so that the words I speak are not hollow and textbook. I value the time I allow to create individual, authentic and unique speeches every time.
