Learning to edit ceremonies as a celebrant

Learning to edit ceremonies as a celebrant

Most celebrants don’t struggle to find words. What they struggle with is knowing when to let some of those words go. Ceremony writing often begins with care and generosity. We want to honour people properly. We want to say enough; for the language to feel worthy of...
Let’s Celebrate More!

Let’s Celebrate More!

I wish I’d had a ceremony for this… Two weeks ago, I stepped off a plane in Melbourne with my heart in my throat. I was about to meet my birth mother for the first time since she placed me for adoption when I was six weeks old. She was seventeen then,...