New Career in your fifties?

New Career in your fifties?

Why celebrancy could be your next chapter If you’re in your fifties, have spent decades in a career that’s mattered – teaching, caring, policing, social work, the fire service, local government – and you’re thinking it might be time for...
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,...
Interview with a Celebrant: Dee Carter

Interview with a Celebrant: Dee Carter

This month it’s my pleasure to introduce you to Dee Carter (She/Her), Wedding Celebrant based in West Sussex. Dee was such an inspiring student, and I loved her approach to inclusivity and focus on the LGBTQIA+ community. She’s determined to make weddings...