The service you can expect from me:
I am dedicated to good, honest, straightforward communication.
Others tend to find me as calm, confident and trustworthy.
My aims are to assist you in gathering everything that we can for the ceremony, providing as much support as I am able and signposting you on to others if needs be, staying in touch as much as you need, really being alongside you.
I am very adaptable to the needs of different personalities, I’m empathic and work well both as a team and independently.
I might suggest things that are totally not what you want! And this is also part of the journey together! so that I can get to know more closely what you want. I realise that you may not know what you want to start with, and so we will be on the journey together in that sense.
We have a lot of flexibility with the rules around funerals, weddings and baby namings. I am open to new ideas, suggestions and requests. I will do everything I can to accommodate these.
My prices are detailed at the beginning of our relationship, They can be sliding scale, and we can stay transparent about what each of our needs are for the exchange.
Why funerals?
Funerals were my first footsteps in creating ceremonies. In 2019 I spoke at a very dear-to-me cousin’s funeral. I felt there were things I wanted to say that wouldn’t be said if I didn’t, and over the course of a few days I composed the words, sentiment and reflective piece to read out. I got a taste for how important these moments are, to say what needs to be said, even though it was a deeply sad moment for us as a family, it felt natural and good to me to speak.
On Weddings and Marriage
Together with my husband Jon for over twenty years, we agreed from the beginning that we wanted to be married. We felt to give ourselves the best possible chance of making it, knowing that the statistics are stacked against long term relationships with all the stresses and strains you will go through in life. We found the vows and promises that best suited us online and our friends and family helped us to create a beautiful blend of traditional (so that our elderly relatives recognised it as a wedding!) and bespoke elements. Venue, décor, music, food joined with colour, poetry, ritual and heartfelt sincerity, made it a day that stands clear in our memories.
It was the perfect celebration for where we were at that time, we were surrounded by many friends and family, a great party and more of a social occasion.
