UK Wedding Celebrant Blog Inspiration and Information

I wonder how many of you will get engaged during the Christmas and New Year period? If you do, perhaps you’ll plan to have your wedding at the same time of year - wedding venues always look amazing when they are decorated for Christmas, don’t they? As we know, the tradition of having a decorated tree was started in Victorian times, along with many other things that we now take for granted as being part of Christmas, such as “decking the halls” (ie: decorating our homes) and,

It’s great to have readings at your wedding, to help make the occasion truly your own. But don’t you sometimes feel that you keep hearing the same things over and over again? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find something which is absolutely perfect for you, and which your guests won’t necessarily have heard before? Something which really does make your wedding ceremony completely individual? Here are 10 of my favourite heartwarming and inspiring wedding readings which you may n

One of the privileges of being a Celebrant is that I am able to visit some beautiful, unique, luxurious wedding venues and Bailiffscourt Hotel & Spa is all three at once. This chocolate-box pretty venue really is a bit of a hidden gem on the Sussex coast (literally!), but within easy reach of London, and I met with lovely Nicky Dibben, the Events Manager, for a chat over tea and melt-in-the-mouth, homemade biscuits - yum! The hotel has a fascinating history which is sure to s

Why do we wear a white wedding dress - and the answer isn’t what you think! In Western cultures, we wear a white, or ivory/cream wedding dress because that’s just the way it is, right? In fact, this is a fairly recent tradition dating from the 19th century and, before then, white (along with black) was considered a suitable colour for mourning. Isn’t white a symbol of innocence and purity? Actually, no. Although this may be the case now, for centuries the colour blue was t