AB Celebrants

14/03/2021

Whether it’s your special day or you’re just celebrating along with everybody else, weddings are happy and wonderful events.
Tears of joy, laughter and countless emotions – that’s what weddings are made of. A wedding is not just about a couple getting married.
It’s about vows of love and spending a lifetime together, the happiness on everyone’s face, uniting families and having all your friends beside you wishing you all the best. It is a day with many memories in the making that you’ll never want to forget.
Even if the ritual is different according to traditions all around the world, at the core, weddings are a time to celebrate love and this is the only thing that should matter – not how glamorous the wedding is, but the beauty that it represents.

14/03/2021

09/04/2020

Paying Our Respects

If you see a hearse, could you stop, stand for a moment as it passes, perhaps take off your cap, and bow your head?

In these times where funerals are limited to only a very few close family our chance to support people during a bereavement is limited. So, we wondered if we could revive an old tradition that would show people that their loss is noticed and shared by us all?

It would mean the world to families in a time of sadness.

22/03/2020

I would like join my good friend and fellow celebrant Alan Leonard in saying this -
If we go on lockdown and we are made to stay home except key workers
NOTHING will stop me holding a Celebration Of Life Service for someone's loved one . I'll stand there and conduct the service for live streaming or recording or what ever I have to do
No one on my watch will leave this world alone x

08/12/2017

"our parents cast long shadows over our lives.
When we grow up we imagine that we can walk into the sun, free of them.
We don't realise until it's too late that we have no choice in the matter:
They're always ahead of us.

We carry them with us all our lives,
In the shape of our face, the way we walk, the sound of our voice, our skin, our hair, our hands our heart.
We try all our lives to separate ourselves from them
And only when they are dead do we find we are invisible.

We grow to expect that our parents, like the weather, will always be with us.
Then they go, leaving a mark like a hand print on glass or a wet kiss on a rainy day
And with their death we are no longer children"

12/10/2017

You have had the fun and excitement of a Gender Reveal party; the support of your family and friends at your Baby Shower and now your precious bundle has finally arrived.
What better way to celebrate the arrival of the newest member of your family than a naming ceremony. A naming ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to bring all of your family and friends together and for them to officially meet your new arrival.
The ceremony can be held whenever and wherever you wish and might include readings or poems, parental promises to their child, the appointment of ‘guide-parents’ and perhaps a symbolic action such as lighting a unity candle, planting a tree or the designing of a commemorative piece of artwork that everyone contributes to.
Baby namings are beautiful and meaningful ceremonies – and are always lots of fun!.

01/09/2017

Life is for living . . . .
So it goes against every instinct we have to start planning for our death: in fact, only one in ten of us have talked to anyone about how or where we’d like to die. But every adult, of whatever age, needs to look ahead and ask “What if?”
What if I was told I had a week to live? Would those around me know how best to support me, about how I want to be cared for?
What if I died suddenly? Would my family and friends know about any strong wishes I have about my funeral.
Would I have made a will? Would those I love know how I feel about them?
The earlier you talk about dying wishes, the easier it is emotionally and practically for everyone that you love and care about.

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen, writer, actor and director

24/08/2017

Happy Anniversary John and Anna, I cant believe it is just over a year since your beautiful garden wedding.

21/08/2017

Are you looking for a unique, personal and memorable ceremony that represents you or your loved one?
As a professional Family and Funeral Celebrant I will work closely with you to create and deliver a ceremony that represent your values beliefs and wishes as you make a loving commitment to each other or your children or say goodbye to a loved one who has died.
I will attend any type of venue to deliver your bespoke, traditional, semi religious or ‘something different’ wedding, renewal of vows, commitment or baby naming ceremony, funeral service, memorial or celebration of life ceremony.
“Treasured memories last forever”