Liz Ashworth Celebrant

13/05/2022

Congratulations Jacinda and Daniel. Your wedding was stunning and we finally got there after covid postponements. Thank you for your wonderful review and I wish you both all the very best in your life together. x

24/04/2022

Busy celebrant weekend. Not quite 4 weddings and a funeral, but 1 wedding, 2 funerals and our local neighbourhood Anzac service which I was very honoured to lead at dawn this morning. The wedding is this afternoon and Jacinda (no, not that one - another one! lol) and Daniel are honouring Anzac Day with a moments silence and the Ode as part of their special day. Lest we forget! Love my job!

17/02/2022

It has been a busy few weeks in my celebrant world. I have worked with some lovely families who are saying goodbye to their special person. Today's service was at Wenderholm and was beautiful. We released flower boats into the tide as we said goodbye to Glenda a very much loved wife and mother. Celebrant tears today but tears are good and the day I dont feel anything will be the day I give it up. RIP Glenda.

04/02/2022

Your lawn or ours? At the end of the day its up to you. Let us do the work and you can just enjoy and live in the moment.

Contact us today to find out more about our packages at [email protected]

24/01/2022

Available Valentines Day and the magic date of 22.02.2022.
Take a look at The Elopement Space - delighted to be working with Jamie at Tusk and Berries.

The best thing about small intimate weddings or elopements is that they arent affected by the current traffic light system and crazy times that we are all trying to navigate through.

Live in the now. Celebrate your love and elope today!

Contact us today for more information at [email protected]

15/01/2022

Love my job! Congratulations Shivneel and Anusha. This was their legal wedding prior to their traditional Indian wedding ceremony in February.

29/12/2021

Mt Victoria was the location for Kelly and Steph's stunning wedding ❤🏳️‍🌈 Congratulations once again!

27/12/2021

Congratulations Ketia and Lance on your elopement today. A no fuss wedding with your nearest and dearest.

27/12/2021

Our 'pop up' elopement ceremonies are coming to you very soon! We have a range of package options available so you can add a little something special to your day and we will come set it up and pack it away too! Lots of set up options and locations. Please contact myself or Jamie at https://www.tuskandberries.co.nz/

14/12/2021

CONGRATULATIONS! Anna and Scott you finally made it after 4 date changes due to Covid. 🥂🎉

07/12/2021

I am excited to be teaming up with Tusk&Berries to bring you a stylish elopement or wedding package without the stress and at an extremely reasonable price. Stylish does not have to be expensive - and we can show you how. Jamie does amazing work with flowers and photography and I will work with her as your Celebrant.
You just need to buy the dress and turn up! Contact one of us TODAY to talk through package options.

Wanting to just run away and get married? Have you thought about Eloping? Can't get anymore spontaneous and romantic than that.

With an amazing celebrant to marry you on the day, beautiful flowers and a photographer to capture the nuptials how could you say no to that?

DM for interest.

www.tuskandberries.co.nz

29/11/2021

Early morning elopement at Muriwai Beach. Congratulations Sharanya and Likith and thank you for choosing me as your celebrant on your special day. x
Call or message Liz today to book your elopement date. Ph. 0274849640

23/09/2021

I think this is so important. Take the gift of being present for a little while and just stay calm. There is plenty of time to do what you have to do in due course. x

✨Expected Death ~ When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Take a deep breath and be present to the magnitude of the moment.

There's a grace to being at the bedside of someone you love as they make their transition out of this world. At the moment they take their last breath, there's an incredible sacredness in the space. The veil between the worlds opens.

We're so unprepared and untrained in how to deal with death that sometimes a kind of panic response kicks in. "They're dead!"

We knew they were going to die, so their being dead is not a surprise. It's not a problem to be solved. It's very sad, but it's not cause to panic.

If anything, their death is cause to take a deep breath, to stop, and be really present to what's happening. If you're at home, maybe put on the kettle and make a cup of tea.

Sit at the bedside and just be present to the experience in the room. What's happening for you? What might be happening for them? What other presences are here that might be supporting them on their way? Tune into all the beauty and magic.

Pausing gives your soul a chance to adjust, because no matter how prepared we are, a death is still a shock. If we kick right into "do" mode, and call 911, or call the hospice, we never get a chance to absorb the enormity of the event.

Give yourself five minutes or 10 minutes, or 15 minutes just to be. You'll never get that time back again if you don't take it now.

After that, do the smallest thing you can. Call the one person who needs to be called. Engage whatever systems need to be engaged, but engage them at the very most minimal level. Move really, really, really, slowly, because this is a period where it's easy for body and soul to get separated.

Our bodies can gallop forwards, but sometimes our souls haven't caught up. If you have an opportunity to be quiet and be present, take it. Accept and acclimatize and adjust to what's happening. Then, as the train starts rolling, and all the things that happen after a death kick in, you'll be better prepared.

You won't get a chance to catch your breath later on. You need to do it now.

Being present in the moments after death is an incredible gift to yourself, it's a gift to the people you're with, and it's a gift to the person who's just died. They're just a hair's breadth away. They're just starting their new journey in the world without a body. If you keep a calm space around their body, and in the room, they're launched in a more beautiful way. It's a service to both sides of the veil.

Credit for the beautiful words ~ Sarah Kerr, Ritual Healing Practitioner and Death Doula , Death doula
Her original video link is here ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7mG0ZAym0w

Beautiful art by Columbus Community Deathcare
Always With Love

29/06/2021

What a stunning day at Narrow Neck Beach at the Wakatere Boating Club as we celebrate the amazing life of 97 year old Norma.

23/04/2021

Congratulations to the lovely Coral and Tirath. Coral was dressed in traditional Indian attire and her dress just sparkled in the sunshine as she walked in. What a lovely couple. I wish you both a long and happy life together. It was an early start yesterday to get through the traffic from Kumeu to Auckland Botanic Gardens for a 9 a.m. wedding. They must have started early on the hair and makeup! So gorgeous!

20/01/2021

Congratulations Jeff and Michelle. What a heartfelt ceremony. It just goes to show that you don't need a lot of people around to make it special and what a stunning day in Auckland's viaduct with all the Prada Cup vibe going on.

05/11/2019

OMG - I would lose it too. I am a terrible giggler once I get started - Rosanne Maber Pullen, Monique Protheroe.