Author: Alicen

I'm confident that children of all ages can benefit enormously from going to funerals. With the comfort and love of their family, they can come to accept that death is natural, and how to celebrate and mourn for someone they love. ...

18 February, 2022

Find out what a wedding celebrant costs - and everything that's included in my fee. You get so much more than a beautiful, bespoke ceremony. You get my experience and support, my contacts and creative inspiration. I'm your wedding buddy - all the way. ...

29 September, 2021

A unity candle ceremony is a wedding ritual which uses lighted candles to symbolise the uniting of a couple in marriage. It's one of my favourite symbolic rituals, because it's simple, meaningful and unpretentious. It adds an extra dimension to a wedding ceremony, it looks...

24 July, 2021

Can you write a funeral tribute? Yes you can. Make it simple, genuine and heartfelt. Find out how to write a personal, relevant tribute to a loved one....

24 March, 2021

  It's not news that wedding planning in a pandemic is tricky.  It feels like being in a weird virtual wedding waiting room, where people keep coming in, but no one ever leaves. Most couples have had to review their wedding plans in some way. If...

31 January, 2021

Everyone wants their wedding ceremony to be memorable right?! No one ever actually plans for anyone to forget it, yet the ceremony sometimes gets short-shrift. Couples tell me they're worried about their guests being bored during their ceremony. If that's you, you're in the right...

23 November, 2020

Thirty is still the magic, somewhat random number for people allowed to attend weddings and funerals. We all know what’s not so great about 30. It can be a difficult, almost impossible task to reduce a large list of family and friends to that. Large...

08 September, 2020

Outdoor ceremonies, including weddings, namings and celebrations of life have a lot going for them. They're usually intimate and relaxed, and if you love the sights and sounds of nature, you're right in it. Of course, where there's nature, there's also weather, and even relaxed...

04 July, 2020

Many people have never heard of a wedding celebrant, or if they have, are a bit unsure about what a celebrant does. Some people are confused about the difference between a celebrant wedding, a registry office wedding, a civil ceremony or a church wedding. In...

16 March, 2020