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Weddings
Your Wedding Day is a wonderful, personal and unique day to design and plan a ceremony to treasure. In choosing me, as your celebrant, we can work together to create a ceremony that’s 100% you.
The script can be Heartfelt and funny in equal measure, reflecting your love story. The vows you make to each other can be simple, sincere, colourful and joyous in their detail. I will guide you through to make the choices that give you the ceremony of your dreams.
Below is a list of what is included when you book me as your celebrant for your special day.
Meet you both in person, by telephone or video chat and build trust and friendship to help you create a truly memorable wedding ceremony.
Provide an in-depth questionnaire to plan your perfect day.
Plan, research and write your ceremony.
Offer guidance and support on your vows, readings and music.
Offer wedding advice and possible solutions.
Coordinate and collaborate with other wedding suppliers.
Liaise when necessary with the wedding venue.
Lead your ceremony and conduct the legal elements.
Enhancements to personalise your ceremony
-Irish wedding traditions: Horseshoe, the coins, a bell.
-Handfasting: ‘Tying the Knot’
-The Unity Candle ceremony.
-The Wine Ceremony: Love’s Journey shared.
-The Sand Ceremony: Uniting families.
The Vows
One of the most beautiful parts of a wedding ceremony are the Vows.
Writing your own vows as a surprise to each other creates an extraordinary moment that you will both cherish forever. If you are thinking about writing your own vows, think about what you would like to say to one another – straight from the heart. You will be fully involved in the process of creating your ceremony, it is your day, a day like no other. My aim is to deliver a perfect ceremony for you that is personal, beautiful and full of love.
Namings
A naming ceremony is a wonderful way to welcome your new bundle of joy into your family. It also offers you the opportunity to make promises for your future lives together.
A naming ceremony can be anything you want it to be, creative, spiritual, symbolic and completely personal. You choose where and when, with the people you want there.
Choosing Godparents for the naming ceremony and the role they play in your child’s life is also your choice. Even the official title ‘Godparent’ is no longer set in stone, whatever holds meaning for you is good.
Some alternative names for Godparents include:
Guardian
Honorary Auntie and Uncle
Supporting Adult
Guiding Star
Godless Parent
Guardian Angel
A sibling can be a Godparent, the ‘guiding star’ in your child’s life. Their role is a lifelong promise to love, support, protect and cherish.
My role, as the celebrant, is to create a meaningful, personalised ceremony that perfectly embraces you and your child’s life.
A naming ceremony can also be a beautiful way to celebrate older children, blended families and the adoption of a child along with celebrating the completion of gender transition.
Vow Renewals
Renewing your vows is a beautiful way to recommit your lives to each other. Couples have many different reasons for deciding to express their love publicly to each other for a second time.
The marking of an anniversary: You have reached a milestone in your life together and want to celebrate with family and friends. Reaffirming your commitment to each other. Maybe the first time around your wedding wasn’t all you’d hoped it would be. So this second time you have decided to enjoy the wedding of your dreams.
Renewing your vows and creating a revised/new set for your life now, is a wonderful way to embrace the love that you have shared and maintained.
Declaring your love again for each other is the perfect romantic gesture. The renewal of vows ceremony is a personal, unique celebration, full of cherished memories. You get to craft your special day in whatever feels meaningful to you.
Your ceremony could include original vows or new ones, music, readings or the symbolic act of rededicating your rings. This could be done with a Ring warming/ring blessing ritual, where your rings pass through the hands of your loved ones and are blessed by them.
As your celebrant, I will help you create an unique ceremony, one that reflects your lives together and your never ending love for each other.
End of Life Services
An End of Life Service is a beautiful event that celebrates the life and legacy of a loved one.
This ceremony focuses on the happy memories of the deceased and their achievements. In honouring and celebrating your loved ones life rather than mourning their death, emphasises the everlasting impact they have left in your heart and all that knew them. Gathering the stories and anecdotes, customising your loved ones’ end of life celebration with songs, readings, photos and personal items in a venue that held meaning for them are some of the elements that could be included.
As your celebrant I can help you plan your loved ones’ end of life celebration, making it an event to remember by creating with you a ceremony that perfectly encapsulates their life’s journey.
Thresholds & Transition Rituals
Thresholds and Transition Rituals are voyages of discovery, creativity, an invitation and a promise of destiny.
Thresholds and Transitions Rituals bind a family, and community together, giving a beautiful sense of connection as well providing us with symbolic meaning embodying our human journey.
Some of the Thresholds and Transition Rituals you can avail of:
...and many more.
Other Services
Speech Writing:
Philip can help you create an authentic and memorable speech for your Wedding, Naming Ceremony, Vow Renewal, End of Life Service and The Thresholds and Transition Rituals.
Having trained and written speeches for many different audiences, Philip can engage your listeners effectively by building rapport which creates an affinity with them.
Your audience/family/friends will love listening to you and you will feel completely at ease delivering your tailor made presentation.
Cake Creations:
Aoibheann is an Artisan Baker working with a leading Irish Bakery, specialising in Breads, pastries and cakes.
Whatever your special day is, Aoibheann will create a unique cake to celebrate the occasion.
