Celebrant in Cornwall

An independent celebrant is someone who designs and conducts ceremonies which are religious, non-religious or anywhere on the scale between.

A celebrant will work with you to tailor your ceremony to your exact requirements, so you can include (for example) religious or spiritual wording or rituals, which the Registration Service does not permit. Plus your vows will not be part of a standard script, and therefore be far more meaningful and personal.

Unlike a Registrar from the Registration Service, an independent celebrant will build a relationship with you from the get-go. Not by email or phone calls (unless you prefer that!) but in person, so that when your ceremony takes place, you will have a far more meaningful connection than with a local authority Registrar you won’t have met before.

And of course, a celebrant-led event can be held anywhere (within reason!) and so you are not tied to a licensed venue and the potentially high cost of this. If you have a favourite beach or meadow or woodland, or even if you want to host your ceremony in your own garden, you can do exactly that.

On the day of the ceremony, yours will be the only ceremony that the independent celebrant will conduct and therefore be completely focused on – sadly for Registration Office staff, they may conduct up to 8 a day in the summer months!

Booking an independent celebrant means you get exactly what you want, where you want it and when you want it. Which is just how it should be!

Unless you are marrying in church, a legal marriage or civil partnership has to take place in a Register Office or approved venue and be conducted by Registration Service staff. This statutory ceremony can be completed at the Registry Office in as little as ten minutes for around £50 (plus notice fees), and is the legal process of registering the marriage or civil partnership – in much the same way as you might register a birth or a death.

Couples generally choose to have their legal ceremony before their celebrant-led ceremony – enabling them to plan their celebratory ceremony exactly as they choose, without any restrictions from the local authority.

The beauty of a ceremony led by a celebrant is – there is total flexibility!

From choosing a unique location to the time of day, and with as many or as few guests as you want, even including the four-legged kind! You can write your own vows (or I can do that for you), you can exchange rings or other tokens (but you don’t have to), you can include readings, songs, performances, hymns or prayers - you really can do pretty much whatever you want.

Plus if you want some ideas of how to do things a bit differently – including symbolic rituals - that’s what I’m here for!

Of course! Distance is no object, just bear in mind my prices are slightly higher for places outside my home county and that there may be charge for travel and accommodation if required.

First, let’s chat! Drop me a line, give me a call or we can set up a Messenger or Skype conversation. Once we’ve chatted, if you think you would like to proceed, I will send you a booking form and ask for a deposit to secure your date. We’ll then exchange some ‘getting to know you’ information and set up a face-to-face meeting to plan out your exact requirements.

At this point, I will write your ceremony and you will need to make a 50% payment of the remaining fee, with the balance due when I send you your ceremony ‘script’. We’ll discuss it and I can re-draft it as many times as you require before I deliver your ceremony in person! What is of the utmost and absolute importance to me, is that I create exactly what you want.