What I offer
Humanist Weddings
Your wedding, your way, no compromise
A humanist wedding is non-religious, and that simple concept means that the ceremony is all about you, the couple, and the telling of your love story in any way you want. You can celebrate your beliefs and values, you can incorporate symbolic elements that are important to you, you are free to use your favourite music and have your favourite people all taking an integral part. Also you aren’t restricted to licensed wedding venues, meaning you can have your wedding pretty much anywhere you want (landowner’s permission granted where necessary, of course) - in your front room, or the local pub, or the middle of a field, or on the beach – which also means you have much more freedom over dates and times.
There’s a whole world of possibilities for your wedding, which is wonderful – but it can also be a bit daunting. My job is to help you through the process and make your day truly unforgettable.
Here’s how we can achieve that together.
Where do I work?
I’m happy to conduct ceremonies in London, Surrey, Hampshire, Kent, Sussex, Oxford, Cambridge, parts of east Dorset and south west Essex. I’m also happy to travel anywhere at all that I'm asked if the costs are covered!
How much do I charge?
My fee for weddings and vow renewals booked in 2026 is £875. A £250 deposit is to be paid after our initial Zoom chat/meeting in order to secure my services. The balance of £625 is due 1 week before the wedding itself.
Anything required specifically for a wedding - costumes, international travel, overnight stays etc - can either be provided for me or I can purchase and charge back at cost.
Humanist Vow Renewals
I also conduct humanist ‘reweddings’, or Vow Renewal ceremonies. Now it used to be that very sceptical people viewed vow renewals as a last-ditch effort to save a marriage, normally after something had gone hideously wrong. Nowadays, however (thankfully!), people renew their vows for all sorts of reasons - to celebrate significant anniversaries or birthdays, for example, or perhaps to reaffirm a couple’s love and commitment after a serious illness or change of circumstances. More frequently it’s because a couple’s original wedding was not perhaps the one that they’d really dreamt of – they had to follow tradition, or the wishes of their families, or had to use staid and dull vows that some unknown person wrote in an official book a hundred years ago – and now they’re taking the opportunity to do it all again but this time exactly as they want it.
Over our lifetimes we change in so many ways, so an enduring love is very much worth celebrating. A ‘rewedding’ ceremony is the best way of saying “I do” all over again – acknowledging all that’s changed and all that’s stayed the same, in the life you’ve made together.
Renewing your marriage vows is also a beautiful way of showing everyone that you made the right decision back then, and of celebrating your love with friends and family members who may not have been around at the time you originally got hitched.
Just like in a standard humanist wedding, you can include symbolic acts such as a sand ceremony or a handfasting, and the whole family can become involved to make the occasion even more special. The day can be as similar, or as different, to your original wedding day as you want.
To talk to me about renewing your vows, please get in touch.
