What is a Symbolic Gesture, Anyway?

What is a Symbolic Gesture, Anyway? By Lucy Haden, Fuze Celebrant Now I’m a fully fledged Humanist Celebrant, and I’ve been there, done that and got the T-shirt (so to speak), I’m spending more and more time working with couples to get the perfect symbolic gesture for their wedding. That’s one of the creative and...

The Sand Ceremony

There are many creative traditions that give couples and families different options to choose when it comes to symbolising the union of their marriage or the naming of a child. The History The origins of sand blending date back to the Hebrew tradition of combining salt to conclude a deal or contract as well as...

The Handfasting Ceremony

A Meaningful Wedding Ceremony The most wonderful thing about Humanist wedding ceremonies is the freedom to choose the way you want to celebrate yours and your partner’s commitment to one another.  Long gone are the days where the wedding ceremony was the part guests just sat through to get to the drink’s reception – now...

Alternative Wedding Readings

A humanist wedding ceremony is all about you, created for you and alongside you both and for many couples it’s incredibly difficult to know where to start when considering which, if any, readings to include. There are literally millions of stories, quotations, poems and beautifully written words to choose from that will make your wedding...

How Do I Find My Perfect Wedding Poem?

Roses are red, violets are blue, finding the perfect wedding poem is hard, so let me help you…. With wedding season fast approaching and love in the air, sometimes finding the right words to express your feelings can prove tricky. But luckily, we live in a world full of wonderfully written words which are ideal...

How to Put the WOWS Into Your Personal Vows

Newsflash!  One-of-a-kind weddings are seriously hot right now!  As a team of Celebrants, we’ve noticed that more and more couples are on the hunt for fresh ways to inject a huge dose of personality into their wedding.  So, while the traditional wedding day staples of churches, champagne toasts and matchy-matchy maids are seemingly out; unique...

Handfasting:  Why We’re So Obsessed!

Our name is Fuze and we’re addicted to handfasting!  Yes, it’s true, we’re unashamedly obsessed with this ridiculously romantic tradition and it’s not because we’ve watched the wedding scenes of Outlander & Braveheart one too many times (Willam & Murren’s woodland ceremony though!); it’s simply because the ancient Celtic ritual of handfasting is symbolic perfection!...