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...

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...

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...

When it comes to romance, nothing quite says “love is in the air” like a wedding. Standing up in front of your family and friends to declare your lifelong commitment to each other is a highlight in the cute love story you share with your soulmate, and the memories you make together on this day...

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!...

Right this second, approximately 300,000 couples in the UK will be deep in the throes of wedding planning. Naturally, this stage of a couple’s life will be filled with excitement and blissful anticipation; however, the bubble of bliss can often be burst by the fork of lightening that shoots out of the cloud that has...

Did you know that the British dog population rose by a whopping 400,000 between 2017 and 2018 meaning that over one quarter of British adults now have a canine comrade.  What’s more, a shocking 15% of dog owners admitted to loving their dog MORE than their partner!   Upon reading these stats it suddenly became clear...

Manicures at the ready, as ‘engagement season’ is officially upon us!  That’s right, it’s not just the twinkling fairy-lit streets and glistening frost that will be providing the sparkle over the coming weeks.  Every year, between the 1st December and Valentine’s Day, a whopping forty percent of couples will say YES to getting married, with...

There are many different symbolic gestures you can include in your Humanist marriage ceremony. A popular choice with couples is a handfasting. The handfasting is where the expressions ‘Tying the knot’ and ‘Giving one’s hand in marriage’ come from. Handfasting originates from an old pagan ritual. The bride and groom give each other their hands, and a ribbon...