Thomas Slavin

Thomas Slavin, Celebrant

"It's your day, it should be special. Let me help you make it phenomenal".

Thomas is available to conduct Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Vow Renewals, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

Whether it’s your Wedding, Civil Partnerships or Funeral, the day should be bespoke and exactly what you want. Using his knowledge, experience, enthusiasm and passion Thomas will help you create the perfect ceremony.

Thomas strongly believes that no two lives are the same and as such celebrating the end of a loved one's life should be as unique and bespoke as possible. Grief frequently creates overwhelming feelings of negativity and hopelessness sometimes stopping us focusing on the joy, inspiration and memories our departed have left behind.

Thomas's ultimate goal is to provide a tailored, personal and fitting tribute that will not only ensure the best possible send off but also bring comfort and a sense of peace to all.

As a people person Thomas's career has taken him on a varied, somewhat exciting path. He has always worked with the public and enjoy all aspects of public speaking. Often described as having an infectious, humorous but ultimately caring personality he considers it an honour and the utmost privilege to be able to assist anyone who should require guidance, comfort or help in the preparation and delivery of the ceremony.

Thomas has one son and has been with his partner for over 13 years and after 11 years in a civil partnership, they decided to get married!! Thomas now looks forward to many happy years as a married couple.

You can contact Thomas on thomasslavin@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Thomas on Facebook and Instagram

Christopher Griffin

Christopher Griffin, Celebrant

"It would be an honour to help you celebrate your special day".

Christopher is available for Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Vow Renewals, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

He is very proud to be a Celebrant with Fuze and it is a privilege and honour for him when he is asked to contribute to the significant events that spark the greatest emotions during our lives.

After attending many Humanist ceremonies - Christopher developed a keen interest in becoming a Humanist Celebrant using the skills and experience he has gained in his personal life and over his professional career.

As a Humanist Celebrant Christopher aims to conduct and deliver sincere and thoughtful ceremonies that are wholly befitting of the occasion.

Christopher has a caring, approachable disposition coupled with good listening skills and a calm demeanour. He enjoys meeting people, hearing their stories and working with them to develop a personal ceremony that celebrates their special day.

He is a graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University and the Open Business School. A very experienced customer focused, business development, business management and operations executive with 30 years of success working locally and globally across multiple market sectors.

He is an effective communicator in one to one meetings and also in larger meetings, including public speaking events at exhibitions and conferences.

Christopher is based in Glasgow and covers Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Edinburgh & Lothian, Glasgow City & East/West Dunbartonshire and North & South Lanarkshire.

You can contact Christopher on christophergriffin@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Christopher on Facebook and Instagram

Yvonne Hannah

Yvonne Hannah, Celebrant

Yvonne is available to conduct Yvonne is available to conduct Weddings, Vow Renewal, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

Yvonne just loves getting to know people, a bubbly, happy person who gets super excited about love and anything shiny. She adores writing personal and unique love stories, creating, and conducting a ceremony that will not only be remembered by you for years to come, but by your family and friends too.

As a Fuze bride herself, Yvonne has firsthand experience. From meeting with you both for the first time, throwing around ideas on symbolic gestures like handfasting, or drinking from the quaich, through to being there for you both on the day. She appreciates how exciting each stage is and knows how wonderful it is to hear your own personal story as you make your vows to one another.

The idea of becoming a Humanist Celebrant came as she traveled around the NC500 with her husband Allan and their 3-year-old Cocker Spaniel, Skye. As a couple, their joy of traveling around Scotland and its islands played an important part in their wedding ceremony. As they reminisced about how special their wedding day was, Yvonne decided that she was going to train to become a Marriage Officer herself.

Humanist ceremonies are about you, there are no limits on what shapes your ceremony or where you have it, and that is a beautiful thing. Get in touch with Yvonne to share your story and start to build your perfect ceremony.

Yvonne is based in Fife and covers Aberdeenshire & Moray, Argyll & Bute, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh & Lothian, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire, North & South Lanarkshire, Perthshire, Fife & Angus, Scottish Borders and Stirlingshire

You can contact Yvonne on yvonnehannah@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Yvonne on Facebook , Instagram and Tik Tok

Lucy Haden

Lucy Haden, Celebrant

Lucy is available to conduct Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Vow Renewals, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

Lucy has had a varied career so far, including being an agony aunt for a teenage magazine, managing the estate of a well-known artist, and running a couture wedding dress shop. She is now a manager in a rehab hospital, and is a great believer in facing and adapting to the challenges that life throws at you – hence the mixture of careers. 

Lucy has always written creatively, including stories, plays and pantomimes, and has been an enthusiastic amateur actress for over 30 years, her proudest role being in Calendar Girls.

To be a celebrant combines so many of the positive and exciting aspects of what she has done so far. It’s a huge pleasure and a privilege to play a part in the great milestones in peoples’ lives, whether it’s helping to create a wedding ceremony that’s full of joy and laughter or whether it’s creating a memorable farewell for somebody.

Lucy really enjoys helping people to find the perfect reading or symbolic gesture for you to make a very personal ceremony, and takes great pride in working with couples and families to provide imaginative ceremonies to make their day something they will remember for ever. She looks forward to making your day a unique experience for you to treasure.

Lucy is based in the Scottish Borders and covers Argyll & Bute, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Edinburgh & Lothian, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire, North & South Lanarkshire, Perthshire, Fife & Angus, Scottish Borders and Stirlingshire

You can contact Lucy on lucyhaden@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Lucy on Facebook and Instagram

Alicia MacDonald

Alicia MacDonald, Celebrant

"I want to use my experience, passion and professionalism to help create a meaningful ceremony that you both will remember forever".

Alicia is available to conduct Wedding, Civil Partnership, Vow Renewal & Baby Naming Ceremonies.

Alicia’s passion is weddings!! She loves meeting with couples, getting to know them and helping them plan such a significant day in their lives. She has worked in the wedding industry for over ten years as an Events and Wedding Planner, working with couples to bring together the vision of their big day in to a reality.

Having been involved in many weddings over the years, Alicia has always enjoyed the wedding ceremonies performed by Humanists. It seemed to resonate with her more, she enjoyed how personalised they were and how they opened up a more open, capturing wedding ceremony.

Having met Anne from Fuze Ceremonies through working in the weddings Industry, Alicia knew the exact person to contact when it came to organising her own wedding. Anne married Alicia and her Partner in October 2014, performing a beautiful, personalised ceremony, one that they will always cherish.

Now working as a Humanist celebrant, Alicia wants to use her experience, passion and professionalism to help create a meaningful ceremony that a couple will remember forever.

Her other passion in life is travel!!! It is something she gets extremely excited about. She loves researching new places to visit, experiencing new cultures and meeting new people.

Alicia and her husband are fortunate enough to have travelled across the world together and visited some truly amazing places. They spent a year living and travelling around the whole of Australia, they have backpacked through Thailand and Indonesia, spent a Summer Island hopping in Greece and have visited many European countries and other World-Wide destinations in-between. Their most recent adventure took them to New Zealand where they had an incredible two years working, travelling and living in this amazing country.

During their time in New Zealand they found out they had a mini hitch-hiker travelling with them. So they returned home to Scotland in summer 2016 and their beautiful baby girl, Fearne was born soon after.

Alicia say that Fearne changed their whole lives the day they met her, her presence has encouraged them to be the best possible versions of themselves. She can’t quite talk yet but already her influence on them is incredible. What she hasn’t changed is the couple’s passion to travel, thankfully this little addition to their tribe loves to travel too. At eight weeks old she flew back to New Zealand with them to live for six months. They had a great time living and travelling through this country making memories they can one day share with her. During the trip they spent some time travelling in a campervan were she was truly in her element.

So as you can tell, Alicia’s three passions in life are weddings, travel and being a mummy. Weddings have taught her to be approachable and organised, Travel has taught her to be open-minded and laid-back, Parenting has taught her that she can function as a fairly ‘normal’ human on very little sleep.

Alicia’s passions aside, she wants to hear about what makes you happy, what your adventures have been as a couple and the love that’s brought you to this stage in your relationship.

It is her goal to make you feel at ease, to ensure your plans are put together with care and efficiency to create wonderful memories to start this new chapter of your life together.

Alicia is based in Inverness and covers Inverness-shire.

You can contact Alicia on aliciamacdonald@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Alicia on Facebook

Jackie Jeffrey

Jackie Jeffrey, Celebrant

Jackie lives in a small Perthshire village with her partner and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

Known by family and friends as the Queen of organising, she really does love a list!

Having worked closely with people all her life, across different career paths, Jackie has always had a genuine interest in people and loves hearing all about their lives and experiences. She is a great peoples person, warm, funny, sincere and has a natural talent to write and tell a story.

Jackie is also a Life Coach, a role that commands a lot of listening and understanding but one that she finds very rewarding. Becoming a Celebrant was the next natural step for her, giving her the opportunity to continue learning peoples stories, meet amazing people and share their life events.

It is important to Jackie that you have a ceremony as unique as you and one that reflects your hopes and dreams for the future or honours the life you have lived.

Jackie is a very optimistic person and it will be an honour and a privilege for her to conduct your ceremony with professionalism and integrity and she won't eat all the wedding cake!

Lifes what you make it, make it the best life you possibly can.

Jackie is based in Perthshire and conducts ceremonies in Aberdeenshire & Moray, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh & Lothian, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire, Perthshire, Fife & Angus, Scottish Borders, Stirlingshire and Western Highlands & Islands.

You can contact Jackie on jackiejeffrey@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Jackie on Facebook and Instagram

Neil McKenzie

Neil Mckenzie, Celebrant

“It is a privilege to be part of a couple’s wedding. My role is to work in partnership with you to develop a personal and unique ceremony.”

Neil is available to conduct Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Vow Renewals, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

Neil has worked in communications throughout his career so is adept at putting his presentation, writing and people skills to great use to ensure you have a memorable ceremony that tells your story.

In his spare time, Neil is very much a family man with his wife of over 12 years and two sons. He is usually found driving his sons to various clubs and activities. Neil is also an avid sports fan.

Neil is based on the outskirts of Glasgow and covers Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Edinburgh & Lothian, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire, North & South Lanarkshire & Stirlingshire

You can contact Neil on neilmckenzie@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Neil on Instagram

Oskar Gilchrist-Grodnicki

Oskar Gilchrist-Grodnicki, Celebrant

Oskar is an experienced wedding professional who has been involved in the wedding industry since 2009, running, delivering and planning over 600 weddings this far. Over the past 6 years, he’s received an accolade of awards including the most recent Your Scottish Wedding Award 2022.

He loves keeping on top of the latest wedding trends, therefore, you can often see him blogging and providing advice and support for wedding planning couples online or in some of the biggest Scottish wedding editorials.

Becoming a humanist celebrant was a natural next step for him. When getting married to his husband George in a humanist ceremony back in January 2018, Oskar found a lot of interest in humanist ceremonies and how personal and elevating the ceremony experience can be.

Oskar is known for his professionalism, helpfulness and above all his can do attitude. His ceremony writing style can be described as warm-hearted, romantic, yet charming and fun.

Originally from Legnica, Poland, he has fallen in love with Edinburgh in 2008 and made it his permanent home since. This is why Oskar can also write wedding scripts in the polish language.

You can contact Oskar on oskargilchristgrodnicki@fuzeceremonies.co.uk

POLISH LANGUAGE

Oskar ma wiele lat doświadczenia, pracując przy weselach już od 2009 roku. Od tamtej pory, Oskar zorganizował, przygotował i dostarczył już ponad 600 wesel i ślubów. Przez ostanie 6 lat, Oskar otrzymał już wiele wyróżnień za jego prace, włącznie z Your Scottish Wedding Award w 2022 roku.

Oskar uwielbia interesować się wszelkimi nowościami na rynku weselnym, dlatego też często będziecie mogli go widzieć publikując, albo edytując blogi, które pomagają parom młodym w planowaniu ich wesela lub ślubu. Niektóre z nich publikowane są w najpopularniejszych magazynach weselnych w Szkocji.

Podjęcie się szkolenia na Celebranta Humanistycznego było dla niego następnym naturalnym krokiem w karierze. Kiedy sam brał ślub humanistyczny z Jego mężem George’m w 2018 roku obudziła się w nim ciekawość na to jak bardzo spersonalizowane i podnoszące na duchu mogą być właśnie ceremonie humanistyczne.

Oskar jest uważany za osobę profesjonalną, pomocną i także taką która chętnie spróbuje coś nowego. Jego styl pisania scenariuszy ceremonii jest uważany za romantyczny, a także urzekający i wesoły.

Oskar pochodzi z Polski, a dokładniej z Legnicy, a przyjechał do Edynburga na studia w 2008 roku i zakochał się w tym szczególnym miejscu na ziemi. Dlatego też Oskar może napisać Waszą ceremonie w całości, albo po części w języku polskim.

Alex Paton

Alex Paton, Celebrant

Alex is available to conduct Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Vow Renewals, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

Alex is based in Glasgow and covers Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh & Lothian, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire, North & South Lanarkshire, Perthshire, Fife & Angus, Scottish Borders & Stirlingshire.

Alex is the people’s person; the person you want to be by your side, whether it would be in sadness for support; or in happiness for laughter. Therefore, it was a natural career step in becoming a celebrant with Fuze ceremonies.

Alex says being a humanist celebrant will continue to allow him to meet amazing people, hear amazing stories of their life and help people make or relive memories. Alex believes making people happy is the greatest gift you can give someone.

No ceremony should be the same. It is that person’s special day and with the ability to listen to every special detail in the person’s life, Alex will create that memorable day.

Much of his career has been bringing memories of happiness, joy, fun and laughter to people. From organising major music events to DJing in all over the world. A known DJ in the Northern Soul, Indie, Punk, SKA music and the Scooter Scene.

His personality and appearance are one you will love from start. A modern look that everyone will talk about. In his spare time he is a big fitness fanatic, from core fitness to walking and running.

He lives with his wife and his dog Elvis and shares every activity in his life with them. He is also a big supporter of Cancer Research UK and other charities, which he has helped to raise much needed money over the years.

You can contact Alex on alexpaton@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Alex on Facebook & Instagram

Marie McWilliams

Marie McWilliams, Celebrant

Marie worked in the care sector for more than 30 years and always enjoyed working with people and helping them to fulfil their potential.

She was drawn to Humanism, as she felt that ceremonies should be centred around those who are celebrating or being celebrated.

Marie trained as a Humanist Celebrant so she could work closely with couples to celebrate life events and support families to remember their loved one in a unique and personal way.

She has been married for more than 20 years, and has two teenage sons, who keep her pretty busy. Marie loves being outdoors and can be seen braving the waves at her local beaches, in all weathers! She also enjoys spending time with friends and is a member of a local amateur dramatic group, which have been presenting annual musical productions for over 100 years in their local theatre.

Marie feels that being involved with couples and families and helping them to create a unique ceremony is a real honour. One which she is committed to ensuring that is perfect for her customers.

Marie is based in Ayrshire and covers Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway , East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire and North & South Lanarkshire.

You can contact Marie on mariemcwilliams@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Marie on Facebook and Instagram