Wedding Celebrant Archives - Page 2 of 6

Christopher Griffin

July 15, 2015by Fuze Admin

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

Debbie Daly

July 12, 2015by Fuze Admin

Debbie Daly, Celebrant

“I’m passionate about empowering people to empower themselves.”

Allow Debbie to join you to celebrate the milestone events of your unique life. It may be a time when you want the world to know that you have found a love that will last throughout life’s journey. Or alternatively, it may be a time to say farewell to a precious family member, friend or partner.

Debbie’s aim is to support you to achieve your perfect celebration, capturing your ideas and beliefs without restriction. She considers it a privilege & honour to be part of creating something special & important. None more so than creating that final farewell; celebrating the life of a loved one.

Debbie has been happily married since 2000 & lives in Glasgow.

She has studied Hotel Management, managed a Recycling Company but since 2004 has worked in the voluntary sector supporting vulnerable women & children. This has nurtured her ability to be professional but empathetic, caring & understanding of people’s situation. Debbie loves people & has gained vast experience supporting people to get where they want to be. She embraces diversity & strives for equality. These passions have fuelled her drive to become a Humanist Celebrant.

Debbie loves to travel, experiencing different cultures, beliefs & broadening life’s journey of people. She also likes to experience different gastronomies.

Debbie is based in Inverclyde and covers Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Glasgow City & East/West Dunbartonshire, North & South Lanarkshire & Stirlingshire.

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

Brian Baxter

July 6, 2014by Fuze Admin

Brian Baxter, Celebrant

“I take enormous joy in helping others to create their own unique ceremony and to assist them in having the most memorable day of their lives.”

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

Brian Baxter has witnessed and ably assisted with well over 1000+ Wedding Ceremonies across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, particularly so when delivering his Highland Wedding Master of Ceremonies (Toastmaster/ MC) provision. Brian is a highly skilled public speaker and has a Robert Burns recital gift. He has an impressive Master of Ceremonies CV. Some clients have said that he is “the calm in the storm”.

He takes great joy in witnessing the freedom that a Humanist Ceremony gives to his clients, making the occasion even more memorable for the newlyweds, family and guests. He is passionate about creating and delivering dignified and meaningful funeral ceremonies too. In 2020 he decided to study for and gain the Diploma in Public Speaking and Humanist Ceremonies with UKCAPSA. After completing the diploma, he was "chuffed tae bits" when he was asked to become a Humanist Celebrant with the Fuze Foundation and Fuze Ceremonies. Delivering his first ever legal wedding ceremony in September 2020.

Brian married Val in 1989. They have one son. When not delivering weddings, vow renewals, baby naming and funeral services, Brian and Val like to take exotic Cruise Ship holidays, tae the sun!

Since age 16, Brian has had a staggering 40+ years military experience. At age 40, he took some time out from the military, ran a pub for a spell and worked in the Chamber of Commerce, Dundee, as a manager delivering learning & development to clients in a variety of age groups. He also had a 3-year period working for Local Government, as Team Leader of an Anti-Social Behaviour Team! It was back full time with the military again in 2010, and he retired fully from the army in July 2023. He says - "because it was time to use the "bus pass!"

These past working experiences and life skills gained have aided him in developing his consulting, listening, and toned communication skills, ensuring that he always listens to his clients & guides them in their aspiration to create a unique, special, unforgettable, dignified, touched with fun, a bit of witty banter and a truly personal ceremony.

Brian is by far, one of the smartest dressed male celebrants in Scotland. Owning more kilts and trews than a kilt shop, and more dress suits than any high street clothing outlet!

Brian will travel from his home in Scone to conduct your ceremony anywhere in Scotland. Please be aware though that this may involve additional fuel, accommodation and/ or travel costs in order to do so. Just ask.You can contact Brian on brianbaxter@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Brian on Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok

Yvonne Hannah

May 7, 2014by Fuze Admin

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

May 7, 2014by Fuze Admin

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

Chris Alexander

May 5, 2014by Fuze Admin

Chris Alexander, Celebrant

Chris is available to blether for and conduct Weddings, Civil Partnerships, Vow Renewals, Baby Naming & Funeral Ceremonies.

As an actor Chris has found himself travelling the world. A passion for folk and their stories and the connections, long or short that immeasurably inspire us all our days.

It’s crucial to Chris that your ceremony is your story. In joy or grief.

As a person it was a saunter on El Camino Santiago that ignited a want to aid people. “We share stories all the time. A simple hello could have a million possibilities.” As an outdoor lover, a pal to nature and Munro bagger, Chris is happy to do any ceremony, wherever you want. Mountains, beauty spots of Scotland(What a country) to jumping in the sea(After we’ve checked for sharks). Or the local hall! Nothing is off limits. Mother Nature is a wonderful sculptor.

It was a natural flow to combine the skills as an actor and place it in humanist ceremonies. I love working with people. Travelling is a passion. “It seemed to me, to continue meeting new folk, hearing stories and sharing those stories to the people they love the most, becoming a celebrant is a new bubble of joy. It’s an honour to give the journey of a life to people that love the person or people.”

A humanist ceremony is the perfect way to include anything you want. Let's have a blether.

Chris is based in Ayrshire and conducts ceremonies throughout Scotland.

Buen Camino!

You can contact Chris on chrisalexander@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Chris on Instagram

Alicia MacDonald

May 5, 2014by Fuze Admin

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

May 5, 2014by Fuze Admin

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

Douglas Gilgallon

May 2, 2014by Fuze Admin

Douglas Gilgallon, Celebrant

Douglas’s passion in life has always been people. At the age of 16 he turned his back on a promising apprenticeship with an American Engine company because he realised he wanted to work with people and not machines. Over the past 25 years Douglas has had a career in Social Work, where he worked extensively within the Glasgow homeless scene, and in the last 10 years with adults with disabilities.

Douglas brings with him a quarter of a century worth of service to people. Over that time, he has honed his interpersonal skills, and his empathy, warmth and compassion are the driving force behind his desire to serve others.

Douglas lives in Glasgow with his wife Pauline. They have been married for 27 years and have 3 daughters and three rescue dogs.

In his spare time Douglas is an avid Munro Bagger and has climbed over 40 Munro’s to date. If ever you needed a guide or advice on some great Scottish Mountains for that special ceremony, he is your guy.

Douglas is also a keen guitarist and learned long ago just how much music moves people. He is always being asked to bring his guitar to parties as it’s a fantastic way to bring people together.

Douglas first attended a humanist funeral service in 2004 and it completely opened his eyes as to what was possible in terms of saying a farewell to a loved one. He loved the idea that a service existed where the focus was based around honouring the memory and the life of the individual.

Douglas has always had a talent for writing, and is the go-to person amongst his family and friends whenever a heartfelt letter or special words are required for a unique occasion. This combined with his 25 years’ experience capturing information for clients, and formulating provision and support based around that information, means Douglas is more than able to help you capture the story that you want told at your ceremony. Be it a marriage ceremony, a civil partnership, a renewal of vows, a baby naming ceremony, or helping with the difficult task of saying goodbye to a loved one, he can help by creating something special and memorable for you.

Douglas is based in Glasgow and conducts ceremonies in 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 Douglas on douglasgilgallon@fuzeceremonies.co.uk or you can see more of Douglas on Facebook , Instagram and Tik Tok

Maurice King

April 29, 2014by Fuze Admin

Maurice King, Celebrant

Maurice’s personality is immediately a winning one. His ability to coax and cajole nervous Brides is only outdone by his sense of diplomacy. Maurice has been conducting Marriage Ceremonies since 2014 and your marriage ceremony is in very safe hands! Maurice is a VOWS Award Winning Specialist.

Wedding Ceremonies have the potential to be great days for all involved. They are like films or plays that one can look back on with fond memory and as such they still require direction. It is not enough just to arrange them they need a Director. Maurice with the ability to bring his focus to bear on the key individuals The Bride & Bridegroom at the same time delivering a touch of showmanship that raises a wedding above all others.

Maurice is based in North Lanarkshire and conducts ceremonies in Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire & Renfrewshire, Edinburgh & Lothian, Glasgow City & East /West Dunbartonshire, North & South Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire.

You can contact Maurice on mauriceking@fuzeceremonies.co.uk

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