Celebrate People
About this business
Celebrate People is a multi-belief organisation based on humanist values. We conduct ceremonies as well as providing support and counselling. Our highly trained and experienced celebrants represent our humanist values of love, kindness, equality, compassion, inclusion and respect. We believe that you two are central and will support you to make sure that your ceremony reflects and expresses what is important to you, your lives, your culture.
We can provide excellent Spanish, French and Italian speaking celebrants to make sure everyone is included.
We simply want you to feel cared for and supported to express your love and commitment in the way that means most to you in that special moment. You may celebrate with family and friends or run away just the two of you. Whatever you choose we are there to help you have your perfect ceremony.
We are there for you from the moment you start to think about what you want for your ceremony all the way through to you leaving for the rest of your celebrations. For most that includes making sure all the legal details are taken care of in the right way and in the right place. If you need guidance on what to include on your ceremony, we are there with many ideas and support to help you choose the best words and elements for you both.
All of our celebrants are brilliant at listening and helping as little or as much as you need them to put what is you want to say into words. For some couples this is easy, others less so. Wherever you fall on that scale we will support you in your ceremony development in preparation for the main event. Symbols and customs can strengthen what you want to say and all of us can include handfasting, drinking from the quaich, sand ceremony and many more.
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Neil and I were married a few weeks ago by the lovely and kind Susan Douglas-Scott.
We wanted a small family wedding and Susan gave us such a personal and beautiful day. My dad had passed and she dealt with that exactly as I wanted .
Many of guests complimented us on Susan as our choice . She guided us through it all from the start and tailored the day perfectly for us . Would highly recommend ❤️
We were married by Maureen Waterston (Mo) back in June. Mo was absolutely incredible from the start. She helped us so much with the process of writing our wedding ceremony and helped us so much on our wedding day making us both feel at ease and comfortable. Everyone at our wedding loved her and thought she was great, her delivery was amazing really putting so much feeling into her words! She made us feel that we were the only people she was working with at the time as her service was so personalised. We can’t thank her enough for the time and effort she put into our wedding ceremony to make it exactly as we wanted it. Thank you Mo!!!
Working with Tim Maguire was so easy. From the first time we spoke (albeit via Zoom), he was so informative. Explaining all aspects of Humanism and the many ways that we can construct a Humanist ceremony. It really fits with our beliefs and were excited to start work on the project.
Tim’s email correspondence was so helpful to start us on our journey. They gave all the knowledge we needed as well as assistance along the way on when to do certain tasks and even example ceremonies that we could use for ideas.
When it came to the big day, Tim was such a calming influence, making sure nerves were ok and conducting the ceremony with humour and professionalism throughout.
We cannot recommend Tim and Celebrate People enough. Even guests from outside of Scotland have recognised Humanism as such a great option for getting married.
Could not have have asked for anyone better. I first met Sharon when she did a lovely service for my mum’s funeral. I emailed her on the off-chance to see if she would have availability for my wedding, but by luck, she did.
From start to finish, Sharon was magnificently helpful. She walked us through the process and what we needed to do for legal purposes, and gave us our “love homework” to ensure that our ceremony was personal to us. We got married on the 20th August 2022, and Sharon was absolutely fantastic. Everyone in attendance told me how wonderful the ceremony was, there were even a few happy tears (some from me but that’s a different story). Everything about it felt right, and it was all thanks to Sharon.
Sharon, Michael and I cannot thank you enough for everything you did to make our day so special, and for making it our own.
We have had such wonderful comments from everyone on how much they loved the day and always there is a mention at how amazing Gerrie was!!!
We, and our guests, found the ceremony to be perfect! Just what we had hoped for. It was personal, different, light and intimate. We have had so many comments about how great Gerrie was at interacting with people, making it light hearted where appropriate but deep and meaningful where needed. A Couple of our friends wished they had had Gerrie for theirs! Rest assured we will show them where to find Gerrie if the decide to renew their vows!
Everyone loved the tieing the knot!! Including Sarah who was amazed at how it worked as she hadn’t seen or rehearsed it!!
Thank you again, Gerrie!