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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Gerrie Douglas-Scott
Gerrie was absolutely fantastic throughout the whole process. She has plenty of ideas and helped up personalise the ceremony until it felt just right. On the day we couldn’t have asked for a better ceremony, she really made the day!
Maureen (Mo) was the celebrant for our wedding at the Engine Works in June. She really helped us make the ceremony personal and memorable, tailor making it to what we wanted to say. Mo is warm and friendly and has a great sense of humour, exactly what we wanted for our wedding celebrations!
The Wonderful Aileen Massie.
Rod and I were joined together by our celebrant Aileen Massie.
Aileen was amazing, she took the time to get to know us and our family before conducting our wedding.
She listened to our stories and saw how we were with our kids and as a family.
She make us feel relaxed through out the whole process of preparing and organising the wedding as well as on the day. (She even looked after the groom when she thought he was going to pass out????).
Aileen has a warm, caring and loving personality which was exactly what we wanted.
She had empathy and patience when we discussed our mothers who were no longer with us.
Aileen went through what would happen at the ceremony she was very adaptable and changed things to suit what we wanted. She would give us advice, support and guidance by providing poems and vows that would suit our crazy personalities.
Aileen was able to tell our love story with all the up and downs that we had been through in a funny, loving personal way. She made everyone laugh, cry and feel involved.
She made it personal to us and not just the bog standard same old traditional weddings everyone has. She made our wedding day UNIQUE .
Our ceremony was very family orientated, and it was a joining of families not just 2 people, she was able to do this by involving everyone.
Aileen felt like family by the end of our organising, it felt like it was an auntie that was marrying us and not a celebrant the we had met a few months before, and that meant the world to us.
Aileen introduced herself to the catering staff and helped them with the timings of the day, to make it go smoothly, she helped to welcome the guests, arrange the signing table and made sure everything was in place and that there were no hiccups.
All the guests commented on what a beautiful ceremony it was and how spot on Aileen had captured us as people, and how she was such a lovely, caring, and funny lady.
I look back at our wedding pictures and all I see is a Family coming together to celebrate love and happiness, and Aileen made this happen.
We can’t thank Aileen enough for making our day the best day ever.
We both would highly recommend that you choose Aileen as your celebrant as she truly make your dreams come true .
Rod and Kim 27th August 2022
Gerrie Douglas- Scott
We opted for Gerrie after seeing how she brought the room alive with warmth and laughter at another wedding many years earlier and she did not disappoint! She gave us lots of examples to work with in creating a personal ceremony that reflected us as couple and she even came up with a few surprises which we and the audience loved! Thank you for being part of our special day xx
We got married in April 2023, at the University of Glasgow Chapel, with Susan as our celebrant. From our first meeting with Susan, we knew we had found someone who would make our ceremony the one we had always dreamed of. Susan guided us through the possibilities for our service and helped us craft a ceremony that was both personal and joyous! Susan was also incredibly accommodating with access requirements for our ceremony, providing scripts in advance so we could share with a BSL interpreter we had hired for our D/deaf guests.
On the day of the ceremony, she calmed down the nervous groom, mingled with guests, and brought a positive energy. As bride, I will always remember her meeting me with a gorgeous smile before we went into the ceremony. Her kindness, warmth, and joy shone through during the ceremony, and all our guests commented on how engaging Susan was, embedding humour and love within space.
I cannot recommend Susan enough, she was the perfect person to guide us through our vows and into the next step of our lives together. Thank you Susan, always.