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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My wife Lesli and I were married by Tim Maguire at the Prestonfield House in Edinburgh. Tim couldn’t be more lovely and helpful in every step of the process. He made it incredibly easy for us which was no small task in that we travelled to Scotland from the US having never been there before. Always easy to get a hold of and very helpful in shaping the ceremony to us. Thank you Tim!!
Gerrie Douglas-Scott was our celebrant for our special day at Enterkine house.
Since the very first day we booked her she had everything covered for us and helped us make it as personal as we liked along with loads of different ideas for our ceremony.
Gerrie is one of the nicest people we have had the privilege of meeting and her warmth and humour translated perfectly into our ceremony which which had all of our guests crying both tears of joy and laughter.
We can’t thank Gerrie enough for everything she did for us and urge anyone to look no further than Gerrie for their big day.
Aiden and Hope Page
The best celebrant we could wish for!
Thank you so much to our celebrant, Gerrie, for gifting us with a beautiful, romantic, and personalised ceremony. Since the first moment we spoke with Gerrie, her warmth and easiness made us feel welcomed and listened to. She was always there to answer questions during the wedding preparation, and she practiced the Italian readings and delivered an emotional english-italian ceremony. We appreciate all the effort and recognise her dedication for this profession. Highly recommended! Thank you again from us! 🙂
Susan Douglas-Scott at Celebrate People was wonderful from start to finish. We had such a lovely experience of planning our day with her and always felt like at the heart of her approach was understanding what we wanted and needed for our wedding ceremony. By the time she was done, there was barely a dry eye in the room, including our brother-in-law, who says this is the first time he’s ever cried at a wedding! Truly beautiful words and such a lovely presence when you’re nervous.
My wife and I had a really good experience with Celebrate People and our celebrant Angus Farquhar. We wanted a small wedding and that’s about all we knew! Angus really did help us structure our wedding into something special. He even helped with some things we thought we’d be on our own with, like advising on a good outdoor site for our wedding. Not being familiar with the area, this was particularly helpful. If we had to get married twice, we would gladly stick with Angus as our celebrant.
-Bram & Kailin