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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We first saw Mo Waterston when she was the humanist at our friends wedding. We knew instantly when our day came we would love to contact her and ask her to help us on our special day. When she agreed and we had our first meeting via video call we knew we had made the right decision. Mo instantly makes you feel at ease and guided us through the process. Her expertise and personality is amazing. You instantly feel as though she knows you as she listens to your story and is at hand if you have any issues. On the day she supported us both making us feel comfortable and took it all in her stride. She guided us through the hand fasting and not once judged us for anything including mandy’s large cardboard cut out of pink as our special guest(don’t ask). We have kept in touch and would like to think of her as one of our friends. Both Mandy and I would recommend Mo for anyone wishing a humanist wedding. Trust me you will not be disappointed. Thanks Mo you are amazing ❤️
Mo was wonderful at every stage of the journey, from our first meeting, through all the steps involved in preparing for our big day, to her calm, professional and loving celebration of our marriage. We were recommended Mo by the jeweller who made our rings, which added an extra element of connection between the significant parts of our wedding.
We loved preparing our vows and the blending of different traditions and rituals for our ceremony, the visits and chats we had with Mo were always relaxed and fun, and she took great care to get to know our story and weave it expertly into our vows. She made sure we understood all the legal bits we needed to do beforehand and afterwards, and even thoughtfully photographed the day as well!
Professional, thoughtful, relaxed, funny and warm, Mo made us feel at ease all the way through, and honestly helped to make our wedding the happiest, most fun day of our lives. Cannot recommend enough! ❤️
We had the loveliest wedding earlier this month and Mo was an integral part of this. We’re not “wedding” people and had a very simplistic but warm, jovial and friendly plan for our wedding and service. Mo absolutely got the brief and it was just perfect. Funny, light hearted and inclusive. All of our guests commented how “us” the celebration was and we couldn’t agree more. We probably should’ve given her the heads up that half of the wedding rings were edible, though! But she handled it like a pro
Mo was so easy to communicate with: we live and work at sea so we’re not the easiest to get in touch with but her kindness and patience in this was just amazing.
Maureen Waterston
Mo married us recently on the 18th of October and she was honestly the perfect person to marry us.
From the very beginning FaceTime, to meeting up and all the texts and emails in between, Mo was so incredibly supportive and always had advice to help us.
She provided lots of examples and ideas to help us write both our ceremony and our vows. She guided us through the whole process and no question was a bother. She had all the answers. With her help, our ceremony was personal, funny and filled with love. We have had lots of compliments on how the ceremony was very ‘us’ and so many compliments on how the ceremony was conducted. My wee Nana said she had never been to ceremony like it and she loved it.
On the day of the wedding, Mo was there to put everyone’s mind at ease. She lead us through the ceremony, our hand fasting, vows and signing the marriage certificate with ease and it was just the most perfect ceremony we could ask for. She captured us perfectly and everything went so smoothly. We can’t thank Mo enough and can’t recommend Mo more. If you are looking for a celebrant for your wedding Mo is the one for you !
Having had spoken to a few celebrants, none of them made us feel as giggly and as special as Libby McArthur. We both knew from the off that Libby was the one to marry us. She reflected everything that we wanted from our day and the tone that we wanted set to celebrate our marriage.
We insisted on driving from East Lothian to Glasgow to meet Libby prior to our wedding, not because we had any doubts but simply to spend some time in Libby’s company and to help us plan our ceremony.
Libby was a joy to work with and just got it. Everyone who attended our celebration unanimously spoke about Libby in glowing terms. Her natural poise and humour was appreciated by all.
Wedding ceremonies tend to be a happy occasion – Libby made sure that ours was memorable, joyful and perfect.
We cannot recommend Libby highly enough.
Thank you Libby.