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.
273 responses
All we can say is THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for an absolutely incredible wedding ceremony! We had Tim Maguire conducting our humanist ceremony and we enjoyed every moment of it, starting from the lovework that he made us do, to crafting our own ceremony, and finally, watching Tim in his element holding the ceremony together from start to finish. Tim supported us and guided us every step of the way, down to five minutes before the ceremony began. It was a pleasure having Tim with us and our ceremony will be something we remember forever!
Tim really helped us make our day our own. From start to finish Tim made sure he was always on hand to offer suggestions but ultimately gave us the guidance to create our own ceremony. Tim brought a truly happy and warm atmosphere to our wedding and our guests couldn’t rate him highly enough. We had to change venue very last minute but Tim was able to accommodate the change without fuss. We both felt like we’d known Tim for years by the time it came to our big day which really helped the nerves. We were lucky enough to meet Tim at our friends wedding a few years ago and we couldn’t have imagined anyone else marrying us. Thank you Tim <3
Tim Maguire
I don’t know where to begin and I cannot recommend Tim highly enough. We have been to a few weddings that Tim has carried out the ceremony for and knew that we loved how well he always came across. Tim seems to make every wedding personal and the way he speaks about each couple shows how much he gets to know each and everyone one. After having to postpone our day Tim couldn’t have been more accommodating and understanding and made the process of rescheduling with him very stress free and simple.
In the lead up to the wedding Tim kept in touch, sending us emails about how best to go about writing our ceremony, checking in to see we were ok with things and giving us lots of tips/ideas of how we could write it. Drafts went back and forward and Tim would always give us sound advice but he wasn’t forceful with this, which helped to keep our ceremony very personal to us.
On the day of our wedding Tim was very informative, he kept my husband calm and made sure he was clear about how the ceremony would proceed. We have two small children and Tim was very relaxed about them coming in and out of the ceremony and wondering around. He made us both feel at ease and relaxed, neither of us ended up feeling nervous. The ceremony was funny, touching and well delivered, Tim was adding in comments about what was happening on the day. It was honestly perfect and we couldn’t have asked for more from a celebrant. Everyone has commented both on the day and after about how lovely our ceremony was and how fantastic Tim was.
We both cannot thank Tim enough for everything you done in the lead up and on the day our wedding, if we could do it all again we would and we would always have you as our celebrant.
It is difficult to put into words how important Susan’s contribution to our day was – we felt totally relaxed, yet guided and supported as she led the ceremony. Susan showed such care, sensitivity and warmth both in helping us to plan for and throughout our ceremony. So very many of our friends commented on her incredible skill and sheer brilliance; I have never been to a wedding where the guests were so effusive and felt so genuinely moved. One of our guests wrote ‘ it’s hard to put into words how deeply I was moved by your beautiful wedding on Sunday’.
We felt totally in the moment; somehow both alone with Susan and together with our family and friends. We couldn’t have made a better choice in asking Susan to marry us and will always be grateful that she made it such a beautiful day.
Gerrie, words cannot express how grateful and happy we are that you were our celebrant. You made our legal wedding day in our own back garden in lockdown 2021 one of the most fun and love filled days of our lives, we didn’t think you could top it… and then our vow renewal in The Engine Works in 2022 came along and you created the best ceremony and environment for us and ALL our family and friends. Everyone we have spoken to has said the ceremony was filled with love and laughter and just captured who we were – and that is all with thanks to you. You’ve given us two occasions to look back on with fondness and love for the rest of our lives together and we will be eternally grateful for that.