Kathryn & Richard first talked to me about their wedding plans over Skype from Australia where they live and it wasn’t until a few days before the ceremony that we finally met for the first time. Their wedding, on a glorious spring day in April, was a very relaxed and yet quite traditional one, with … Continue Reading
Monthly Archives
June 2009
Richard & Kathryn’s Humanist Wedding at Seton Collegiate Church
Kathryn & Richard first talked to me about their wedding plans over Skype from Australia where they live and it wasn’t until a few days before the ceremony that we finally met for the first time. Their wedding, on a glorious spring day in April, was a very relaxed and yet quite traditional one, with … Continue Reading
Liz and Eric’s Humanist Wedding at Ardanaseig in Argyll
This was an extraordinary ceremony, in every possible way. Eric and Liz had been planning a humanist wedding for ages but only a month before their wedding, they discovered that the person who was supposed to be conducting their marriage wasn’t actually legally authorised to do so*: major panic! Luckily they got in touch, and … Continue Reading
Ross & Clare’s Humanist Wedding at Barony Castle
Some couples are really well organised. I just got an email from Clare, sent from the airport in Osaka where she and Ross are just about to board the plane for the second leg of their honeymoon in Dubai, inviting me to check out their wedding photos online: their photographer is the very popular Glasgow … Continue Reading
Ethical Weddings: Why choose a Humanist Ceremony?
A little while ago, the lovely Katie Fewings asked me to write an article on Humanist Weddings for her online magazine, Ethical Weddings, (a site that does what it says on the tin). If you’re interested, you can read it here.
The Rise & Rise of the Humanist Wedding
Humanist wedding ceremonies have only been legal in Scotland since June 2005, but they’ve become so popular that people are often unaware of the long campaign conducted by the Humanist Society of Scotland to make them available. I wrote an article about this for the International Humanist & Ethical Union’s magazine which has just been … Continue Reading