When we want to talk about love, we tend to get tongue-tied. That’s when we turn for help to the poets, because they have the gift of expressing our thoughts and feelings better than we can ourselves. Few living poets do this better than Edward Monkton I first heard his poem, A Lovely Love Story, … Continue Reading
I remember when Graham and Amy first got in touch. They were working on a project in rural India at the time, and they got in touch because they’d seen I was the Humanist contact at The University of Edinburgh where they’d both studied, and first met playing Frisbee on the meadows on a cold, rainy … Continue Reading
I remember the day I first met Fiona. It was about four or five years ago, cold, wet, and windy. My mate Bill and I were just coming down the ridge line of Scald Law in the Pentland Hills, when we met Fiona on the way up. The reason I remember it so well is … Continue Reading
I was very pleased to be asked by Christina & Jay of Elemental Photography to give them some thoughts about why I do what I do on their inspirational wedding blog We Fell In Love. Check it out, and let me know what you think?
One of the joys of my job is that I bump into people I’ve married in the most unlikely places. With Ali and Sally, it was in the supermarket, a good eight months after the event. What made it even stranger was that I’d shared a lift in the very same supermarket the previous evening … Continue Reading
It’s been another wonderful, love-filled, life-affirming year, and it couldn’t have ended more appropriately than with a snowy wedding atop Ben Vorlich with Louise and Stuart, their witnesses, Ross and Davie and four bemused but delighted fellow hill-walkers who just happened to arrive at the summit at the same time. More on this in the … Continue Reading
It’s been an extraordinary few years for Humanism. Since Humanist weddings became legal in Scotland in 2005, they’ve quickly become part of the fabric of society, and I am delighted to see that the Dail in Dublin has decided to make them legal in Ireland too from the start of 2013. You can read the … Continue Reading
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I’ve got lots of laughter lines. Not all of them are due to Alan and Lisa’s wedding, but it was such a happy, fun-filled day, I can’t remember when I’ve smiled more. Their story began seven years ago, and in the ceremony, I took their guests all the way from their first near miss in a pub on … Continue Reading