Allyson & Martyn’s Humanist Wedding in The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Meet Martyn and Allyson! From Leicestershire and the Eastern Seaboard of the USA respectively, they’re a pair of seasoned world travellers who as they put it in their ceremony, ‘cancelled out each other’s effect on the planet’, before discovering and deciding to live in Edinburgh, where one of the places they grew to love was … Continue Reading

Humanist Weddings in Scotland Are More Popular than Catholic Ones – it’s official!

We’ve been waiting a long time to see this story in Scotland on Sunday (and thanks are due to Marc Horne the journalist for breaking the story). Four years, in fact, ever since Gordon Ross, who was then the National Ceremonies Convenor, got his calculator out and ‘did the math’ as the Americans say.That was back … Continue Reading

Heather & Stephen’s Humanist wedding at Cambo House, St Andrews

There’s something inherently dramatic about the idea of marrying in a winter wonderland, but this is the first year for a long time that the weather in Scotland has made that possible over the Festive Season.  Sadly for more than one couple, that led to last-minute postponements, but by the time Stephen and Heather’s big … Continue Reading

Winter Weddings!

I have to say that despite all the weather reports, I’m rather enjoying the excitement that goes with driving over freezing slush with a spade in the boot and a life support kit on the back seat of the old Saab… On Saturday, I had to get to St Andrews; yesterday was in quite the … Continue Reading