Turnberry is a beautiful hotel. Built as ‘the Station Hotel’ in 1906, it offered such luxuries as hot and cold running water and saltwater plunge baths along with central heating and the then newfangled electric lighting, and it’s long been regarded as one of the world’s top golf and resort experiences. I’ve conducted weddings there … Continue Reading
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Vengeance or Justice?
It’s the age old question, and that was what I talked about at the Scottish Government’s Remembrance Day event at St. Andrew’s House in Edinburgh on Friday 8th November. I had an Air Commodore on one side of me and a Major General on the other, so mine was the only white poppy on display. … Continue Reading

The Book of Love
We only die when we’re forgotten and not loved anymore.

Lorna & Thomas’s Humanist Wedding at Newhall Estate
We honestly cannot thank you enough for making our wedding the dream that we had always hoped for.

Lesli & Josh’s Humanist Elopement at Prestonfield House
Everything was beautiful and we couldn’t have been happier with the ceremony and celebration that followed!

United Against Hate
It is only by recognising our common humanity that we can break the endless cycle of violence.

Creating Meaning
Your wedding is your chance to say in your own words why you’ve chosen to marry and what that means to you.

Happy 18th birthday to Humanist Weddings
Humanist celebrants don’t tell couples what marriage means. Instead, we ask what it means to them and what most say is that it’s is an equal partnership.

Tim Maguire’s Humanist CV
Curriculum Vitae brevis…

Postcard from Perth
Humanist funerals were happy, not sad. If humanism got things back to front, that was good because so did I.