Your vows are the heart of your marriage, but are they open to renegotiation?

Your vows are the heart of your marriage, but are they open to renegotiation?
“Thank you for conducting our ceremony – we thought it was brilliant!”
Your reassurance and friendliness put our minds at ease, ensuring a smooth and magical transition to married life!
Love is the ultimate doing word and to be able to express that in our own words was hugely important to us.
Writing your own vows is ‘the new normal’ but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Humanist weddings have been legal in Scotland since 2005. It took only ten years for them to become the second most popular form of marriage in the country, and – in Scotland at least – they’ve almost become ‘the new normal’. I meet lots of couples who’ve only ever been to humanist weddings, but – … Continue Reading
5,000 miles: that’s how far away Kelly and Alan were when we first spoke over Skype. It takes courage to organise a wedding at that distance, and confidence to invite your friends to make that journey with you, but that’s the kind of people they are. They relished the prospect of creating their ceremony in … Continue Reading
I’m delighted by Vicky Allan’s article about ‘WE DO!’ in today’s Sunday Herald! My thanks to all the couples who are featured in it: Eli and Kate, Elizabeth and Bengtis, Natasa and Grant, and in the headline – but sadly not the article itself – the originators of ‘Until death or zombies do us part’, Kellie … Continue Reading
It’s the tiny details that make a humanist wedding so personal and moving. Pam told us she realised Lee was ‘The One’ shortly after they got together, when she went into the kitchen to find him picking the onions off a pizza because he knew she didn’t like them. And Lee said that he didn’t know where … Continue Reading
What made it so special was that it was our story, in our words, and being able to share that with our friends and family.