Make your own rules with a celebrant-led ceremony

Wedding ceremony with Jen The Celebrant at the helm
Credit: K and L Photos

We asked Jen Whitworth, also known at Jen the Celebrant (https://jenthecelebrant.co.uk) for her top tips on personality a wedding day. Here's what she told us:

The simplest way to personalise your nuptials is to opt for a celebrant-led ceremony. A celebrant will work with you to make every aspect reflect you and your partner’s personalities. Every time a celebrant officiates a wedding ceremony it will be unique, different from the last one they performed. A registrar however must repeat the same script every day, several times a day.

With a celebrant at the helm, the party starts with the ceremony, as it should!

There are no limits to what you can do, say or even where you hold it. Traditional, modern, funny, quirky – anything is within your grasp. You can rewrite the rules, in fact, bin them! If you want to go down the aisle on a motorbike, you can. You can include quotes from your favourite films, incorporate your family and heritage traditions, involve your fur baby, have a karaoke sing-song during your ceremony, the list goes on. Why not stop halfway through and raise a toast to your wonderful guests? Just think of the love invested in writing your own wedding vows that are personal and special to you as a couple.

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