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Divorcing Us From Death?
Divorcing Us from Death? Or a Lifestyle Choice Beyond the Grave? The pandemic changed everything… but did that change stay? Did we learn? Did we change how we felt about death and dying and in fact LIFE?! The global pandemic forced us to confront death in ways most of...
The Wedding: Whose Day Is It really?
Whose Day Is It, Really? Yours or Theirs? Planning your wedding can feel like juggling a dozen plates while trying not to let any of them crash. It's meant to be a joyous time, yet navigating the maze of opinions, expectations, and unsolicited advice can easily dim...
Navigating the Hidden World of Marriage Registration: What You Need to Know
If you're in the process of planning your dream wedding, you may have encountered a surprising and often confusing aspect of the process: the registration of your marriage. While wedding planning typically conjures images of choosing the perfect venue, picking the...
Demystifying Celebrants: Your Guide to Personalised Wedding Ceremonies
Planning a wedding can be an exciting yet overwhelming experience. With so many choices to make, it's no wonder that couples often find themselves confused when it comes to the roles of a registrar and a celebrant. In this blog post, I aim to shed light on the world...
How to move from Wedding Choice overwhelm to design decisions
I will never underestimate the privilege of choice and the freedom we have here, AND the fact that it's all at our fingertips. Apathy is a dangerous thing. This is how awful it was back in 2020 when our freedom to choose became about basic survival. Now, a few years...
Proposals – 6 tips for both of you
Proposals are just a one-way thing! They are also not a one-way ticket to a YES. It’s about taking your relationship onto another plain. It might be you have been together for ages, and still no sign of an engagement. It might be you have been thinking about it,...
Who’s day is it? Yours or theirs?
This can be as complicated or as simple as you want - but there will be after-effects that might last longer than your decision-making window. So take time, right at the start on HOW you are going to go about making decisions. Trying to navigate everyone's opinions,...
CATASTROPHE …or not
I have a wild imagination and it’s also quite filmic! Mix that in with a nervous energy, a slightly manic way and now a newly discovered neuro-divergent awareness of myself, I love things to be FAILURE PROOF! Where does your head go if you don't keep ' lid on it' or...
Thank you, but no. Sorry, (not sorry.)
When it comes to events of the heart, you’re not going to please everyone, and its so hard to hear, and a really bitter pill to swallow, so I hope this blog helps. Weddings, namings, and even funerals – its all a love story, but nothing gets people more fired up than...
From Worry to Wonder
How to have ownership of your wedding ceremony You might run your own business, be a CEO or senior manager, you might be constantly multi-tasking and spinning plants , or you might be a project manager love a spreadsheet and control is your comfort zone… then ‘Will...
How to say no, nicely
Your day your way they say, but how realistic is that? Weddings can bring the best, and the worst out in you, your nearest and dearest, and your spouse to be. Why? Because no one wants to get it wrong. People want to help. Feeling significant in making someone's day...
Fear of public speaking?
You are one half of the happy couple, or you are the bereaved, or perhaps you are new parents…so, at some point, you ARE going to be the focus of the room. Gulp The internal dialogue may have gone… “OMG I’m engaged…I feel amazing!” (shortly followed by) “OMG I now...
Divorcing us from Death?
Divorcing us from Death? or Lifestyle choice beyond the grave. The pandemic has challenged peoples views of dying, death AND being ‘disposed of’. Our view, our assumptions, and our lack of knowledge, have all be forced into the spotlight. The biggest worry I’ve...
I know it felt right
Weddings, funeral, namings and everything in-between… to be honest, people don’t really remember the details. They only really remember what’s important to them. For the guests, quite often it’s the music. For my clients - it’s the feeling. The feeling of LOVE - be...
Bridegroom, Groomsman and Ushers
There are the obvious duties of the Bridegrooms party such as organizing the stag and the speeches, but what are the duties on the wedding day? Specifically, what are the duties at the ceremony?The BEST MAN Firstly – it’s to get the groom there! Soberly for...
Outside wedding
With outside weddings opening up, it’s not just ‘whimsical weddings’ that can be outside. Whilst I love a bit of fairy dust, lanterns and flower crowns (I always feel left out and want a flower crown myself when taking a wedding :-0) … you can also weave in lace...
Death by Sat Nav!
I mean - seriously! Its actually something that is appearing on death certificates! More so in the States than in Britain - but the UK have some equally alarming records of deaths. I know I have made ‘light’ of it in my opening line, but I actually had to STOP...
COMBINE THE ENERGY – it’s about Union after all!
It’s all about the energy for me.Masculine and feminine energy is divine. It’s a spirituality. It’s not about gender or being Male or Female. Everyone needs both, but how you balance them is up to you. For me, I attract lots of male AND female clients. I have as...
A good place to die
It has been Dying Matters week this week in the UK and the focus this year was on ‘A good place to die’. Over the week I have talked about our line of duty and what drives us. I have done my Wednesday night live discussing how death is getting divorced from the...
Invitations – stationary – why we should bother!
Post 2020 we are re-igniting our flames for ‘occasions’. Communication and connection has been forced to be digital for the last 14 months but now our CHOICE is opening up again! Not only can we choose to come together, but we must choose are very top people, and we...
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