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Professional Celebrant available for bespoke Baby Naming, Weddings and Vow Renewal Ceremonies please call 07789 515029 for further details.

About Us

Have the wedding you always dreamed of, in a location of your choice and with the vows you really want to say, or enjoy a baby naming, celebrating a new life being welcomed into your family and allowing your child to chose their own path when older or say goodbye to your loved ones with respect dignity and love in a ceremony reflecting their life and personality with their favourite music and poems. All ceremonies are written individually, there are no scripts and as such can be tailored to meet your exact needs.

Weddings

Karen will work closely with you,“the happy couple", to ensure your wedding ceremony is unique, truly bespoke and a reflection of exactly what you dreamed it would be.

Once the legal aspects have been completed in a short civil ceremony either at a licensed venue or in a registry office you are then free to hold your Humanist Wedding at any location you choose and wherever your heart desires, from old castles and courtyards to your own back garden, on a beach or pier or even on the top of a mountain. The ceremony can also be as traditional or as flamboyant as you would like it to be, the possibilities really are endless and only limited by your dreams and imagination.

Why not also consider incorporating something a bit different. Karen is happy to discuss any weird or wonderful unusual ideas you may have for your big day and can also offer to carry out traditions such as hand-fasting, broom-jumping and sand ceremonies.
image supplied by Whimsical Wonderland Weddings
photographed by Kari Bellamy with Andy Gaines

If you wish to discuss any ideas you have or need any more information please feel free to contact me.

Baby Naming

As many people are now not regular church goers, or they believe that a child has the right to chose what they truly believe when they are old enough to make decisions for themselves, a baby-naming ceremony is the perfect way to welcome a new addition to your family, to mark their individuality and uniqueness as a person and acknowledge their significance whilst leaving them free to make their own choices in the future.

The child's parents will normally ask a few close friends to act as the babies Guide Parents (more commonly known in religious ceremonies as God Parents) and they will make promises to the baby to be there when needed throughout their lives, but promises can also be made by other close family and friends if wanted and can make everyone feel included.

Ceremonies may be held at any suitable location, at your home, in the garden, a village hall or weather permitting a village green, in fact anywhere you would like and if you would like to know more please feel free to contact me.

Funerals

Karen has been a Humanist Funeral Celebrant for many years now and has conducted hundreds of ceremonies. To ensure there is always a Humanist Celebrant available when needed, she works very closely with Tyne Tees Celebrants who are a group of men and women who have been carefully selected and trained to conduct humanist funeral ceremonies in the North East. They know how to empathise with the bereaved, interview with sensitivity, and prepare a ceremony according to the family's wishes.

It is understandable that those with religious faith may want a religious ceremony. But now less than 10% of the population are regular churchgoers, and the number of people for whom religion is unimportant, or who decide to live their lives without it continues to grow. For such people a religious service may seem inappropriate and insincere. A humanist ceremony offers a dignified and meaningful alternative.

Tyne Tees Celebrants are a group of people who come from all walks of life who have humanism in common and they are now the leading providers of non-religious ceremonies in the North East.