Adrian is an independent wedding, civil partnership, baby naming and funeral celebrant. He is a member of the Fellowship of Professional Celebrants, and was trained as a celebrant by the UK College of Celebrancy.
Increasingly, people want to celebrate life's milestones in their own way. The days when people automatically turned to a particular religious institution to officiate, are passed.
Although many people today, possibly most people, do not practice any religion, they nonetheless harbour spiritual feelings and a have spiritual approach to life. (This emphatically does not mean 'spiritualist', which is an entirely different thing!) Adrian is happy to provide ceremonies that are entirely non-religious, for people who are atheists or humanists; and ceremonies that contain elements of spirituality.
What many people want in the 21st century, is a funeral that reflects their own view of both life and death. They want to be sent on their way with a ceremony and a form of words that is characteristic of themselves and their beliefs, and which makes their own personal and distinctive statement.
However, there is no prescription. The sheet is completely blank, and Adrian helps people devise the ceremonies they want both for themselves and their loved-ones. In short, Adrian helps people prepare and enjoy the ceremony they want, that is unique and meaningful to themselves.
Although it is necessary to undertake the legal part of marriage or civil partnership in a register office (or with a registrar present if the legal ceremony is held at a licensed venue), people are entirely at liberty to devise their own wedding and civil partnership ceremonies, with their own vows.
So long as the legal part is dealt with first, you may hold your real wedding ceremony and celebration, with friends and family, wherever, whenever and however you wish!
As a celebrant and facilitator, Adrian helps people find their own voice and their own means of expressing their feelings, whether they wish to have an entirely non-religious ceremony, or a ceremony that is essentially spiritual yet without the religious dogma, preaching, paraphernalia and uninterested prescription that is often associated with the ceremonies of organised religions.
Adrian also helps people devise, and then facilitates for them, Baby Naming Ceremonies, and any other ceremonies people may wish to have to help mark life's significant events, even divorce. Again, with the decline in religious belief and observance, people do not necessarily want the prescriptive texts and sermons offered by organised religion. There are no legal formalities required (once you've registered a birth, of course), and you can welcome your beautiful new baby into the world, and into your family, wherever and whenever you like!
