hello there…

I’d like to share a little about me, and why I made the move into the vocation of celebrancy. Some years ago, my Father died and although I’d experienced my fair share of loss and grief in my life, it was the first time that I’d been put in the position of organising a funeral, or as I prefer to call it, a celebration of life.

Dad wasn’t religious in the slightest and so we ruled out calling a vicar, and in doing some research I found that the options seemed to be the religious route or the non-religious route, and so we booked a humanist speaker. He was very good and empathic, yet one of his opening remarks was that he was a humanist and they believe that when you’re dead, you’re dead. 

It struck me that there seemed to be only two options that I was aware of. I felt then, and still feel strongly now, that ceremonies should be reflective of the individuals beliefs and values, and not those of the officiant.