Alternative Wedding Ceremonies

Helping you Make Your Dreams Come True

‘Alternative’ means different things to different brides and grooms. What does it mean to you?  Perhaps you’d like a wedding which is just the two of you on a beach, or perhaps you’d like a ceremony at sunrise on a boat on Loch Ness?  Maybe you’d like to have two hundred family and friends in a beautiful castle and are looking for something a bit different with a quirky twist or Celtic flavour?  Perhaps you’d like to marry in a church but a standard church ceremony doesn’t appeal to you?  Whatever having an ‘alternative’ ceremony means to you, we can offer you a wedding ceremony that both speaks to your hearts, and is engaging for you and any family or friends in attendance.

We encourage all couples who’d like to, to come up with their own definitions of marriage or commitment or togetherness.  We’re interested in hearing what being together means to you both now as you decide to marry and take your relationship to the next level, and also into the future.  We invite you to have as much input as you wish to in your ceremony.

We support you to define your own personal beliefs if beliefs are important to you.  We don’t try to convert you to our beliefs, or fit you ‘in a box’ or insist you agree to include wording or symbology you don't like or agree with as a condition of us marrying you.  We offer complete freedom and flexibility with every aspect of your ceremony.

As a couple you might have similar beliefs and agree on the kind of ceremony format to have or you might be wondering how you can possibly bring both of your beliefs together in a way that works for you both?  Whether you consider yourselves non-religious or religious, spiritual or atheist or humanist, or anywhere within the vast spectrum of beliefs in-between we can help you as we take into account your beliefs whatever they are and create your ceremony in a way that fits both your beliefs (and those of any family/friends present too).

Your ceremony can have a legal element and can be secular (not religious or spiritual at all) or it can include religious elements and wording, or even be quite religious in an alternative way – as with all aspects of your ceremony the choice is yours.

We don’t tell you what you can or can’t have – we extend an invitation to you to tell us exactly what you’d like, giving you the freedom to choose every aspect of your ceremony from atmosphere, to length, and whether it’s to be creative or traditional.  If having a Tailor-made Ceremony and beginning with a blank page feels too overwhelming, you might find one of our Simple or Themed ceremonies is right for you as they provide a structure and ideas, but will be personalised by us to be made uniquely yours.

Only those elements that mean something to you will be part of your ceremony – nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.  Whatever beautiful words you’d like us to include in your wedding address or have as a reading, there are no restrictions imposed by us (you’re not usually allowed to include anything that would be classed as religious or spiritual in a humanist or civil ceremony). You’re free to use the language, readings and ritualistic elements that most speak to your hearts.

We help you to write your own personal vows and words you’ll say if you’ll exchange rings if you so choose.  We find out all the elements you’d like included in the ceremony and then weave them together in the most fitting order and way for you.  We offer ideas with rituals and vows to help too.

Throughout the preparations we support, help and guide you offering ideas and inspiration when needed, so there’s no need to feel concerned or daunted about the content of your ceremony – we take care of bringing everything together for you, so you can relax knowing your wishes will be respected.  You can have as much or as little input as you wish.

You have our absolute word and guarantee that on your wedding day your ceremony will be only and exactly what you’d like and need as you will have read the ceremony and had the final say with the wording and content.

We have overview examples of ceremonies we can email if you’d like to know more – please ask.

“I just knew when I found you that you were the right person to hold our ceremony, and when I read through the ceremony the first time it was more than I hoped for and more than perfect.  I couldn’t and wouldn’t have written it any differently – how did you know?”
TERRY AND LINDA chose a Simple ceremony led by Angie with photographs and DVD by Will