Your Wedding Ceremony
Your legal marriage. Your personal ceremony. Two different moments, each doing its own job.
Your wedding ceremony with me is about much more than completing the legal formalities.
It is the part of your day where we tell your story, celebrate the people you are, make your promises and create something that genuinely feels like the two of you.
Your legal marriage is arranged separately with a registrar, that ceremony fulfils the legal requirements of marriage in Scotland.
Your ceremony with me is then free to focus completely on meaning, personality and experience.
How does the legal marriage work?
In Scotland, a civil marriage is arranged directly with the registration service to submit the required marriage notice forms and documents.
The registrar conducts your legal marriage as a separate ceremony. Two witnesses are required aged 16+ years - the registrar can help with those arrangements.
Your celebrant-led wedding or elopement ceremony with me can take place before or afterwards - many couples choose to keep the legal ceremony simple and save the storytelling, vows, rituals and personal moments for their celebration.
During a civil marriage, the registrar brings the marriage schedule, ensures it is correctly signed and takes responsibility for registering the marriage afterwards.
A practical advantage of choosing a civil registrar marriage is that the registrar manages the marriage schedule. You do not need to collect it before the ceremony or return it afterwards.
What you still need to do?
Both of you will still need to submit your M10 marriage notice forms and supporting documents to the registrar, arrange the civil marriage and have two witnesses aged 16+ years present. The registrar must receive your completed notices at least 29 days before the legal marriage, although I’d recommend allowing around 10–12 weeks where possible.
Why choose a separate legal marriage and celebrant ceremony?
Keep the legal part simple
Your registrar ceremony can concentrate on legally marrying you, without asking it to carry the whole emotional weight of your wedding day.
Include what matters to you
Spirituality, cultural traditions, symbolic rituals, readings, music, participation, humour and personal promises can all be considered without trying to fit your ceremony into a standard format.
Create the ceremony you actually want
Your ceremony with me can be built around your story, your values, your vows and the people who matter to you.
Choose the setting and atmosphere
Your personal ceremony can be intimate, adventurous, relaxed, traditional, unconventional - or somewhere beautifully in between.
Weddings and Elopements Across Scotland
Whether you are gathering everyone you love or disappearing for an intimate Scottish ceremony with only a photographer, the same principle applies: your Scottish ceremony should feel like you.
Choosing a celebrant-led wedding ceremony in Scotland or elsewhere in the UK, gives you the freedom to celebrant your marriage in a place that feels meaningful to you and to shape a ceremony that reflects your story.
From intimate garden ceremonies to wild Highland landscapes, I will travel to your ideal Scottish or UK location. I regularly work with couples planning ceremonies in Kinross-shire, Perthshire, Stirling, Fife, the Cairngorms, Glencoe, Loch Lomond and across Scotland’s beautiful islands and coastline.
Working with me, your ceremony is not bound by a standard script. Instead, we create something personal and thoughtful - centred on your relationship, your values and the promises you wish to make to one another.
If you would like to include elements of spirituality, cultural traditions, symbolic rituals, guest participation, or personal vows, these can be woven naturally into the ceremony. Every detail is shaped around what matters most to you both.
My celebrant-led wedding ceremonies give you complete freedom to create a celebration that feels entirely your own.
🌿 Your Wedding Ceremony Process
📝 02. Getting to Know You
Once booked, we will begin the process of gathering some important information about you both and life together, this helps me understand your story, your values and what matters most to you.
From here, I begin crafting your ceremony. I will guide you through each element — from personal vows to readings and any symbolic rituals you wish to include.
💍04. The Ceremony
On the day, I arrive in good time to ensure everything is in place.
I will guide the ceremony calmly and professionally, allowing you to focus on the moment — present, relaxed and fully yourselves.
💬🗨️ 01. Initial Conversation
We begin with a relaxed conversation. This is an opportunity for you to share your ideas, ask questions and ensure we are the right fit for one another.
If you decide to move forward, your date is secured with a booking form and initial payment.
🖋️03. Script Review & Refinement
When your ceremony draft is ready, we arrange a call to discuss the elements of the ceremony. This allows us to make refinements where needed.
By this stage, we know one another well and you can feel confident that your ceremony is taking shape. I will share enough for you to feel reassured, while keeping enough back for there still to be moments of surprise on the day.
Your Wedding Ceremony
Your Personalised Ceremony
2026 - £350.00
2027 - £395.00
2028 - £455.00
This includes our initial conversation, discovery and ceremony planning, a fully personalised ceremony written for you, script review and refinement, support with vows, readings, symbolic and participation elements, and my delivery of your ceremony on the day.
Your registrar ceremony and any legal marriage fees are arranged and paid separately with your chosen registration service.
Registrar Legal Ceremony
Costs vary by registration service and ceremony type, so I recommend checking directly with your chosen registrar for the current fee. A simple weekday ceremony, held at their offices during normal opening hours, is usually the lower-cost option.
Other Costs - discretionary
Travel over 100 miles will be charged at £0.50 per mile.
Optional keepsakes and ceremony materials are priced separately on request, including printed ceremony scripts, ceremonial certificates, handfasting ties, quaich, sand blending materials, personalised candles, broom, sage, Highland sword, oathing stone, ribbons and vow cards.
