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Request for help with academic research about conducting ceremonies during COVID
Your help is needed... Please find below an email from Professor Stephanie Pywell who is a leading academic researcher in the issues currently surrounding marriages in England. Some of you might recall that she conducted the original independent research into…
Marriage Law Report
We are delighted that on 19th July 2022 the Law Commission presented a very comprehensive report to parliament proposing far reaching reforms to marriage law in England and Wales. If adopted, the changes will make huge changes to marriage law,…
20-year Celebrations for Civil Ceremonies
Civil Ceremonies was founded on 1st May 2002 and is now celebrating 20 years in business. At the Kettering Park Hotel on 4th May, we joined with past and present staff, tutors, assessors and many friends and supporters of the…
Important Information for Celebrants
Covid-19 Risk Assessment for Celebrants taking Wedding Celebrations
Wording suggestions for funerals with few attendees
Thanking those present Although so few of you are able to be at this ceremony today, your presence here is appreciated beyond words by (family names) or ‘would have been so greatly appreciated by (deceased).’ Welcome to those watching/listening from…
‘Combined Ceremonies’ off and running in Staffordshire
The ‘Combined Ceremonies’ scheme being run by Staffordshire Registration Service in partnership with Civil Ceremonies Ltd are now well under way. The very first ceremony was held at Pendrell Hall on 23rd May this year and was conducted by Celebrant…
Anecdotes in Funeral Tributes
Those stories that bereaved families tell you as a funeral celebrant and you re-tell in such a way that they vividly recall the person who has died, if only for a moment. At the time of their death, their ‘story’…
A Naming Ceremony – When it’s one of your own
A Naming Ceremony - When it’s one of your own - By Anne Barber I love naming ceremonies. I have conducted loads since first setting up the scheme for registrars to conduct naming ceremonies back in 2002. Of course it…
Surprise Ceremonies – Heaven or Hell?
Valentine’s day is just around the corner and I wonder if you will be asked to conduct a ceremony where someone is ‘surprised’? The surprise could be planned by well-meaning children or by one of the couple surprising the other.…