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The home of independent celebrants

The words make the wedding.

We represent the world's finest independent wedding celebrants — writers, officiants and ceremony designers who craft the one part of your day you will actually remember, word for word, for the rest of your life.

6Master celebrants, founding cohort
2,900+Ceremonies written & officiated
9Countries, one standard
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Hands bound with ivory silk ribbon during a handfasting ritual Handfasting · Cotswolds
Why the celebrant matters

Everyone remembers the ceremony. Almost no one remembers the canapés.

Flowers wilt. Cake is eaten. The band goes home. What remains is the twenty minutes in which two people said, out loud, in front of everyone they love, exactly why.

A celebrant is the author of that moment — a professional ceremony writer who learns your story, interviews your family, drafts and refines your vows, and delivers a ceremony that could only ever have belonged to the two of you. No template. No boilerplate scripture. No five-minute courthouse version of the most important sentence you'll ever say.

Every celebrant on our roster is independently vetted: trained in ceremony craft, insured, reviewed across dozens of weddings, and — above all — a genuinely good writer. It is a short list. That is the point.

Our vetting standard
The market, in numbers — 2026

You are part of a quiet revolution.

$265bn Global wedding services market in 2026, growing more than 10% a year. Industry analysis, 2026
38% US weddings now host fewer than 50 guests — up from 22% three years ago. The Knot Real Weddings Study, 2026
50%+ UK couples now choose a celebrant-led ceremony over a church or civil service. UK wedding surveys, 2025–26
73 Average UK guest count, down from 96 a decade ago. Smaller, deeper, more personal. Bridebook UK Wedding Report, 2026

Weddings are shrinking in size and growing in meaning — and the ceremony is where the budget is going. See the full data →

How it works

Four steps, one unforgettable twenty minutes.

Tell us your story

One conversation — about the two of you, your date, your place, and the ceremony you can't stop imagining.

Meet your match

Within 48 hours we shortlist up to three celebrants whose voice, style and availability fit you. You choose.

Design the ceremony

Your celebrant interviews you both, drafts the script, and refines it with you until every line lands.

Say the words

On the day, your celebrant directs the ceremony, keeps it calm, and handles the legal paperwork that makes it real.

The roster

Six writers. Six voices. One standard.

Eleanor Whitcombe Humanist
Cotswolds · England

Eleanor Whitcombe

Nature-led ceremonies in meadows, orchards and walled gardens. Widely considered the finest handfasting writer in the country.

Experience15 years · 480+ ceremonies
Fee guide£900 – £1,500
Gabriel Ashworth Interfaith
London · England

Gabriel Ashworth

Specialist in weaving two traditions into one ceremony — Jewish, Hindu, Christian, secular, and everything in between.

Experience12 years · 400+ ceremonies
Fee guide£700 – £1,200
Vivienne Cho Editorial
Paris & Provence · France

Vivienne Cho

A former magazine editor turned celebrant. Modern, precise, quietly funny. Bilingual ceremonies in English and French.

Experience9 years · 300+ ceremonies
Fee guide€800 – €1,600
Jonathan Hale Traditional
Edinburgh · Scotland

Jonathan Hale

Castle and estate ceremonies with gravitas. Twenty-five years of weddings, and still writes every script from scratch.

Experience25 years · 900+ ceremonies
Fee guide£800 – £1,400
Priya Raman Cultural fusion
Marrakech & Santorini

Priya Raman

Multi-day destination ceremonies that honour two cultures without diluting either. English and Hindi, woven seamlessly.

Experience11 years · 350+ ceremonies
Fee guide€900 – €1,800
Isabella Moreno Destination
Tuscany · Italy

Isabella Moreno

Romantic, sunlit ceremonies in villas and vineyards. The celebrant Italian planners request by name. English, Italian, Spanish.

Experience14 years · 520+ ceremonies
Fee guide€850 – €1,500
Where weddings are heading

Intimate is the new luxury.

31% of weddings worldwide are now destination celebrations — the fastest-growing segment, expanding near 15% a year. Global industry analysis, 2026
$460 average US officiant spend at an international destination wedding, versus $240 at home — couples pay for the right words. The Knot Real Weddings Study, 2026
88 average guest count in Australia, where civil celebrants already lead roughly three in four weddings. Australian wedding industry data, 2026
Kind words

Guests still quote Eleanor's script back to us. Two years on, people say it was the most personal wedding they have ever attended.

Sophie & James — Cotswolds

We come from two very different traditions and feared someone would have to compromise. Gabriel made it feel like neither of us compromised at all.

Ananya & Daniel — London

Isabella flew in, interviewed our parents, learned four words of my grandmother's dialect, and had the whole villa in tears by minute nine.

Marta & Luca — Val d'Orcia

A candlelit wedding table at dusk
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Your ceremony deserves an author.

Tell us your date, your place and your story. We'll reply within one working day with up to three celebrant suggestions — and honest, sourced advice on what you should expect to invest.