Recommend a Humanist celebrant

pablo102

I wonder how the ceremony itself look like?
I'm asking from the wedding photographer point of view.

brandnewaward

try bridgit carlin , she aint available 10th june next year though;)

andreac

pablo102 wrote: »

I wonder how the ceremony itself look like?
I'm asking from the wedding photographer point of view.

Similar to a civil I think really. You can have it as you want and add things to it as far as I know.

westernlass

pablo102 wrote: »

I wonder how the ceremony itself look like?
I'm asking from the wedding photographer point of view.

There's lots on wedding websites if you have a browse around the blogs

Peregrinus

kmmh58 wrote: »

how do you become a solemniser?

Assuming you want to become a humanist solemniser, you become a member of the Humanist Association of Ireland, you get selected, trained and accredited by them as a solemniser of weddings, they nominate you to the Registrar General as a solemniser, he enters your name in the Register of Solemnisers, and you're good to go. You have to be over 18, and generally thought to be a fit and proper person to solemnise marriages.

almorris

pablo102 wrote: »

I wonder how the ceremony itself look like?
I'm asking from the wedding photographer point of view.

Main thing is you need to work a lot faster as the ceremony's only last 30 mins max.

Trix

hey all.

how much did your humanists charge you?

andreac

Trix wrote: »

hey all.

how much did your humanists charge you?

Well the one i am meeting this month said his charge is €450.

rainbow kirby

andreac wrote: »

Well the one i am meeting this month said his charge is €450.

Same for us.

fits

We were quoted 550. With over an hour travel time. Are we being overcharged?

rainbow kirby

The travel time could be a factor - we have a celebrant from Limerick city for a Limerick city wedding.

Shybride2016

We're paying €475 for ours .

Trix

thanks everyone. waiting to hear back how much our one is charging. probably should have been first thing I asked but they're hard to book at short notice.

tread_softly

Ours was €450 also

Sugar Free

A friends' humanist celebrant was 450E. Based in Dublin and travelling to the wedding in a neighbouring county.

westernlass

Ours is 600euro with two hours travel

almorris

There are other celebrants out there who are not associated to anyone in that they work for themselves. Romy McAuley is excellent.

stargazer 68

Ours is 500 and that includes travel, meetings and writing the ceremony etc

Sugar Free

Sugar Free wrote: »

As a general comment and not aimed at any one person - perhaps it would be worthwhile creating a sticky for the general process involved in organising a humanist or civil ceremony.

There often seems to be confusion around the differences between the two and the criteria that must be met. E.g. (though I too could be wrong!) that civil ceremonies can't be held outdoors generally or that they can only be performed Monday to Friday.

A simple, experience based stickied thread may help.
Just a thought.

I think that would be very helpful. People don't realise there are only 20 Humanist celebrants in the country (1 celebrant for every @ 8,000 people of "No religion" according to the last census, compared to 1 for every 800 or so Catholics).

Fits' approach of finding the celebrant they wanted and organising the date around them is probably the best way to go.

almorris wrote: »

There are other celebrants out there who are not associated to anyone in that they work for themselves. Romy McAuley is excellent.

Do you mean someone who is not a registered solemniser but will "perform" the ceremony?

fannymagee

There are also 12 Interfaith Ministers in Ireland, who can legally solemnise in the same way Humanists do- with the exception that they also offer non-secular ceremonies (good for people who want a more traditional style ceremony, and also the Jedi/Pastafarians amongst us) ;-)

pwurple

Deleted User wrote: »

I think that would be very helpful. People don't realise there are only 20 Humanist celebrants in the country (1 celebrant for every @ 8,000 people of "No religion" according to the last census, compared to 1 for every 800 or so Catholics).

HSE civil registrars are also available.... I think that's a decent option if you want to avoid the "What is a humanist" sales pitch at your wedding.

lazygal

pwurple wrote: »

HSE civil registrars are also available.... I think that's a decent option if you want to avoid the "What is a humanist" sales pitch at your wedding.

Maybe you could post details of your priest who did an offsite not quite Catholic but ok for atheist Christians or Catholicsmarriage service? It could help Cork based couples out I'm sure.

stinkle

pwurple wrote: »

HSE civil registrars are also available.... I think that's a decent option if you want to avoid the "What is a humanist" sales pitch at your wedding.

Our celebrant gave us the option of including a paragraph about Humanism in our ceremony or not. It seems to be completely up to the couple if they choose to include it.

brandnewaward

ours is 500 incl travel , having said that , she has a bit of work designing the ceremony , and also the pamphlets , which the future mrs brandnewaward and i decided on the elvish theme along with music from lord of the rings

lazygal

stinkle wrote: »

Our celebrant gave us the option of including a paragraph about Humanism in our ceremony or not. It seems to be completely up to the couple if they choose to include it.

Ours too. No selling of anything at our wedding. I have been to church weddings where a celebrant made a point of emphasizing the religious denomination though.

willow tree

What kind of deposits were you asked for. One asked us for €200 & the one we booked only asked us for €50.

Shybride2016

willow tree wrote: »

What kind of deposits were you asked for. One asked us for €200 & the one we booked only asked us for €50.

Hiya,

We paid €100 deposit and our celebrant is charging €450 total.

Faith

Our humanist celebrant charges E450. He has to travel for 90 minutes, but that's because he lives very rurally. We're getting married in the city centre and there's no travel charge. He also hasn't charged a deposit, as he's happy to be paid in full on the day.

westernlass

We are paying deposits to everyone as it suited us. 200e we have paid to the ministers but I'm not sure what she wanted

stargazer 68

Slightly off topic but didnt want a new thread. Does the Humanist/Celebrant get invited to the dinner? Or is that another 'if you want to' thing?