Recommend a good celebrant for non religious / spiritual wedding ceremony

Kate253

As above. Any testimonials v welcome.

Neon_Lights

could get onto these chaps http://humanism.ie/

chocolatepan

Eithne Dempsey, she's on the humanist website above. Lovely lady, very easy to work with.

buttercups88

Tom colton from spiritual ceremonies is very good and ceremony is 100% legal too

Kate253

buttercups88 wrote: »

Tom colton from spiritual ceremonies is very good and ceremony is 100% legal too

Sorry what do you mean 100% legal. We have to still go to HSE registrar for the legal part??

stargazer 68

Kate253 wrote: »

Sorry what do you mean 100% legal. We have to still go to HSE registrar for the legal part??

No you don't. Just register your intention with them. You take your documents away and the celebrant who performs the ceremony can sign them provided they are eligible I.e humanist

Unz88

^ this is true. Is the case for humanist/spiritualist/interfaith ceremonies and the bonus over the HSE is that you can have a legal non-religious ceremony on a Saturday. You still have to attend the HSE minimum 3 months in advance to notify.

Kate253

Unz88 wrote: »

^ this is true. Is the case for humanist/spiritualist/interfaith ceremonies and the bonus over the HSE is that you can have a legal non-religious ceremony on a Saturday. You still have to attend the HSE minimum 3 months in advance to notify.

Aaaaah... So we won't need to go to HSE the day before. Excellent.

andreac

Kate253 wrote: »

Aaaaah... So we won't need to go to HSE the day before. Excellent.

No, but you must register your intent to marry with the HSE at least 3 months before your date to get married. Everyone must do this regardless of the type of ceremony you are having.

westernlass

chocolatepan wrote: »

Eithne Dempsey, she's on the humanist website above. Lovely lady, very easy to work with.

I second Eithne Dempsey.  Such a lovely person and she made our wedding very special.

PinkSpark

We had a Humanist Ceremony at our Hotel and it was perfect. Philip Byers was the Celebrant and he was so laid back and let us pick every part of the ceremony. It really made it special as it was tailored just for us. I would definitely recommend Philip. Just make sure you book your celebrant well in advance as there is only so many of them and they are high in demand. We booked a year and half before our wedding and Philip was the only celebrant available on our date.

pooch90

We had Thomas Colton from the Spiritualists (Tom's dad). Absolute gent and very relaxed and fun ceremony.

Kate253

I looked over the register of solomnisers and for my area was quite surprised to see that the vast majority are down as Rev Joe blogs. Does that mean they are church of Ireland rectors? Seems to go against a "non religious" service???

Kate253

To those using humanist, how did it work as regards meeting and planning? Did you have to to travel to meet? Assuming if we ask a celebrant to travel to us they'll be seeking travel expenses. Did one meeting do it? Or many? Did you meet to agree to work together and again close to the day?

chocolatepan

Kate253 wrote: »

To those using humanist, how did it work as regards meeting and planning? Did you have to to travel to meet? Assuming if we ask a celebrant to travel to us they'll be seeking travel expenses. Did one meeting do it? Or many? Did you meet to agree to work together and again close to the day?

Hi Kate, yes we travelled to meet our celebrant in her local area in a hotel and went through the ceremony. It was one meeting and then we had some emails back and forth to confirm readings and variations on wordings in the script. I did make sure to read over it a few times in the run up to it as there wasn't a rehearsal. I think she said she could do a rehearsal but usually wasn't necessary.

Unz88

Kate253 wrote: »

I looked over the register of solomnisers and for my area was quite surprised to see that the vast majority are down as Rev Joe blogs.  Does that mean they are church of Ireland rectors?  Seems to go against a "non religious"  service???

The register of solemnisers is a list of all celebrants in Ireland who are qualified to legally marry a couple. It includes both religious and secular organisations. The solemniser's organisation is listed in the left hand column on the register.

1perriwinkle

You can also use a non-solemnising celebrant - you would do the legal part yourself first (for the marriage) and then get a trained celebrant to create a ceremony (for the wedding). It allows you total flexibility for day, time, location etc and in terms of what you want in the ceremony. If you want you don't have to tell people that you have done the 'paperwork' before hand.

Kate253

1perriwinkle wrote: »

You can also use a non-solemnising celebrant - you would do the legal part yourself first (for the marriage) and then get a trained celebrant to create a ceremony (for the wedding). It allows you total flexibility for day, time, location etc and in terms of what you want in the ceremony. If you want you don't have to tell people that you have done the 'paperwork' before hand.

I'm getting confused. Are the humanist people able to do the legal part? Does it depend on each humanist celebrant?

westernlass

Humanists are legal. Only one ceremony needed

Dayo93

buttercups88 wrote: »

Tom colton from spiritual ceremonies is very good and ceremony is 100% legal too

We got married by Tom in 2014 and then found this

http://www.sundayworld.com/news/news/dodgy-medium-is-banged-up-for-heartless-blank-cheque-fraud

Kate253

Dayo93 wrote: »

We got married by Tom in 2014 and then found this

http://www.sundayworld.com/news/news/dodgy-medium-is-banged-up-for-heartless-blank-cheque-fraud

Holy Sh*T!! Bullet well dodged there.....

1perriwinkle

Everyone on the list of solemnisers can do the legal part. But you'll see that that list is mostly priests, ministers etc. And from that list, non-religious solemnisers, like humanists, can sometimes be hard to get for the dates you want.
If you want civil (HSE) people to come to your venue to marry you, they only do week days. So as i was saying above, if you want flexibility there are other options, namely doing the legal part yourself (in the HSE office on any given weekday, with a couple of witnesses) and then using a celebrant at your wedding , if that makes sense?

SpillingTheTea

westernlass wrote: »

chocolatepan wrote: »

Eithne Dempsey, she's on the humanist website above. Lovely lady, very easy to work with.

I second Eithne Dempsey.  Such a lovely person and she made our wedding very special.

I also would recommend Eithne Dempsey. We are getting married next year and we have chosen Eithne and she's so lovely!

Peregrinus

Kate253 wrote: »

I'm getting confused. Are the humanist people able to do the legal part? Does it depend on each humanist celebrant?

Anyone on the register of solemnisers, religious or non-religious, can do the legal part.