Frequently Asked Questions
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Katie’s fees for bespoke weddings ceremonies are as follows:
2025 Weddings £750
2026 Weddings £850
2027 Weddings £950
Additional travel expenses as agreed.
50% deposit required upon booking and the balance due 6 weeks before the wedding date.
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A celebrant is a trained professional who plans, personalises and leads ceremonies to mark important occasions such as weddings, vow renewals, naming ceremonies, renaming ceremonies, divorce ceremonies, funerals, scattering of ashes.
Katie specialises in wedding celebrancy, but is always happy to chat about other ceremonies.
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Not yet, but hopefully soon!
In July 2022 The Law Commission of England and Wales published its recommendations to reform the wedding law, proposing a fairer system that gives couples more choice over where and how their wedding takes place.
https://lawcom.gov.uk/project/weddings/
In August 2024 Katie had a breakfast meeting with Sir Julian Smith MP and discussed all the benefits that the change in marriage law and licensing of celebrants would bring to couples.
As a result of the meeting Sir Julian wrote to then Secretary of State for Justice recommending that celebrants were licensed and able to complete the legalities in the same way as registrars.
https://www.juliansmith.org.uk/news/mp-discusses-wedding-laws-head-weddings-coniston-hotel
On 18th October 2024 (coincidentally Katie’s birthday!), the House of Lords debated changes in the current law that could see Independent Celebrants licensed in the future which would bring England inline with Scotland. It is coming, we just don’t know when!
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Explain to them that when a baby is born you register the birth, receive the birth certificate, then plan the ceremony, baby naming or christening. You don’t take the whole ceremony party with you to register the legal bit and nobody says that ceremony was fake!
The same applies to deaths, you register the legals, receive a death certificate, then you hold a funeral ceremony. You don’t take the whole funeral party to do the legal bit!
Having a celebrant led wedding is exactly the same. Register the legals with your 2+2 ceremony, receive the marriage certificate and then save your vows and the exchanging of rings for your bespoke wedding ceremony.
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It’s really simple, you book a 2+2 ceremony at any Register Office, it’s approx £46. You don’t have to do rings or vows, save them for your Celebrant Led Ceremony in front of family and friends.
The +2 stands for two witnesses, but don’t worry the office will have staff happy to stand in and be your witnesses if you want to complete your transactional registration quietly. For all intents and purposes nobody would ordinarily realise that the Celebrant Led Ceremony isn’t the legal one, unless you tell them!
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Absolutely!
I can supply a certificate or you may want to source one to match your theme.
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Katie has a wedding background and she gets it that you’ve planned every tiny detail, she is more than happy to discuss outfits and coordinate with your colour scheme or theme.
She has suits, dresses and fascinators galore and could even be easily tempted to wear cosplay or themed outfit, Bridgerton Themed Wedding anyone?
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I’ll be at the following wedding fairs, come along and we can chat!
Sat 11th & Sun 12th January 2025
The Coniston Hotel Estate & Spa
Sunday 5th October 2025