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DO YOU OFFER VOW RENEWALS?
I do. Including a chance to reflect on your relationship, notice what you're grateful for in one another, perhaps even write new vows for...
Apr 8, 20251 min read


CAN WE WRITE OUR OWN VOWS?
lease do! I always encourage couples to write their own vows and support them if needed. It feels important to make promises to...
Apr 1, 20251 min read


ARE YOU A HUMANIST?
No. I'm not. Are you? As an Interfaith Minister I am able to conduct legal ceremonies in Scotland. What's important is what YOU believe...
Mar 25, 20251 min read


IS IT COMPLICATED TO GET MARRIED IN SCOTLAND?
Most people who elope here are surprised by how easy it is! If you're travelling from outside the UK you might need...
Mar 18, 20251 min read


WHERE ON THE ISLE OF SKYE CAN WE GET MARRIED?
Anywhere you want... within reason! Unlike in England and Wales, in Scotland it's not necessary to be married in a registered venue. I've seen ceremonies on boats, in the sea, up mountains, on the beach, on the cliffs... There are a few rules... you can't get married on the move... on a boat for example; and you have to get married where you said on your paperwork, unless the weather's truly terrible and you need to change it (always good to let the registrar know of any back
Mar 11, 20251 min read


IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN'T HAVE IN OUR CEREMONY?
No. We can co-create your ceremony together and include whatever you want - religious, spiritual or secular... whatever honours you, your..
Mar 4, 20251 min read


CAN YOU RECOMMEND WEDDING SUPPLIERS?
I can indeed. Besides photographers I can recommend local pipers... fiddlers... florists... kiltmakers... shawl weavers... cake bakers...
Feb 25, 20251 min read


CAN YOU RECOMMEND A PHOTOGRAPHER?
Absolutely! There are amazing photographers who, like I, live and work on the Isle of Skye. I always recommend...
Feb 18, 20251 min read


DO WE NEED TO BRING WITNESSES?
Not at all. If you're having a legal ceremony, you will need two witnesses, but...
Feb 11, 20251 min read


CAN YOU HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GET MARRIED IN SCOTLAND?
Absolutely! Maybe you've already researched it... but if not, I'm happy to provide guidance...
Feb 4, 20251 min read


CAN YOU CREATE A UNIQUE CEREMONY IN A FEW DAYS?
If you're hoping for a marriage it's unlikely as you need to submit paperwork at least 29 days before (there are some exceptions)...
Jan 28, 20251 min read


A CREATIVE SOUL
To celebrate 4 years being an Interfaith Minister and 6 years since our first interview together, Tania Ashton-Jones of TJ Frog and I met...
Jul 25, 20241 min read


ONCE UPON A TIME...
There was a couple who wished to be married in the mountains. They'd heard of a magical place, beside a beautiful loch, amongst the...
Jun 21, 20242 min read


ONCE UPON A TIME...
There was a mischievous wee fairy, more mischievous than you can even imagine. Having forgotten most of the old stories the people...
Jun 5, 20242 min read


ONCE UPON A TIME...
There was a warrior queen who lived high on a cliff in her castle, known as the Fortress of Shadows on a misty isle known as Eilean...
May 21, 20243 min read


ONCE UPON A TIME...
A beautiful couple, so very in love, eloped to the Fairy Glen, whilst on holiday on the Isle of Skye. Being February, it wasn't the...
May 9, 20242 min read


CRAZY DAISIES AND FLOWER CROWNS
I was so glad I accepted Nicola's invitation to visit @meadowsweetcroft yesterday in honour of British Flowers Week. Marvelling at the spikey leaved oaks, Nicola told me how 11 years ago and long before the vision of becoming Skye's first cut flower grower, she'd planted trees for shelter and winter colour in her garden. I've attempted to look up the variety, not remembering if she said European oaks... and not realising there are no less than 450 varieties of oak! Wandering
Jun 29, 20235 min read


REFLECTING ON MY EMOTIONS
When I hold ceremony I feel like I'm always either laughing or crying! The tears often come from being connected... to Spirit... to those for whom the ceremony is for... from hearing a couple I'm marrying speak their heartfelt truths... And the laughter comes from everywhere... the wind blowing everything and everyone around... the giggly energy of opening to Spirit... the fairies... This photo was from a wedding ceremony with two gorgeous women last summer... although the p
Jan 12, 20231 min read


ALL YOU NEED FOR YOUR CEREMONY ON SKYE
I'm marrying a couple next month who are bringing a horn to use in their ceremony... in a ritual. They had someone making mead for it, but the seal broke and they found themselves meadless! I wondered if I could source them some Scottish mead. I found a producer, but then I wondered if I could source some here on the Isle of Skye. I put a message out on Instagram... no luck. And then I had an idea... mead is made from honey right? I put a post out on a local bee keepers grou
Sep 24, 20221 min read


RENEWING OUR WEDDING VOWS
In 2020, as part of my ministry training I wrote a vow renewal ceremony for my husband and I. I crafted it based on our reflections of our relationship and marriage to date... on our hopes and dreams for the future. I crafted it to connect with the land of Skye... where we'd made home... and to echo our original ceremony and the traditions of New Zealand where we married. For the vow renewal we each wrote personal vows to speak to one another... as we hadn't taken that opport
Jul 24, 20221 min read
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