I held a Baby Blessing (or perhaps I should say Child Blessing) for a gorgeous little girl on the beach. The couple were married here on the Isle of Skye eight years ago, by my sister Minister Sonja Eckl and were returning to have a blessing for their daughter. Sadly, Sonja is no longer with us, so her husband passed their enquiry to me, and we worked together for a couple of months to create a personal and unique ceremony.

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

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