The Power of the Flower You’ve booked in your qualified marriage celebrant. The venue has been arranged. The guest list is coming together. The wedding dress is undergoing final alterations. What have you forgotten?  Oh heck! Flowers! Choosing wedding flowers to create a bouquet can be a bit of a challenge. You’re walking down the [...]

8 Tips For Dealing With Wedding Stress Ethereal music, a carpeted aisle littered with scented petals, a groom trying his best to avoid the “ugly cry”. It’s all been leading up to this moment. But what comes either side of a wedding? Broken appointments, financial burden, finding the perfect dress, the perfect cake, the perfect [...]

TOP WEDDINGS SONGS : Part 3 TWENTY-ONE 21st CENTURY WEDDING SONGS THAT AREN’T ED SHEERAN If you want a quick, easy choice, check out the red-headed Brit’s catalogue for some ripe wedding songs. They are among the most popular choices in modern history for good reason. If you’re looking for something outside of that box [...]

Quirky Wedding Traditions From Around The World Celebrant: one who celebrates and/or helps others to celebrate, particularly marriages. But how do people around the world celebrate their weddings? Let’s explore a few wedding traditions and rituals from around the world. I’M BLUE DABA DEE DABA DI England (and many Western countries) The original rhyme went, [...]

How will you tell their story? The point of writing for a Wedding ceremony is to cast a spell. Well chosen words can paint mental canvases with fruit bowls of colour, symphonies of sound, and cause forgotten aromas to pass gently through the air.  The story of JK Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter, has [...]

You're the voice, can they understand it? You don’t have to make it loud but it must be clear! If when it comes to public speaking you need a little help, you feel the pressure down, you’ve got to have a little faith because learning to publicly speak – that’s freedom! Okay – no more [...]

Wise & Witty Words of Wisdom (From The Movies) What is the best part of a wedding? Besides the exchanging of vowels of course. Is it the cutting of the cake? The first dance as a married couple? The candied almond favours?  For me it’s the free food but in 2nd place I’ll go with [...]

BATMAN P.I Is Batman a superhero? It’s a common, never-ending argument. He doesn’t have supernatural powers so that lays the case for him not being a superhero. But wait, similar to fellow non-supernatural humans such as Ironman or Black Widow he does have self-created superior technology, strength, intelligence, fighting skills etc. So he is a [...]

Is It Appropriate To Put The Fun In Funeral? Most family and friends when planning a funeral are coming from a place of deep, justifiable anguish. Most of us have been there and can empathise with anyone going through such a dark, heavy time. It is heart-wrenching to say the least.  Recently there has been [...]

P.I Favourite 5 Female Investigators “Rain flecks slide seductively down the exterior of the dingy basement window. A man sits in the shadows, boots on his desk, watching the foot traffic pass by the small pane of glass. The ash from his Brick House cigar lingers on the precipice, scared to let go. The man’s [...]