When working with clients, the first thing I think about is how I can make your ceremony personal and unique to you.
Making ceremonies personal has to be my priority, and the reason you should choose me as your celebrant.
Making People Feel at Ease
Establishing a good rapport with the people I am working with is essential, whether it’s for a wedding ceremony, a child’s naming, or a celebration of life.
Having time to talk and learn about the people I will be writing about is so important. It’s the starting point for my writing process.
Making ceremonies personal begins with connection.
The Process of Making Ceremonies Personal
The process starts with getting to know you. Meeting you in person or online for a discovery call is how we start. We are just having a personal conversation.
This is the foundation on which everything else for you is built.
There will be a follow-up questionnaire that gives people I’m working with time to think about what they want to tell me and what to include in the ceremony.
Having an understanding of your personality and preference for your ceremony is so important. I need to have a clear idea of:
- What you want your ceremony to be like
- What I need to achieve when writing it
Are you looking for heartfelt and loving or funny and quirky?
Then it’s time to start writing. I develop my writing over a few days, having time to just think and keep going back to it.
Once I have a ceremony mapped out, I will share my ideas with you, ready to refine it.
Above all, making ceremonies personal means it has to be personal and unique to you.
Writing Personal Poetry
Writing personal poetry is my superpower. I have an amazing skill of summing up people in a genuinely humorous and a unique way.
Poems can tell a story in a way that ordinary words can’t. It’s more like a song than a piece of writing and takes that extra level of creativity to do it right.
A poem has to be performed – not just read.
I will, with permission, seek to find funny stories and events in your life and reflect these. I want the people who hear it to be giggling away and leave thinking – that was so them!
Of course, I can write loving and thoughtful poems, but seeing the funny side is the way I like to do things.
Laugh Out Loud Funny
I recently wrote a poem for a gentleman’s funeral who had learning disabilities. He had lots of interests and hobbies, and people around him who were able to tell me more about him and his life.
This is an excerpt from a review I received following the service:
“I was blown away by the poem and how many details you managed to capture, and how personal it was. You could read it and know exactly who you were talking about. One thing I will always remember is that you made me smile and even laugh out loud, but more importantly, how it captured the person perfectly”
Making ceremonies personal is about making it real.
Making it real is what I want to achieve, and how I can best make your ceremony personal and unique to you.
