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Wood, Helen S

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Location: Glasgow
Region: West of Scotland
Covering areas: West of Scotland. Prepared to travel about 80 miles round trip.
Phone: 0141 950 2096
Mobile: 07854 260 070
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About Me

My background and experience
I have been a Humanist celebrant for 2years and a wedding celebrant for I year. My interests are my family, especially my six grandsons and one granddaughter. I enjoy hill walking, have completed the Munros and the Corbetts, gardening, and listening to music. I was a primary teacher in my working life.

What humanism means to me
Compassion, tolerance and understanding.

Funerals

Namings

Same Sex Affirmations

Weddings

How I feel about being a wedding Celebrant
I feel very proud and honoured to be a wedding celebrant.

My approach to weddings
I aim to make each ceremony personal and unique to each individual couple. Sometimes they like me to draft a ceremony for them and others prefer to do it themselves.
I see my role as helper and advisor, and friend.

What I love most about conducting weddings
It’s a happy occasion, one to be enjoyed.

My advice to you
Plan well ahead. Don’t try to please everyone .Keep a sense of humour throughout. Enjoy the big day.

My favourite piece of wedding poetry
The Art of Marriage by Wilfred A Peterson

The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands
It is remembering to say” I love you” at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted;
The courtship should not end with the honeymoon,
It should continue through all the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives
It is standing together facing the world
It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family
It is doing things for each other

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways
It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have the wings of an angel
It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility patience, understanding and a sense of humour
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget
It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.

It is finding room for the things of the spirit
It is a common search for the good and the beautiful
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner
It is being the right partner!

My favourite piece of wedding music
The Gift of a Thistle.

My most unusual location for a wedding to date
The island of Ailsa Craig, 12 miles from Girvan.
The bride’s name was Ailsa Craig.


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