Wedding and Funeral Celebrant on the Shropshire / Wales Border

My name is Gaye and I'm a Wedding and Funeral Celebrant on the Shropshire / Wales border. My USP is care, collaboration and creativity.

My husband and I recently moved to our rural retreat, (family grown). My plan is to escape from the house renovations, to write my novels, spend too much at garden centres, eat too many scones, swim 'wildly' and also to maintain contact with humanity by conducting important ceremonies, as a celebrant.

I began my working life as a general and psychiatric nurse, and during this nursing era, I sat at many people’s bedside, as a Marie Curie nurse. This privileged time of being alongside a patient and their family, as another precious life came to an end, spurned an interest in all life’s major events.

In my late twenties I retrained as an actor and performed as actors do, ‘on and off’, for thirty years. For the last ten years I have also been a playwright and co-founded a company (Human Story Theatre) which uses theatre to explore health and social care issues.

Gradually this combination of researching real lives and their subsequent portrayal made sense of my life at last! And now in my own third act as a celebrant (i.e. I am a 'childish' mid 60’s), I can utilise these former experiences. Namely: my curiosity and compassion for people at all stages of life, my talent as a writer to capture the uniqueness of each life and my acting skills to deliver these very special human stories.

I am described as: genuine, humble, warm, positive, kind, calm, poetic, imaginative, professional, the possessor of an infectious laugh and (!) as I am honest:

Also, described at times as: gullible, without common sense or sense of direction, (roads not life!), impractical, emotional, boring about diets, a dreadful cook and intolerant of lateness.

But hopefully you have someone else lined up to cater, I'll bring the words and warm support.