by Steve Morris | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Celebrations are all about social interactions. We love, laugh, grieve and meet together; humans are a social species. In these times, however, the restrictions on gatherings mean that many people have been deprived of the chance to get married in front of their...
by Steve Morris | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized, Wedding
HOW OFTEN WILL I BE IN TOUCH? I’m here to make your ceremony just what you need it to be, and I’ll be available to take your calls, emails and texts between now and the day of your ceremony. As a guide, however, you can expect this as a minimum: An initial call or...
by Steve Morris | Dec 31, 2019 | Funeral
This is an abbreviated version of a funeral held in Shropshire in the late 1790s, not long after the beginning of the Anglo-French (Napoleonic) Wars. There are a number of similarities with accounts of funerals from the same period in Wales and on the Marches,...
by Steve Morris | Nov 21, 2019 | Funeral
Memorials: Cheap and Powerful? Maybe you’ve seen the advert. An old man is walking along the beach with the family. They are talking about his funeral. He says that “no-one lives for ever” but he doesn’t want any “fuss”. The advert manages to imply that if you arrange...
by Steve Morris | Nov 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Fellowship of Professional Celebrants training session has sunk in a bit now, and it’s been a few years since I was on a course like it. Three days in Crawley is probably not everyone’s ideal destination, and it certainly wasn’t a holiday. The people I was...