Handmade Weddings
So you're thinking of getting married….
Congratulations!
And now comes the planning: who to invite, where to gather, how much to spend, what to do with the awkward relatives, how much tradition, whose traditions…all the questions that arise when two lives begin to weave a new pattern together.
Most couples arrive here carrying equal parts excitement and overwhelm.
There are so many decisions, and yet strangely little guidance about the deeper question beneath them all:
What is a wedding actually for?
Marriage as Threshold
A wedding is not a performance or a “special day” centred on two people. It is a threshold crossing — a vow made in the presence of those who will help you keep it — where a couple steps into responsibility not only for each other, but for the community they belong to.
Marriage in this understanding is culture work. It strengthens the fabric between people.
The couple are not the centrepiece. They are the hosts of a moment that belongs to a much longer story: lineage, ancestors, inheritance.
A handmade wedding is hospitality, not spectacle. Beauty-making, not performance. Not private, but communal. Human-scaled and purposeful.
Hospitality and Village-Mindedness
Modern weddings can feel curated and distant from meaning. Handmade weddings return ritual, responsibility and beauty-making to the people who will live alongside this marriage.
When family and friends gather flowers, light fires, prepare food, weave blessings, carry chairs, and speak from the heart… the village steps forward and is reinstated.
Beauty is made by hand, not purchased.
The couple’s first act is hospitality — warmth, food, story, care.
Beauty and welcome become the same gesture: Thank you. We belong. We take our place among you.
A Place for Ancestors and Tradition
A wedding in this tradition is not only for the living. It makes room for the ancestors, for the old cultural stories we are trying to remember, and for the not-yet-born who will inherit the choices made today.
The couple are stepping into something older that will continue long after them.
Where and How We Work
I hold weddings in woods, gardens, barns, fields, and homes.
Handmade weddings often include fire, offerings, song, readings, ancestral acknowledgements, community blessings, shared food, simple ritual, and beauty made by hand.
Who This Is For
Couples who want a wedding that is rooted, communal, meaningful, in service to the bigger picture and beautiful.
You do not need to see yourselves as spiritual or aligned with any particular belief system — only willing to welcome mystery and step towards the threshold wholeheartedly with your people beside you.
What I Offer
I can be invited into one part of the process or all of it.
Preparation — tending the deeper questions.
Mentorship — walking beside you.
Design — crafting a ceremony rooted in land, lineage, story, and community.
Holding — holding the ceremony itself: steady, spacious, grounded
The Exchange
The work I do in holding the thresholds of marriage requires a particular kind of containment and heart-work. To keep this work sustainable, and to honour the lineage I carry, I work with a model of financial reciprocity.
Because every ceremony is handmade and bespoke, the exchange varies depending on the level of holding you require. I ask that you choose an amount within these ranges that reflects your financial reality and the value this work holds for you.
For Ceremonies
The suggested exchange ranges from £500 to £1200.
The lower end reflects a simple, beautifully held ceremony; the higher end reflects something more elaborate including multi-day events, mentoring and preparatory support.
Practical & Preparatory Support
This offering is for those who need help orienting themselves—understanding options, preparing for what lies ahead, or making sense of what is already unfolding—without commissioning a full ceremony.
Short-form, ceremony-adjacent support is offered at £60–£80 per hour.
A Note on Accessibility
I keep a portion of my time available for those whose hearts are full but whose pockets are currently empty. If you are in a time of genuine hardship, please do not let cost be the reason you don’t reach out. We will find a way that honours us both.
You can read more about my Financial Policy here.
Longer-term mentoring and integration work is held in a separate container and described here.
Strengthening the fabric between people.
Work with Emma
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Mentoring
For times that are tender, tangled, or on the cusp of becoming something new. Part practical guidance, part deep companionship, part soul-tending, part ancestral repair.
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Waking up the Witch Retreat
Gatherings that remember the old ways of tending and belonging, land, hearth, ritual, slow companionship, and explorations at the thresholds of intuition, magic and mystery.
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Rest & Repair Retreat
Deep rest, slow-living, nourishment and restoration. Following the pace of the land, shaped by body and breath; wood-fired sauna, good food and quiet that softens and repairs.