Choose A Meaningful Marriage Interfaith Wedding Celebrants In Scotland

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There’s a wonderful wealth of opportunity afforded to you if you’re choosing a marriage ceremony in Scotland held by an Interfaith Wedding Celebrant.

An Interfaith ceremony is one of the most flexible wedding ceremony options you can choose as you have complete freedom with both the content and the location in Scotland.

You can have as much input into the creation of your ceremony of marriage as you wish and your ceremony can reflect your beliefs whatever they may be – whether you consider yourselves religious or spiritual, or humanist or non-religious – your Wedding Celebrant can use wording to honour both your beliefs, whether the same or different, and respect and include the beliefs of any family and friends present at your wedding as witnesses. Your Interfaith Marriage Celebrant respects people of all faith and no faith.

Your ceremony of marriage can include the necessary wording and signing for you to become legally married according to Scottish law which is recognized around the world. The Registrar General of Scotland grants authority to Scottish based Interfaith Wedding Celebrants as registered ...
... people, which is very welcome, as in spite of the sometimes contrary Scottish weather, many couples still opt to marry outside – Scotland is such a stunning country and you can marry anywhere literally – beaches, loch-sides, gardens!

Scotland also boasts romantic castles and elegant hotels to hold an indoor ceremony - your Wedding Celebrant will likely have local knowledge about venues wherever they’re based in Scotland.

For the content of your wedding ceremony you can choose to have traditional or personal marriage vows, and depending on how brave you’re feeling you can learn them by heart and remember them, read them or have them posed as a question or led line by line.

Some couples choose to include readings, poetry and music in their marriage ceremony. There is no restriction imposed by having an Interfaith Wedding Celebrant hold your marriage ceremony and you can choose to have a passage from the bible or another religious text, or someone could write something especially for you. Or there are hundreds of beautiful possibilities of poems and prose out there – from the sacred to the humorous, the emotional to the profound. You’re free to include those words which most inspire and move you.

Live music and ritual are both very popular in Scotland whether Scottish or not. Whether you’d like a Scottish piper in a bearskin hat and kilt, or a fiddler or harpist, most musicians have an extensive repertoire of suitable wedding songs.

In keeping with a Celtic theme, hand tying or handfastings as they’re called are extremely popular by couples based in or travelling to Scotland to marry, followed closely by candle lighting rituals and sharing whisky from a Quaich – a two handled loving cup or cup of friendship.

Most couples choose to exchange wedding rings, though you can choose any variation of wedding gifts to suit your taste – an exchange of poems beautifully hand written on scrolls, or perhaps an exchange of trees for those who are inspired to ‘go green’. If you live in Scotland and are marrying at home you could plant the trees in your garden as part of your ceremony, or if you’re visiting Scotland you could get permission from the hotel where you’ll hold your wedding celebrations to plant them there as a gift – or you could enlist the services of the Scottish charity Trees for Life to plant a grove of trees on your behalf.

You’re not obliged to have anything Scottish or anything in particular in your ceremony – you might choose to have a Native American blessing, or a Jewish stamping on the glass, or further rituals from a hand fasting ceremony – the sharing of cakes and ale, or jumping the broom. Or your ceremony of marriage might be alternative or quirky in some way which is entirely unique to you.

All Interfaith Wedding Celebrants listed on the Scottish Wedding Ceremony website are based in Scotland and are members of the One Spirit Interfaith Foundation (OSIF) professional register and live and work to a code of ethics. Some are Scottish and some are not, but all of them would be delighted to help you have a meaningful and memorable ceremony of marriage and start to your married life together.

Thinking of something a bit different for your special day? Want some help in planning the ceremony with someone who will work with you and for you? Take a look at Scottish Wedding Ceremony and your scottish wedding day can become a reality.