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Congratulations to you both! This is an exciting time and you’ve got plenty to think about.

As a Wedding Celebrant accredited by the Humanism UK it is my privilege to be able to guide you through all the details of planning your wedding service so that it will be exactly what you want on the day.

My focus is to write a script that includes all the elements which are important to both of you. This could be:

  • making sure your friends are actively involved in the service
  • having a huge sing-a-long
  • ensuring that your individual cultural backgrounds are reflected in the symbolic acts and choices of readings
  • finding the perfect songs and poems
  • making sure the family dog feels included
  • respecting and including the beliefs of friends and family with different religious faiths
  • creating a great party atmosphere

Your wedding script will be as individual as you are and will be a true reflection of your personalities, your humour and your love.

On your wedding day my professional role is to support and welcome all key people, so that you know you are in safe hands. To engage your guests with warmth and enthusiasm, to share in the delight of retelling your story and to support you through all the exciting and emotional moments – from your first glimpse of each other as the ceremony starts, through the high emotion of your vows and finally to the thrill of the declaration at the end of the ceremony.

I am delighted to marry straight and gay couples across Hertfordshire and North/Central London. I am also available for weddings abroad. If you would like to discuss your wedding needs informally, without obligation, either by phone, by e-mail or over coffee, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to meeting you!


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Frequently Asked Questions:

Where can we have our wedding?

I can deliver your wedding service anywhere you want - from a back garden to a beach; from a top-notch hotel to a tipi in the countryside.

What can you offer that a registrar can't?

I will meet with you when you first start thinking about your wedding and will develop the wedding service with you so that it is a true reflection of the two of you, your relationship and your values. Nothing will be vetted or restricted; the only limit will be your imagination! Registrars can only offer limited personalisation. They do not develop the script with you and cannot offer the reassurance of a rehearsal.

Can we write our own vows?

Of course you can! I will provide plenty of examples of different types of vows so that the process of developing your own will be fun rather than daunting.

How can we involve family and friends in the service?

We can discuss loads of different and individual ways of doing this. You might like to think about any of the following: a ring warming, hand fasting, music or songs performed by those you love, a communal song, or anything else that takes your fancy!

What if we come from different faith backgrounds?

I love to recognise and celebrate different traditions in wedding ceremonies, and to create imaginative ways of doing this that will suit you and the new family you are creating. Together we can be as creative as you like to make sure that both families feel respected and included.

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Reviews for Harriet O'Brien Weddings

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Jen Sent on 18/02/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Thank you so much

We just wanted to say a huge thank you for our wedding ceremony. We absolutely loved it! Our friends and family really enjoyed how special and personal our ceremony was too. We can’t thank you enough and we are so delighted to have had you as our celebrant
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Ben Sent on 18/02/2019
5 out of 5 rating

A huge thank you

Greetings from Iceland! We wanted to say a huge thank you for the beautiful ceremony that you conducted for our wedding. Everyone in the family said how wonderful it was. On a more personal level, we were both so impressed by how quickly you got to know us and how you managed to make the ceremony so deeply personal, reflecting both of our personalities so well. You articulated many things better than we could have said ourselves!
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Mr& Sent on 18/02/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Highly recommended

Harriet led our ceremony on the 5th September 2015. We cannot thank her enough. She was fantastic! Prior to the service Harriet met with us and with our family so they had the opportunity to ask any questions about humanist ceremonies. Harriet took the time to discuss her script with my father so she did not mention anything he wanted to mention himself later in his speech. Harriet’s script was perfect – filled with personal stories and readings important to us – exactly what we wanted on our wedding day. Harriet led the ceremony with warmth, humour, professionalism and with a smile! None of our guests had attended a humanist wedding ceremony before and all commented about the uniqueness and how personal it was. We cannot thank you enough Harriet for making our day perfect!
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G&L Sent on 18/02/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Absolutely Fantastic

Thank you so very very much for an absolutely fantastic ceremony!! EVERYBODY has commented on it and how personal it was to us and how great you were, so many people have also said it was the best wedding they have ever been to and we believe at lot of that is down to the ceremony it was beautiful I think nearly everyone cried!!.. we think back to our first meeting with you when you said you thought a Humanist wedding would be perfect for us… and you were so right, well they do say everything happens for a reason..
We had such a fabulous day thank you again Harriet for making it so special
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Kirstin and Dan, Bruges, Belgium - December 2018

Harriet is amazing and I’m so glad we chose her to do our wedding! On our first meeting to get to know each other and write our script she was so warm, it was like having a drink with an old friend! She developed a script that was so personal and so perfect for us. Guests (and even our photographers) commented on how personal the ceremony was and how it was the best one they’d ever been to. Throughout the day guests commented on how lovely Harriet was and how vital she was to our perfect day. Harriet also provided us with a copy of our wedding script and we will treasure it forever as it so perfectly encapsulates our relationship! Thanks so much Harriet!
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Karen and David, Barnet

Dear Harriet, Thank you for your card and package. And, even more, thank you so much for the really lovely way you celebrated our wedding. It was exactly as we had wished, and very many guests commented afterwards on how appropriately, sincerely and properly you spoke and led the ceremony – yet always with a sense of both family and fun.

Thank you again, and we should be glad to recommend you to anyone – indeed, we shall.
With best wishes and, if we may, love,
David & Karen
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Stephen and Sophie – Orleans House Gallery.

Thank you so much for giving us the most beautiful wedding ceremony. We were both completely blown away by how personal, charming and emotional it was. Your delivery was also brilliant: witty and light. It was exactly the atmosphere we hoped for and so many guests made comments about how lovely it was.
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Maia and Peter – White Dove Barn. Suffolk

Harriet’s approach was so warm, friendly and relaxed it made the whole process of organising the ceremony very easy with fantastic ideas for how to bring together my Jewish and my now husband’s non-Jewish cultures. On the day her warmth and humour helped make the ceremony relaxed and enjoyable whilst still retaining the significance of the occasion, exactly what we wanted. The script was so personal several people at the wedding assumed Harriet had known us for years! Thank you so much for all your work and helping us create such a warm and personal ceremony.
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Amy and Richard – St Panras Renaissance Hotel

Just a thank you for such a wonderful, relaxed and heartfelt ceremony. It was so perfect and so personal – so many people came up to us afterwards to say how touching they’d found it and we couldn’t agree more. You made the script preparation process beforehand so easy – so thank you for that – refreshing all the other wedding preparations. To anyone reading this, i couldn’t recommend Harriet more!!
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Adam and Justine – Sopwell House. St Alban

Harriet simply provided the perfect ceremony for our wedding day. She met twice beforehand to get to know us both personally and understand exactly what we wanted from our ceremony. She created the perfect wedding speech and was happy to incorporate particular traditions and personal touches that we wanted. So many of our guests commented afterwards that it was the best ceremony they had been to. Thank you so much Harriet for all your hard work and guidance in helping to create our special day!
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Hannah and Fernando – St Pancras Renaissance Hotel

Harriet carried out our wedding ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in October 2014, and it was simply perfect! After our first meeting over the summer, Harriet worked with us closely in the months prior to the big day to write our ‘script’. We absolutely loved it and didn’t make any changes to the first draft – she had really listened to us and picked up on all the most important parts of our history and personalities to create a beautiful ceremony that was completely unique and special to us.

On the day itself Harriet created a warm and relaxed environment and so many of our guests told us afterwards how impressed they were, and how much they enjoyed the ceremony. It was just so personal and everything we wanted for such an important day in our lives. Harriet is a delight to work with and we couldn’t recommend her highly enough. We just wish that we could do it all over again!
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Netta and Sonny – Churchill Hotel. Mayfair. July

Thank you so much for all your help and support over the last couple of years leading up to this wedding. You have been outstanding. The script you wrote was just so beautiful and really felt personal to us and our family. The ceremony went off with out a hitch and it was exactly what we planned. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything.
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Anonymous Sent on 16/02/2019

Michalina and Jennifer – Stoke Newington. Sept 20

The whole day was truly amazing – you were amazing and it was simply beautiful and magical to listen to you speak in the dusk, surrounded by friends and family. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work, the words, the day itself – everything you did to make our wedding so utterly beautiful and special.

We have been inundated with compliments about the whole day including your ceremony which moved people to tears, as you saw, and touched people deeply. One man, a quiet and reserved man, talked to me later in the evening. He said he has been to many different weddings over the years but this one was the most unique and most moving ever and it touched his heart.
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