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On Hitched.co.uk since 2022
Last update: April 2025
I am experienced wedding Celebrant, accredited by Humanists UK and passionate about creating personal, heartfelt and fun wedding ceremonies in North and West Yorkshire and beyond. Starting from our very first meeting, I will bring a weatlh of energy and ideas for your ceremony and then lovingly guide you through the process to create your wedding ceremony that is unique to you and your love. Inspired by your love story and from taking the time to get to know you and what you want from your wedding, I will ensure your ceremony is meaningful and memorable both for you and your guests. I am proud to be a two times winner of a Hitched Wedding Award both in 2024 and 2025 thanks to the amazing feedback that I receive from my wonderful couples.
Services Offered
I only offer one wedding per day, so as to give your celebration my undivided attention and afford you maximum flexibility around timings. I am also part of a wide network of Humanist Celebrants so, if for any reason, I couldn't lead your ceremony, one of my colleagues would be able to step in. My process starts as soon as you book in as, no matter how far ahead your wedding is, we begin getting to know each other which helps me to then tailor suggestions and recommendations for your ceremony. We can, of course, also include any readings, music pieces, or symbolic acts that interest you, no matter how quirky! My wedding package includes unlimited communication, a bespoke script, a presentation copy of your script as a keepsake as well as all travel to and from meetings in advance and to your venue on the day itself. I guarentee that you will love your ceremony and the whole experience with me, but don't have to just take my word for it, check out my Hitched reviews to find out what it's like working with me.
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Reviews for Helen Phillips Your Best Life Celebrant





Amazing Celebrant

🌟 the absolute best celebrant 🌟
A huge thank you Helen, we appreciate you and will forever be thankful for our amazing ceremony. You really helped kick start the day and we will always cherish such an unforgettable and special time! ❤️
Ps absolute bonus points for the amazing sparkly heels you wore, very on theme and again, so many people commented on how fab they were ✨

A magical ceremony - Helen is a genius and a joy!
Thank you Helen for making our day so magical!

Helen is the most wonderful celebrant
Every video call, meeting, and email conversation with Helen brought a smile to my face, she guided us through wedding planning with all of her valuable experience and knowledge (her initial questionnaire alone was better than any wedding planning guide online or the journal I bought!)
By the time our wedding day came around Helen felt like a friend and it just made sense that she was the one to be stood up there with us in front of all of our friends and family, telling our story better than we could ever tell it ourselves.
Our entire wedding day was perfect, but out of everything we chose, the thing we received the most compliments on from guests was Helen delivering our ceremony.
It was so important for us to have our three daughters involved, the day was just as much for them as it was for us and Helen understood this straight away and was on board with making the ceremony special for them and including them, she even had a video call with our eldest a couple of weeks before the wedding to settle her nerves and discuss the reading that Helen had found for her.
Helen's attention to detail is amazing, she listened to everything we said and created our dream ceremony as though it was the easiest thing in the world, it must be scary to present a couples own story back to them as a script but I'll never forget the first time I read it and we will cherish that script for the rest of our lives, Helen couldn't have got it more perfect for us.
In the ceremony she made everyone feel welcome and relaxed just like we hoped, it came naturally to her, she has found what she is meant to do and I'm so happy that she was such a huge a part of our day.

Absolutely Fantastic!
What she wrote was genuinely amazing, informative yet comical and it was great hearing our guests talk about it afterwards as they loved hearing about our story as someone of them didn't know exactly how we met etc a lot of our guests had never been to a humanist ceremony and said it was far more interesting than a religious one!
What was also great is Helen can control the room, sometimes at weddings things can get a little hectic with no one listening and people trying to get involved but Helen laid down the law and took charge which made things run very smoothly!
If I were to ever get married again ( hopefully not, as it's only been a month haha ) I would 100% book Helen again!
Thanks so much for making our day extra special! :)
Ant & Kat
Brilliant ceremony
From our first consultation call we felt really comfortable with her and listened to. She has interacted with us through our posts on social media so it felt like she got to know us well, before we met her in person. She asked us to fill out a questionnaire which allowed us to think more deeply about what we wanted from the ceremony and then gave us a book about humanist weddings which was full of lovely ideas.
It was great to meet up with her in person and chat together over coffee. Her approach is very flexible and inclusive. She was happy to accommodate a Christian element into the ceremony to represent my faith and worked well with my friend who did that part. She was very accommodating and sensitive about my daughter who is autistic and helped her to participate. Our wish was to be married outside in the woods at Lineham Farm and despite some rain we got our wish. Helen coped admirably with the rain and a temperamental PA system. We were worried about our parents with hearing issues missing out so she provided print outs of the script.
Helen encouraged us when we were keen to include a hand fasting and through this we were able to include our 3 children and it felt very important and meaningful as we were becoming a family not just a couple.
When Helen sent us the script we were both in tears reading it. There were only very minor changes that we wanted to make and she was very responsive about these.
On the day she delivered a beautiful, personal, heartfelt, funny , informal, emotional ceremony with a wonderful story telling style.
So many of our guests commented on how special the ceremony was and how they felt honoured to have shared in it with us.
If you are looking for someone to give you a wedding ceremony that will be highly personal then I'd definitely recommend Helen . She is amazing.
Helen is passionate about what she does and her dedication to her craft is evident with her beautifully personalized ceremony!

Beyond imagination
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Dream Ceremony - Full Of Personality!
At first we had no idea what we wanted, but Helen's suggestion to include a handfasting was a great idea, it really helped us involve other guests outside the bridal party and groom party. That really helped get our ideas flowing - we're very quirky, humorous and laid back, and Helen was so helpful in listening to our other suggestions. Our idea to add in a "burrito duel" with foam burritos to decide who read their vows first really made it feel like *our* ceremony with our personalities stamped all over it, which was exactly what we dreamed of!
The ceremony was delivered superbly on the day and all went according to plan. Our wedding day just felt perfect and Helen was such a crucial part of making it happen, getting the party started in the best possible way! We would absolutely recommend her!

Absolutely perfect ceremony!
We had a few special requests which Helen accommodated without hesitation.
We are so very grateful for the beautiful memories.
Wonderful!
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Mr Aaron Bateman-Ward

Helen was the best celebrant we could have asked for!
Thanks again Helen 💖
Brilliant Experience for our Day
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