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On Hitched.co.uk since 2021

Last update: June 2024

Fab Ceremonies provides one-of-a-kind wedding ceremonies for couples throughout the UK. The owner, Gary Hayes, is an award-winning wedding celebrant who is a passionate public speaker and loves to produce customised ceremonies that showcase couples’ love stories.

For several decades, Gary has been performing and talking for a living. His confident approach puts couples at ease as he flawlessly delivers 'person-focused' wedding ceremony content during their big moment. Having studied theology at university, Gary is interested in all forms of spirituality. He is open to all ideas when it comes to your ceremony.

Not only does Gary deliver unique, bespoke, wedding ceremonies, he also trains new celebrants for the UK's leading celebrant training organisation.

Services Offered

Ahead of your wedding day, Fab Ceremonies provide consultations. Here, Gary can get to understand you, your beliefs, ideas, and the story that has led you to this special day. This officiant will also give you questionnaires to fill out to further give a better understanding of how you expect your ceremony to look and run. Whether you’re planning a rustic or boho wedding, Gary can cater his delivery and style to best suit your celebration. Gary will completely write the script for your ceremony, which you can go over and make changes to well ahead of time. For memorable ceremonies that are unique to your relationship, this officiant could be the professional for you.

Frequently asked questions

Language:

English

Religion:

Anglican
Baptist
Catholicism
Methodist
Orthodox
Protestant

Type:

Celebrant
Officiant

Served in

Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Somerset, Staffordshire and West Midlands

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Reviews for Fab Ceremonies

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Connor V. Sent on 19/12/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Simply incredible from start to finish

Gary was an absolutely wonderful celebrant and delivered the most perfect ceremony for our wedding.

From start to finish he was incredible, lovely, kind-hearted, funny and compassionate. The list of superlatives to describe how brilliant Gary was, is literally endless.

You will not regret booking him for a single moment, from the communication to the organisation to the delivery to the added extras like filming your ceremony on his 360 degree camera - wow.

We received an absolutely tremendous amount of compliments about Gary and the ceremony from our guests and family too, who have genuinely not stopped talking about it ever since!
Josh
Josh R. Sent on 25/10/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing Celebrant!

Gary did an amazing job officiating our wedding ceremony and I would highly recommend him. Me and my Wife enjoyed working through the details of the ceremony with him. Gary is very charismatic and tells your love story as if he's known you forever. I think he's a great orator and knows how to grab the attention of his audience. Thank you for being a part of our special day!
Romy
Romy L. Sent on 07/02/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing Celebrant for our Big Day at Burghley House

Where to start other than with a big thank you?
Gary was our Wedding Celebrant during our big day back in August 2022 at Burghley House.
Everything went so smoothly, from the moment we got in touch with Gary, to the Wedding itself.
We had so much fun filling up our couple's love story questionnaire so Gary could write a bespoke ceremony for us, and it was just perfect! It was reflecting well our personalities and with a little touch of humour to keep the atmosphere dynamic.
Gary even accepted to perform a Hand Fasting Ceremony and he followed the process perfectly.
It felt so special and our family and guests kept telling us how great our Celebrant and the wedding ceremony were.
So thank you so much for making our Wedding such a special day!
Gary
Gary C. Sent on 28/07/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Magical, adaptable and perfect

Gary is an amazing, adaptable and easy going celebrant, who works with you. He is willing to build your perfect day step by step until you and your partner are happy with the final draft for your ceremony. He will also change and add bits last minute if you are not happy with or forget to tell him something. He is a very kind and thoughtful person who strives to make your day amazing.
Gary
Gary S. Sent on 22/06/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Excellent. Confident. Intuitive. Professional.

Subject: Wedding 02nd June.

Hi Gary

I’v been meaning to message for a while. Thanks so much for your expert celebrantship (if indeed that is a word) of our wedding (June 2) The guests were amazed at your knowledge and insight and couldn’t believe that we hadn’t known you for years! It was such a special day to which your contribution was central and very much appreciated by Janette and I.
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Thomas S. Sent on 04/06/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Flawless from start to finish

We booked Gary for our wedding in February 2024. Gary was absolutely amazing, the process he has to understand you as a couple is so easy and enjoyable to complete together. Our ceremony was beautiful, completely personalised with our personalities as a couple captured with lots of giggles. If you looking to make your wedding ceremony personalised to you as a couple, Gary is perfect.
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Stephanie L. Sent on 14/01/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Fabulous! He really made our wedding.

Great contact throughout, very personal and touching ceremony. Arrived in well enough time to meet with guests and stayed after for a chat, everyone commented how lovely the ceremony was.
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Betsy V. Sent on 19/12/2022
5 out of 5 rating

The Vinehill-Dunns

Gary was an absolutely wonderful celebrant and delivered the most perfect ceremony for our wedding.

From start to finish he was incredible, lovely, kind-hearted, funny and compassionate. The list of superlatives to describe how brilliant Gary was, is literally endless.

You will not regret booking him for a single moment, from the communication to the organisation to the delivery to the added extras like filming your ceremony on his 360 degree camera - wow.

We received an absolutely tremendous amount of compliments about Gary and the ceremony from our guests and family too, who have genuinely not stopped talking about it ever since!
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Paulette M. Sent on 29/11/2022
5 out of 5 rating

A perfect ceremony !

Gary really took on our story and told it in the most perfectly funny way! Every single one of our guests complimented us on how amazing he was. He really made our ceremony so special and so personal to us. We loved it!
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Kate R. Sent on 23/11/2022
5 out of 5 rating

What more could you want in a celebrant?!

What can we say? Gary was just wonderful! Our ceremony was so personal and special and he really made it about us without making it cheesy and still got some laughs in! Cannot recommend high enough!
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Angie D. Sent on 11/11/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Beyond perfect!

Gary was absolutely amazing!! He tailored our ceremony to us after finding out about our backstory and where we began, our little quirks and made a ceremony that reflected us as a couple perfectly. Added with a sprinkle of humour to make us our guests laugh. Gary is a lovely person with attention to detail and checked in every step of the way to make sure we were happy with the ceremony script and comfortable. I could not recommend enough! Thank you!
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Annalise W. Sent on 04/10/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Fab by name fab by nature

When we met Gary we just knew he was perfect for the kind of ceremony we wanted for our wedding - it was so important to us as a couple that our ceremony reflected the journey we had both been on that lead us to our wedding day & Gary was so open to learning about Sobriety & how important it was to us both & how we wanted this to be worded in our ceremony & no ask was to much. You were amazing & not only did we think this we’ve had so many lovely things said about our ceremony from all of our guests as well both old & young alike thank you would never be enough
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Newly W. Sent on 04/10/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Excellent, supportive and friendly service

Using Gary was just ‘fab’ he listened, made time and really did get to know what we wanted from our ceremony. I would highly recommend him
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Michael F. Sent on 08/07/2022
5 out of 5 rating

A Fab ceremony indeed!

We were looking for a celebrant to do our ceremony for our second wedding (1st one was heavily restricted by that pandemic). We looked around at a few celebrants but when we came across Gary, it just felt like the right fit. We met and spoke a few times before the big day and filled in a couple questionnaires so we could get to know each other and so Gary could really get a sense of what we were like as a couple and bring that into the ceremony. It was all worth it because on the big day, it felt like we had somebody who was really invested in us to tell our story. The ceremony made us laugh and think and feel, it just reflected us and our story.

Gary offered for us to see the script beforehand and make as many changes as we wanted so that we could make sure it was just right but we chose not to see most of it because we wanted it to be a surprise and I'm so glad we did. It was in Gary's good hands and meant we could hear it all for the first time along with our guests and genuinely laugh and experience it with them. We got lots of our guests saying how brilliant Gary and the ceremony was.

If you're looking for a celebrant to authentically tell your story in a ceremony with a good few laughs thrown in, Gary's your man.

Michael & Sheilagh
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