What my customers say

Liz was absolutely brilliant, from the moment we first got in touch with and met her to discuss how we’d like our day to go, we felt at ease. Liz is very attentive, patient, warm and thoughtful and put a lot of effort and warmth into crafting the words she shared with our guests on the wedding day. She was able to use her words and ours to convey what the day was truly about and for that, we are grateful. 5 stars out of 5, would definitely recommend her service.

Lucy and I were really excited about getting married and were completely buzzed with organising the whole wedding. We knew exactly what we wanted, and we wanted the same thing – except for in one area: the ceremony. One of us wanted a sincere and somewhat serious ceremony; one of us wanted a fun and playful ceremony. We had no idea how to breach this divide. We spoke to three potential celebrants, but it was clear that Liz, who we found on the Canal Street website under wedding planning, was best placed to help us navigate through our different view and create a successful ceremony.

 From the beginning Liz was heartfelt yet professional; a difficult balance to strike! We felt that she completely understood us and what we wanted and we were relaxed in her professional hands. She had a process that she guided us through, but was also completely flexible too. That balance is what made us feel that we could completely trust her and that she was listening.

 Our ceremony was perfect, just what we wanted. It had the right blend of sincere (but not tacky) moments, and a great deal of lightness and laughter. We feel that the congregation knew more about us as a couple, laughed at a lot of the journey we had been on together, and then took part in our journey into becoming married. Liz had a great idea to involve our mums as well as our dads in the ceremony, which we loved, and of course enabled our beloved dog to be part of the ceremony too.

If we were to get married again we wouldn’t change a thing about the ceremony or working with Liz.

Liz created a truly wonderful funeral service for my partner’s Mum. From her initial contact with the family and throughout the entire planning process she could not have been more kind, sensitive and empathic. Liz visited and kept contact with the family to talk to them about their loved one’s life and dealt very sensitively with each of them in their grief. Liz took great care in listening, was insightful and perceptive and communicated incredibly well with each individual.

She not only managed to beautifully capture the emotions and memories of the family, but she went above and beyond in providing huge comfort to them along the way. The resulting service was a perfect, personal tribute to the lady whose life was being celebrated and was a true reflection of her life and spirit. Those closest to her, her family and her friends all felt that she herself would have loved it too. I cannot imagine there is another person more suited to providing such an incredibly important service; Liz is an absolute gift.

From the first phone call with Liz we knew we had found the person that we wanted to marry us. Her warm, friendly yet professional manner was exactly what we had been looking for.  Liz came to visit us and really took the time to get to know our personalities. She explained and went through so many different options to ensure we would have exactly what we wanted for the wedding. The questions asked weren’t intrusive at all and allowed her to really get a picture of us and it was a really lovely way to talk through and tailor a ceremony bespoke to us.  We were able to contact Liz for any advice we needed and were given all the time we needed to write vows, find our own readings and get advice on how the ceremony would run.  

We all met for a rehearsal before the big day where she was able to meet the rest of our families, which added an even more personal touch.  On the wedding day itself, she was such a calming influence on the groom and ensured everything was and would run smoothly. There was no stress at all as we completely trusted everything would go to plan due to her fantastic organisation. The ceremony was beautiful and we will remember it for the rest of our lives. It is very rare that you find someone that can so quickly understand and capture exactly what a couple wants on their big day but Liz got everything so right and with so many little touches that just made the day even more special. 

On 1st June 2019 we had a naming day for our daughter and it was the most amazing, emotional and funny service we could ever have wished for. At first we were unsure what it would entail and if I’m honest I was a little sceptical as I’d never heard of a naming ceremony let alone attended one.

All fears were quickly banished at the very first planning meeting, Liz was so informative and imaginiatve. She kept us updated throughout the process and went above and beyond to ensure the day was simply perfect.  Each and every person commented on what a fantastic service it was and I’m sure there will be more bookings which come from it! Liz you’re amazing at what you do we cannot thank you or recommend you enough x

Hi Liz, Just wanted to say thank you for yesterday. ..everyone has been saying that it was one of the nicest most personal ceremonies they have been to, apparently there wasn’t a dry eye in the house!

Thanks for making it so special, we will definitely be recommending you!

Liz was absolutely amazing, she made the organising of the ceremony so stress free. The service given was amazing, everybody loved it and commented on what a beautiful service it was.

Huge thanks from Andrew, Steph & Jack xxx

Thank you so much for everything you did you made everything perfect for her and you took our words and put them in a way that was just perfect of Mum.

You have so much care and compassion and love for so many people a blessing given to someone as special as you. You have a gift and you choose to share it with so many people, Mum would of loved everything you said how you changed our words to fit her personality.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart your a very special lady, x

Ric and I had such an amazing day for our garden ceremony in the UK. We planned our wedding from abroad. I found Liz through extensive research. We contacted her and she responded promptly with all questions answered. We liaised via skype and finally met a week prior to our big day. Liz contacted all of our vendors to ensure all the timings and arrangements were set for our day. On the day, we had nothing to worry about.

Liz was professional and provided a seamless ceremony that encompassed everything we wanted mentioned or highlighted. At the end of our day, when we thought back, or day was truly superb.

A lovely touch was the beautiful card that accompanied a copy of our vows and ceremony which found placed in our room that evening.

Hi Liz, everybody loved yesterday. Such a great day and very emotional!

I can’t believe how vocal she (Ava) was, it was hilarious!! She is never usually that loud! I think she had a brill time though, we all did. Everyone commented on how wonderful the ceremony was and how warm and lovely you were.

Can’t thank you enough. the day exceeded our expectations and we will remember if forever.

I had this wonderful, amazing, thoughtful and kind lady called Liz, my brother passed suddenly at 44 years of age, my mum couldn’t cope so I had the duty to take over.

Liz was amazing, she made us all feel at ease and brought smiles to our faces at his funeral, smiles that we never thought we would do again. I owe her so much, she comforted my mum through this really hard time and brought us all closer than ever as a family.

Liz Thompson thank you so much for all you did for us, I hope someone else at this sad time gets the comfort and care we did, I recommend you to everyone. All the best and thank you, Leanne Vickers  xxxx

Having followed Liz’ business for the last 18 months or so, we already had a clear idea of the high standards Liz sets for herself, and these high standards become even more apparent once we booked her Wedding Celebrant services and commenced working together. We already shared Liz’ views on impersonal, conveyor-belt type weddings, and knew we didn’t want this, and so Liz taking the time to talk to us about our relationship and to learn about us as people was something we appreciated greatly.

The ideas we had for our wedding were for it to be a close, personal and intimate affair as neither of us particularly crave the limelight, and Liz complimented this notion perfectly, demonstrating a genuine interest in getting to know family members names and some basic background on family dynamics – which was important to me, having a blood, step and half family. Occasions such as weddings can be touchy subjects and have to be handled with an air of consideration in such families, and Liz taking the time to get to grips with this was greatly appreciated.

We loved the informal and relaxed approach Liz took as this helped make us both feel at ease and comfortable at a time when naturally, we were both quaking at the knees. The ceremony itself was performed and executed by Liz with professionalism and great diligence, with the final wording being perfectly attributed to our relationship – incorporating deep thought with bouts of humour. Just the perfect mix to keep our guests entertained and engaged.

Since the wedding, we have been complimented many, many times on the ceremony – which we can only pass all credit to Liz for. We really couldn’t have wished for a better service or more importantly, a genuinely lovely human being and now friend to have been such a huge part of our day.

Thank you Liz – you were awesome! 

Thank you, Liz, for making our daughters (Double) naming ceremony a wonderful day, the ceremony was everything we wanted and more!

Thank you for getting to know my family and therefore making the ceremony so personal to us, I would highly recommend Liz as a celebrant, for a personal and stress-free service.

We found Liz through the powers of the internet, and from the very first phone call I knew that she was the lady for us, our first meeting with Liz was at our home, and even though it was the first time we had met, that’s really not how it felt, she made us feel at ease with talking about words that we wanted for our ceremony (as we’re not really the romantic type) she really helped us when coming to write our vows too, and I loved the fact that Liz does a trial run of your service (something you don’t get with a registrar) this really calmed my wedding nerves, as I knew how fantastic it was going to be, think it also helped calm my Dad. The day was perfect, and Liz had even gone to the extra trouble of getting ribbon for our words, that matched our colour scheme! Could not thank and praise….. And recommend Liz enough, thank you!