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Onie Tibbitt, Agnostic Scotland
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I travel Nationally & Internationally
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Beautiful, relaxed, inclusive ceremonies with you, your personalities, your stories at the heart. All locations - from grand hotels to mountain tops. All love celebrated ♥️
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Agnostic Scotland
Languages
English
Hi, I'm Onie
Hello, I’m Onie…I offer beautiful, relaxed, inclusive ceremonies for Weddings, Renewal of Vows, Baby Namings, Funerals, or any event significant to you and your family. I believe in creating ceremonies that are centred around the wishes and values of the family involved. This enables you to create a personal, unique ceremony with you, your personalities, your stories at the heart. A ceremony that reflects your own beliefs, whether that incorporates religious and spiritual beliefs or entirely non-religious/secular ethos. An Agnostic Scotland ceremony is inclusive and open-minded. Ceremonies can be funny-sweet, deeply meaningful, make-you-weep-while-you-laugh hilarious, heart-achingly poignant, timeless and grand, sincere and serious, gentle and thoughtful. They can be traditional, unconventional, grand, or intimate. Every element of your ceremony is your choice. I am based in the Scottish Highlands and love to travel to offer ceremonies further afield. Through Agnostic Scotland, I can conduct legal Wedding Ceremonies. All locations are covered from grand hotels to mountain tops. All love is celebrated!
What's my ceremony style?
I’m pretty relaxed in most settings and love meeting new people. Clients describe me as calm, thoughtful, warm, grounded, joyful, sincere, friendly, insightful and light-hearted.
In addition to being a celebrant, I am co-director of a therapies clinic in Edinburgh. For 20 years, I worked with families, supporting individuals through major life transitions. Over the years, friends and clients invited me to be celebrant at their life events – it is through these requests that I chose to become a life celebrant. I’ve been a celebrant since 2012, and absolutely love it.
Wherever and whatever you choose, it is my great delight to help you lovingly craft a ceremony that is everything you wished it to be.
Prices From
£550 plus travel and accommodation where necessary
Why choose Onie?
I really invest in the couples I work with and take the time to get to know you. I pour my heart into every ceremony I create to ensure each one is exactly as you wish it to be. Over a period of weeks or months, I collaborate with you to write a completely unique, personal ceremony for you.
For every couple, I plant a tree as part of a Scottish rewilding project. A percentage of my fee goes towards our community fund. I also provide vow scrolls, beautiful certificates and oathing stones, should you wish to include those in your ceremony.
I only hold one ceremony per day and am happy to adapt my service to your needs and wishes whether you choose to have your ceremony in one location, along a hike, or among two different locations on that day – perhaps an intimate gathering for your legal vows then a wider ceremony with friends.
What do I offer?
Weddings
Hello, I’m Onie…I am a Marriage Celebrant offering beautiful, relaxed, inclusive Marriage ceremonies, Vow Renewals and Commitment ceremonies in the Scottish Highlands and other areas. All love is celebrated and all locations are welcome; from grand hotels to mountain tops.
I believe in creating ceremonies that are centred around the wishes and values of the family involved. This enables you to create a unique ceremony with your story at the heart, one that reflects your own beliefs, whether that incorporates religious and spiritual beliefs or non-religious/secular ethos.
An Agnostic Scotland ceremony is inclusive and open-minded. I really invest in the families I work with and take the time to get to know you. My wish is always to create a distinctly unique and beautiful ceremony for you that is all you had wished it to be.
Through Agnostic Scotland, I can conduct legal Wedding Ceremonies.
Your Wedding Ceremony will celebrate you as a couple. From the telling of your story to the exchange of vows, from the inclusion of rituals to the declaration of commitment, your ceremony will joyfully reflect your own unique personalities and your journey so far.
You might wish to get married on a mountain, or in a woodland under the stars, or in an historic castle, or in your own garden.Wherever you choose, you can make your ceremony your own.
Ceremonies can be funny-sweet, deeply meaningful, make-you-weep-while-you-laugh hilarious, heart-achingly poignant, timeless and grand, sincere and serious, gentle and thoughtful. They can be traditional, unconventional, grand, or intimate. Every element is your choice.
I pour my heart into every ceremony to ensure each one is joyful, heartfelt and poignant. I hold the space on your wedding day, and if you are having a legal wedding, I declare you legally married.
Prices From
£550 plus travel
Why choose Onie for your wedding?
I love to travel and am pretty outdoorsy. I’m comfortable conducting ceremonies in all kinds of locations – mountains, hotels, gardens, beaches.
I really invest in the couples I work with and take the time to get to know you. Over a period of several weeks or months, I co-collaborate with you and write a unique ceremony for you, then create a ‘secret’ version based on ‘snippets’ you have individually shared with me. I pour my heart into every ceremony so it is exactly as you wish it to be.
I plant a tree for every couple, provide vow scrolls, oathings stones and other ‘props’ if you wish to include them in your ceremony. 5% of my fee goes towards our community fund.
Naming Ceremonies
Naming and Family Ceremonies are pure joy… reflecting the character of the small but mighty people involved. Planning a ceremony to honour the arrival of your baby, or to celebrate the completion of your family, is such a personal and individual process.
Together, I can work with you to create a beautiful ceremony that reflects your own unique blend of beliefs, values and wishes. One that adopts the tone you are seeking, and includes the symbolic elements or rituals that make sense to you and your family.
It is my role to help you lovingly craft a ceremony that makes your family smile and will leave you with a warm and heart-bolstering feeling inside. Agnostic Scotland has a Community Fund to help provide affordable ceremonies for all. If you feel you need support paying for your ceremony, please let me know.
There are endless possibilities when it comes to planning a Naming, Welcome-to-the-World or Family Celebration. You might be looking for a traditional Naming Ceremony with readings, a declaration of the names being given, promises from the parents, and Guide- or God-parents. You may wish to include elements of religion such as prayers or blessings, or create an entirely non-religious ceremony.
You might be seeking a ceremony that is heart-centred and holistic.
You might be wanting a light, fun ceremony that is full of child-focussed joy.
Everything is your choice. I will do my very best to create a ceremony for you that captures perfectly the essence of your family and the small, or not-so-small, people being celebrated.
Prices From
£450 plus travel and accommodation where necessary
Why choose Onie for your naming ceremony?
I love to travel and am pretty outdoorsy. I’m really comfortable conducting ceremonies in all kinds of locations. I will work with you to create a bespoke ceremony with you at the heart.
I really invest in the couples and families I work with and take the time to get to know you. Over a period of several weeks or months, I co-collaborate with you and I write a completely unique ceremony for you.
I create beautiful bespoke keepsake ceremony cards, vow scrolls and symbolic elements for you.
I plant a tree for every family, as well as vow scrolls, beautiful certificates and oathing stones should you wish to include them. 5% of my fee goes towards our community fund.
Renewal of Vows
Hello, I’m Onie…I am a Scottish Highlands based Celebrant offering personalised and individual ceremonies for Weddings, Renewal of Vows, Baby Namings, Funerals, or any event significant to you and your family. I believe in creating ceremonies that are centred around the wishes and values of the family involved. This enables you to create a unique ceremony with your story at the heart, one that reflects your own beliefs, whether that incorporates religious and spiritual beliefs or entirely non-religious/secular ethos.
An Agnostic Scotland ceremony is inclusive and open-minded. I really invest in the families I work with and take the time to get to know you. My wish is always to create a ceremony for you that will make your heart sing.
Whilst I am based near Gairloch in the Scottish Highlands, I love to travel and am happy to offer ceremonies further afield.
Your Vow Renewal Ceremony will celebrate you as a couple. From the telling of your story to the exchange of vows, from the inclusion of rituals to the declaration of commitment, your ceremony will joyfully reflect your own unique personalities and your journey so far.
You might wish to affirm your commitment on a mountain, or in a woodland under the stars, or in an historic castle, or in your own garden. Wherever you choose, you can make your ceremony your own.
Ceremonies can be funny-sweet, deeply meaningful, make-you-weep-while-you-laugh hilarious, heart-achingly poignant, timeless and grand, sincere and serious, gentle and thoughtful. They can be traditional, unconventional, grand, or intimate. Every element is your choice.
I pour my heart into every ceremony. I create beautiful keepsake scripts, vow scrolls and symbolic elements. I hold the space on your ceremony day and deliver a beautiful and unique ceremony for you.
Prices From
£550 plus travel and accommodation where necessary
Why choose Onie for your renewal of vows?
I love to travel and am pretty outdoorsy. I’m comfortable conducting ceremonies in all kinds of locations – mountains, hotels, gardens, beaches.
I really invest in the couples I work with and take the time to get to know you. I write a unique ceremony for you, with your input, then create a ‘secret’ version based on ‘snippets’ you have individually shared with me. I pour my heart into every ceremony so it is exactly as you wish it to be.
I plant a tree for every couple, paint oathings stones and create vow scrolls, should you wish to include these rituals. 5% of my fee goes towards our community fund.
Funerals
A lovingly crafted ceremony to help you recall and celebrate memories of time spent with your loved one. Finding the right words to honour a friend or relative who has recently died can be so hard. At a time when you have suddenly lost an important person in your life, there is nothing anyone can do or say to take the pain away.
For families experiencing such loss, planning the funeral can feel like a momentous challenge, and just one more trial to get through. If you would like me to help you to plan, write and deliver a life celebration ceremony for your loved one, then it would be my honour and privilege to work with you, and to help ease that process for you.
I do not charge for my time for funerals of individuals under 16 years of age.
The ceremony for your loved one would be exactly as you wish it to be. An Agnostic Scotland ceremony is one that is inclusive, open-minded and non-judgemental.
It is possible to entirely reflect in your loved ones ceremony their own unique blend of beliefs and values. All words, music, symbolic elements and rituals are entirely your choice.
I do my very best to ensure that the ceremony we create gives you the opportunity to say everything you wish to say and do everything you wish to do in order to truly pay tribute to and honour your loved one.
At Agnostic Scotland, we have a Community Fund in order to ensure that all families have access to affordable ceremonies. If you feel you need support in paying for your loved one’s ceremony, please let me know.
Prices From
£450 plus travel and accommodation where necessary
Why choose Onie for your funeral?
I will take the time to get to know you, to find out everything that I can about the loved one you are grieving for, and to help you create a ceremony that you feel proud of and that truly does your loved one justice.
I can help you create a ceremony that entirely reflects their personality, the life they lead, the choices they made and the challenges they faced, the joys they experienced and that celebrates all the important elements that made them who they were.
Reviews for Onie Tibbitt, Agnostic Scotland
Total Reviews: 111
Average Rating: 5
reviews (111)
Onie helped make our day feel exactly like us!
I can’t recommend Onie enough as a celebrant, and she helped make our ceremony feel exactly like us!
From the get-go, Onie provided loads of different options and ideas of how to structure our vows and ceremony, as well as some great general advice. We then were able to travel and meet her in person which was lovely, and made the conversation flow really naturally as she asked questions about our life together, who we are and what’s important to us. Neither of us had felt very strongly about marriage but it felt like a natural step to show to the world how we felt inside, and Onie was able to tease this information out of us and put words to the feelings we had. She also helped us navigate a blended family dynamic and missing loved ones and how to pay homage to them without turning the atmosphere somber.
On the day, she guided us through our ceremony and was just generally somehow both an uplifting and calming presence (plus she thought of everything – like if we wanted her to wear a certain colour to match our theme!).
I wouldn’t hestitate to recommend Onie – she knows exactly how to guide you through a process that you (most likely!) have never done before and have no clue of what actually needs to happen.
Onie put us at ease.
This was one of the best days of our lives and it wouldn’t have been the same without Onie who put us both at ease from start to finish.
Our ceremony was filled with music and words from our closest peoples. Everyone one brought sea shells and beach pebbles to create a circle around us for the ceremony. It was ideas like that that made it feel so special.
After the service, so many friends and family mentioned how the ceremony was truly heart felt with a real sense of the moment, while still being filled with giggles and humour.
In the preparation Onie took so much care in understanding who we are to create a ceremony that felt authentically us.
We absolutely recommend Onie who was exceptional in every way. Thanks again Onie! Love Paul & Sarah (and Munro woof) xxx
The Most Perfect Day
When being invited to a wedding and upon realising that the ceremony is to be secular we tend to assume that the ceremony will probably be haphazardly strung together and incoherently structured as they usually are. Religious ceremonies tend to have a built in structure which takes all of the stress and worry away from thinking of the flow of the ceremony.
Being non religious ourselves, our biggest worry was finding a celebrant who could provide a solid ceremony which flowed naturally but without the religious content. Onie is without a shadow of doubt the single best celebrant we’ve ever seen. Over a single meeting she managed to draft an entire ceremony which reflected our love perfectly and on the wedding day she delivered it superbly! We cannot count how many of our guests said to us that it was the best wedding ceremony they had ever witnessed, religious or secular. Onie is an absolute pleasure to work with and such a genuine person and we are so happy we chose her to be our celebrant on our special day.
