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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

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English

Hi, I'm Onie

Hello, I’m Onie…I offer beautiful, relaxed, inclusive ceremonies for 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 generally cover these areas: Wester Ross, Inverness-shire, the Cairngorms, Aviemore area, Assynt and Coigach. 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. I combine my celebrancy practice with working for Social Enterprise Scotland, being Co-Director of Agnostic Scotland and KnotStressed Therapies and being part of a Scottish writing society.

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

£650 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 Sustainability Fund to support our wider community work. I only hold one ceremony per day so my day is yours.

What do I offer?

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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

£650 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 collaborate with you and write a unique ceremony for you. 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 if you wish to include them and donate a percentage of my fee to our Sustainability Fund to support our community work.

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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 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 collaborate with you and I write a completely unique ceremony for you. I create beautiful bespoke keepsake ceremony keepsakes, vow scrolls and symbolic elements. I plant a tree for every family, as well as vow scrolls and beautiful certificates should you wish to include them. I donate a percentage of my fee to our wider community work.

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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.

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, design vow scrolls and other ‘props’ if you wish me to. I donate a percentage of my fee to our community fund.

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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 or memorial ceremony 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.

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: 114

Average Rating: 5

reviews (114)

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Outdoor Civil Partnership and Naming Ceremony

5 Stars
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Naming Ceremony | 10/01/2023 | Dunkeld Forest

Onie was our calm and loving guide for mine and my partner’s outdoor Civil Partnership Ceremony and for our children’s Naming Ceremony.
After our first chat with Onie we were sure she was the right person for our Civil Partnership ceremony.

Onie supported our wishes for a ceremony without any guests except our one year old twins, and Onie embraced and welcomed the challenge of how we would keep them entertained whilst we said our vows.

We hadn’t considered combining our day with a naming ceremony for our children but Onie introduced us to what this could look like and all the possibilities for doing so. We loved the idea of having something to welcome our children into our family as we made our own commitments to each other. Onie had wonderful suggestions to make the naming ceremony special and to involve our children in our Civil Partnership ceremony.

Whilst drafting the vows Onie took particular care to ensure she had understood our memories together and our feelings and translated these into the most beautiful and meaningful story.

We arrived at our ceremony location with the usual madness of turning up anywhere with two toddlers and trying to jiggle them into their layers and shoes. It was October but we were extremely lucky with a dry, mild and sunny day. Having Onie there was like having your best friend there who had your back 100% and had your wishes and happiness as their number one priority. Onie was really accommodating and understanding in our need for flexibility to cater for the weather and our childrens’ needs.

It’s hard to describe how much Onie brought to our ceremony except to say that her words were more than beautiful and she filled the day with reassuring calmness and joy.

I’ve included a photo taken by our wonderful elopment photographers Raini Rowell and her husband Dave.

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Everything we could have asked and more!

5 Stars
Grant and Emily

Wedding | 01/21/2024 | Beinn Eighe Mountain Trail, Kinlochewe

Really couldn’t recommend Onie more – she worked extremely hard on helping us put our ceremony together and finding just the right spot for it. She made us feel comfortable throughout the process and especially amidst the excitement of the day. Our vows were beautifully written and personal to us, and she provided a range of options of different traditions to include in our ceremony. She was very helpful when we had problems getting the right place to get married and patiently explained how to manage things at the last minute as well as how to sort everything with the registry office. It was a magical day for us and Onie was a big part of making that happen!

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A Perfect ceremony!

5 Stars
Elizabeth Gillespie

Wedding | 09/16/2023 | The Free Company

Onie was fantastic, both in helping us put together a ceremony text that captured our relationship perfectly and in her leading of the ceremony on the day. She incorporated the themes we hoped to capture beautifully and helped us immensely with putting together the structure (suggesting readings, options for vows, handfasting etc.) as we had no idea what we wanted when starting the process. We were really touched at the number of our guests who commented aso positively on the ceremony. Thank you!

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