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Charlotte Simpson
- Feb 6, 2019
- 3 min
My Values
I've been working with the truly wonderful Donna Wojtas who helps super power wedding businesses with her coaching company, Savvy Wedding Pro. She's encouraged me to articulate my business values. I've been trying to convey these values - through the way I work and the way I market my work - but it never crossed my mind that I could and should also just write them down! So here they are... Excellence My business is based on an unshakable commitment to exceeding your expectati
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Charlotte Simpson
- Jan 5, 2019
- 6 min
A Blessing of Hands - a simple wedding ritual of love and connection
A blessing of hands - at a wedding ceremony - is a moment to pause, to connect with your senses and your partner and reflect on the meaning of the promises you’re making. It can go before or after the vows but I often put it right near the end of the ceremony - as a reflective moment of intimacy and connection before the celebrations begin. It fits particularly well into a handfasting ceremony, when the hands are such a focus throughout, but it’s ideal for any couple that lov
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Charlotte Simpson
- Jul 10, 2018
- 6 min
How to involve children in your wedding ceremony
Some children - for example my little girl, who insisted on posing for this photo - get very, very excited about weddings. If there are going to be children at your wedding, here’s why you might want to include them in your ceremony: 1) Children love to feel part of grown-up events - if you show them you’ve thought about them, their delighted smiles will repay your effort ten times over. 2) Bored children are disruptive. Engaged children, meanwhile, are angelic… not to mentio
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Charlotte Simpson
- Jul 6, 2018
- 2 min
A Baby Blessing
I've been refreshing my resources for Baby Naming Ceremonies and I've struggled to find readings I really love - prose or poems that express how I remember feeling when I held each of my tiny babies in my arms and felt that thunderbolt of love and responsibility surging through me. The challenge with readings for ceremonies is that they have to connect with an audience on their first listen. I love Sylvia Plath's poem, You're, for example. But, while I think the last two line
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