Legal Marriages
Who can marry us?
Independent celebrants create wonderful wedding celebrations, personal ceremonies, as individual as you are, and carried out wherever you want to have them. However, unfortunately, at the present time, independent celebrants are unable to do the legal part for the marriage. You still have the ceremony of your dreams, but you do just need to have a brief procedure with the local registrar too, to cover the legal part of the marriage. In Scotland, the only people who can carry out legal marriages are Registrars, Religious clerics and those representing belief bodies. However, some members of SICA are also part of belief bodies or are religious officiants, and can carry out a legal wedding for you. Please see each celebrant’s individual page for details.
When two people chose to formally commit themselves to each other, it is a truly glorious time! What a joy to mark your love for each other amongst your special people.
These days, there are so many ways to do this. Each of our SICA celebrants can help you navigate your way through the options, finding the perfect solution for you.
Perhaps you wish to make that commitment all over again! Many couple chose to renew their vows to each other, often on a significant anniversary. What a fantastic opportunity to celebrate a love that has endured and to make those vows to your partner, once again. Maybe you want to do it privately or maybe have the biggest party. Whatever your requirements, any of the SICA celebrants can help makes those dreams a reality.
Celebrants covering Legal Marriages
Emily Porth
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I am based in Loanhead, Midlothian and work across the greater Edinburgh area and beyond. I am happy to travel to your perfect ceremony location, and to conduct ceremonies outdoors.
Hello! I’m Emily and at Heart of Yew Ceremonies I create bespoke ceremonies for people who feel a spiritual connection with nature. My aim is to collaborate with you to co-create a deeply meaningful, heartfelt, and inclusive ceremony that has nature and the cycle of the seasons at its heart.
Hazel Jane
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I live in Auchtermuchty in Fife. For environmental and family reasons I am keen to do ceremonies in Fife, Perthshire and the Central Belt, but I'm happy to travel anywhere.
My name is Reverend Hazel Jane, and I believe in magic I believe in honour, in history, in symbolism, in truth. I believe we can celebrate love differently. I believe we can do death better. I am an interfaith minister and creative celebrant living in a wee village in Fife, Scotland. I conduct weddings, funerals, and rites of passage for gorgeous souls in Scotland and beyond. I’m passionate about telling stories. I craft with language and ritual to create beautiful, safe spaces – holding people wherever they are, offering whatever they might need.
Gordon Smith
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
Regardless of the life event you wish to mark or celebrate, whether happy or sad, attended by many or private, my training and experience allows me to create and conduct a truly unique ceremony. Each one being created with you, for you, to ensure a genuinely personal service.
Susan Fraser
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I am based in Clackmannanshire, right in the middle of Scotland, so I am well placed to travel all over the country.
“beautiful words for special days” Whether you are looking for a wedding ceremony that is just the way you want it to be, a meaningful renewal of vows, a beautiful welcome for your new baby, or a heartfelt celebration for the life of a lost loved one, I will take all the time it needs to work with you to create the words and meaning that are right for you.
Gaynor Hogg
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
Happy to travel
I can help you create the most perfect ceremony, to mark the life event of your choosing, whether it’s working together on your legal wedding ceremony, your wedding blessing, elopement or welcoming the special gift of a baby, renewing the your vows, blessing your new house, a letting go ceremony, no matter the occasion if it’s a change in your life we can move through it together with love, compassion, meaning, and mirth in a way that is right for you. www.gaynorhoggceremonies.com My authorisation to conduct legal marriage is part of my membership with The OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation recognised by the Registrar ...
Helen Parker
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I am based in Renfrewshire so am handy for Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire & West Dunbartonshire . I am of course happy to travel further afield to help you create a totally bespoke and heartfelt ceremony, be that a legal marriage, vow renewal or baby naming, or funeral or memorial ceremony that honours the life of your loved one.
Hello. My name is Helen and I’m a Celebrant based in the lovely village of Houston, Renfrewshire. After initially training as a funeral celebrant, I am now able to offer other ceremonies, including legal marriages, baby naming ceremonies, adoptions, divorce ceremonies. All are totally bespoke and tailored to reflect your wishes.
Chris Booth
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I'm based in Edinburgh and happy to travel anywhere in Scotland
I’m Chris Booth and I offer unique, co-created, personal, and participatory ceremonies for weddings, funerals, baby namings and life transitions of all sorts. I am a OneSpirit Interfaith Minister, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and I look forward to working with you whatever your background or spiritual beliefs — if any. All my work has an emphasis on sustainability and connection with the natural world. I believe in the power of community and the earth to support and nourish us with love on our journeys through life.
Angela Maughan
Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I am a loving and respectful celebrant creating ceremonies all about you. I will support, guide you and write bespoke ceremonies reflecting your values. I always work with love and compassion and offer support and spiritual guidance.
Patricia Millon
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I work mainly in Perthshire, Scotland and surrounding areas such as Dundee, Stirling, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, and Paisley.
As an Independent Spiritual Minister, I am dedicated to provide heartfelt and meaningful ceremonies tailored to the needs of individuals and families. My authorisation to conduct a legal marriage is part of my membership with the Associationof Independent Spiritual Ministers recognised by the Registrar General. As with all SICA members who are authorised to conduct legal marriages in Scotland this authorisation is separate from from my SICA membership aisministers.co.uk I primarily serve the Perth, Stirling, and Glasgow areas, offering a variety of ceremonies to mark significant life events.
Diane McLeish
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
As the name suggests, my ceremonies are celebrations, honouring a life, welcoming a new life or identity or marking an important rite of passage. In addition to my own life experiences and professional background in the NHS, Public Health, Communities and Education, I have an open-minded and culturally sensitive approach to life, death and everything in between.
Laura Gordon
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I mainly officiate ceremonies in Moray, Aberdeenshire and the Highlands, although I am willing to travel and can conduct ceremonies in all areas of Scotland.
Hello, I’m Laura Gordon – Celebrant, storyteller, tartan enthusiast, and firm believer that every milestone in life deserves a ceremony as unique as the people at its heart. I call beautiful the beautiful Morayshire coast home now, where I live with my husband, my mum, my nephew, two wonderfully daft dogs, two opinionated cats, and a run full of fancy chickens who behave as though they own the place. I am originally from Stirlingshire, so it’s a change of pace up here, but I love it!
Fiona Beeley
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
Located in the North East of Scotland , I cover Aberdeenshire and Angus. I am also happy to conduct ceremonies in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway.
My ethos is based on creativity and equality – embracing many cultures, identities and belief systems. I love getting to know the people at the heart of each ceremony , building relationships and then creating a personalised ceremony that holds meaning unique to the people involved.
Lesley Fraser
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
Love is at the heart of all the ceremonies I create with you. I have a background in bereavement and relationship counselling, broadcasting and public speaking for over 30 years. A trained nurse, I have long held the conviction that helping relatives and friends to say goodbye to their loved ones in a caring and sensitive way helps them to carry on despite their loss. I have worked as a Chaplin and I am also an Ordained Interfaith Minister able to conduct legal weddings in Scotland. I love to create original, people based ceremonies, tailored to your needs. Please don’t hesitate ...
Gillian Robertson
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I believe in compassion, warm-heartedness and kindness and I bring these qualities to my interactions with families: I am committed to listening deeply and working together to craft a Ceremony that is unique and right for your particular threshold moment.
Ian Bonner-Evans
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I am an interfaith minister and celebrant and I’m available to conduct ceremonies including opposite-sex and same-sex weddings and civil partnerships. I work mostly in central and southern Scotland but I’m happy to travel further afield if required. My aim is to be accompany you to the best of my ability during this important time, and to create and deliver a special ceremony which truly reflects your own beliefs, values and requirements.
Veronica Ferguson
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
Central belt and Argyll & Bute but will travel further if necessary.
I am based in Argyll & Bute, Helensburgh is my closest town. I have taken ceremony in Argyll & Bute, Paisley, Glasgow , Stirling, Dundee and happy to travel. I am from Co Armagh and so have an Irish accent, so if you don’t like an Irish accent I’m not your celebrant! I take ceremony because I enjoy it. I am a professional actor and find taking ceremony much more rewarding than any performance. I have never had a family that were not utterly delighted with the ceremonial process. We meet as strangers we leave as friends. I am sensitive, patient ...
Thomas Baxter
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
I am based in Angus and cover the whole of Scotland. I am happy to conduct ceremonies in a venue of your choosing.
Hi, my name is Tommy, and I am an experienced Celebrant, always willing to listen, always willing to learn. I work closely with you, guiding you, as we create a service fitting for the occasion. Whether it’s a loving, compassionate, and respectful service which captures the essence of a lost loved one, or a marriage ceremony that’s unique, joyous, and memorable, I will deliver a heartfelt ceremony with warmth that is always mindful of your own values and beliefs.
Jean Thomson
Naming Ceremonies / Funerals and Memorials / Weddings / Legal Marriages / Other Ceremonies
Helensburgh, Lomond, Argyle and Bute, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, Paisley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkirk, Stirling, Aberdeen, Dundee, West of Scotland, Perth, Highlands and Islands
My name is Reverend Jean Thomson and I am a Ceremonialist and Interfaith Minister operating throughout Scotland. My aim is to create personal, meaningful, memorable ceremonies, filled with love, be that welcoming new life, entering marriage or saying a sad but fond farewell to a loved one. It is a privilege to get to know couples and families and work with them at both the happiest and saddest moments in their lives. The common thread that runs through all my ceremonies is that they are crafted with love, authentic and tailor made. As a minister with the Open Sanctuary I am ...


















