A Freehold showcase. This person is fictional. The bar along the bottom tracks this site's features as you scroll; each is something you can ask for on your own build. Every build is bespoke: this shows the range, not a template.

I’ll say this slowly, because it matters.

How it works with me

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Four parts, in the order they happen

First, a conversation

You and I meet. Your place, mine, or the phone. I ask a lot of questions and I write nothing down until you’ve stopped talking. It takes half an hour, or longer if it needs to. It’s free, and you’re not booked until you say so.

A plain wooden kitchen table with a stoneware teapot and two cups, two empty chairs pulled out, morning light, nobody in the room. — Ten minutes before the first conversation. Usually it is a kitchen table, and the pot is already on. A generated picture, made for this showcase. On a real build, her own photographs of real ceremonies, with permission, sit here.

Then, the writing

I draft the whole ceremony and send it to you. You read it, and you change anything: a word, a story, the order, all of it. Nothing gets said on the day that you haven’t read first.

One plain wooden chair on a timber floor in an empty room with a single folded sheet of blank cream paper resting on the seat. — The words on the chair, ten minutes before the person who has to read them arrives. Generated for this showcase.

The day

I arrive early, before the chairs are set out if I can. I don’t rush and I don’t improvise. I speak slowly enough to be heard at the back, and I carry spare copies in case anyone forgets theirs.

After

The signed words, printed and posted to you within the week. For a wedding, the paperwork goes to Births, Deaths and Marriages, and your certificate comes from them.

A long trestle table set out on cut grass in a sheltered garden with mismatched chairs along one side, a jug and a stack of glasses at one end, nobody there yet. — Ten minutes before a vow renewal in a garden, with the jug already out. Generated for this showcase.

Fees

Weddings from $650.

Funerals and memorials $450.

Namings and vow renewals $350.

A first conversation, free, always.

Each fee covers the conversation, the writing, the day, the drive anywhere in Canterbury, and the signed words afterwards. There is nothing extra to add on. And if I’m not the right fit for you I’ll say so and suggest who might be.

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