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Some weddings stay with you. This is one of them. The phone rang on a Wednesday. By Saturday afternoon, I was standing in front of two strangers — now newly married — in one of the most cinematic settings in Britain. And they'd asked me to deliver their entire ceremony surrounded by genuine costumes from Game of Thrones. Welcome to the most extraordinary wedding I've ever been a part of. The brief A couple from New York had decided to elope. They didn't want a long engagement

A celebrant-led wedding is a ceremony built entirely around you. Here's how the process works in Yorkshire and the North East, step by step, by a qualified celebrant.

The strongest wedding ceremonies I've ever written have one thing in common: a ritual. Not an obligation. Not a bit of theatre. Something small that the couple actively do together in the middle of their vows, usually lasting only a few minutes, that turns the ceremony from a nice event into the moment everyone still talks about a year later. As a celebrant working across Yorkshire and the North East, I get to help couples design these moments all the time. Some draw on deep

If you've just got engaged and you're starting to look at wedding ceremonies in Yorkshire or the North East, you'll almost certainly have come across the word “celebrant”. And if you have, you'll probably have followed it up with the same question every couple I speak to asks in the first five minutes: “Do we still need a registrar if we book a celebrant?” Here's the short, honest answer, from someone who does this for a living: in almost every case, yes — you'll want both. A