Please contact us to discuss your requirements. The more information you are able to provide, the better we will be able to advise accordingly.

You are very welcome to make further enquiries, or ask any questions you need to, without any obligation to proceed. We want you to be confident that we are the right people for you before you commit.

Please provide us with as much notice as possible please.

Yes. Really. If you want a fully legal Pagan wedding, we can ensure that your ceremony complies with the requirements to ensure it is fully legal and it will be recognised throughout the world as such (although we do advise you to check independently if this is something that concerns you, perhaps in your country of origin, and please be aware that in some countries same-sex marriages remain illegal).

And you really can get married where, when and how you want. Honest.

Orkney is a group of islands off the north-east coast of Scotland; legally it is part of Scotland. On request we can send you a leaflet all about how to get to Orkney and travelling within Orkney.

Let us reassure you that you certainly don't have to think of yourself as a 'Pagan' to use any of our services.

For tourist guiding please refer to our tour guiding fees.

Our crafts are priced individually because they are all made to order, but guidance is given with each craft item by type on our crafts page.

Our fees for rituals start from £200, for baby-namings and funerals. Whilst weddings and relationship blessing rituals start from £749.

If you are concerned about the cost, we understand that everyone has unique needs and differing budgets so, if our set fees are beyond what you can afford, please contact us about providing a service for you that is costed at a level that is comfortable for you as well as being fair for us. We will always try to tailor our services to match your requirements and budget on request. Promise!

If you wish to book a date for tourist guiding, we will require a non-returnable deposit of £100GB per day. This secures the date just for you. We usually provide tourist guiding at a fixed half- or full-day rate, however, occasionally guests ask us to provide extras which may incur additional costs. The more information you provide to us, the more accurate our quote will be.

If you wish to book a date for a ceremony, we will require a non-returnable reservation fee of £100GB. We will not ask for this until after we have agreed with you that we are the best people to provide this service to you. If we agree and you ask us to, this will secure the date just for you.

In all cases, the more information you provide to us, the better able we will be to provide an accurate quote to you for the services you are requesting of us. Our fees will usually be in accordance with those laid out in this web-site.

When we accept a deposit for a booking, for any of our services, we cannot usually accept any other work on that date; your reservation fee covers us for any loss of income should you cancel your booking for any reason. Wholly at our discretion, we will hold any monies paid by you against a different date (if that date is free) if you subsequently need to postpone and / or change the date of your ritual or tour.

If you are concerned about the cost, we understand that everyone has unique needs and differing budgets so, if our set fees are beyond what you can afford, please contact us about providing a service for you that is costed at a level that is comfortable for you as well as being fair for us. We will always try to tailor our services to match your requirements and budget on request. Promise!

Yes, we make handfasting cords and a range of other crafts, on request, and provided we have adequate advanced notice please because everything is made to order.

We are celebrants, not wedding planners. We only plan the ceremony itself.

We are happy to make recommendations to you for other aspects of your special day but, for legal reasons, we are not able to make bookings for you with other agencies, you would have to do that yourselves. We can recommend an Orkney-based wedding planner on request.

We are happy to recommend professional photographers with whom we have worked successfully with previously.

We offer a photography service ourselves; suitable for smaller wedding parties and all other ceremonies.

Well, we didn't intend to but, although we've performed small intimate weddings with just the couple, the Celebrant and two witnesses present, as well as much bigger weddings with a hundred guests, most of our weddings do tend to be for smaller gatherings. We never meant for this to happen, of course, and our services are available to ANYONE, but most of our couples tend to be people who have been married before and now want something which is about THEM, with a focus on the ritual and their own particular relationship.

Although a surprise wedding sounds romantic, we are not allowed by law to perform legal weddings unless both parties are fully understanding that they are entering into a legal marriage contract. Refer to this official advice from the National Records of Scotland.

Of course, we have several themed sample ceremonies which we can send on request, but please bear in mind that these are just ideas for you to gain a sense of what is possible, YOUR ceremony will be unique to you.

Yes, you need to sign in black ink using a fountain pen. We will loan you this for your ceremony. You don't need to bring or buy one yourself (unless you want to).

Our most popular location is the Ring of Brodgar, a 5000 year old stone circle and the third largest in the British Isles ... but Orkney has so many beautiful places to choose from!

Historic Environment Scotland own or manage many of the ancient and historic sites in Orkney, including the Ring of Brodgar, and we have excellent relationships with their staff which facilitates gaining permission for rituals. As we are both trained archaeologists, Historic Environment Scotland know that we would never do anything to harm their properties and that we will advise couples on what is feasible and practical. We can assist with liaising with Historic Environment Scotland to gain permissions to hold ceremonies at sites which they own or manage.

Please don't ask us to conduct a ritual anywhere that is unsafe or where access to the public is generally denied. We are happy to advise on this. 

Please note that this specifically means we are NOT able to conduct ceremonies in the Italian Chapel and / or St Magnus Cathedral.

We know that Pagan couples love their pets and lots of Pagans have a particular affinity with animals. Our cat, for example, is not just a pet, but our friend, familiar, and child substitute ... for many of our guests, their pets are an integral part of their family too.

We do not have any sort of 'exclusive franchise' on offering Pagan weddings in Orkney so we are happy to recommend other Scottish Pagan Federation celebrants, but because we are based in Orkney, if you did want to have a legal Pagan wedding in Orkney (or Shetland or the Highlands of Scotland), we are likely to be the most inexpensive option for you in terms of travel expenses.

We are regional STGA guides and only insured and qualified to guide in Orkney.

We are able and licensed to perform legal rituals and ceremonies throughout Scotland (and non-legal rituals anywhere in the world) and we are both willing to travel on request (expenses would be due). However, for rituals outwith Orkney, we would recommend contacting other Scottish Pagan Federation celebrants who would be nearer, simply because their travel costs will necessarily be lower than ours (they won't have to take a ferry nor will they have a long drive). We can contact other Scottish Pagan Federation celebrants on your behalf on request. 

YES! We are delighted that from 2015 we have been able to perform legal weddings for same sex couples! The Scottish Pagan Federation were active in campaigning for a change in the law, previously we had only been able to perform non-legal blessings in conjunction with, but separate from, a Civil Partnership arranged through a Registrar, but from 2015 we no longer have to compromise and neither do our couples.

To the best of our knowledge, we performed Orkney's first legal Pagan same sex wedding in summer 2019; we have performed several more same sex weddings since then.

I am transgender, can you perform a legal wedding for us?

Scottish marriage law permits marriage rituals performed by an approved Scottish Pagan Federation Celebrant to be treated as a fully legal Pagan marriage under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 and to be recognised as fully legal throughout Britain and the rest of the world. However, if you are travelling from outside the UK you are advised to obtain independent legal advice on this, especially if you require marriage visas or have any issues to do with residency.

There are a number of traditions unique to Orcadian weddings, on request we will be delighted to send you more information about this.

Unless your ritual is a fully legal wedding, you may use whichever name you wish!

If you have your own Priest or Priestess whom you wish to perform the ceremony, and you require a celebrant in order to comply with 'the legal bits', we are willing to consider collaborating in order to co-officiate but we would ask that your Priest or Priestess is prepared to fully co-operate when working with us in order to ensure that the legal requirements are properly fulfilled.

To clarify: we are not able, nor are we willing, to simply turn up and say the legal sentences with you, we need to be fully involved in the ceremony in order to comply with the law. We are, however, very good 'team-workers' and are used to compromising and working with a range of people.

Of course and we would actively encourage participation.

Of course you can. This option works exceptionally well as a blessing for the whole family.

As standard we supply a complementary mead toast (as a symbolic drink to honour the couple) in a quaich or drinking horn, for the couple only. For vegans, or those who do not drink alcohol, we supply apple juice as an alternative. You are also welcome to provide your own preferred drink of choice.

We can loan you a traditional besom / broomstick to jump over which we decorate with seasonal flowers and herbs (where available). 

We know many musicians in Orkney and are happy to make recommendations to you on request, this includes traditional bag-pipers, harpists, drummers, folk-musicians, and guitarists. Orkney folk are incredibly talented and are sure we will be able to find someone for your ceremony who will play a perfect wedding set for you.

There is usually an additional charge, payable directly to the musician, starting at £100 for a basic service.