Ronit Quayle, Humanist Celebrant

Name: Ronit Quayle, Humanist Celebrant
Address: Glasgow, GB
Telephone: +447966018642
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Humanist Society Scotland Celebrant. Glaswegian, with curly hair and sweary chat.
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As a humanist celebrant, I do the same thing for all my clients – help them to tell their stories. After working in communications in Edinburgh and London for the best part of a decade, I have moved back home to Glasgow in 2015 and have the privilege and the joy of being a Registered Celebrant with the Humanist Society Scotland. I work with families to create meaningful and personal non-religious ceremonies for some of the most important times in their lives.

11/10/2026

Don't do it if it doesn't mean something.

Forcing down wh**ky neither of you likes because you think you should do a symbolic thing? Absolutely do not bother.

But drinking Mad Dog from the quaich as a symbolic call back to the night you met? Love it

"Amy had a flatwarming. Her sister brought a couple of pals. One of them brought four bottles of knock-off Mad Dog from the corner shop. Hmm.. a bit rough maybe? He was very polite though."

It wasn't knock-off at the wedding. Grown up affair. He is still very polite.

📷 Good Luck Wolf 🐺 Glasgow Wedding Photographer (huge fan of his work and he has not bad patter. Strongly recommend you book him)

04/10/2026

Wedding rings.

Almost every couple exchanges wedding rings. They don't 'decide' to include it any more than their great great great granny 'decided' to include it in her wedding.

But it's actually one of my favourite rituals. One of the only physical parts of the wedding that makes it into married life.

It's even more lovely if you pass them among your guests during the ceremony, as I tell your story.

"The warmth from your hands, symbolising your love for them, will pass through these rings. That’s what completes the circle; wherever you journey, you will always carry that love with you.

And because I have been told exactly the sort of crowd this is, we are going to call this ‘the warming of the wedding bands’ rather than a ‘ring warming’..."

That sort of sums up Paddy and Chris' wedding. It had the appropriate amount of lols and the appropriate amount of sincere and meaningful.

This was one of my top weddings of the year. A big part of why is the feeling of being among 100 people who just love the bones of you. It was very special.

📷 Top Table Photo + Film

🎪BAaD - Barras Art & Design (What's the emoji for venue? They are great and you should definitely get married there)

🌼 Louise 👩🏻‍🦰 | Scottish Wedding Florist

27/09/2026

A cup of tea to start married life.

Because I get to know you properly, I learn all the wee things that make your relationship feel like yours. For T + G, it was tea.

They bought each other new cups and teapots and started married life by each making their wife a cuppa.

"If you two were doing things ‘traditionally’ then you would toast your marriage by drinking from the quaich, usually wh**ky. But if you did things only according to tradition then you wouldn’t have been married today, as two brides. You would have each been chattel in a property transaction between your father and your husband. So, let’s do things in a way that reflects you. Which means, yes, a drink but, a cup of tea.

Tea has been a constant throughout your relationship. And the symbolism is better than wh**ky. Because what is more comforting than a cup of tea? To make somebody a cup of tea is an act of love and care, always."

📷 Mia - Scotland LGBTQ Couples and Elopement Photographer 📷

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18/09/2026

A nice wee reading.

People think that as a humanist celebrant, I know lots of good wedding readings. They are correct.

(People also think I am the sort of person who goes to w***y spoken word nights and they are again correct. Hearing this live from was very lovely)

"Such is the everyday magnificence of loving you
It's not something we fell into so much as stumbled through"

12/09/2026

Who should your witnesses be?

Which of the maybe 100 people at your wedding do you choose?

Your favourite people. Who you feel the most 'you' with. Who could turn up at your house and you'd always be happy to see. Who have seen you crying/hungover/laughing so much your face hurts. The people you probably messaged immediately after the date.

Your ceremony usually goes like this:

After I tell your love story, I declare you married, you have a kiss (then I find a reason to get you to kiss again to ensure your photographer gets the shot) then we sign the paperwork.

There's a massive release of nervous energy. You are giddy, unexpectedly thirsty, and can't believe you actually did it .

It's an unexpectedly magical and surreal moment. Share it with your favourite people. Siblings/pals/mums/grandparents.

📷 Jo + Liam - Scottish Wedding, Elopement + Family Photography (just LOOK at these pics. I will recommend them to everyone because they bring the best energy, are the most fun and are pretty handy with a camera)

29/08/2026

Sit down and get comfy, I'm going to tell you a story. It's a story you know well. It's your own love story.

(You don't have to stand for your whole ceremony.)

I mean, traditionally, you do stand the whole time. But, traditionally, weddings have a groom. Which is to say, ditch traditions that don't serve you.

Z + F were talked down the aisle by parents but met in the middle and walked into marriage hand in hand.

It was a big wedding but everyone had a role. Love when guests are part of it rather than spectators. They passed their wedding rings among their guests. We all sang together. Their pals made them a cocktail to drink from the quaich.

But their vows? Exchanged privately after they were wed. A love letter is not something to share publicly.

📷 Joy Story
🌼 Simply Pottering

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22/08/2026

Imagine hearing for the first time at your wedding ceremony exactly why your partner loves you.

A ‘safe’ way to have surprise parts of your ceremony: I ask you why you love your partner, write it into the ceremony, send it to you to approve and then they hear it for the first time on the day.

Steff and Nasko’s wedding at Cottiers looked like and felt like a fairy tale. Which was apt because their love story is something of a fairy tale.

He wrote on Tinder that he was looking for his Tinderella. She took the p**s out of him for that.

But he had the last laugh because she married him. He found his Tinderella!

And this is what Steff had to say about him:

“You make her laugh and you get her jokes and you are just the funniest person she knows. Steff loves that you can read her mind when she gets the stutters. Your positivity is infectious. You make Steff feel so safe and able to be her real, true self.”

Hearing someone you love describe exactly why they love you is really just the most magical thing.

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07/08/2026

Can your wedding ceremony be full of laughter when someone important is missing?

It can.

"I don’t want to imply life has always been easy. The sudden loss of Julie’s dad when you were living on the other side of the world really put things into perspective. And even without that, life can just be hard. Especially when somebody (naming no names) crashes the car into a pillar. Or a garage door. Or when they flood the bathroom."

Loss hits differently on your wedding day. The people who should be there are impossible not to notice.

So how do you honour them without making everyone (especially you) feel sad?

Julie and Craig started the ceremony by each lighting a candle. Not for a moment of silence. Simply to acknowledge the people who had loved them and helped make each of them the person their partner fell in love with.

I didn't name names. Everyone knew whose faces were missing.

As the candles burned, we laughed. A lot. In their honour.

Because that's what every parent wants for their child.

📷 Graham Williamson

05/08/2026

AMY & ROSIE

Amy & Rosie were married in Dunfermline and made their mark, with disco balls and giant Mrs & Mrs signs at the Glen Pavillon. Surrounded by so much love, from their friends and family - particular emotional ceremony brought a tear to this photographer’s eye.

It was a joy to be invited to shoot your day, Amy & Rosie, thanks for having me ❤️

Photographer: Josephine Young Wedding Photography
Venue: Glen Pavilion
Celebrant: Ronit Quayle
Rosie Hair: Dora Bridal Makeup & Hair
Rosie Make-up: Emma Kirk MUA | Fife Makeup Artist
Amy Dress: Kudos Bridal | Dunfermline
DJ: Scottish Premier

29/07/2026

Looking for personal wedding ceremony ideas? Here's a Scottish one you might not know: the oathing stone

At their humanist ceremony, Keira and Bobby held their oathing stone in their joined hands as they made their vows, to set them in stone.

I tell my couples to choose a stone from a place that means something to them - a park they walk the dog, their garden, the place they met. Keira and Bobby were still deciding on the perfect spot.

One afternoon, their son had spewed all over the car and everyone needed some fresh air. On the banks of the Clyde, in the trenches of parenthood, they were somehow still laughing. That's why they were getting married. Their wee boy decorated it after they got home. It was perfect.

Until you pick it up, it's just a stone. One of many. By choosing it, you give it meaning.

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