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.

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

Scottish wedding | two brides | LGBTQ wedding | relaxed wedding | personal humanist ceremony | relaxed celebrant | wedding inspiration |

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.

📷 .photography
🌼 .farm.flowers.and.crafts

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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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Venue: . I will do another post about how amazing they are soon.

10/07/2026

Marry your best friend.

If your job is marrying people then you can marry your oldest pal in sunny Spain. While trying not to cry (mostly but not entirely successfully)

It meant I could announce them married "by the power vested in me by three and a half decades of friendship".

At nursery, we used to put PVA glue on our hands and say we were ‘stuck together cousins’ because we couldn’t bear to be separated. More than three decades later, we are still friends. We’ve always had a system where if one of us calls the other twice, you have to call back - the ‘two rings’ system. A few years ago, after not being in touch much, I got two missed calls. Two rings so Rebecca knew I would call her back. And since then, we have been stuck-together cousins once more.

I marry a lot of people but I don’t think any wedding will ever be as special as this one.

Destination wedding | get married in Spain | humanist wedding ceremony | relaxed wedding | funny ceremony | personal wedding ceremony

19/06/2026

Kids and rainbows

When Anna and Gio got married at Harelaw Farm (one of my fave venues), they wanted their daughter to be part of the ceremony.

So they tied the knot with 3 handfasting ties, one to represent each of them. Their daughter's was at the centre of their knot because she is at the centre of their lives.

One of their readings was her favourite story. Kids books are so often about love - it's such a nice way to include them in your ceremony.

And the rainbow? They asked me to wear that necklace. Lots of couples do. Interestingly, q***r couples (and I marry a lot of LGBTQ couples) often ask me not to because it's a bit 'gay wedding'.

📷 By Wedding Photographer Scotland

Humanist celebrant | Ayrshire wedding | farm wedding | Glasgow celebrant | kids at weddings | handfasting

14/06/2026

Love letters should be private.

Although Z + F said 'I do' in front of their guests, they also wrote each other a love letter. I think they included promises. I think they talked about what life as wife and wife would be like. But I don't know. Because I didn't see them. Because you shouldn't read somebody else's love letter.

This was after we all sang together, did handfasting and they got their pals to make them an espresso martini to drink from the quaich. But before everyone got fired into the table of homemade cakes.

What a special day. A room filled with love, with walls covered in hand-painted flowers. Two people who adore each other who have the sort of love I thought you only read about in books.

Scottish wedding | LGBTQ wedding | non binary wedding | wedding vows | relaxed wedding | funny ceremony | q***r love

07/06/2026

Traditions are great. But we can do better than that.

Tea is such a big part of life for yesterday's brides. So, their first act of marriage was to present their wife with a new mug and a new teapot and make her a cup of tea.

Love is a verb because it's a 'doing word'. Making your partner a cup of tea is a small thing but it's a daily act of love.

Yesterday's couple started married life as they meant to go on and it was the best.

Two brides | LGBTQ wedding | Scotland wedding | Scottish elopement | Humanist wedding | Humanist celebrant

10/05/2026

Is it boring to marry the girl you fancied when you were a wee boy?

No. It's amazing. (Assuming she is amazing, like Fergus' first crush was and is)

Telling their love story was the definition of cutting a long story short:

"In the two decades between thinking “Oh I definitely fancy her” and “Oh I am going to propose”, you have grown up. You have seen every version of each other."

Btw if you're called Georgina but everyone calls you Gini, I don't need to use your proper Sunday name at any point during your ceremony. Even the legal bits.

That means if you're trans or non-binary or just have chosen to use another name for any reason, I can use your chosen name for the ceremony. (It will still be printed on the legal paperwork though)

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