The Tall Trees Celebrant

Heartfelt ceremonies, creatively curated with loving care.

Hi, I am Jilly, The Tall Trees Celebrant. I am a fully qualified independent and heart-led celebrant offering ceremony services across Gloucestershire, surrounding counties and beyond.

Each individual human is as unique as each tree that grows in the world. Each ceremony, whether a wedding, a vow renewal, a funeral, a naming or any life event you wish to celebrate can reflect this uniqueness. I am passionate about making life’s transitions truly celebratory and meaningful. My role as The Tall Trees Celebrant is to design a script that forms a sincere and special ceremony, that shines a light on you and your love story, life story or new beginning. A memorable and heart-full celebration embracing personalised word-story, music, memories, rites and rituals and all that feels precious to you.

My training experience with Heart-Led Celebrants expresses a distinct way of working, taking considered time to get to know you. I will hear, honour and nurture your ideas, wishes, dreams, experiences and memories, creatively weaving them into your ceremony. Each Tall Trees Celebrant ceremony script is consciously crafted especially for you. I work with key elements, word magic, word medicine and storytelling; stories within stories. Sometimes tiny stories are actually huge stories! I view my celebrant role as being of service and deeply value the importance of taking significant time to get to know you.

"In the art of ceremony, we sculpt time and space to create moments of meaning and magic." Author unknown

In honour of the ceremonies I write and officiate, I pledge to donate a number of trees annually to a chosen charity for that year.

I’d be delighted to hear from you and highly recommend that you contact a handful of celebrants in your preparation and planning. In essence, find a connection that feels comfortable, warm, trusting and respectful.

I love to blend convention and quirkiness in any ratio you like! I offer celebrant services for weddings, handfastings, vow renewals, naming ceremonies, funerals and memorials. Alongside these, I offer a whole host of ceremonies to mark significant life events. I can create menarche, menopause/sagesse and blessingway celebrations. In addition, parting of the ways (for separation/divorce), miscarriage memorials and conscious conception, house blessing, pet funerals and new business are all worthy of attention via dedicated ceremony and ritual.

From intimate circles and small family gatherings to wider events including friends and community plus large celebrations and corporate ceremonial events. I relish the opportunity to conduct ceremonies in a wide variety of locations. Whether you choose your back garden, the local village hall, a hotel function room, the woods, the beach, a board room or a field, I’ll happily be there! Marking significant moments in time with ceremony and heart-led magic.

Whichever type of ceremony you are requiring, wherever your location may be and whether your style is quirky, wild, themed, traditional, unconventional or an eclectic mix, I will bring an abundance of calm, creativity, respect, acceptance and heart throughout the whole process.