Marking life’s moments with love, inclusion, dignity and grace
Hi, my name is Adriana
I create heartfelt ceremonies that honour life's biggest moments with joy, compassion, and care.
Rooted in trust and understanding, my role is to make every ceremony feel natural, meaningful, and beautifully personal.
Where your forever begins
Bringing a calm, grounded energy to your big day.
I design a wide range of entirely bespoke ceremonies across Ireland, ensuring the most important moment of your life feels entirely genuine.
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Ceremonies
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Love looks different for everyone, and that’s what makes it beautiful.
I create ceremonies that honour your story, your values, and your connection, whatever that may look like.
Whether you're planning a quiet elopement, a joyful celebration with family and friends, or a cultural or spiritual ceremony rich with tradition, I’ll be there to hold space and guide the moment with warmth and care.
I welcome all couples, all genders, all identities, all expressions of love, and it’s my deepest joy to create inclusive, meaningful ceremonies that feel like you.
Let’s make something unforgettable together.
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Welcoming a new life into the world is a moment of profound joy, love, and connection. I will create a baby naming or welcoming ceremony which offers a beautiful, heartfelt way to celebrate your child’s arrival with family and friends.
Whether you choose a name-giving ritual or a personalised gathering, this ceremony is a meaningful opportunity to share hopes, blessings, and promises for your baby’s future. It can include readings, music, symbolic acts, and the involvement of loved ones such as grandparents, siblings, or guide parents.
Each ceremony is uniquely crafted to reflect your values, culture, and story, creating a lasting memory of your child's first official welcome into your family and community.
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At life’s most tender moments, I am here to walk beside you with care, compassion, and respect.
Together, we will create a ceremony that gently honours the life, love, and legacy of your loved one. By listening deeply to their story and the memories you hold dear I will craft a ceremony that truly reflects who they were, a meaningful space for remembrance, connection, and grieving.
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Our world is constantly changing, and so our ceremonies need to change with us. There is space for ways of marking life that reflect who we truly are, grounded in acceptance, inclusivity, dignity, and love.
Beyond the well-known milestones, birth, coming of age, marriage, divorce, death, there are many transitions that deserve to be seen and honoured. Every story matters.
Ceremonies mark the movement from one chapter to another. They offer a space to feel supported, respected, and fully yourself as change unfolds.
Some ceremonies honour beginnings. Others hold space for endings. Most hold both.
A Ceremony of Transition or Threshold can gently hold the experience, the beginning, the ending, or everything in between.
If you are moving through a transition and would like to mark it in a way that feels true to you, I would be honoured to create something meaningful with you.
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Handfasting
A beautiful Irish tradition rooted in pre-Christian Brehon Law, handfasting can be a standalone event or added to a wedding. It symbolises two people freely offering their hands and hearts to each other with full intention. Historically used as a progressive "trial period" acknowledging that commitment takes work, it now beautifully marks the transition from engagement into full partnership.
Remembrance Candle
A meaningful way to pause at the start of your ceremony to honour loved ones who have passed. We can keep it simple or read their names aloud. The flame represents the lasting impact of their light and love. If you wish, this flame can later be used to light your Unity Candle, carrying their memory forward into your marriage.
Unity or Family Candle
A beautiful way to symbolise the joining of two lives and, if you wish, two families. Family members or the couple themselves light individual candles, representing the love, support, and experiences that have shaped them. Together, the couple then use these flames to light a single Unity Candle, symbolising the beginning of their life together.
If the couple have children, they can also be included by lighting their own candles from the Unity Candle, representing the love and unity shared by the whole family.
Salt, Sand, or Earth Ceremony
Symbolises the blending of two lives into one by pouring elements into a single vessel. It is highly visual and perfect for involving children in blended families. It can be customised to your personalities: blend different coloured sand to represent each member of the family, use earth from different homelands to honour your roots, or blend two types of culinary salt to take home and season your future meals together.
Winebox Ceremony
The ultimate romantic time capsule. The couple seals a bottle of their favourite wine, whiskey, or champagne into a box, often accompanied by private love letters to one another. The box is locked away to be opened on a future milestone, like a first anniversary, as a powerful reminder of your wedding day promises.
Ring Warming
A heartwarming option that involves every guest in attendance. Before the vows, your wedding rings are passed around the room (securely inside a box!). Each guest holds them for a moment to bestow their silent well-wishes, meaning the rings are literally warmed by the love and positivity of your closest friends and family before you slip them on.
Oathing Stone
An ancient tradition where the couple places their hands on a stone while reciting their vows to each other, "setting them in stone". The stone holds a place of honour for the rest of the ceremony, after which the newly married couple releases it back into nature to return the promises to the elements.
Quaich Cup
The Quaich is particularly popular with couples eloping to Ireland who want to incorporate a Celtic tradition into their ceremony. During the ceremony, the couple share a drink (traditionally whiskey) from the same cup to symbolize the joining of their lives, and the sharing of joys and challenges ahead.
Jumping the Broom
Is a meaningful way for couples to symbolize sweeping away the past, embracing a new beginning, and celebrating the union of two families as they step into the next chapter of their lives together.
Standing on the Rug
A very simple enhancement to a ceremony. Just before couple exchange their vows and their legal declaration they stand on a small rug. Then this rug becomes the place they got married, they can bring it home with them and have it through all their adventures.
Photographer - Ted Murphy
Photographer - Ted Murphy
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Photographer - James Gressier
Photographer - James Gressier
Photographer - Ted Murphy
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes, I am a HSE Registered Solemniser and am legally authorised to solemnise marriages seven days of the week at a venue of your choice.
Please note that for a legally binding ceremony, the venue must be accessible to the public.
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No, I am neither. I can be as spiritual, secular, agnostic or atheist as you want it to be. You can choose whatever language, music, poems, readings or quotes as you like.
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For a legal wedding, the only part that I must include to adhere to the HSE guidelines, is that you agree “to accept each other as spouse” and that “you do not know of any impediment to the marriage” and the Marriage Referendum Form (“Green Folder”) is signed on the day.
For any other type of ceremony, there is nothing that must be included.
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In Ireland, all couples must register their Intent to Marry with the HSE Civil Registration Service, no less than 3 months before their wedding date. You must both attend an in-person meeting, where you bring along the necessary documentation. You will then be given your Marriage Registration Form (MRF) in a green folder, which you will bring with you on your wedding day. This is signed during your ceremony, and it is then your responsibility to return it to the HSE Civil Registration office within 30 days of your ceremony and they will issue your marriage certificate.
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Yes, absolutely. I will write and deliver your personalised wedding ceremony, including any ceremony enhancements, and just omit the legal parts.
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Please get in touch and I’d be more than happy to answer your question if I can. Contact me here.