Molly + Jason | April 2025
“We had the most amazing day, we are still riding the high! You were absolute perfection!”
I often feel relatively new to this job, despite this being my third summer as a celebrant. But, turning up at Molly and Jason’s big day at Horton Grange to discover I’d already worked with both make-up artist Claire and photographer Sarah, I almost felt like an old-timer. To be on first name terms with suppliers? How legit. Almost like a proper job with colleagues? How comforting.
Photos by fellow Sarah of Never Ending Stories Photography
If this wedding was a Friends episode, I think I’d call this The One With All the Emotion. Before the wedding Molly and Jason swapped letters, which had them both welling up in anticipation of becoming husband and wife.
And then just HARK your eyes at sweet Molly’s face, coming down the aisle with her dad. She was crying, Jason was crying, we were all crying. Luckily they’d predicted as much and there were ‘for your happy tears’ tissues dotted all around. We needed them.
I absolutely love tears in a wedding ceremony. Actually I like tears any time, any place, they’re such true emotion. I often get asked “how do you not cry when you’re doing a ceremony?” and the truth is - sometimes I do! And I just welled up looking at these photos again!
I just remind myself (well, my husband Jonny lovingly reminds me) that these ceremonies aren’t about me. Haha. So I get tears in my eyes and I hold them there, I try not to let them fall. I want to allow all the space and all the time and all the emotions to my couples.
“Well, it’s a little bit about you”, Jonny always adds.
There were so many lovely touches throughout the day, from thoughtful gifts given to the bride and groom before proceedings began, to personalised signs and details everywhere. It was a real celebration of who they really are. And one thing I spotted (as I had my usual nosey around) and thought was such a cute idea for wedding favours? At every setting Molly and Jason had put little packets of ‘his favourite’ (mini kinder buenos) and ‘her favourite’ (pink foam pick-n-mix) favourite sweets.
During the ceremony we popped a (posh) bottle of champagne they’d saved from their engagement, after I’d told the brilliant story of how this was a wedding that almost didn’t happen. Because it started with a first date that almost didn’t happen, after Molly broke her phone and ghosted poor young Jason.
How lucky that they reconnected and fell in love. Because they bring out all the best emotions in each other. All the happy tears, all the thrown-back-head laughs, all the knowing looks and secret smiles.
Love is grand and I could cry at how close I get to stand to it.
“You were one of the best decisions we made about the wedding!!”