Celebrating Love & Life... Your Way
LUKE KERCHEVAL | CIVIL CELEBRANT & MC
...Sprinkle your own dust...
Whilst remaining respectful of tradition, times past, and the emotions evoked by occasions such as weddings and funerals, my strong belief is these are days of unique collaborations. Therefore, we are not constrained, nor must we adhere to or conform with, what we have experienced previously.
Love, grief, excitement, humour, and truth are as powerful as they are important. These should be free to play a central role throughout the planning and presentation of your Bespoke celebration.
Tell me the story, how you would like it told, and I will deliver exactly that for you.
Celebrate, reflect, dance, sit, laugh, cry, rejoice, remember.
There are very few limitations; this is entirely up to and for you and your loved ones.
I need to piece together names, faces, emotions, and stories to create a tangible, unique ceremony. For that and various other reasons, this website is superfluous. We should meet, chat, and once we have, everything will be perfect.
Not only would I love to help and be involved, together we will create and achieve your ultimate, personal;
BESPOKE CELEBRATION
I became a Celebrant to contribute and collaborate with people through their celebrations of life and love.
Because I believe in my unique ability to connect with anyone, my quick wit, and genuine want to help you smile, remember, laugh, and love (sometimes all over again).
My sincere desire is to really hear and share your story of those you love, with those you love, in a personal and meaningful manner.
Ensconced in wedded bliss since 2007, and with two wonderfully challenging daughters, has me acutely sensitive to love and those we treasure.
Still a young man, yet old enough to have witnessed and experienced the examinations and triumphs of life, death, love and loss, to authenticate your individual needs and desires.
Vast writing and public speaking experience complemented by humour, empathy and professionalism, has me perfectly suited and excited to assist you in creating and delivering your quintessential ceremony.
LUKE KERCHEVAL
CIVIL CELEBRANT
WEDDINGS
Deep breath, lovebirds – this is the fun part!
Relax: the nerves are temporary, the champagne is forever, and in ten minutes you’ll wonder why you ever worried. We’ve got this.
Best news ever: the legal bit is tiny. I handle 99% of it – timings, paperwork, and definitely not pronouncing you “awful and awful”. The law just needs a couple of quick sentences. Done.
Everything else is yours. Glitter, Star Wars quotes, trained owls, Macarena broom-jumping – bring it. Write your own vows, let me write them, or just stare lovingly while I do the talking. Your call.
You can be as hands-on or hands-off as you want:
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Feed me your epic love story and I’ll craft a ceremony that has Nan crying into her prosecco.
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Or just say “romantic, funny, under 25 minutes” and watch the magic happen.
Tell me how you met, what makes you laugh, and how you want it told. Then show up, hold hands, try not to giggle when I nail your dog’s middle name, and let me give you a ceremony you’ll quote forever.
FUNERALS
The Funeral, in essence, is the last physical gift we can provide to our loved one.
This is a unique occasion to acknowledge and celebrate a valued life. To share our grief and love with loved ones, and strangers to some, who themselves are grieving their own loss, using memories as cushions for our grief.
The participation of family and friends arranging, contributing to, and experiencing this celebration provides the opportunity to establish and share the depth and breadth of your loss and love. To be party to the true, full telling of a life that accurately reflects the person, their passions, beliefs, peaks and troughs, also the joys of your relationship.
We can embrace this rare gift with a celebration of their life with love, respect, a smile and a laugh, and all the different types of tears.
I promise comfort, safety, space, empathy, versatility and professionalism - Culminating in a collaboration of needs, thoughts, and wishes of all those involved and affected into a befitting and entirely Bespoke Celebration.
EVENTS / GIGS
I’m the professional MC who shows up with charisma in one hand, a dangerous amount of humour in the other, and zero chill when it comes to boring events.
Corporate gig, conference, awards night, or full-blown rager—no matter the scene, I’ll have your crowd laughing, leaning in, and forgetting they ever checked their phones. With lightning-fast wit, perfectly-timed stories (and the occasional savage-but-loveable roast), I turn microphones into magic wands and awkward silences into ancient history.
My job? Hijack the energy, crank it to eleven, keep everyone glued to their seats (or the dance floor), and hand you an event so electric that people will still be quoting me at next year’s Christmas party.
In short: you book the room, I bring the unforgettable. Let’s make your event the one nobody shuts up about.
FUNCTIONS
Wedding? Milestone birthday? Secret society initiation? Whatever the gig, I’m your MC, host, and unofficial crisis whisperer. I run the timeline like a benevolent dictator, herd DJs and caterers with military precision, and keep the crowd buzzing while invisibly karate-chopping any drama that dares rear its ugly head.
With a smile that says “I’ve got this” and a microphone that says “you’re welcome,” I’ll welcome your guests, nail every introduction, sprinkle just enough cheeky banter and groan-worthy puns to keep the energy sky-high, and make the whole day feel like the best party they accidentally got invited to.
Basically, you get to relax, sip champagne, and pretend you planned everything perfectly… while I secretly make it perfect for you.
RENEWALS
So you’ve decided to renew your vows – brilliant choice! Whether it’s to hit the relationship refresh button, celebrate a big milestone, or simply because you still fancy each other after all these years, any excuse to say “yep, still mad about you” is pure soul-fuelled joy.
You can replay the greatest hits of your original wedding (same dress code: optional), or shake it all up – new venue, new guests, new vows, maybe even new dance moves that your knees now strongly advise against.
You’re not the same people who got married way back when. You’ve upgraded: more wisdom, more laughter lines, possibly more grey hair (own it, silver foxes). A vow renewal is your chance to celebrate the deluxe edition of your love story – now with extra maturity (and maybe a little less stamina for the Macarena).
Whether you’ve been holding on through the storms or marching on through the sunshine, this is the moment to pause, grab each other’s hands, look your person in the eye and basically say, “Round two? Hell yes.”
It’s not just a ceremony – it’s a glorious, love-drunk high-five to your future selves. Let’s make it unforgettable (again).
NAMINGS
Naming ceremonies are pure, unfiltered joy – hands-down one of the happiest gigs I get to officiate.
They’re basically humanity’s oldest tradition that doesn’t involve someone trying to sacrifice a goat (we checked, no goats required).
This is the big, official “welcome to the tribe” moment for your brand-new, tiny (and almost certainly cheekiest) family member – whether they arrived by stork, adoption papers, foster care, step-parent magic, or sheer determination. We gather everyone who matters, form a ridiculously cute circle of love, and promise – out loud and with snacks afterwards – to cheer this little legend on for life.
We’ll celebrate their name (which you definitely didn’t choose at 3 a.m. while delirious on coffee and panic), pledge to support their future obsessions (dinosaurs, glitter, heavy metal bagpipes – we don’t judge), and basically swear a solemn oath to always let them be 100 % themselves… while secretly hoping they’ll still let us choose their outfits for family photos.
It’s heartfelt, it’s hilarious (because babies stealing the show is inevitable), and it’s the loveliest way to say: “Welcome to the chaos, kid. We’ve got you.”
