Lianne Hartland Celebrant

What do you offer?

Personally tailored, beautifully written and expertly delivered - this should be a baseline for all celebrants, not a brag. I bring ideas that feel like your own, presence without ego, a mix of crowd control and emotional caretaking and a safe space for you to come as you are.

Why do you want to work with the LGBTQ+ community?

Working with the LGBTQ+ community means honouring love shaped by resilience. Where we should be seeing progression, we are witnessing regression, and I will fight loudly and unapologetically against that. In a world that still marginalises and misrepresents queer people, the act of ceremony becomes reclamation, where chosen family is celebrated and identity exists without question or explanation. Celebration becomes resistance, visibility becomes healing, and every ceremony paves the way for a more inclusive future.

Allyship

Within celebrancy, my website has its own inclusivity page. All of my forms, questionnaires, and paperwork have gender neutral terms, and I already have a small collection of LGBTQ+ owned businesses for supplier recommendations, which I'm consistently adding to.

My social media is very new, but I also plan to use this platform to outline my views on inclusivity and against hate.

In my personal life, I've taken part in trans rights rallys, use my socials as a soapbox for current and ongoing issues and am unafraid to show my support for marginalised communities. I've worked on a 2-week national drag tour as backstage manager, culminating in amazing connections within the UK drag scene, whom I'm incredibly proud to call friends.

I am a neurodiverse bisexual woman, in a relationship with a man, and am well aware what most people think when hearing that. I understand completely the privilege that comes with passing, but have also felt the sting of dismissal, invisibility and gatekeeping from both outside and within queer spaces. I have had my sexuality minimised as well as inspected, and will never do the same to another individual or couple.

I am still new, but from these very first steps, it's incredibly important to me that inclusivity is a central pillar of my small business. As a celebrant, I also conduct naming ceremonies and will be offering my services to any trans or non-binary people wishing to celebrate their identity. This isn't a particularly popular notion in the UK yet, but I can see such potential power in these ceremonies and can't wait to learn with these individuals and create something amazing. Moving forward, I have plans to do styled shoots with my friends and their real-life partners to ensure queer people are represented, will continually advertise myself as inclusive, build my portfolio of queer couples and supplier connections.