Love, Loud & True

What do you offer?

Love, Loud & True was made for those who believe love should be celebrated in a bold, authentic and unapologetic way. As an independent celebrant, my job is to help clients express and champion their most genuine self and step into the world with confidence, courage and joy. Offering weddings and vow renewals (as well as naming ceremonies and other life celebrations), I work together with clients to compose a ceremony that truly encapsulates their unique love. No two stories are the same, so neither should two ceremonies!

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

Through the frustrating process of planning my own wedding, I found it difficult to find suppliers who my partner and I felt represented and truly understood us as a queer couple. I started my business as a celebrant both to champion and embolden queer love in my community, but also to devise an avenue where I could be unapologetic about my neurodiversity and creativity - this is not a job where I need to fit into a box, and I love working with clients who likewise feel that 'boxes' aren't for them!

Allyship

As a relatively new business, I don't yet have a huge catalogue of photographic material to clearly reflect my inclusivity and allyship. However, as my business expands and continues, I will always be proud to show a range of client photos with bold and celebratory representation. For me personally, I have a desire to better reflect straight-facing queer relationships as well as people with hidden disabilities as I feel these can often goes underrepresented. As a pansexual disabled woman, a lack of visuals for these enormous parts of my own identity have often made me feel invalid and neither a part of the able/straight or disabled/queer communities, so I think it is important to give these things the proper recognition, and I hope to better that.

One of the services I offer is a 'naming ceremony'. This is most commonly seen as being for infants and children of adoption/blended families. However, I also want to make specific reference to this as an excellent option for trans and NB folks as a way of claiming their identities and celebrating themselves with friends and family.

I've ensured that all terminology used in my business is gender neutral, accessible and welcoming. I allow couples to begin creating their ceremony from a completely blank canvas without being immediately pigeonholeed by non-inclusive terminology such as bridal party, best man, groom, etc. I am a cisgender woman, and my beautiful wife is a transgender woman, so I ensure that my pronouns are always clearly available, both so you know how to address my own gender identity as well as normalising and providing encouragement to those using new pronouns. I know that this was hugely helpful for my partner early in her transition!

I am constantly keeping my ear to the ground, looking for opportunities to expand my knowledge of issues affecting our community and ways in which I can support my clients. I am always open to feedback and suggestions on how to better represent out queer culture both personally and professionally.

Outside of my job as a celebrant, I work as a property manager for an Estate which includes two wedding venues. During my time there, I have picked up a number of wedding industry suppliers on their gendered terminology and lack of inclusivity, including a frankly alarming number of prominent suppliers who have only 'bride' and 'groom' check boxes on their forms! I feel that it is important to speak up for my own community by courteously correcting exclusionary language and actions, and I have felt proud to do this both as a customer and a supplier for the wedding industry.