My name is Reverend Hazel Jane, and I believe in magic.
I believe in honour, in history, in symbolism, in truth. I believe we can celebrate love differently. I believe we can do death better.
I am an interfaith minister and creative celebrant living in the glorious kingdom of Fife (in a wee village called Auchtermuchty!)
I conduct weddings, funerals, and rites of passage for gorgeous souls in Scotland and beyond. I’m passionate about telling stories. I craft with language and ritual to create beautiful, safe spaces - holding people wherever they are, offering whatever they might need.
I came to ceremony after experiencing the power of a deeply personal and authentic funeral in my family. I witnessed true healing and true grieving and felt this is where I belonged. In 2018, I trusted the calling and trained with the Fellowship of Professional Celebrants. Wanting to deepen this practice, in July 2021 I was ordained as an Interfaith Minister with the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation. I respect, love and appreciate all faiths and those with no faith.
Rituals are incredibly powerful. A ceremony can welcome a new life to this world, or bind two souls together. Ceremony can let go of a life beautifully lived, or aid in the grief of a life gone too soon. This time we carve out, directing our collective energy into love and celebration, is truly sacred.
I combine my celebrancy and ministry with a love of journalism - I am curious and want to find out about you so I can create something that is authentic and completely bespoke.
If you are planning a ceremony in the future, I would be thrilled to join you. If you want to find out more about what I’m up to, I update Instagram regularly.
Love always, in all ways.
Hazel
A bit more about me….
I’m a lucky wife to a gorgeous Frenchman, who I married in 2022. Our sweet daughter, Ottilie, was born a few months later and has brought us much delight and joy.
I love yoga, film photography and any sort of live theatre or music. I first came to Scotland when I was 18, where I spent a week at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on my own. I knew then I’d found my soul home in Scotland and came to live here in 2017.
We travel as much as we can - I’m happiest in new cities. Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Budapest, Lisbon…pieces of my heart are scattered across them. It’s a perfect balance to me because I spend so much time up in the Highlands, wading through rivers, climbing cliffs, and generally getting rained on for my ceremonies. I like to be where the life is, where the things are happening, where people are creating and where I can celebrate them.