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 love writing, I love spending time with people, I love being part of the momentous days, and hopefully being a safe, warm presence on what can be an overwhelming day.

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. That really means you can have anything you like in your ceremony, as long as its right for you.

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

I’m a lucky, lucky mother to Ottilie, who arrived in 2022 and has made life a beautiful chaos ever since.

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.

I’ve had a patchwork tapestry of jobs, starting as a milkshake maid when I was a teen, to founding a print magazine out of college, plenty of hospitality jobs in hotels, restaurants and bars, marketing for conferences, and then working in tech and startups across Scotland.

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 out in the wilderness, 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.