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On Hitched.co.uk since 2022
Last update: October 2024
Helen Phillips Your Best Life Celebrant is passionate about presiding over wedding ceremonies in Leeds, West Yorkshire and beyond. As an accredited humanist celebrant with a wealth of experience, Helen lovingly guides couples through your wedding ceremony. Inspired by your unique love story, this seasoned officiant looks forward to helping you marry in the way you've always dreamt of.
Services Offered
You and your partner are bound to be impressed by Helen's creative approach and vibrant personality. She serves just one wedding per day, so she will be able to give your celebration her undivided attention. If there are any readings, music pieces, or symbolic acts that you are interested in, be sure to let her know, however, don't worry if you are not sure as Helen can also offer you plenty of suggestions. Helen Phillips Your Best Life Celebrant's wedding package includes unlimited communication, a bespoke script, a presentation copy of your script as a keepsake as well as all travel to and from meetings in advance and to your venue on the day itself.
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Reviews for Helen Phillips Your Best Life Celebrant
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Quality of the service 5 out of 5 rating
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Response time 4.9 out of 5 rating
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Professionalism 5 out of 5 rating
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Value for money 5 out of 5 rating
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Flexibility 5 out of 5 rating
Helen was the best celebrant we could have asked for!
Thanks again Helen 💖
Helen is the most wonderful celebrant
Every video call, meeting, and email conversation with Helen brought a smile to my face, she guided us through wedding planning with all of her valuable experience and knowledge (her initial questionnaire alone was better than any wedding planning guide online or the journal I bought!)
By the time our wedding day came around Helen felt like a friend and it just made sense that she was the one to be stood up there with us in front of all of our friends and family, telling our story better than we could ever tell it ourselves.
Our entire wedding day was perfect, but out of everything we chose, the thing we received the most compliments on from guests was Helen delivering our ceremony.
It was so important for us to have our three daughters involved, the day was just as much for them as it was for us and Helen understood this straight away and was on board with making the ceremony special for them and including them, she even had a video call with our eldest a couple of weeks before the wedding to settle her nerves and discuss the reading that Helen had found for her.
Helen's attention to detail is amazing, she listened to everything we said and created our dream ceremony as though it was the easiest thing in the world, it must be scary to present a couples own story back to them as a script but I'll never forget the first time I read it and we will cherish that script for the rest of our lives, Helen couldn't have got it more perfect for us.
In the ceremony she made everyone feel welcome and relaxed just like we hoped, it came naturally to her, she has found what she is meant to do and I'm so happy that she was such a huge a part of our day.
Absolutely Fantastic!
What she wrote was genuinely amazing, informative yet comical and it was great hearing our guests talk about it afterwards as they loved hearing about our story as someone of them didn't know exactly how we met etc a lot of our guests had never been to a humanist ceremony and said it was far more interesting than a religious one!
What was also great is Helen can control the room, sometimes at weddings things can get a little hectic with no one listening and people trying to get involved but Helen laid down the law and took charge which made things run very smoothly!
If I were to ever get married again ( hopefully not, as it's only been a month haha ) I would 100% book Helen again!
Thanks so much for making our day extra special! :)
Ant & Kat
🌟 the absolute best celebrant 🌟
A huge thank you Helen, we appreciate you and will forever be thankful for our amazing ceremony. You really helped kick start the day and we will always cherish such an unforgettable and special time! ❤️
Ps absolute bonus points for the amazing sparkly heels you wore, very on theme and again, so many people commented on how fab they were ✨
Absolutely perfect ceremony!
We had a few special requests which Helen accommodated without hesitation.
We are so very grateful for the beautiful memories.
Amazing Celebrant
Beyond imagination
Dream Ceremony - Full Of Personality!
At first we had no idea what we wanted, but Helen's suggestion to include a handfasting was a great idea, it really helped us involve other guests outside the bridal party and groom party. That really helped get our ideas flowing - we're very quirky, humorous and laid back, and Helen was so helpful in listening to our other suggestions. Our idea to add in a "burrito duel" with foam burritos to decide who read their vows first really made it feel like *our* ceremony with our personalities stamped all over it, which was exactly what we dreamed of!
The ceremony was delivered superbly on the day and all went according to plan. Our wedding day just felt perfect and Helen was such a crucial part of making it happen, getting the party started in the best possible way! We would absolutely recommend her!
Absolutely perfect
Greatest Celebrant Ever!
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Everything we hoped for... and more!!!
Our finished ceremony was everything we wanted, and more. There were last minute changes which Helen handled without issue, everyone felt so welcomed by her and she delivered the most personal, meaningful service. Everything was there; who we really are, what is really important to us, a laid back atmosphere, lots of laughs and some surprises too! I had arranged a magician to surprise my husband as part of the service, only telling Helen and my son who "lost the rings" as part of the show! It was brilliant! Helen had made contact with Chris ahead of the ceremony and it was seamless! She also surprised me with a signed copy of a Donna Ashworth poem that I had chosen as our reading; blown away that she had gone to the extra effort to do that for me... it is framed on our wall as a lovely reminder of our day. We also had whiskey shots, a live song from my dad and our cockapoo present at the ceremony. It was everything we hoped for.
I cannot recommend a humanist ceremony enough. Every word was bespoke, everything represented who we are and what our marriage means. It felt comfortable and personal and meaningful.
Helen practically facilitated every step, but she also became someone I looked to for inspiration and advice. Her belief in the humanist movement, the personal touch and of really knowing people as individuals stood out. She was amazing and, like the service everything I hoped for. I'll never forget it and I'm forever grateful to Helen.
Amazing experience
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What a superstar!
The planning process was so simple and Helen was on hand for all my bridezilla moments and kept me super calm.
Thanks for the most wonderful service and for helping make our day so magical.
An exceptional celebrant who know how to bring your story to life. Extremely personal and tailored ceremony!
My first observation following my initial call with her, is that Helen was so personable and relatable. Having not done this before, it was a little daunting because we weren’t quite sure what we wanted and what to expect from a celebrant. She made it extremely easy for us, and the biggest thing was that she was actually interested and cared.
Her style of connecting with us and getting to know us, our journey, what matters to us, what messages we wanted to convey was ….well very natural and it felt like we were talking to a friend.
She created a script that brought everything we had hoped for to life. It was so personal and to put it simply so ‘Us’.
On the day, her presentation was both personable and professional, and the ceremony really touched the hearts of all of our guests, and we had so many comments around what a beautiful ceremony it was.
We truly couldn’t recommend Helen enough.
Helen….once again, thank you so much for bringing every person in the room together to celebrate our union is the most personal way possible.
Shannon & Suman Steward
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Beautiful ceremony.
Planning a wedding with a new baby was stressful but Helen was very supportive and made the process so easy for us. She went to great lengths to clarify what sort of ceremony we would enjoy and also to get to know us personally. It really felt like someone was conducting the ceremony who had known us for years. Throughout the whole process she was helpful and warm and brought many suggestions to enable us to agree a beautiful ceremony.
Our initial contact with her was via video call and her warm, positive nature, instantly attracted us to choose her as our celebrant, we had spoken to a couple but Helen stood out as who we wanted.
We meet up face to face a few weeks later, where we began to talk through our story, we knew we’d made the right decision. Sharing our life’s story with Helen was so easy. It was like meeting up with an old friend for a catch up. .
After this meeting, Helen gave us her timeline up to the big day of when first draft would be ready etc. She always worked to schedule, allowing us to make changes along the way, not that many were needed in that first meeting she captured everything!
Helen arrived with plenty of time on the day. Greeting all of our family and friends as they arrived and talking those involved in the ceremony through everything they needed to know. When the moment finally came, Helen delivered our ceremony with the same warmth and joy we’d experienced on our first meeting, but this time our family got to join in. It was exactly what we had wanted and envisioned our ceremony to be.
Following the ceremony, Helen took the time to once again speak to both of our families, as well as joining us for a photo to capture the wonderful moment, before she then left us to enjoy the rest of our day. We will always remember everything Helen did to make the build up and the day, so special for us. It really was more than we could have hoped for and can’t thank her enough for being apart of our day!
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