Candice Dillen - Humanist Celebrant

Name: Candice Dillen - Humanist Celebrant
Address: Edinburgh, GB
Telephone: +447540643545

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Humanist Society Scotland Celebrant in Edinburgh. Weddings / Funerals / Namings / Civil Partnerships

06/08/2026

Officiating at a vow renewal is not new to me. Officiating at 3 vow renewals, in one giant love and happiness filled ceremony of sheer joy, is!

3 couples, all wonderful friends of many years, first brought together by music, came all the way from California to renew their vows in the stunning Abbotsford House.

P & J renewed their beautiful vows holding a heart shaped oathing stone they found earlier that day by the river, after 34 years of marriage. They included the very fitting poem Like a River (Whitney Hanson) which I’ve heard many times before but which held so much extra meaning today.

C & T also found an oathing stone and renewed their vows…for the 33rd time! They have done every year, in the most amazing places - a wrestling ring in Tijuana, a submarine off the coast of Catalina and at the legendary Music Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama!

J & P celebrated 26 years of marriage by renewing their vows for the very first time. They did so whilst hand fasted, using ribbons they had covered in graffiti and words of love.

We ended the ceremony with each sharing a drink from their own Quaich and then everyone joined in a Celtic blessing for them.

3 enduring partnerships
3 unique stories
1 shared belief

That love is something to be cherished, nurtured and importantly chosen, every single day ♥️

I cannot think of a better way to spend a Thursday evening 💕

03/07/2026

Yesterday we had to say goodbye to beautiful Macy.

She has been my companion for 21 years - the vet said that made her nearly 110 in human years!
She has been by my side through the death of my dad, meeting and marrying Ali, having our children, career changes, house moves, illness and celebrations.
She has put the fear in many of my friends over the years with her fierceness and feistiness.
And has given us all a lot of love (…in between her swiping!)

Fare thee well Macy and thank you for being the challenging wee madam you always were ♥️

15/06/2026

Some couples meet online, others at work or in a bar or nightclub. V & I met at Kung Fu school!

V had made a new year’s resolution to try something new and Kung Fu was it! At her first class she was very focused on the new moves and didn’t notice much else. He however immediately spotted the very cool, gorgeous, glamorous looking new student, who he was in no way cool or confident enough to talk to.

Thankfully they did eventually get talking, became friends and then a coffee was arranged. He turned up in his least worst jumper, covid haircut and straggly and messy beard; she turned up looking elegant and stunning. They had great fun and saw a lot of each other after that but ambivalent about starting a new relationship at that stage of her life, V called an urgent meeting with her best friends . The wise advice was to give him a chance!

She did, and their elegant wedding ceremony at beautiful Melville Castle was such a delight. Their guests warmed their wedding rings, they were handfasted as a friend shared a beautiful reading and then they drank homemade apple mead from their quaich.

It was a pleasure to share their love story, one which also proves that NY resolutions are not always a waste of time!

Photos: SCOTLAND Wedding & Elopement
Venue: Melville Castle

18/05/2026

A couple who don’t take themselves too seriously, are utterly lovely and just SO MUCH FUN!

I absolutely loved C&R, who married at one of Edinburgh’s newest venues Theirs was a relaxed ceremony of joy and laughter and I was so glad to be their celebrant. They send me these lovely photos by and some very kind words:

“We can’t thank you enough for making our ceremony so perfect. I can’t tell you how many of our guests commented on our ceremony and you, specifically. Everyone was blown away by how much you made the ceremony what it was, it was totally perfect and it was all down to you. The way you spoke, how you guided us and the bridal party through the ceremony, the ceremony that you produced for us was so unbelievably “us”, we couldn’t quite believe how you managed to do that.

Everyone that we heard from commented on how good you are, how well you spoke and just how brilliant you were. It was just perfect, Candice and we honestly from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much.”

♥️

03/05/2026

When C&D made their vows, they chose to do so with an oathing stone. Promises, not in hope of what might be, but in recognition of what already is.

Every new year, in Loch Lomond, they take a stone, write a message or a wish, and throw it into the loch.
D’s parents found their oathing stone there, a meaningful place to the whole family and a reminder of not just the love that they share, but their connection to those who came before them.

C&D have already built a life and beautiful family together: cheering each other on, finding patience when it’s hard and unity when the world feels overwhelming.

I have no doubt that the promises they made at their beautiful wedding are forever set in stone. ♥️

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31/03/2026

Z & L read this beautiful poem to each other during their ceremony. And spoke their heartfelt promises whilst handfasted with exquisite fabric.

As two talented writers, there could be nowhere more fitting to marry, than surrounded by books in the stunning new library at the Royal College of Physicians, the first of which was donated in 1682.

A gorgeous wedding for two beautiful brides, who captured their love in every gesture and word that was spoken. ♥️

An absolute joy, and in the marvellous company of at the always stunning

I take
your body where love takes place
I take
your mouth where my life takes shape
I take
your breath which makes my space
I take
you as you are for good
I take
you with open arms to have
I take
you to have
and to hold but not to hold
too hard
I take
you for farther for closer
for sooner for later
till till death tries to get us
and we laugh and we stall
and we tell it to call some other
fine day because we are busy today
taking our tea with buttered
hope and
I take
thee
I take
thee.

(I Take Thee - Imtiaz Dharker)

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