Humanist, registrar, celebrant?

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Im probably being really silly here but what's the difference between humanists, celebrants, registrars and any other titles I currently can't think of! Wedding venue has sent us a list of reccomended people to marry us but I have no idea which one I need! We arent religious so won't be a religious ceremony. Thanks in advance - I sometimes feel like the most unbridsey bride ever with no clue what im doing 😂

Depends where you are to your options. In England (Scotland is different) humanists can conduct a ceremony but not the paperwork so you need a registrar

We had a tiny secret Registry Office wedding for the legal bit so it came with a Registrar (who wrote stuff out whilst the ceremony took place) and someone else who did the words. He was absolutely brilliant despite not having a clue who he was beforehand. We didn’t take words of our own. The registrar would have come to other venues licensed to conduct weddings.

We chose our Celebrant for our destination wedding which was in a large villa.. Basically because she was the lady who does all the weddings out there. We were married in France which is secular so the church marriages on their own aren’t legal. We chose our own words for this as we considered that our real marriage.

I don’t think there’s much to chose between humanist or celebrant in terms of what they provide though.From what I saw Celebrants tended to be people who came to it through other public speaking roles like actors or teachers. They would have been happy to have mentioned god if we wanted it. Humanists tended to be offering their services as an alternative to religion as far as I could make out.

Great thanks.
stucknoue we are in scotland.
So do we have a registrar there for the legal paperwork and then a humanist or celebrant there to do the actual ceremony?

In Scotland a (licensed?) celebrant can do the paperwork, you don't need a registrar. My understanding is that there are different types of celebrants, and a humanist celebrant is one sub-type.

The benefit of having a (humanist) celebrant is that you can literally get married anywhere in Scotland. A registrar can only marry you in licensed venues.

We had a humanist celebrant, and it was great, but I have also been to some humanist ceremonies that were a bit too hippy-like for my liking. You can look at the humanist Scotland website and filter celebrants by location, gender, etc, that's how we found ours. All in all my impression is that celebrants tend to be more flexible than registrars, but I might be wrong.