Your experienced and professional Celebrant Neil Dorward will help you create the most meaningful and dignified funeral service befitting your loved one who has died.

We will ensure you have the funeral that you want . Therefore you can combine hymns and prayers with favourite poetry and CD music. Your experienced and professional Celebrant, Neil Dorward, will help you create the most meaningful and dignified funeral service that is a true reflection of your loved one who has died.

One of the unique and personalised aspects of a civil funeral conducted by Bespoke Civil Ceremonies is that we keep you constantly invloved in the creation of the service. Through the use of email, a draft version of the entire service - including the eulogy/tribute- will be sent to you normally within 24 hours of our initial meeting. This means that you can change and personalise the funeral in any way you see fit and can even make changes right up until the night before the service. Now YOU decide the words and the general tone of the funeral celebration.

During bereavement, it is comforting to have experienced and qualified people to help you through the funeral process. Our Celebrant offers personalised, compassionate and dignified funeral services and, will ensure this final act of love, will help you express your affections and final farewells.

Bespoke Civil Ceremonies will make sure that all the special moments in your loved one's life are captured and cherished on the day of the funeral.

LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“After the funeral, we had a huge amount of comments from family and friends on the service that Neil delivered. We were highly delighted with Neil because he was very personal and perfectly summed up what dad was like. The service genuinely affected and touched everyone. He helped us feel calm on the day and everything he said was appropriate and greatly appreciated.”

- GD and family, Kirkcaldy

“ We cannot thank Neil enough for what he did for our family when Meg died. Although we were 12,000 miles away in New Zealand, we were still involved and helped create the funeral service for our gran. He is a patient and wise man who calmly understood our needs.”

- The Dondonski family , New Zealand

Neil's warm and friendly service were quite exceptional, the funeral service
was just as mum would have wanted, personal and celebratory in a rather
dignified way.  My brother, a Captain in the Black Watch stated the funeral
service was first class, relevant and so touching.

-John Gilfillan, Cardenden, Fife

.. you came into our family and showed great compassion and made it so easy for us to relax and talk about dad and remember the good times. Even when we did get that bit emotional you carried us through. What a brilliant tribute you delivered. S M

I don't think anyone could have done a better job of delivering such a personal tribute,
so thank you with all my heart. F E

Since the funeral I have had many of the people who attended tell me that it was one of the nicest service`s that they have been to. M M

..everyone who spoke to me at the Crematorium said what a great service it was. They thought you actually knew Dad and they wanted to know who you were. L B

Everyone I spoke to thought the service was really fitting. It was all about my mum and that’s what mattered. … how it was composed and delivered made the difference. M R

I have been to many funerals in my life but this service was one of the best I have ever been to. H G

Who will conduct the civil funeral?

Experienced, fully trained and accredited Civil Funeral Celebrants.

Creating a civil funeral ceremony

A home visit will be made where the nature and content of your Civil Funeral Ceremony will be discussed and created in accordance with your family's wishes, values and beliefs. Our professionally trained Funeral Celebrant will offer you suggested readings, poetry, music, reflections etc to choose from, although families may offer their own suggested material for the funeral service. For example, you may have a favourite piece of music or poetry or a 'show and tell’ item that had special meaning and significance to family.

During the ceremony, the Funeral Celebrant will deliver a eulogy reflecting the individual’s personal stories, memories, loves etc. However, if a friend or member of the family wishes to deliver the eulogy and say a few words, this can be accommodated. Help will be offered in writing these words. Bespoke Civil Ceremonies will ensure that a Funeral Ceremony is created to meet your wishes and desires. A Civil Funeral is special because it allows the family to get involved as much or as little as they want and to even be creative. An example of participation is perhaps a grandchild reading a poem about their grandad who has died.

Pricing List

Gold Service costs £125 and includes
A home visit / consultation that will enable a personalised Funeral Ceremony
and eulogy to be created. A fully scripted ‘draft’ version of the service will
then be sent to you by email, normally within 24 hours. On the day of the funeral,
a memorial copy of the eulogy will be given to you and a Remembrance Card posted one month later.

Platinum Service costs £150 and includes
All of the above plus an audio recording of the funeral service on CD presented
to you in a commemorative CD box

Diamond Service costs £175 and includes
Same as Platinum Service, plus a dedicated Web site with your loved ones photographs, funeral tribute, poems etc - a secure site that friends and family
can visit for ever and ever