Olivia Cooke (La luna Ceremonies)

Hello, I'm Olivia

It sounds a little cliché, but I truly love love. Becoming a celebrant felt like the most natural step: I adore meeting new people, hearing their strange and specific stories, and having the honour of turning them into something spoken aloud.

A wedding is one of the most intimate moments of a life, and my job is to make sure it sounds like yours and nobody else’s. Every ceremony I write starts on a blank page: your quirks, your history, the in-jokes only your friends will catch.

I keep a base in South East England, covering London and Hertfordshire, and another in Northern Ireland, and I travel for weddings across both. I am just as at home on a clifftop at dawn as in a Home Counties barn at four in the afternoon.

And because I am fluent in Spanish as well as English, families who do not share a language can share the same ceremony, which is, quietly, my favourite part of the job.