Choosing the right person to lead you through your ceremony is a very important part of your special day. Friendly and professional, I am highly experienced in a wide range of different ceremonies - welcoming all faiths, nationalities and love relationships to warmly host your event.
I have been conducting beautiful and bespoke weddings, wedding blessings and vow renewal ceremonies in India, Ibiza and the UK since 2009. Whilst such ceremonies may not be recognised as legally binding, many couples choose to complete the formalities at home - to make their preferred style of love ceremony the real celebration.
Approaching the design of your own ceremony can be daunting - and that's a key part of my role. I will help you create your own uniquely special ceremony and ensure that you feel relaxed and confident on the day. I am also happy to be part of your hosting team - to greet guests and to put them at ease, especially if they are unfamiliar with a celebrant-led event.
In addition to a background in event hosting, I bring over thirty years of experience as an actor and voice over artist to my role as celebrant. Originally from Cambridge, and based in both India and Europe, I have been delighted to officiate at countless styles of weddings ever since - from 'barefoot chic on the beach' to intimate elopement weddings to lavish occasions for hundreds of guests.
The first step will be to arrange a friendly chat to so we can get to know each other, ask important questions and discuss the style of ceremony you are looking for.
Having designed and conducted over three hundred ceremonies since 2009, there are many wonderful options and ideas to choose from - and I will be happy to guide you through them. Together we will finalise your chosen words, vows and readings - and create the perfect ceremony you have always dreamt of.
I am always available should you wish to talk anything through prior to the Big Day and I will be right there with you when it counts. There can be no greater honour than to conduct a ceremony uniting two people together in a loving partnership - and I very much look forward to being part of your special day.
Myself and my partner decided to elope to Goa and have a very intimate blessing for just the two of us. With the help of the staff at our wedding venue in Goa, we were put in touch with our wonderful Celebrant Joanna to conduct the ceremony.
The ceremony was beyond magical and Joanna was incredibly professional and caring and made the blessing into something so special. The words that Joanna wrote for us included some traditional vows but also allowed us to really personalise it.
We would highly recommend Joanna for anyone’s blessing. It was a truly incredible experience that we will treasure forever.
Dear Joanna,
We just wanted to get in touch to say an enormous thank you. Our wedding was absolutely perfect and we feel that you played a big part in making the day such a pleasure.
I particularly found you very reassuring as our ceremony was quite a complicated mix of Western and Indian traditions, but you kept all my worries and stresses at bay. Lots of the guests commented on how great they thought you were. So thank you.
The ceremony in particular was just magic. It was a truly amazing feeling experiencing all of that. Emotions running extremely high. Blessed.
Lots of Love
Kavita and Tom
Joanna came highly recommended to us, to be the celebrant for our very special day in Goa. From the very first email contact she was professional, yet so friendly, and answered all (of our many) questions.
Planning the order of service and selecting the vows was a fun task made simple by Joanna's help and suggestions. On meeting Joanna she was so warm and genuinely excited for our wedding.
Having taken the time to get to know us and understand our needs, she was able to provide a truly personal service. There was not a dry eye on the beach, and we can't thank her enough for making our wedding so beautiful.
Joanna was recommended to us by our wedding planner and upon our first meeting we both decided that she was perfect for us as she was calm, knowledgeable and supportive.
On the day itself Joanna was brilliant at coordinating us and others involved in the ceremony service and was extremely reassuring and supportive. Joanna's look and presentation really fitted in with our day and guests, as well as having a fantastic positive energy and bubbly personality which permeated throughout the ceremony.
As for the ceremony itself, both Laura and I agreed afterwards that it could not have been more perfect. If we could go back and do it all over again (which we would) we would choose Joanna as our celebrant without a second’s hesitation.
We recently returned from Goa, a happily married couple after tying the knot on our own private beach. The ceremony was made extra special because of our chosen Celebrant, Joanna Lester-George.
From the moment we met one week before the big day, Joanna made us feel completely at ease. In our case, less was more, she was very flexible to our requirements, offering advice and examples on everything from readings to vowels, and all done in a very informal relaxed way.
Joanna continued to communicate with us throughout the week, always ready to meet up and discuss how things were going and to fill us in on any details. On the day, we both felt completely relaxed, Joanna was professional without being impersonal and confident without being overbearing, she delivers clearly with charm and grace and makes the day feel truly yours. It was an absolute joy to be married by Joanna, it was perfect in its simplicity.
As a couple who have been together over twenty-five years, our wedding in Goa was an incredibly important and emotional event.
Our friends and family travelled from far and wide to be with us, and Joanna was not only the amazing celebrant who held our hands throughout, but her travel company KOKOindia helped plan incredible bespoke trips for our guests to enjoy after the week of the wedding.
We always felt that both ourselves and our guests were in truly professional hands and we would not hesitate to recommend Joanna to anyone.
South Goa, India
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