Weddings, Funerals And Everything Between

We’re joined by Adele, a celebrant who’s equal parts warmth, wit, and emotional radar, and she becomes our guide to what actually makes rituals work once you strip away the fluff and filler.

What if you’re not religious but still want something that means something? How do you mark a wedding or a goodbye without it feeling like a copy-paste job? We dig into humanism — no doctrine, still plenty of heart — and realise that people-centred ceremonies can be vivid, personal, and genuinely joyful.

Then things get real. Living funerals. Sounds wild, right? Until you hear the why: say the things while the person’s still here to hear them. We talk through the practical stuff, the emotional risks, and the rare kind of closure that only happens when time is short.

From there, we flip to weddings — the pressure to cry, the nerves that shut feelings down, and why being present matters more than performing emotion. Real moments stick. Forced ones don’t.

There’s plenty of play too: dream guest lists, celebrity cameos, Vegas jokes. But the core stays steady — ceremonies matter most when they actually sound, feel, and breathe like the people at the centre of them.