Mary Hopes Experienced Professional Funeral Celebrant Blog

Mary Hopes is a kind, reliable, professionally trained and experienced funeral celebrant. She creates and delivers the meaningful, personalised funeral and memorial services YOU want. Mary also offers online guidance to those considering the celebrant life before they commit their time, money or energy to expensive training. She helps them decide whether this work really is right for them (celebrancy work isn’t right for everyone - and that’s ok). Mary is not financially connected with any training provider - and she will never sell you a training course. However, she believes the prospective celebrant deserves to ask difficult questions of someone already working in the field and, crucially, of someone who has no financial interest in whether they then go on to buy training. Full details about the free guide for prospective celebrants can be found on Mary’s website. Often called a ‘safe pair of hands’ by the funeral directors and crematorium staff with whom she works, Mary draws on her 45-years experience of working with those in challenging and distressing circumstances. This helps her to support bereaved families so that - however bewildering the situation - the service created truly reflects the life and wishes of the deceased.