Hannah, the Celebrant & the Person

A little bit about me… because booking a celebrant is about booking someone you’re happy spending a bit of time with.

So first, here's a video about how I (Hannah the celebrant) works and why... and below that , I'll tell you a bit about me as a person (there won't be a quiz at the end)

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Thanks for the video & images it contains go to:

Andy Brown

Sari Renee

Chris Stanley

This may be the best photo pose I've ever managed, with some of the spare lambs when I was 2

I grew up on a sheep farm in Southland. I don’t spend much time on farm now, but I do miss wide open spaces, know how to cook a mean mutton roast and am a whizz at opening (and closing - that’s the important bit!) even fairly bodgey farm gates.

I got lucky and met my husband at a High School production after party when we were 16 and 17. He was the cute red head who had realised signing up for the production was a way to get out of class… and I was just there tagging along with my friend Rose.

Clement and I at a friend's wedding

We got married in 2006, having been to just one wedding before our own (this 100% informs how I work now, plenty of ideas and guidance)

In my life before celebrancy (B.C.) I worked in radio. I wrote ads and was a newsreader (Good afternoon, I’m Hannah Lind and these are the stories we’ve been following today). Since I was used to using a microphone I was asked by a few friends to do readings during their wedding ceremonies. Once I got used to speaking in front of a crowd (instead of a small room at the end of the hall by myself), I was all about it.

The very last wedding where I spoke, but wasn't a celebrant yet. My sister Sandra and her husband (of quite some years now) Tubby

We have two kids and so I totally understand kids cannot be relied on to sit quietly/ stay out of the trees and puddles/ keep their thoughts to themselves/ wear anything but their favourite Paw Patrol outfit.

I love to bake (yes I would like your favourite recipe, please) and sponsor a baking prize in the Central Otago A&P Show every year.

This is one of my favourite things ever. I mean I can't enter... or win the chocolate... but I love playing a part in the rural tradition of A&P Shows

I recently got my first tattoo (and I’m already planning more)!

I know I'm lucky, this says it all!

I LOVE vintage clothing (even better if it actually fits me)

I read a lot (my favourite genre is apparently defined as ‘cosy crime’), celebrated my 40th birthday with a massive dessert table and an outdoor screening of Dirty Dancing with an interactive game of my own devising

Just in case you wanted to see what the game entailed (or wanted to amuse yourself at your next birthday)

And finally, reckon I could do a decent job of Sir Mixalot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ at karaoke.

That’s me - who are you? Tell me a little bit about yourself and what brings you to my website…

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