About

Helen Phillips is a Humanist Wedding Celebrant, trained and accredited by Humanists UK since 2021. She creates bespoke wedding ceremonies that are as unique as the couples she works with, placing their love story at the heart of every celebration.

Helen is known for her warmth and ability to make couples feel completely at ease. She takes the time to genuinely get to know each couple, learning what matters most to them and crafting a ceremony that reflects their values, personalities, and journey together.

Her ceremonies strike the perfect balance between fun and heartfelt, often blending just the right amount of romance and humour. A key highlight is the sharing of each couple’s love story, written and delivered with care and authenticity. No two ceremonies are ever the same – from tone and content to rituals and symbolic acts, everything is tailored to the couple’s wishes.

Whether including their personal reflections on love and marriage, involving special guests (even pets!), or helping choose meaningful, symbolic elements or rituals to include, Helen guides couples through the entire process with energy, compassion, and creativity.

Rooted in her Humanist values, Helen is committed to ensuring that every ceremony is welcoming, inclusive, and accessible for all.

 

As of October 2025, the UK Government has committed to the legal recognition of humanist marriage, however, when exactly this will come into law is, as yet, uncertain. Until there is more clarity on dates, couples need to continue to plan to legally register their marriage separately to that of their Humanist ceremony with Helen who will always happily help couples navigate this process.

Accredited Humanist Celebrant
Completely bespoke ceremonies
Owen Phillips
We cannot recommend Helen enough. From start to finish she was focussed on making us feel at ease, and ensuring our wedding was right for us. We were introduced to Helen via recommendation, and instantly felt at ease with her from our first zoom call. Helen spent time with us face to face, to understand our story and who we are together and as individuals. She listened intently and asked us questions genuinely, and got so much detail and nuance down on paper. The first draft of our ceremony had us feeling all the emotions, weeks out from the big day. Helen was thoughtful in the run up to our day, checking in, reading and providing guidance in forming our vows, and was available for support when we needed her. On the day, it wasn’t just about the ceremony. Helen liaised with the venue, our dog walkers (yes our pooches had their moment too) and coordinated music cues with the vocalist we had for our ceremony (a late supplier change also, as we were let down by our original musician). All of which meant we didn’t need to stress and could enjoy our day. From a remembrance candle, to heartfelt vows, shots to toast our wedding, and the all important pooches. Nothing was too much trouble for Helen, who makes a very challenging and important role look so easy and effortless. We couldn’t imagine our wedding any other way, and will be forever grateful for the memories she helped us create. O&R
Jessie Venables
Choosing Helen to be our celebrant for our wedding last autumn was one of the BEST decisions we made. She was so professional and easy to work with and made the whole process an absolute joy. The initial zoom session to get to know us and understand us as a couple had the potential to be awkward but Helen made the whole thing seem so natural and relaxed. She also guided us through the various options for what we could include in our ceremony and helped us to narrow down our choices. She then took all of the information from this and wrote a beautiful first draft for the ceremony that we were then able to review and amend as we liked. She was also super patient and encouraging while helping us to individually write our own vows and incredibly accommodating working around a 7 hour time difference! The end result was a unique and heartfelt ceremony that truly captured who we are and the story of our life together up until that point. We would wholeheartedly recommend Helen to anybody! Thank you Helen for making our day so magical! <3
Harriet Stewart
We cannot recommend Helen highly enough. She really brought our story to life for our wedding ceremony and we loved working with her in the build up to the big day. We had so many comments from guests about the ceremony and they loved it. Notably from more distant family members who didn’t know our story so were so overjoyed to hear how we met. But even close family and friends who learned something new about us too! We couldn't fault anything to do with Helen or her approach and would recommend Helen to anyone looking for a celebrant.

Helen Phillips: Your Best Life Celebrant

Details

07904521466

Helen.phillips@humanistceremonies.org.uk

https://yourbestlifecelebrant.com/