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It's important to celebrate the significant events in life: birth, marriage and partnership, anniversaries, BIG birthdays and retirement…

However, many people today are not conventionally religious and don't want a traditional ceremony. Or, they want a celebration that is more personal and individual or family focussed.

Beginnings & Endings can help you to create and stage a special ceremony that is perfectly suited to your needs; a unique ceremony that celebrates the past but also includes promises for the future… to yourself and the people you love…

Death and bereavement are also significant events in life… therefore, you can also arrange a civil funeral ceremony through Beginnings & Endings.

At the heart of each civil ceremony is a specially written tribute to the person who has died, which remembers and celebrates their life.

Although civil funerals are non-religious, hymns and prayers may be included in the ceremony, together with other favourite music and poetry.

Sarah Willis, the founder of Beginnings & Endings, is a trained Civil Celebrant. She is an accredited, full Member of the Institute of Civil Funerals.

Beginnings & Endings offers its services in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, and elsewhere by special arrangement. To discuss further, please go to the contact page to find out how to get in touch.

  • "It was certainly how I would want to be remembered…"


  • "We went back, had a lovely party, and sat around drinking champagne and telling stories into the evening!"