Anna Burnside, humanist celebrant

18/03/2025

Pals, if you are Substack curious in any way, please consider coming along to this and hearing how the top burdz make it work. It will be so fun.

Join Sam Baker, Fiona Gibson and Lucy Sweet to find out how they use Substack and why it's such a great platform for building a brand.

01/07/2024

Such an honour to help family and friends say goodbye to photographer Paul Edwards on Friday. First funeral I've conducted when there has been a guide dog (adorable Roscoe) among the mourners.

27/05/2024

So lovely to chair a Women in Journalism Scotland event with Ajay Close at gorgeouns Golden Hare bookshop in Edinburgh last week. Ajay's tremendous new book, What Doesn't Kill Us, is filled with period detail and feminist rage.

02/09/2022

Bring on the bonkers - I'm happy to help you plan an unconventional send off for your loved ones.
Non bonkers ceremonies also available.

A light-hearted send-off may not be everyone's cup of tea but for a growing number of families in the north-east a less traditional funeral is quite

29/08/2022

If you wanted a ceremony like this in Scotland you could do the whole thing in the Scout hut with a cool humanist celebrant. Just saying.

From the hugely expensive dress to the imported flowers, the average wedding is a bank-breaking, planet-wrecking affair. There is a greener, less stressful approach, if you make the most of charity shops, hedgerows and car boot sales

04/08/2022

When you get a ceremony just right it’s a great feeling

14/06/2022

Look at Alan and Julia's stunning wedding at the Signet Library in Edinburgh.
Photography by Orange Lemur photography studio

26/05/2022

Took the coral suit to meet Glasgow’s coolest new wedding venue

25/05/2022

When you are a single mother by choice, and you tell me that everyone at the baby naming ceremony knows how the baby was conceived, you better believe there will be a Youtube joke.

25/05/2022

Naming adorable baby Ruby in Edinburgh at the weekend. It was all going so well until her secret poem. That was when the bawling started. However it was over in seconds, the poem was a triumph and it was a lovely, lovely day.

07/05/2022

Ready to marry Julia and Alan 🍾