Sarah Burley Celebrant Reviews 

Wow!!! Sarah is an incredible wedding celebrant. My partner & I felt very overwhelmed planning our wedding and didn’t know where to begin. From the very first meeting Sarah has been warm, engaging, professional and has suggested an array of beautifully personalised ideas for both our ceremony and reception.
Sarah has produced an entire script for our special day, including writing a poem for my partner & I to read to our guests.
We highly recommend Sarah to all engaged couples. We are extremely grateful - You have been truly wonderful X

We would highly recommend Sarah without hesitation and with profound thanks. She was the funeral celebrant for our daughter, and created such a beautiful service. Sarah listened actively, showed compassion, sensitivity and a genuine interest in our stories that she then transformed with absolute competence into a beautiful, seemless service that truly reflected our daughter and the things that people felt about her. What Sarah did, was priceless. She is exactly what you could wish for at such an important time.

Sarah made a difficult day my husband funeral so much easier to cope with she really captured the essence of him and included lots of lovely stories.
Thank you Sarah
From Rosemary

Sarah made an awful time so much easier, guiding and helping the family and me through options and ideas for the funeral service. Sarah managed the many contributions from family and friends sensitively, kindly and professionally. The result was a beautiful and faithful representation of my late partner Patrick's life, with stories from family and friends woven in seamlessly. I'm so grateful for all Sarah did to make our funeral such a poignant celebration of our loved one. I can't recommend her highly enough.

I would like to thank Sarah for helping us make Mum's farewell so special. You were professional, kind and I think you understood the essence of Mum.
I felt guided, at ease and it really took some of the pressure off knowing you had everything in hand.
I highly recommend Sarah.

Sarah put us at ease at our very first meeting, when we were still raw with grief and overwhelmed by all the decisions involved in putting together a service. She was kind, thoughtful and full of ideas without being pushy. She guided us in structuring the service and choosing music, and poems, then wrote beautiful words to introduce and close the service, really capturing Dad’s life and spirit. She also read our family’s eulogy, and another tribute, perfectly. Sarah is an outstanding celebrant; we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her.

Beautiful service for my sister Eileen. Thank you Sarah, one would think you had known her all her life.

Sarah was wonderful providing guidance at all stages from getting the ceremony planned to our departure at the end, covering all the nuances that we would never have considered (especially at such an emotional time) providing valuable advice on writing and delivering my tribute to Dad, leading the ceremony with grace and sympathy but always making sure it all worked. We had many comments after about how good Sarah was, and how much she was able to relate the ceremony to my Dad too. Would highly recommend her.

Sarah has a warmth and perception that makes difficult moments easy. She is a joy to work with and I would thoroughly recommend her.

Sarah went above and beyond, she really celebrates life and cares, as well as on the ball with logistics, and she can sing!!
The full package! Thank you Sarah! X

Organising a funeral is never easy, especially when you don’t live in the area and have to rely on recommendations from others, but I cannot truly express just how much I appreciated receiving a recommendation for Sarah.

My mum was an amazing woman, deserving of an amazing send off and, from my first telephone call with Sarah, I knew that she was the woman to guide us through the day.

Within that first conversation, she had captured the essence of my mum perfectly and crafted a service that, when I first read what was being proposed, reduced me to tears of joy.

Her suggestions for music and readings were so welcome and wove in seamlessly with my and my family’s own tributes.

But it was on the day Sarah’s skills really shone, not only during the celebration with her wonderful readings but also in all the little ways she organised, supported and made us all feel at ease.

Sarah was the celebrant for my father's funeral. She took her time to listen and capture the essence of dad, as well as understanding our culture, which was reflected at the funeral. Her tribute was warm and thoughtful, and we appreciated her beautiful singing during the ceremony as well. Thank you Sarah.

Sarah provided exceptional service from the very beginning, throughout the planning of the funeral service, and during the service itself. She skillfully tailored the service to our memories of my late husband and brought him into our hearts and minds throughout the ceremony. During the planning period, she contributed her extensive knowledge and experience in event management, along with her musical talents. Sarah sensed my needs and my family's needs instinctively, making the service unique while remaining unobtrusive. I am grateful to Sarah for creating a warm and comforting memory of my late husband.

I cannot praise the services of Sarah enough. She was so kind, companionate and totally professional. She helped me all the way through the organisation of the funeral and on the day was absolutely exceptional. The service she performed was totally relevant to my lovely sister - it was almost as if she knew her. If you can do one thing for your loved ones I would suggest contacting Sarah to help you through this really difficult time.

I first came across Sarah when I was attending my friend's funeral, I was blown away by her delivery and attention to detail. Then low and behold 3 months later, I found myself arranging my father's funeral. I chose Sarah as there was no-one else who could've done my dad justice. Sarah took her time to get to know us as a family & to know my dad. The day of the funeral was always going to be a tough one, Sarah managed to bring light, warmth and laughter with her words. I can honesty say she was absolutely fantastic! We couldn't have done it without you, so thank you so much Sarah for giving my dad a wonderful send off, and supporting my family & I through a difficult time.

From our first meeting Sarah went out of her way to put us at our ease and listened carefully to our wishes for the service for my late husband. She had a kind and pleasant manner and she conducted the service perfectly, speaking with warmth and sincerity about my husband. She helped with every stage of the planning and also with the catering. We were impressed by her wealth of experience and reliability. She was very prompt in responding to our messages and helped ease us through such a difficult time. We are very glad she was recommended to us.

I just wanted to say that I was so happy with how you conducted our service for my daughter Faye on Thursday.
You just couldn't have captured her any more accurately. Everyone said that they would have thought you actually knew her ..........that's a great compliment for the way you understood her just from speaking to the people closest to her.
I know time will help to heal the sadness I feel at the moment but I will always think back to your wonderful eulogy and your beautiful voice when you sang 'Over the Rainbow', (my husbands absolute favourite song of all time ) , I will look for her in rainbows and hope that she is happy where ever she is . All our friends said they had never been to such a celebratory and beautiful service , it was was so uplifting and a perfect celebration of Faye's (too short ) life.
Thank you again Sarah

I attended my niece Faye Alexander’s Funeral on 6/7 and all I can say is Wow. What an absolute pleasure to have you as celebrant. So many people have watched it on the Isle of Wight and all have said …. Did she know Faye! You absolutely captured everything about Faye from your notes from the Family. You delivered a beautiful celebration of Faye’s Life. My Daughter in law said they need you on the Island as everyone here is so old school. Although a very sad day you made us all leave with a twinkle in our eyes and a smile on our face. Thank You Sarah.
Corinne & Jim Woodward

Sarah Burley, thank you so much. Honestly it was a truly wonderful celebration, and opportunity for everybody to remember our sweetheart, who is special to us all in many different ways. Sarah, you delivered an outstanding ceremony, and everybody was truly amazed with the service. We all thank you

I was dreading the funeral of my wife of 60 years. However Sarah made it very much less stressful.
I am not religious and I was able to attend the funeral without tears even though it was all my wife's history with me. Her attention to detail personal touch was very much appreciated by me and my family. Everything went well and we had the say about everything with suggestions from Sarah being appreciated.
I recommend Sarah to anyone who felt like me. She was wonderful.