Chris Allen-Foster, Celebrant

26/10/2025

“Love is in the air. In all the sights and all the sounds”. (hvjy)
I hope you lovers find time for a long walk today.

26/06/2025

04/01/2025

Toni at Dream Weavers, I am eternally thankful for the exquisite ceremonial kete you gave to me. It has borne witness to numerous beautiful couples as they seal their love. Thank you

06/02/2024

06/02/2024

No table to sign on - no worries the best man steps up

06/02/2024

Chloe Attenborough

A simple Beach Wedding in Paradise that went down without a hitch. Chris had great communication with myself and now husband Vaughan who live in Australia, but returned to the Bay of Islands to wed. Chris is such a warm, friendly and great character, we were so lucky to have her as our celebrant. She also added in a personal note last minute to relate it to our family’s history - an added improvised touch. I highly recommend Chris to anyone looking to marry, she has made out special day so memorable. Thank you Chris 💘

26/08/2023

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustave Cariot - In the Wood, 1932.

25/04/2023

Pō Marie

05/11/2022

25/10/2022

30/09/2022

As we journey onwards in life, more and more spaces within us fill with absence. We begin to have more and more friends among the dead. Every person suffers the absence of their past. It is utterly astonishing how the force and fiber of each day unravel into the vacant air of yesterday. You look behind you and you see nothing of your days here. Our vanished days increase our experience of absence. Yet our past does not deconstruct as if it never was. Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. Memory rescues experience from total disappearance. The kingdom of memory is full of the ruins of presence. It is astonishing how faithful experience actually is; how it never vanishes completely. Experience leaves deep traces in us. It is surprising that years after something has happened to you the needle of thought can hit some groove in the mind and the music of a long vanished event can rise in your soul as fresh and vital as the evening it happened.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Eternal Echoes
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Dunquin, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill