Our People

Hello! I’m Carol Ludwick, a proud OBOD member, currently in the Ovate grade and a certified lifecycle celebrant and ordained metaphysical minister. I was trained at the Celebrant Foundation and Institute and have earned three certifications- Ceremonies Across the Lifecycle, Weddings and Funerals. I’m also the Midwest Alumni Chapter facilitator for the institute.

There are no two memories that are alike, so I will work closely with you to develop a ceremony, celebration, or ritual that will be an event that you and your loved ones will never forget. I will help you to ensure that everything needed for your ceremony will be in place so that nothing gets forgotten. When there are legal qualifications required, I will ensure that every step is followed to the letter so that by the end of the day, you will have a new milestone that will be the start of this new chapter in your life. I offer a wealth of options to suit your every occasion, to ensure the right words, thoughts, and actions take place for all of life’s special moments including Nuptials, New Life Ceremonies, Milestone Commemorations, 2SLGBTQ+ Ceremonies, and a wealth of Pagan Rituals.

I am a qualified Celebrant, End of Life Doula, a Grief Coach and a member of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. I offer personal celebrations for handfasting, funerals, naming of babies, naming of pets and pet memorials. There are many key rites of passage and life transitions which I provide ritual and ceremonies to mark the occasion with joy and love. Working with you together we craft an appropriate ceremony and ritual for you and your loved ones, commemorating your important event.

I am a fully qualified Celebrant and Soul Midwife and member of OBOD. I offer beautiful, personal and memorable wedding celebrations, handfasting ceremonies, baby naming ceremonies, and pet memorials. In fact, any coming-of-age, rite of passage, or life transition, where you need to mark an occasion with love, joy, celebration, appropriate ritual, due ceremony and great respect.

I offer my services as a Celebrant for any ritual or rite of passage ceremony you require, working within the Pays de la Loire area, France. Please contact me at arzhchoari@gmail.com

As a Bard, Ovate and Druid, I play music and write poetry as well as offer my services for celebration, divination and healing.

I've been a celebrant for over 10 years and bring warmth, empathy and experience to any occasion. I fascilitate hand-fastings, naming ceremonies, funerals and memorials. Bringing my many years of experience, I am able to help you plan and prepare for your ceremony, and be a calming and reassuring presence on the day.

Emrys lives in Ilawa (Warmia and Mazury), where he has been leading one of the Polish pagan groups for years. He is strongly connected with the land on which he lives. His activities promote cultural heritage and folk traditions. For Emrys, leading in rituals is not only a duty, but a real passion.

I started the druid way in 2007 and today I am an OBOD druid. I am a tutor, mom, wife and fantasy writer. I love to celebrate the steps of life in harmony with Nature, using a poetic and emotional ceremony. I love listening to your stories and the way you imagined the ritual you are going to live, that's why I like to offer the possibility of changing the ceremony in some points, in such a way as to make your moment truly yours. I like to create harmony among the participants whatever the spiritual feeling of each may be. I love special ceremonies where everyone can stay like at home. I also love reading Ogham with a very personal divination system.

My name is Jason Desneiges, a bilingual independent celebrant, and have been on an Earth-Based spiritual path since 1992 when I first discovered the various expressions of paganism. I am an OBOD Druid and a licensed clergy member through the Maine Pagan Clergy Association of Maine, and offer services that celebrate rites of passage throughout life, that celebrate the Earth, and that serve the living and the dead. I am located in Aroostook County, but can travel throughout the State of Maine.

As a celebrant and member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, I am trained in both Traditional and Ancient Celtic Ceremony whether it be a Naming, Handfasting, Home Blessing or Farewells. In essence I love collaborating in a ceremony, something that honours the person(s) in that moment in time.

Harriet is a Druid, celebrant and ritualist based in Cumbria. Harriet is delighted to offer weddings, handfastings and baby naming ceremonies, as well as more bespoke rituals of transition, ancestral connection and Earth based rites of passage.

I offer babynamings, handfastings, renewal of vows, divorce healing rituals, rites of passage, individual healing rituals and sweatlodges (with the Druid Medicine Wheel). My resources are Shamanic, Druid and artistic and, since I am Bi, I am there for all LGBTQIA people with all my heart.

Tot mijn grote geluk mag ik mij celebrant noemen, een ceremonieel begeleider. Ik heb beide opleidingen gevolgd; “Serving the living and the death” en “Celebrating Life”, begeleid door River Jones. Uit eigen ervaring weet ik hoe belangrijk het is om bij keerpunten in het leven stil te staan. Het geeft diepte aan zaken die moeilijk kunnen zijn of juist heel feestelijk. Het zijn niet alleen keerpunten maar vaak ook hoogtepunten.

My name is Lorien Cadier. I am an accredited civil celebrant and offer to work with you to create personal and meaningful celebrations of love and light for all your important rites of passage including baby naming, wedding and hand fasting, renewal of vows, civil partnership, and ceremonies for those that have passed on. I completed the Druid Grade and now have the honour of serving as a mentor on the OBOD course. I have run and contributed to Druid spiritual retreats and offer workshops on Druidry with a particular interest in the Sacred Wheel of the Year. I am happy to travel to you as needed from my home in Hampshire in the southern part of the UK.

I am happy to support you in the development of tailor-made personal, secular and spiritual rituals and stand by your side as a ritual leader.

I am a celebrant, ceremonial speaker and naturecoach with a great love for Mother Earth.

I am a Druid Graduate of OBOD, and a member of the Fellowship of Professional Celebrants. I am also an Approved Celebrant with the Pagan Federation (Scotland), which means that I can Solemnise marriages on their behalf, basically I can legally marry people! I live on the beautiful and mystical Scottish Isle of Arran. All of my ceremonies are personally written for you. I am an experienced celebrant, and am happy to work with you whatever faith or no faith you may be. My wedding blessings have been described as Celtic Spiritual weddings, make of that what you will, but I am delighted! I can also facilitate other rites of passage such as baby Namings, handfastings, vow renewals and funerals.

Simon is a musician, record-producer, and founder of the bands The Afro Celt Sound System and Imagined Village. Simon joined his first band, Scritti Pollitti, in the 1970s. Later he was a founding member of Working Week, which toured extensively worldwide, won many European awards, and headlined at the Montreux and Nice Jazz festivals.

Youth, Martin Glover, is an artist, poet, writer, musician and record producer.

Jamie Reid is an artist, living in Liverpool, with a lifelong interest in Druidry. His great uncle George Watson MacGregor Reid founded the Ancient Druid Order. Jamie has created 'The Eightfold Year' - a set of paintings for every day of the year. Jamie Reid's longstanding practice as an artist sits firmly within a tradition of English radical dissent that would include, for example, William Blake, Wat Tyler and Gerrard Winstanley. The work of dissent must offer, out of necessity, other social and spiritual models and Reid's practice is no exception.

Henriëtte is an opera singer based in the Netherlands, who performs solo in the fields of opera, art song and oratorio.

Eric is a storyteller, the author of a dozen children’s books and a singer-songwriter.

Barry is a full time bard, house-husband & urban peasant. He has always been inspired by our beautiful, ancient land & its wildlife.