Joy helped our family plan and acted as MC for our mother’s funeral when she died suddenly after a stroke. The family really appreciated Joy’s sincere and professional approach, and the effort she made to learn about Mum’s life and to get to know the family. This effort was reflected in the personal touches that she used during the service which were very much appreciated by the family.

Joy was also able to offer advice and guidance on the funeral process, as well as working with the funeral home directors on the day. She also provided some useful suggestions that would have been really helpful prior to Mum’s death.

We all were very pleased to have Joy as part of Mum’s funeral planning and service.  M, J & G

It was an absolute blast to have Joy (and her husband Ian) be our celebrant and MC at our wedding. She is amazing, and we knew from the first meeting with her that she would be our celebrant.

She has a wonderful spirit about her, and we clicked the moment we met. Joy listened to us and what we wanted our wedding to be. She gave advice and insight in to how we could do things.

We had many laughs along the wedding planning process. She even helped my husband write his vows, when he couldn’t put the words on to paper. (At the pub even!) She really understood us. Our wedding day was brilliant with so many laughs and lots of light-hearted fun. Which is exactly the way we wanted it to be. Joy really got to know our personalities and made us feel so comfortable at each of our meetings and especially on our big day. She is a wonderful person, and it was an absolute pleasure for us to have her do our ceremony. T&M

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I so appreciate all you did for us to make the ceremony so special. Joy put so much time into this to make it perfect, and it was.

I thought it was great, speaking with families, the feedback was superb – families said it was hard, but very moving and just right. This worked so well because of all Joy’s hard work and planning. 

But also because she obviously has a natural warmth and openness which makes people feel at ease.  Heartkids NZ