The Wedding Man - International Wedding Celebrant, Barcelona, Northern Spain

If the ceremony is not the most important part of any wedding day, then it is certainly top two. James made the ceremony fun, engaging and had us on a wild rollercoaster as he was the narrator of our story so far... and for what is to come. I couldn't imagine our day without him. It was our pleasure, and next time we are in Barcelona, drinks are on us!

Wonderful man, put us at ease. Understood what type of ceremony we wanted, made one of the most important parts of our day so special. And made zoom calls so relaxed and personal

Wow! What can I say? As a couple getting married away from home, it's pretty difficult organising a wedding and even the thought of figuring out who is going to do the actual marrying of you is pretty stressful. We were a bit worried at first that we wouldn't find someone who would be able to personalise our ceremony the way we wanted, but James definitely came through big time. He made both of us feel extremely special while we were standing at the altar and all of our family & friends had such great things to say about him after the ceremony was finished. We cannot thank you enough James for making our day so great and we TRULY recommend this man for anyone looking to brighten up their wedding.

James performed the ceremony at our wedding both in English and French (with a perfect pronunciation!). He is very professional and we felt very comfortable with him from the begining, even the preparation felt like a fun game.
We highly recommend his service, especially for a multilingual wedding.
Thank you again for making this day extra special!

When looking for an officiant we wanted the best. Charming, confident, professional, sincere, great delivery and the odd cheeky wink. I?m pleased to say that James delivered beyond our expectations and was a crucial part of the day?s success. We actually first met James back in 2020 pre covid. It was a chance to get to know each other and ask questions about our wedding plans. As a same-sex couple I think we were perhaps a little nervous when meeting new people and talking about the wedding. James put us completely at ease and helped to visualise the ceremony from start to end. He had lots of tips and suggestions to help us decide on the format and even the wording of our vows. Covid delayed our Barcelona wedding twice but when it finally came around, everything was just perfect and James was a massive part of that! He even had a tissue ready for my inevitable tears ???? Ever since the wedding our friends have said ?wow where did you find the officiant!? and ?he fitted in so great, was he a family member?!? Such glowing comments, that we couldn?t agree with more. Thank you James!

James was excellent. He really made the time to get to know us and our history which made our ceremony so personal. His relaxed style was just right for our day and he had everyone laughing. We would thoroughly recommend!

James Humber was our officiant for our summer wedding in Barcelona.
James was absolutely fantastic on the day, really captured the essence of our vision for our wedding.
Prior to the wedding he was very attentive, getting to know us personally through Skype calls and sending over questionnaires to complete.
This meant on the day it really felt James knew us personally and many of our guests commented on this saying how amazing the service was.
I would be very happy to recommend James to any couples planning their big day as he is very personable and professional.
Many thanks again James.

James was so gracious and easy to plan with. During our pre-call facetime, James was able to draw out of us the words and feelings that ultimately became the framework of our very personal ceremony. I cant thank you enough for the witty, loving manner in which you married us on July 4th!

James was absolutely perfect as our wedding celebrant. We were looking for someone who could speak both English and Catalan fluently, and he did not disappoint. The ceremony he put together for us met all of our wishes, was thoughtful, touching, and incorporated just the right amount of humour. Not only were we very happy as the bride and groom, we also got many compliments from our guests. If you are considering James as your celebrant for your wedding, do not hesitate! He is wonderful.

James was ever so helpful and charming in all the Zoom calls prior to our destination wedding in Sitges and made sure the calls were scheduled to our work schedule.
He took so much time to get to know us as a couple and make his speech as personal as possible. James made both sides (English and German) feel involved and made sure everyone could follow - he even managed to say some sentences in German too.
The ceremony was absolutely perfect. The whole audience was engaged and enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere altogether with humor and sincerity.
We really couldn't have asked for more and loved every moment.

Where to start with James! He truly made our day so special. He has a true talent for turning the information we provided in advance into a moving, beautiful and at times hilarious celebration. Throughout the whole process, James was so easy to talk to, open to our ideas/questions, easy to communicate and keep up-to-date with and just such a genuinely lovely man. Really made such an incredible contribution to the most perfect day. Cannot recommend enough.

We decided fairly last minute that we wanted a celebrant instead of reciting vows ourselves, and we are so glad we did! James was an absolute joy to work with. We laughed, we cried, and we just had the best time. James was able to personalize our ceremony and make it feel so special. We can't recommend him highly enough!

SENSATIONAL!
James was able to step in very last minute when the church let us down. With less than a month notice we were lucky that James had availability for our wedding day. From the very first zoom chat we felt at ease straight away, he has a knack of making you feel very comfortable. We knew after our first conversation that James would be a fantastic part of our ceremony.
James was able to offer guidance not just on the actual ceremony but on choreography for the best photos, how best to capture those special moments and directing all of our guests! James is a total professional and a true gentleman, I would highly recommend him to be part of your big day.

James is the most wonderful wedding celebrant! From beginning to end he gave us a warm, friendly and professional service with thoughtful attention to detail. The most important criteria we had when looking for our celebrant was that they would be able to deliver a fully bilingual ceremony in English and Spanish and that they would be open to performing a handfasting ritual as part of the ceremony and James delivered on all of this and more!

From the start, working with James was super easy. He was consistently speedy to reply to our messages and flexible with his availability for meetings. We knew from our first call with James that he was the right person to be our wedding celebrant, as he greeted with us such kind enthusiasm perfectly blended with professional poise.

It was also always evident during our time working with James that he genuinely cared about getting to know us, to understand our story and to do our relationship justice when he celebrated our wedding. The pre-wedding questionnaire he shared with us was very thoughtful and fun to fill out together and he was able to take our answers and include them in the ceremony in a natural and beautiful way that our family and friends really enjoyed.

It was very helpful that he had wedding ceremony templates prepared in Spanish and English so we could use them as a base for crafting a very personal ceremony. He was even able to share with us a beautiful template for a handfasting ceremony that he?d prepared for a previous couple that we were also able to personalize for our use. Having these resources at hand was so important as it saved us the time and stress of trying to write a wedding script from scratch and it helped us mix traditional wedding ceremony wording with our own personal touches.

During the planning process James was very generous with his time and we were able to have several calls to iron out the final details with him, and we left every call feeling calm and reassured about how things would work on the day. Even though we made a few last-minute changes to the wording of the ceremony, he handled them with grace!

We really appreciated how James was very proactive while we were planning the ceremony in ensuring that it was well balanced between English and Spanish and making sure that both sides of the family felt included, as one family didn?t speak English and the other didn?t speak Spanish.


On the actual day of the wedding, James arrived promptly and mingled with our guests helping to make everyone feel happy and relaxed even before the ceremony began! He absolutely looked the part of a wedding celebrant and we appreciated that he was considerate enough to check with us beforehand whether we had any dress code requirements.

During the ceremony James was perfectly confident delivering the ceremony in both languages and engaging both bridal parties with humor and emotion. He went beyond doing just a direct translation between languages and it was clear to everyone that he had a special level of skill and experience to make things sound natural and flow well. Our guests laughed, cried, and everything in between at the ceremony, and they all told us afterwards how impressed they were with James!

We will always treasure the beautiful memory of our wedding ceremony and are so grateful to James for being a huge part of it and helping to make our special day so magical.

More than celebrant a very good company,we clicked nicely, sharing ideas and keeping in touch for updates most of the time. He helped us decide how do we want to have ceremony and which elements to include.He pointed out many particular episodes in our relationship that brought us back in time from the beginning till the end in a fun but professional way. We are very happy he was our celebrant.

The Wedding Man provided extraordinary service! Everything from the planning stage to the actual wedding went smoothly.
The Wedding man (James) went to great lengths to understand us as a couple. During our preparatory Skype calls, he provided valuable guidance when needed. He truly cares to make your wedding a personalized and fun experience.
The actual wedding was fantastic. James has a unique ability to make everyone laugh where it was needed but also to create a sincere and loving atmosphere during the ceremony. He was able to improvise and acknowledge guests individually. I cannot imagine a better officiant!!!

Impecable!
We wanted an intimate, inclusive and personalized wedding ceremony. We felt really confortable and the guests, from all over, had a really good time. James made it possible.

We appointed James for our wedding in Barcelona and what a ceremony! We had so many compliments from our guests at how brilliant the service was.

We found James through the internet and we instantly knew he was cut from a different cloth to his competitors. His website was so informative and presented in such a professional manner and the most important detail which we picked up on, was the use of videos of a ceremony being conducted.

From the outset of getting in touch with James, his communication was brilliant with numerous emails and a skype call. James?s nature is so warm, friendly and approachable and we knew he was the right celebrant for our ceremony after our first skype call. He made us feel at ease about the whole event, answering questions and learning about us. Often a ceremony is the shortest part of a wedding day, lasting between 30-45mins, however, James really invests in learning about you as a couple to ensure your ceremony is bespoke and tailored to you.

We made contact with James approx. 12 months before our wedding day and we met around 9 months prior to the day in Barcelona to become acquainted with each other. James really invested in us as a couple, rather than just being strangers on the day. So much so, that an hour meeting ended up being a 4 bottle wine session all evening with laughter and stories between us all. This was so beneficial to us having a familiar face to help ease the nerves when your entire wedding party is staring at you while you wait for your bride to arrive.

Our symbolic ceremony was filled with humour, love and personal anecdotes about us, which our guests kept complimenting being so different from a standard ceremony. This made our ceremony stick in the minds of our guests who still talk about it to this day, especially James but most importantly in ours.

We were unlucky to have initially instructed mediocre wedding planners in Barcelona which did not last the test of time for our wedding planning. James offered advice and recommendations to help our wedding get back on track. We eventually found amazing new wedding planners.

James also provides you with a template of the ceremony so you can understand the order as well as example readings and vows if this is something you might struggle with writing. We highly recommend James to any couple thinking of a celebrant, whether in Spain or not as you can rest assured that your ceremony is covered. We cannot thank James enough for all his work at our wedding and so glad we met him, as we both class him as a friend which we will keep in contact with.

We highly recommend James, he truly is the best at what he does and if you want something personal for your ceremony. He is your man!

Thank you so much!!

The minute we began communicating with James, we knew he was perfect for our ceremony. He answered questions we didn?t realise we needed to ask, providing informative options for how we wanted our ceremony & ensuring we understood exactly what was needed.
We got to meet James a couple of times before the day and he reaffirmed every time that he was the man for the job. James has such a warm, friendly manner that makes you instantly feel comfortable around him & this is exactly how he conducts the ceremony. A lot of our guests have gone out of their way to comment particularly on how wonderful James was, saying it was one of the nicest ceremonies they?d been to and we must say it was everything we hoped for and more. The best thing about James, is he gets to know you as a couple and then personalises the ceremony to reflect who you are and he really did that with us! Intertwined with some traditional moments that we all expect to hear, it really was the perfect balance of romance, laughter and happy happy tears!
I could not recommend James enough, he?s a wonderful human and one of the best at what he does.

We just want to thank you so much for making our wedding ceremony so special. All of our guests repeatedly said they had never been to anything like it. I felt such a great sense of relief seeing you at the top of the aisle and I was immediately put at ease. Your warm and inviting presence made it so much easier to take it all in and your words had the perfect balance of emotion and humour and they were both expertly timed. To have the booklet as a souvenir is also very special and something we will treasure. We had been apprehensive going for a non religious ceremony and now we both agree it was one of our best decisions. The whole thing was so personal and you captured our relationship so well. You?re an expert in your field and I can?t thank you enough for making it all so memorable. You have a big place in our hearts.

James was absolutely fantastic and a true professional. What we knew we would get was a personal and lovely ceremony. Which James delivered perfectly. Laughter, tears, and a sense love that doesn?t come often from a celebrant. What we didn?t expect was his help and support for us both. From little pep talks, to even help organise the venue before we arrived. I really couldn?t praise James enough. A true gent and a wonderful celebrant

We can?t thank James enough for making our wedding ceremony amazing, he spoke Spanish and English for our guests to understand, his sense of humor reading our questionnaire that we filled out was a nice added touch. I would highly recommend James to MC your wedding

Personal while professional, fun yet also formal, James is the perfect wedding celebrant. James was thorough in learning our preference of ceremony style and considerate of our unique needs. If you?re considering a wedding in Barcelona, James is the perfect addition to your plans.

We had a small, relaxed and intimate wedding in the south of France earlier this year. We didn't want a stuffy celebrant who made the mood too serious or formal. We simply wanted a relaxed, fun but professional person to match the mood of our wedding and tie the ceremony together. However, it's surprisingly difficult to find someone who can do this so skillfully and understand your vision for the ceremony. But James did exactly this and more. After a quick conversation with James, we knew he was what we were looking for. He really is a master of ceremony and we would highly recommend him to anyone!

James was wonderful. He was easy to communicate with before and full of lots of great ideas for the ceremony. He has a great sense of humour and incorporated our relationship stories into the ceremony to make for a really special occasion. The day was full of laughter. Everything about the day brought us closer.

The Wedding Man - what to say?

I do not have enough superlatives to describe our interactions with The Wedding Man, let alone the actual ceremony. He was such a joy to have at our wedding. All interactions with him prior to the wedding were fantastic and very enjoyable - he made to process of arranging the ceremony so easy for us.

He was the consummate professional however gave a personal touch to the day. He was funny when appropriate , and made it the ceremony of our dreams. Speaking in flawless Spanish/English fusion, he involved the mixed nationality crowd from start to finish - truly engaging and brilliant. Reciting tales of our relationship brought tears to our eyes. The Wedding Man was one of the highlights of our wedding with all guests blew away by his brilliance, and we would totally recommend him. An absolute genius.

James was just a right man on the right place!
The ceremony led by him was very special and emotional. We didn?t exactly know what James is going to say about us during the ceremony but he got to the point! He made our guests and us cry and laugh at the same time! Hi did not have any problem to perform the ceremony in English and Spanish. Also at the same time James got to say corectly a few phrases in Polish.
James made this special moment very personal and unique also by dedicating his time to meet us and get to know us better before the wedding.
He helped us a lot with detailed planning and preparing our vows and ceremony plan. He came up with some ideas which gave us imagination about the best ways we could build our dream ceremony.
We are very happy that we had the pleasure to say ??I do?? with The Wedding Man.
We recommend James to everyone.

James was just fantastic! Our wedding ceremony was so special and personal. All of our guests were commenting on how amazing and unique it was.
He was a pleasure work with, very helpful and approachable. We had lots of contact with James before our wedding day, meeting up in Barcelona, Skype calls and emails. This really put us at ease and made the ceremony run smoothly, Thank you so much!

Full score on every point might seem like an exaggeration, but it really isn't. We came across James (i.e. The Wedding Man) when looking for wedding celebrants online, and quickly realised that this was a sure bet. From the first mail, quickly followed by a Skype chat, he demonstrated professionalism and enthusiasm, and willingly helped us with ideas and suggestions for the ceremony. The ceremony itself turned out perfect, and he easily brought out both tears and laughter from the guests. There's really not a single thing we would've wanted different, and the ceremony would not have been the same without him.

James was the perfect officiant for our wedding. His multilingual skills were seriously tested in our trilingual ceremony, and the mostly unilingual wedding guests were all very impressed. Right from the first Skype call with him we knew that we had made the right choice. His sense of humour matched well with our own, and yet he was always professional when it came to the serious matter of the preparation of our ceremony. In the weeks leading up to the ceremony he would check in from time to time to try to prevent us from making classic blunders ("Got those vows written yet? Huh?").

On the wedding day itself, James stepped up to the plate in a big way, re-arranging the venue to provide a better backdrop for the photographer, and mingling effortlessly with the very disparate guests. The ceremony that he had prepared was lovely, and perfectly captured our joy of life and our joy together. We didn't ever second guess the decision to take on James as part of our "team" - and would highly recommend his services.

James made our wedding ceremony a moment we will never forget!! It was a pleasure working with him for our big day. He is very professional and charming. The ceremony had the right mix of serious and personal. As we are both from different countries it was important for us to make everybody feel part of our special moment and James managed this perfectly, he spoke French, English, Catalan and a bit of Dutch.

We are delighted to recommend James as the celebrant for your wedding. We had a Spanish/Irish wedding in Catalonia in July 2017 with neither sides guests understanding the other language. We couldn't figure out what to do about this and then we came across James website and everything was fine from then on. His preparations beforehand are excellent and the day itself was perfect. James conducted the ceremony perfectly, switching from Spanish to English at ease, allowing everyone to feel included. We received a lot of compliments from guests on this. James is professional, funny & engaging and we would recommend him to anyone getting married in the Barcelona area, even if you don't need a multi lingual celebrant.

James was perfect for our wedding. We didn't want anything religious and James provided us with a beautiful ceremony that was just that. Still felt very spiritual with other romantic readings

When planning a wedding you tend to focus on the parts you think will add value; the venue, the caterers, the band, but you can't appreciate just how much value a good celebrant can bring to your day and James is a great celebrant. From the first meeting James showed a genuine interest in us as people and our relationship and through this he was able to provide us with a touching, funny and professional service that got our already special day off to the perfect start, he even helped us find a singer for the service. To have all our guests come up to us afterwards and tell us that was the best service they had seen is testament to the time and effort James put into our day and is the strongest recommendation and best compliment we can give.

Right now, you are planning your perfect wedding day as you search through every celebrant or officiant, and reading countless reviews- but let me give you assurance, you can stop here. I cannot say enough great things about James The Wedding Man! Honestly, after meeting James via Skype and instantly connecting with him, there was no question we wanted him with us on our wedding day. It turned out to be a fabulous decision. James is witty and sentimental at the same time while also being professional and organized. James guided us through the process and sent helpful inspiration along the way. We were so happy Flutter Magazine shared our wedding ceremony and included a photo with the best officiant we could ask for. Thank you James from the bottom of our hearts!