Celebrant Retreat: Handfasting and Handtying

The Handfasting Mistresses
(Rachel Cheer, Jacqui Harding, Veronika Robinson)

Invite you to the
Heart-led Celebrants’ Retreat:

Handfasting Ceremonies & Handtying Rituals

Eden Valley, Cumbria
Friday, 1st March to Sunday, 3rd March 2024


Knot to be missed!
The Complete Handfasting Weekend
You’re bound to enjoy it.







What to Expect

Join us for a joyful, fun, creative, inspiring and fully immersive weekend of experiential learning. Be confident in the difference between a Handfasting Ceremony and the many styles of handtying from around the world.

Each workshop will leave you enriched and empowered in your celebrant work and in your dialogue with couples.

You’ll have the unique opportunity of witnessing three types of Handfasting Ceremony

officiated by the Handfasting Mistresses!

Celebrant Training UK

Officiating at Lyndsay and Jake’s ceremony. Tying the knot! Photograph by John Hope.







Enjoy a creative writing masterclass writing narrative for handtying vows and a handtying blessing.

Learn to craft your own handtying cords and explore the many types of fabrics and styles possible.

Come and get knotted!






Our Retreat Venue

Held at Glassonby Old Hall, in the beautiful Eden Valley, Cumbria, this lavishly restored 15th Century Cumbrian Longhouse offers a peaceful retreat overlooking rolling Cumbrian fells and farmland.




Glassonby Old Hall (The Rowley Estates)


Jump in the hot tub and relax. It’s a retreat, after all.

Check in to the venue from 3pm Friday 1st.
Retreat workshops finish 3pm Sunday 3rd.
Check out by 10am Monday 4th March.


This event is open to all certified Heart-led Celebrants and celebrants-in-training.

Contact Heart-led Ceremonies www.heartledcelebrants.com for booking details.