Who offers a humanist wedding in Finland
Humanist weddings in Finland are offered by the organization Pro-Seremoniat (Pro-Ceremonies/Pro-Ceremonier).

Languages offered:
Pro-Seremoniat offers ceremonies in English, Finnish, Swedish and occasionally also Estonian. Many of their celebrants speak some other language well enough for parts of the ceremony, but maybe not fluently enough for the whole thing. You can ask about this when you make contact. 

Do we get to choose the humanist wedding celebrant ourselves?
No. Pro-Seremoniat will find an appropriate celebrant based on your answers in the introductory conversation and questionnaire.

How to book a humanist wedding in Finland:
First, write an e-mail to Pro-Seremoniat, and explain what you seek (such as time and location of the ceremony, languages and other possible preferences and wishes etc.).

If Pro-Seremoniat is able to deliver what you require, you will be invited to a conversation with the wedding celebrant, customarily about 1 month before the ceremony. In this meeting, the celebrant and the couple discuss and agree on the content of the ceremony. 

Based on this meeting, the celebrant writes a wedding ceremony for the couple to read and modify it until they a happy with it (Pro-Seremoniat emphasizes here that the celebrant will not say or do anything of religious or otherwise counter-humanist nature, or otherwise against their conscience / better judgment).

The couple will also get a draft of their “Certificate for the Bridal Couple” to read and modify. This is a written statement of the vows made, and who were present during the ceremony. Pro-Seremoniat will then either email the finalized certificate to the couple some weeks beforehand, or, if they don’t have an address in Finland, the celebrant will bring it to the wedding.

On the day of the wedding, the celebrant arrives 20-30 minutes early to be able to check that everything is in place and that the bridal couple, as well as the people that they want to be there (family, best man, musician/s, serving staff etc.) know the proceedings and their role in them.

After the wedding (usually a couple of weeks later) the couple receives their invoice and the finalized, edited text version of their ceremony.

Price:
The basic price for a humanist weddings with Pro-Seremoniat is €400. This includes a printed copy of the ceremony, required certificates, as well as travel costs within the celebrant’s normal working area. Extra charges may come if you want live music.

Members of Pro-Seremoniat’s background organisations (the two Finnish HI-members: the Union of Freethinkers of Finland and the Humanist Union of Finland, as well as the Prometheus Camp Association) get a discount of €30. 

How to get in touch:
To book a humanist wedding, you can contact Pro-Seremoniat by email: posti@pro-seremoniat.fi or proseremoniat@gmail.com