Funeral Celebrant Reviews
Sought-after professional Lady Toastmaster and multicultural weddings and ceremonies Celebrant Sonal Dave
Funeral & Memorial Celebrant Reviews
Thank you for making the day go smoothly for us.
You had a great way of caring for the people in the room and making them feel comfortable and involved. Even though you are standing at a distance, your warmth and the sincerity of your words came across.
Thank you for your support. I wish you all the very best.
Sharika
We all appreciated you being the celebrant for my dad’s funeral. Thank you again for making yourself available on short notice.
Thank you for a beautiful ceremony. Lots of praise coming your way from many guests. It was truly a beautiful send-off
Thank you for being the celebrant at Nirmalaben’s scattering of ashes ceremony on Sunday at Windsor. You performed the ceremony very well and was very serene with background music brilliantly played by Dhani. Overall we found your presentation was unique and fitting to the occasion. General feedback from the family was very positive and we would not hesitate to recommend you to friends and family.
It was a lovely ceremony and everyone said it was lovely too. It was just what I had hoped for. Thank you
Dear Sonal, We wanted to thank you for delivering the ceremony so well for Raj. You received multiple compliments from family and friends.
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Sonal, you did an excellent job and all went well and peacefully. Everyone said that it was a beautiful ceremony and send-off and that you did really well. He would be so proud.
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I want to thank you for all the help and advice you gave us in making the decisions we did for my Son’s funeral. Your calm and supportive approach on the day was greatly appreciated, both at the service and the celebration of life. You made the day run smoothly and took a lot of pressure away from us.
You have a very special way of helping the bereaved.
I would absolutely recommend Sonal to anyone looking for a celebrant for a funeral for a loved one. My family and I had to organise a funeral for my father in May 2022 and we had to do so pretty much from scratch. We had some vague ideas for a ceremony but hadn’t really discussed anything beforehand and were really looking for someone who could help guide us through the process and help us put together a ceremony that worked for us and felt right for our dad. Sonal was just what we needed. Adding to the obvious difficulties in having to plan a funeral for a loved one, we also had to do so while family members lived in different time zones: I live in the U.S. but the rest of my family live back in London. Sonal was great in meeting with us via zoom and using a Google doc to help us all work through all of the plans together. Sonal is also clearly very used to working with families and adapting to their particular dynamics and worked really hard to make sure that we all contributed to the planning and were all fully involved. The fact that our discussions were on zoom and across time zones did not lessen this at all and we felt very supported throughout the entire process. Sonal was also extremely responsive and reliable throughout, we never had to wait too long for an email response or ever chase her for anything. We were all extremely happy with the ceremony that we ended up putting together and felt so lucky to have Sonal helping us through the process.
Sonal worked with myself and close friends to celebrate the life and to say goodbye to a close friend. She was kind, caring, flexible, sensitive and supportive through an emotionally charged time. Her understanding of the overlaps and differences in Indian and English cultures was a much appreciated bonus. I highly recommend working with her.
We just wanted to say thank you so much. Everyone said how the readings were read so beautifully and how it allowed them to listen to everything said, and really take it in.
So many that were there and even those watching overseas, have said how lovely mum’s send off was, and that it would have made her proud. That’s all that we could have asked for. Thank you for everything.
Thank you for everything you did for my brother’s memorial. Somehow, I haven’t been able to find the words to express my gratitude. From the moment of our first call to the end of the memorial at the Fitzrovia chapel, I am so grateful we found you.
Your empathy, calm manner and professionalism guided us through our shock, and for me, the memory of the memorial sustains me. It was a moment of deep respect and dignity for my brother and for who we were as a family, to give him a dignified departure.
Many people commented on your service and what a great job you did. I am so grateful you were able to sing that Jagjit Singh song at the end, with no notice and such heightened tension. You really were amazing in that moment.
Sonal is an exceptional and highly-experienced celebrant. I had the joy of working with her to put together a very special funeral earlier this year. She worked with the family to put together a highly bespoke ceremony and was able to accommodate all of their needs. Highly recommended.
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