If you google ‘Wedding celebrants, Surrey’, the fourth name to come up is ‘Lynda Bassette: With You for All Life’s Special Moments’. Farnham-based but willing to travel across the UK and abroad, Lynda also does funerals and baby naming ceremonies, so ‘the full wrap-around care’, as she calls it. But weddings are her favourite. Though divorced herself, she’s always been a true romantic at heart. ‘I’m in love with love!’ she tells her couples when they first get in touch.  

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She’s struggling to get her name more prominent on Google. It’s proving hard in a county where every other woman wanting a life-change seems to be completing the online celebrancy course and setting up as a sole practitioner. It’s a tougher market than Lynda expected when she gave up her job and literally ‘chose joy’ in her own life. When she went into HR 30 years ago, she hoped it would mean helping people but what it mainly involved was managing them out. That gave her grief. Celebrancy is a way of counteracting all that negativity. Now, she prides herself in making other people happy,........

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