What is a Celebrant? A Celebrant is a person who is deeply knowledgeable about the history and meaning of rituals and ceremonies across cultures. She or he is skilled at crafting highly individualized ceremonies, will serve as a calming and caring guide throughout the preparation phase, and can act as an officiant at your ceremony. Celebrants are passionate about their work and offer their heart, mind and energy to each client and to each ceremony.
Why Choose a Celebrant Rather than a Judge or Justice of the Peace?Working with a Celebrant gives you the freedom to be creative. There's no "boiler plate" script and no obligatory ritual format. The entire event will reflect your choices and your taste: Your ideas, your traditions, your beliefs and symbols will be carefully woven together into a beautiful living tapestry that reflects your loving intentions and commitment.
What if We Want to Include a Minister, Priest or Rabbi in the Ceremony? Your ceremony can be secular, spiritual or religious. Thus, a Celebrant will be happy to collaborate with a member of the clergy in designing a ceremony that is uniquely personal to the participants, and also includes the blessing or other participation of their chosen spiritual leader.
What about Other Life Events? Do Celebrants Craft Other Kinds of Ceremonies? Assuredly yes! House-warmings and milestones such as birthdays or anniversaries, promotions or retirements, graduations or coming of age, are among the joyful events that warrant a ceremony.
Many Celebrants, myself included, are also available to assist you during your most difficult times, with end-of-life ceremonies, funerals and memorials.
Thus, it often happens that, over time, the members of a family will call upon the same Celebrant to assist them in commemorating both their times of joy and their seasons of sadness.
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