Services

As a Life-Cycle Celebrant, I design ceremonies for events that are not normally honored, as well as for customary occasions. In addition to the examples listed below, a ceremony can be designed for any personal milestone of significance including remission from serious disease, gender affirmation, and the sale of the family home after generations. What milestone of yours is calling to be honored?

Weddings

Your wedding represents the joyful and dynamic dance that you and your beloved are composing. Take this moment to tell the world how you two unique and fascinating people found and fell for each other! Whether you experienced love at first sight or ongoing interaction that eventually sparked the flame, sharing your love story in a customized ceremony honors your journey to this day and your bond from this day forward.

Memorial Services and Celebrations of Life

Each one of us has known sweetness and sadness as we all care deeply for our family and friends. Whether your dear one was a famous public figure or someone who generously devoted their life’s energy to children and grandchildren, their particular passions, generosity, humor and quirks made them who they were. An authentic tribute in a customized ceremony provides meaning and comfort during a difficult time of loss.

Ceremonies Honoring Failure to Conceive and Pregnancy Loss

The heartbreak of frustrated hope to conceive a child is often intensified because your pain is invisible to many others in your life, even family and friends. Through a personalized ceremony of support, your experience is honored and validated, allowing you space to process the difficult emotional terrain of grief you have travelled. Honestly acknowledging your journey privately or with loved ones allows a chance for giving and receiving much-needed comfort.

Losing a child during or prior to birth is completely devastating. The pain is indescribable and unimaginable to others, and your feelings of deep grief are easily compounded by those who mean well but say things that do little to bring comfort. Your child deserves to be grieved and to be honored, no matter how long they lived. Taking time to honor your child through ceremony expresses the love you will forever have for them.

Ceremonies for Job Loss

Losing a job can often feel like a body blow, making the ground beneath our feet unsteady. Because work is a defining pillar of identity, those who retire often have regrets and a feeling of emptiness. When someone has been let go through discharge or layoff, they can also be furious at being fired or feel betrayed by a company that laid them off after devoted service. Through a customized ceremony, you create space to acknowledge what you have been through, to honor the fullness of your identity beyond work, and to permit room for hope as you move forward. Inviting loved ones to join the ceremony allows them to appreciate the depth of your experience, and to offer you the understanding and support you deserve.

Affirmation of Parental Love to Children of Divorce

When parents divorce, we eventually tell our kids some version of “nobody is divorcing you; we both still love you.” But children are grieving the loss of the family they knew, often internalizing blame and experiencing feelings of abandonment. By creating ceremonial time and space devoted to your children, you will affirm through ritual and story the priority they have in your newly configured lives. This permits everyone in the new arrangement to give and receive comfort and offers an opportunity for your children to help shape the cascade of changes ahead in your next chapter.

Pet Loss Ceremonies

Pets are devoted companions who love their humans unconditionally. When they die, it is natural to grieve their loss and the loss of the relationship we shared with them. Just as we create Celebration of Life ceremonies to honor the loss of our human loved ones, a ceremony to mark the passing of a beloved pet companion can provide much needed comfort at a difficult time. With friends and family gathered, a celebration of your pet’s life honors their personality, quirky habits and the relationship you treasured. Sharing laughter and tears through a customized ceremony provides solace as you move forward into the days ahead.