I was ordained by the Celebrant Foundation & Institute. Celebrants are trained professionals that believe in the power of ceremony and ritual and whose mission is to work with the couple to create a ceremony that reflects their beliefs, philosophy of life, and personality.  In the CF&I training we are immersed in the study of ritual theory, the structure of the ceremony, symbolism, storytelling for ceremonies, the history of rituals and traditions throughout the world, choreography and ceremonial facilitation, as well as ceremonial public speaking.

Celebrants first appeared in Australia and New Zealand in the late 1960’s. The founders of the Celebrant Foundation and Institute (CF&I) studied this new profession that had become so popular in these countries as well as its network and training practices and resolved to spark and nurture this movement in North America and to “pioneer the widespread use of relevant, customized ceremony to honour the fullness of the human experience across the lifecycle.” CF&I continues to grow and strives to stay at the very cutting edge of this movement. There are currently over 1,500 CF&I Life-Cycle Celebrant alumni practicing in 10 countries world-wide.  For more information, please go to  http://www.celebrantinstitute.org.

Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants® have completed rigorous training with the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, and they adhere to the Life-Cycle Celebrant’s philosophy: to create personalized ceremonies with and for people of any religion, spirituality, or system of values. No Celebrant ceremony is identical to any other – they are all made to measure. The Celebrant comes to the table with no agenda; no preconceived notion of what the ceremony should or must look like. Instead, through careful interviewing, the Celebrant collaborates with the couple, who have final approval of every element of the ceremony.