Celebrations

 Celebrate. Often. Deeply. Fully.

With loved ones.

Joy + togetherness have tremendous power to change your life.

To make it richer, deeper, and even more meaningful.

It opens your heart and makes you feel even more free and loved and seen.

Gathering together to celebrate those we love is an absolute art form.

A beautiful and memorable celebration is more than just a social gathering.

It has a purpose and it feels different from the everyday.

It invites people together to witness something.

Something full of joy and love and laughter.


And what is missing from most of our celebrations is someone in the role of host, a “generous authority”, holding the space.

Often there is no real structure to bring everyone together in true connection and witnessing.

The very purpose of the gathering is lost to “being chill” and not wanting to impose anything on anyone and everyone is left to just wander.

  • “We get lulled into the false belief that knowing the category of the gathering—the board meeting, workshop, birthday party, town hall—will be instructive to designing it. But we often choose the template—and the activities and structure that go along with it—before we’re clear on our purpose.”

    ― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

This is where I come in.

I help you define the purpose of why you are celebrating and set some fun but firm guidelines for your celebratory space.

Yes, everyone has to…

  • Sit in their assigned seats.

  • Wear a silly hat.

  • Think of a strange fantastical name for your baby and convince you why you should actually choose it ;)

These silly, ice-breaker type rules create group cohesion and help everyone you’ve invited to gel together rather than staying in their usual little social groups. 

And as the vibe is coming along nicely, and we’ve had something to eat, then we come to the more ceremonial part of the celebration.

The Witnessing. The Commemorating.
The Remembering. The Honouring.
The Thanking.

The flavour of how we do this is entirely up to you and is largely pre-determined by the very details of the reason of why we’re gathering. From fun and silly to resplendent and reverent.

If it’s a big birthday or anniversary, it’s about remembering all that has come before and all that is yet to happen in the future.

If your child is coming of age, it’s a moment to honour who they are right now and all the moments that brought them here, as well as sending out thoughts and wishes for their future.

If it’s a housewarming, it’s a moment to infuse your new home with everyone’s love and wishes for you and your family.

Other things you might want to celebrate:

  • New life is an absolute miracle and a Baby or Mother Blessing not only honours that miracle but also gives everyone a chance to connect and commune with this new being and vow to support all of their hopes and dreams in the future.

  • I know I’ve had my share of ho-hum birthdays. The really great ones are where I took some time to bring those I love together for a night of good food, fun times, and connection. But being both the birthday person and the ceremony master is no fun. Let me be the master of ceremony for you and create a wonderful ceremony for your birthday or anniversary that you will always remember.

  • Imagine if, during your awkward transition from puberty to adulthood, your family and loved ones had taken a moment to formally acknowledge and celebrate the wonderful person you are becoming, affirming every wonderful thing about you and their hopes and dreams for you in the future. I know my 13-year-old self would have really liked that.

  • Life is FULL of transitions: new job, new house, going off to school, moving to a new city, retiring, divorcing, adopting, opening a new business, launching a new venture, etc. And rarely do we ever really do anything to mark, let alone celebrate, these occasions. Traditionally ceremonies have been left behind in our busy everyday contemporary live. A ceremony makes things sacred and helps us move more easily from one stage to the next.

  • Reunions are a time of coming together after being apart. And with the right ceremony, you can make everyone in that room feel seen, included, and connected, honour what happened while you were apart, and affirm your commitment to one another in the future. iption

  • I can devise a ceremony for any event in your life, large or small, that you’d like to acknowledge and celebrate in a way that is perfectly suited to you.

Next Steps - Here’s how we do this

Reach out to me with your thoughts about what kind of ceremony you’re looking for and check out my availability.

We then connect for a brief 30-min consultation so that I can learn the particulars of what you’re looking for and so that you can get to know me a bit and see if I’m the Celebrant for you.

From there, I’ll send you a written questionnaire to fill out and send back to me. Sitting down to write things out allows time for reflection and for you to see yourself and your desires right there on the page — how do you want your ceremony to feel, what is its purpose, etc.

With your answers to guide me, I write up a draft of your ceremony and all of its elements for your approval and edit it until you’re delighted.

Day of, we meet up sometime beforehand to arrange everything.

And then it’s Ceremony time — we make magic happen!

How will this fit the budget?