Getting Started

For a Celebrant, a website is a way of hanging out a sign; it is her or his announcement to the world saying, “Hey, I’m open for business!” It has taken me three years since discovering Celebrancy to get to this point. But oh, what an interesting and delightful time it has been!

It was spring 2006 when I first noticed an ad in a magazine for the Celebrant Foundation and Institute. Above a photo of a couple getting married and their Celebrant, the ad boldly proclaimed, “Live the Art of Life: Become a Celebrant.” (See www.celebrantusa.org for more info.) I stared at the ad, felt an excitement stirring deep down inside me, and thought to myself, “This is so cool! I could do that! I would completely enjoy doing that!” I showed the ad to my husband and said, half jokingly, “Hey, Rock, look at what I’m going to do with the rest of my life!” Then I put the magazine down and calmly went back to preparing for the next day’s classes, the type of preparation every high school teacher knows so well.

A few days later, while reading a different magazine, I saw the same ad. Hmmm. Again, I felt that deep stirring within me, but this time I decided to pay better attention. When I talked about it with my husband later that day, I wasn’t so flippant. It was the beginning of a conversation which continues to this day. Three Celebrant Foundation courses, a job change, a move, three memorial services, and a dozen weddings later here I am, a Celebrant. Becoming a Celebrant has changed my life for good, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!