Your Wedding Day is one of the most personal and cherished days of your life. Every aspect of it, from readings to music to symbolism, should be a reflection of you and the bond that you share. To make this day truly your own, rejoice in everything that makes your union unique. Express yourself among family and friends through a personalized ceremony. All our Wedding Celebrants are trained and certified by the renown Celebrant Foundation & Institute and as such are held to high standards of professionalism. All are ordained interfaith ministers authorized to perform ceremonies by the BC Department of Vital Statistics. We will take the time to understand your beliefs, your values, and what makes your bond special. In a Celebrant ceremony your are empowered. Nothing is imposed on you. Instead, in a collaborative process we will guide you in choosing rituals, readings, symbols and music to fulfill your ideas and vision for your wedding.
Meet Our Celebrants
Located on the Mainland and Vancouver Island
Penny Allport
Celebrant
Located in Victoria, BC, Certified in Weddings and Funerals
email: pennyallport@gmail.com
Deanna Balcarras,
Deanna Balcarras,
Located in Qualicum Beach
email: deannabalcarras@gmail.com
Whether a wedding or an end of life celebration, I will be there as you share your story with me. I will actively listen to what is most important to you and your relationship. How you describe your love for each other and what you hope for in a lifelong marriage will be the foundation of your wedding ceremony. Your ceremony should be about you and your love story.
An end of life ceremony will honour your loved one and can be an essential part of your own grieving process, helping in the circle of healing that you may need.
The story of your loved one is incredibly important and it will be my honour to help you unlock and tell that unique and personal story.
I love to be outside with my family and dog Ash, exploring the beaches, forests and mountains of Vancouver Island. So whether you are celebrating this transition in your life on a beach or in your home, I will meet you there to guide you and your loved ones through this important time of your life.
Katie Brennan
Katie Brennan Ceremonies
Located on Saltspring Island
email: katie@katiebrennanceremonies.ca
www.katiebrennanceremonies.ca
You’ve already imagined the perfect flowers.
You’ve fallen in love with your perfect outfit.
And you’ve dreamt about the perfect venue too.
And now, to tie it all together in a nice, big bow, you just need…Your Perfect Ceremony!
Sue Cairnie
Sue Cairnie Ceremonies + Elope BC
Located in Kelowna
250-309-9362
www.suecairnieceremonies.com
My job is to celebrate love! I’ve officiated over 200 weddings across BC and love doing ceremonies in nature. With my Elopement business, Elope BC, I offer pop-up elopement packages, as well as personal and helicopter elopement options. I also officiate funerals and Celebrations of Life for those looking to honor a loved one. I specialize in fun, personalized and relaxed ceremonies that get everyone feeling the love. LGBTQ+ friendly. I offer modern ceremonies with fun rituals like the Handfasting for adventurous souls!
Kim Evans
Life Celebrant BC
Located in Richmond
Call: 604-603-5540
I am a qualified Life-Cycle Celebrant® in both Weddings and Funerals. I’ve been writing ceremonies since 2008 and have years of experience as a trainer, coach and sales manager. I brings a sense of humor, intuition and creative writing skills to your ceremony to celebrate with you, and co-creates a lasting memory. Do you want something poignant and touching, something fun and exciting, outside in a park or inside in a chapel, banquet hall or home? It’s all about what you want and I would be honoured to be your Celebrant.
Abegael Fisher-Lang
life threads ceremonies
Located in Vancouver
604-715-5168
www.lifethreads.ca
I am a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, Wedding Officiant and Contemporary Spiritual Minister. I love ceremonies! I love the opportunity to tell my clients’ stories. The Love Story (Weddings, Renewal of Vows), the Baby story (Baby naming and Baby blessings), the Life Story (Celebration of Life/ Memorials), or any of the many milestones on the path of life. It is my heartfelt wish, to provide genuine, loving, creative and memorable ceremonies just for you.
Jane Good
Circle Ceremonies
Located in Qualicum Beach
250-951-1151
www.circleceremonies.com
Helping couples create and embrace the sacred moment of union in marriage is a thrill and an honour for me. I will approach each ceremony with a fresh and boundless well of energy, ideas and respect. My strength is my natural calm and intuition. I will craft a wedding ceremony for you that will truly be remembered. I am a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant authorized by British Columbia Vital Statistics to legally officiate weddings in BC. My background includes a Masters Degree in Adult Education from Saint Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and I’ve been a Vancouver Island resident for most of my life.
Lisa Hartley
Lisa Hartley Ceremonies
Located in Vancouver
778-228-9105
www.lisahartley.com
Marriage is sacred to me but so is community building and ceremonies for all parts of your life. As a Wedding Celebrant, my heart opens when I can offer you my skill, wisdom and training, and I am well versed in interfaith and intercultural traditions. I also love designing ceremonies for blended families, and I adore creating joyful baby blessings. I deeply believe that for your special ceremony, we can design a profound rite of passage to meet these modern times and your chosen family.
Janis Horne
Coquitlam Celebrants
Located in Vancouver
604-314-2946
Janis Horne first got the idea (brainwave, really!) of becoming a Celebrant at her own son’s wedding. It struck her as an opportunity to bring together everything that she valued most about her career in post-secondary education – meeting new people, forming relationships, public speaking, and writing – in a way that is deeply personal and that serves an unmet need in the lives of people today. To Janis, being a Celebrant is truly “heart work”, and she treasures this way of connecting with people. After completing her Wedding Celebrant training with the Celebrant Institute in New Jersey in She has also completed The Gay Wedding Institute Certification Course; and is an active member of Toastmasters International.
Shafia Jamodien
A Lifetime to Celebrate
Located in Courtenay
250 -650-9890
I want to help people to be connected to their story, and to bring it to life with ceremony and ritual.
I have done ceremonies such as weddings, end-of-life ceremonies and baby-blessings in places like Gabriola Island, Nanaimo Yacht Club, Qualicum Beach, Duncan, Saratoga Beach in Courtenay, Mission Hill Cemetery in Courtenay, Two Eagles Lodge in Union Bay, 40 Knots Winery, Campbell River and Cumberland. I offer Reiki to couples prior to the Wedding Day. I am offering Indian Crown Massage to couples or individuals of the bridal party (optional) as an extended service.
About Shafia – I was born in Durban, South Africa, and through my own ancestral heritage, I have come to deeply trust the impact of culture and tradition. With mastery of ritual and ceremony I am here to honour your life milestones.
Jennifer Lee
Life-Cycle Ceremonies
Located in the Comox Valley
250-702-4040
www.lifecycleceremony.com
My training and background as a poet, professional actor, public speaker, certified yoga teacher, mother, gardener and Life Cycle Celebrant all contribute to my gift for creating compassionate and passionate ceremonies.
I love the process of getting to know you well enough, as individuals and as a couple, to create a ceremony that is both meaningful and memorable for you both and for those you have chosen to share this moment with you. Your love story is so beautiful and unique and your ceremony can be creatively personalized to reflect and celebrate that richness.
In BC there are so many wonderful choices for people to officiate your ceremony. You can find someone who suits you and your vision for your wedding perfectly, in a way that honours and celebrates your deep commitment and love.
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” Jean Anouilh
Catherine McColl
Chrysalis Ceremonies
Located in Vancouver
604-813-5122
www.chrysalisceremonies.com
I am a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, Wedding Officiant and Contemporary Spiritual Minister. I love ceremonies! I love the opportunity to tell my clients’ stories. The Love Story (Weddings, Renewal of Vows), the Baby story (Baby naming and Baby blessings), the Life Story (Celebration of Life/ Memorials), or any of the many milestones on the path of life. It is my heartfelt wish, to provide genuine, loving, creative and memorable ceremonies just for you.
Alison Moore
Celebrate Life's Dance
Located in the Okanagan Valley
250-826-4496
www.celebrantalisonmoore.com
Weddings are a joy to celebrate. Partnering with you to choreograph an authentic and memorable wedding ceremony that is yours alone is my passion. As a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, professional Wedding Officiant, and natural storyteller, I am committed to partnering with you to create a beautiful ceremony that captures your vision for this special day in your lives. As you share your love story, I weave your words and feeling into the ceremony to share with your gathered guests. The wedding ceremony we create together will set the stage for your life journey together. Open and affirming of all lifestyles and beliefs, I craft interfaith, multi-cultural, same-sex, secular, atheist, and/or pagan, ceremonies for all loving couples.
Alexandra Mushahwar
Your Ceremony by alex
Located in the Okanagan Valley
250-575-7890
www.yourceremonybyalex.com
There are always reasons to celebrate!
Especially, when it comes to that unique moment that means the world to you: a milestone, an achievement, a passage of life.
Together, we are going to celebrate you and yours by creating a ceremony that reflects your love, your life and that will be experienced in a way that speaks through and for you.
As your Life-Cycle Celebrant® specializing in weddings (as well as other celebrations around the life cycle), it is my goal to serve the vision of your BIG DAY as your professionally trained ceremony specialist, writer, and storyteller.
In English OR German language.
Your words, your wishes, and your values are going to be lovingly nestled into personalized elements from start to finish for your distinctively crafted wedding ceremony.
Linda Nelson
Island Ceremonies
Located in Victoria
250-514-8280
“I love meeting couples “in love”; basking in the glow of their joyful energy, as we co-create their perfect wedding ceremony. I create ceremonies from a spiritual mindset, and your ceremony can be lighthearted, warm, short and sweet or complex and filled with ritual, honouring of your cultural heritages and/or any combination of whatever your hearts desire. I have created themed ceremonies, same sex ceremonies, elopements and vow renewals and I am open to all people, all cultures and all faiths.
My wedding wire reviews speak for themselves and if you resonate with what you read about me, I look forward to hearing from you.”
Ceri Peacey
Oceanside Celebrant Services
Located in Qualicum Beach
250-927-5658
www.Celebrant.ca
Weddings present a wonderful opportunity to draw guests in, especially by sharing your love-story with them. I would love to work with you to create a ceremony that reflects your shared values and is unique to your relationship.
I have an upbeat and warm personality and am very detail oriented especially on your big day. Drop me a note and we can schedule a no-obligation conversation to make sure we are a good fit.
I’m located in Hilliers on Vancouver Island and will happily perform weddings in Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Courtenay, Nanaimo, and Port Alberni.
Cheryl Pedley
A West Coast Celebrant
Located in Nanaimo
250-729-1133
I am a Lifecycle celebrant on Canada’s west coast. Working out of Nanaimo, I dedicate my energies to creating meaningful weddings and funerals all over Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Sunshine Coast. With humour and respect I will work with you to craft your love story or the Hero’s journey of a loved one. From the simple to the complex, from the lighthearted to the most serious occasion I’m happy to guide you and help put your story into words. Serving Vancouver Island.
Paula Marie Skalnek
contemporary ceremonies
Located in Vancouver
778-997-1318
The question I often get asked is: What do you believe?
I believe that every person should have the option to marry someone they love using language, symbols and rituals that reflect their personalities. I believe there are contemporary approaches to honour family, spiritual or religious values. I believe that together we can create a ceremony that expresses the essence and the glory of the commitment of one human being to another.
If you believe that your special day deserves more than décor to create a lasting memory, let’s sit down and discuss the possibilities. Whether, you are thinking of a short and sweet ceremony or a more detailed wedding it is all about your truth, your style.
TRACY JULIE ANNE STOESSIGER
HEART OF SEASONS
Located in Victoria
236-463-5683
www.heartofseasons.com
I see the seasons reflected in all beings and the natural cycle of birth, life, and death in all that surrounds us and all that is within us. Creating personalized ceremonies to reflect and embody the couples I work with is an honour. PS – I love to work with nature lovers!
I am willing to travel to most areas on Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands) and am always up for an adventure ceremony into the forest or out on the water. I am licensed to solemnize marriage anywhere in BC.
When not writing and creating, you can find me on my bike spinning my legs, paddle boarding, hiking local hills, volunteering at hospice, teaching and practising yoga, or sitting on my duff getting lost in a motion picture with my hubby.
Certifications: Life-Cycle Celebrant ®, Weddings. Initiated Wildwood Priestess of the Wildwood Priestess Guild™. Registered Birth Doula.
Wendy Wawrysh
Warm heart ceremonies
Located in the Cowichan Valley
250-418-5722
My goal is a singular one: to help you make your wedding ceremony – the very heart of your wedding day – so uniquely and meaningfully yours that it will forever warm your memory treasure chest with joyful contentment. Through an enjoyable process, I will help you and your partner discern your true voice for a ceremony that reflects your personalities, your hearts’ desire and creates a sacred space for your commitment to each other. Your guests will be enchanted and will remember your wedding day in a special way. Along with my Life-Cycle Celebrant certification and experience, I draw from a long career in building warm relationships with people to help them achieve amazing and satisfying outcomes. I would be honoured to work with you.