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Lifetime Ceremonies can create a meaningful and unique wedding ceremony for you that is customized to your needs and wishes, and reflects your values, traditions, and culture, to help make your wedding dreams come true, whether you are getting married next year or next week.
EXPERIENCE
Katherine is an experienced and licensed marriage Officiant and life events celebrant who has been planning and performing multicultural weddings, humanist weddings, and themed weddings since being licensed by the Registrar General in 2004.
She is also an accredited teacher, writer, editor, and visual artist, who designs wedding ceremonies the same way she approaches life: with creativity, enthusiasm, and love.
SPECIALTY SERVICES
Marriage Ceremonies
Since 2004, Katherine has planned and performed over 700 weddings in Stratford, Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Toronto, the Niagara area, and beyond! She would be happy to get together with you to discuss your wedding needs and compose the perfect ceremony for you. Adding traditional or cultural elements to your wedding ceremony, as well as poems, music, and/or wording in different languages, are all encouraged to make your ceremony even more personal and meaningful. Destination wedding services (legal solemnization only) are also available for couples who want their marriage registered in Ontario before having their destination wedding celebration outside the province.
Wedding Day Coordination
Katherine works with a dedicated team of experienced event specialists to help make your wedding day go as smoothly as possible so that you can relax and enjoy the magic of your special day. From ensuring the flowers get delivered on time, to the cutting of the cake, Lifetime Ceremonies is with you every step of the way.
Baby Welcoming Celebrations
These are beautiful and meaningful ceremonies to welcome a new child into your family and make promises to the little one, such as providing love, support, and guidance throughout the child's life. This is also a time when parents may choose to name their child. Welcoming celebrations are created with your family’s cultural traditions in mind. The inclusion of songs, poems, foods, and the giving of token gifts to the child, are all encouraged. Adult friends and/or relatives, chosen by you, play the role of "Guide Parents" who will make lifelong pledges to your child. Baby welcoming celebrations are not just for babies, however. Children of any age may have a ceremony, including children who are adopted.
Funerals and Memorials
Memorials services for family members or friends that have passed away are a meaningful and personal way to pay final respects to the dearly departed. Humanist funerals and memorials do not invoke the blessing of any deity or church. Instead, they honour the deceased loved one in a dignified and personal service that commemorates the uniqueness of that person’s life and personality.
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Reviews for Lifetime Ceremonies
Wonderful officiant and coordination services
First of all, Katherine and the team she brought on the day were incredibly kind and such a warm presence - which goes a long way on your wedding day!
On the officiant side, compared to other options, we were grateful for how flexible Katherine was. She was willing to provide really valuable guidance but was open to making sure the ceremony was exactly what we wanted. She accommodated lots of revisions, and even was willing to speak both English and German (as we have family that speak German as well)! We wrote our own personal vows/promises, and Katherine went above and beyond to print them beautifully with ribbon in booklets for us to read from and for us to keep as beautiful keepsakes.
On the coordination side, Katherine ended up helping us by bringing two people to help with setup and ceremony music, ensuring the day went smoothly. We were also able to rent a speaker and microphone directly from her. This was incredible value. Katherine was very thoughtful in helping coordinate over email, but we had an in person meeting about a month before the event and Katherine came incredibly organized to go through everything and ask the right questions. She helped be the point of contact for vendors on the day of, so we didn't have to worry as much. She was prepared with a plan B all the time, which came in handy very last minute when it started raining unexpectedly right before what should have been our outdoor ceremony. The team helped us pivot quickly and the execution of setup on the day was detail oriented and exactly what we pictured! While we got access to the space early so my husband ended up doing a lot of the setup as well, Katherine and the team still went around to add finishing touches.
Overall, Katherine and her team fit in perfectly on our wedding day and we would highly recommend her services.
Perfect Backyard Ceremony
Best Day of Our Lives
Great Experience
Couldn’t be in better hands!
Amazing experience
Katherine was a great officiant, very flexible
Absolutely magical, thank you Lifetime Ceremonies!
Well-organized and understanding.
Simply amazing!
Beforehand, she was helpful in providing many samples for vows/promises, ceremony processionals, poems, words and different options for how the ceremony could go. She was available to answer all of our questions leading up to the ceremony and helped review the personal promises we wrote. The cards that Katherine had our vows printed on are a beautiful souvenir to remember our day. We would definitely recommend Katherine's services if you're looking for a professional and beautiful experience!
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Established wedding services professional who has been officiating and coordinating multicultural weddings, humanist weddings, and themed weddings since 2004. In addition to being licensed by the Registrar General of Ontario and certified by the Wedding Planners Institute of Canada, I am an accredited teacher, writer, editor, and visual artist.
I design wedding ceremonies the same way I approach life: with creativity, enthusiasm, and love.
Over the past 18 years, I have composed, planned, and performed over 500 weddings all over southern Ontario, including London, Stratford, Waterloo, Guelph, Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, Toronto, and Niagara Falls, and would be very happy to meet with you to discuss your wedding needs and compose the perfect ceremony for you.
Legal solemnization services are also available for couples who want to get their marriage registered in Ontario before having their destination wedding celebration outside the province.
Best wishes,
Katherine
