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YOU ARE UNIQUE. Shouldn't your wedding reflect that?
Reimagine Celebrations is a wedding officiancy and creative celebration service based in Kelowna, British Columbia. Rev. Lise Leroux at Reimagine Celebrations is excited to help you and your partner celebrate your love within the Okanagan, BC, nationally or internationally. As an experienced writer, event planner, and public speaker, she specializes in creating one-of-a-kind personalized ceremonies that tell the story of your genuine romantic journey. She writes and delivers ceremonies that talk about you and why you're together. Meaningful, heartfelt, yet with touches of humour and fun, she helps celebrate your transition into married life. She also makes the ceremonies absolutely unforgettable by including your family, friends, and loved ones actually in the ceremony.
Services Offered
Lise is passionate about incorporating thoughtful, unique, and meaningful elements into her services. As a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant and ordained minister, she serves a diverse group of couples by honouring their lives’ milestone moments. At an initial consultation, she gets to know you and your vision. Whether it’s an intimate elopement arriving by helicopter or yacht, in a hospital, at a lakeside, on ebikes, or a traditional celebration, Lise is proud to contribute to your once-in-a-lifetime event.
Having herself parachuted into her own wedding, she is no stranger to marking transitional moments with movement. She can design unique ceremonies to reflect your interests, such as a ceremony for two video gaming enthusiasts, based on a video game. Or a ceremony which included a beginning Latin dance class - for a couple who met at a dance class.
She can also provide pre and post wedding activities for the couple or the wedding guests, as well as couples coaching on how to keep conflct constructive (with each other and/or others), and how to keep your marriage fresh and exciting on a continual basis!
This dedicated professional has experience in a variety of wedding styles such as single or dual religion ceremonies, interfaith ceremonies, or a creative collaboration. Reimagine Celebration accommodates a wide range of religions and belief systems, including:
- Spiritual
- Buddhist
- Catholic
- Hindu
- Islam
- Jewish
- Earth-based
- Presbyterian
- Non-denominational
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Reviews for Reimagine Celebrations
Love the Activities!!
The second activity was the Blind dining experience. This was so fun and also a very interesting one. It is amazing how your tasting senses depend on… well I won’t ruin it for others.just saying it is a must do activity!!! It was real neat and out of the box activity to do! I find she has a lot of out of the box activities that can be done right in our own home! I am going to let my family and friends know as we found these activities can be done not only with couples but changed up a bit for families, friends, groups etc.
We highly recommend Lise to coordinate a night of activities for you. We will be calling her again to do more ! Thanks Lise
Sept 24 2022 Wedding
Amazing Lise went above and beyond for us
I would hire Lise again 10 times over!! She is THE BEST officiant ❤️
A dedicated, engaging, & couple centered officiant
Upon our check-in right before the wedding, it amazed me at how much Lise knew about me, my partner, and our relationship. Lise truly listened to all of the things that we wanted for our ceremony. She added to our thoughts and ideas but we never felt pressure to take those ideas and put them into our ceremony. She is very relaxed and easy to talk to. On the day of our wedding we met Lise for the first time in person (thanks COVID!). She was just as lovely in person as she was online! Lise made our ceremony very memorable for not only us, but for our guests as well. We had a high level of audience participation. She allowed the ceremony to have its moments of seriousness and romantic allure, but then would lighten it up with humour about our pets or silly stories that she had learned through our questionnaires. Again, this illustrates Lise’s desire to get to know each couple and ensure the ceremony reflects them. We had dozens of guests comment on how creative, romantic and touching our ceremony was. There were a lot of tears and laughter!
Overall, I would HIGHLY recommend Lise for your ceremony. If you are looking to add in original ideas to your wedding, such as having a ring security team, or if you're looking for somebody who is truly going to take the time to get to know you and your partner, Lise is the one that I would definitely recommend! Thank you Lise for creating such an unbelievable ceremony!
Perfect wedding
She really got to know us!
Photo credit: @alishakhanphotography
Nothing Short of Spectacular
I wanted something that included my husbands kids (4 and 6) and was more personalized and Lise utilized the information she had about us from the questionnaire and a brief chat and delivered an outstanding ceremony. The fine details she mentioned and the inclusion of my step-children were what made my wedding day truly special. She is an exceptional writer and speaker and her passion truly shows in her work. I had a good feeling after our initial meeting but I did not know what to expect on the day of and she knocked it out of the park.
Thank you so much for the unforgettable experience!
Exceptional
Absolutely wonderful!
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Originally from Montreal, Lise has been living a third of her life each in the US, UK, and Canada. She worked in learning and development within areas such as aviation security, language, transportation, publishing, finance, government, hospitality, and law. She designs and teaches courses in many areas, from customer service to people of 50 nationalities on cruise ships around the world, to leadership skills and advanced communication training to senior leaders in the Cabinet Office in London, UK.
Having always been afraid of heights (and not liking fear to win), Lise jumped out of one perfectly good aircraft in an effort to solve this, and found flying irresistible. She completed 600 jumps and parachuted into her own wedding to a fellow skydiver. She continued doing stunt work for corporate events for several years, arriving to locations by helicopter, parachute, boat, sailboat, or steam train.
Because of her lifelong interest in people and storytelling, it was an inevitable jump to becoming a writer and playwright. Her fiction has been published in multiple countries (Viking Penguin UK and Uitgeverij Arbeiderspers Netherlands) and several pieces performed on stage. Two of her books are required reading in university English literature courses, and her first novel was nominated for an international literary award (Orange Prize for Fiction).
“Involved, exuberant ... written with self-confidence and imaginative force." (The Times)
After far too many years in corporate life, Lise found that becoming a Life Cycle Celebrant was what she had always been missing. It finally gave her the opportunity to write and deliver ceremonies for real people possessing real emotions and genuine life stories. Being able to translate people’s stories into unique and memorable celebrations is an opportunity for which she is eternally grateful.
