About
On WeddingWire since 2015
Last update: August 2024
Vancity Officiant is an English and Chinese-speaking officiant business in Vancouver, BC. It is led by the officiants Kevin Leung, Kit Chan & Janice Chan, who communicate with every couple and create a ceremony that reflects their personality. They have a fun and fresh approach to providing their services and interfaith and intercultural rituals across Greater Vancouver. They assist their couples in creating a personalized celebration. In 2018, Vancity Officiant was selected as one of the Top 3 Best Wedding Officiant of the Professional BC Wedding Awards.
Experience
Kevin Leung is the first trilingual (English, Cantonese, and Mandarin) Certified Wedding Celebrant in Canada and a licensed Marriage Officiant in the province of British Columbia. Ordained as a spiritual minister by the Canadian International Metaphysical Ministry, he specializes in performing wedding ceremonies using a young and professional approach with interfaith and intercultural rituals across Greater Vancouver.
Since 2014, Kevin has conducted marriage ceremonies for over 500 couples. He has also attained Wedding Industry Experts Most Popular New Celebrant/Officiant Award 2015, 1st in Vancouver, 2nd in British Columbia, 2nd in Canada, and 6th worldwide. In 2016, he is also the winner of Most Popular New Celebrant/Officiant Award, 1st in Richmond, 1st in British Columbia, 21st in Canada, 33rd worldwide.
Kit Chan is recognized as an interfaith Marriage Officiant in the Province of BC. She is registered with Vital Statistics to perform weddings in British Columbia. In 2004, she established her first award-winning business, Hee Creations Photography, and in 2010, she expanded her career and started Amara Wedding, a comprehensive wedding company. With extensive experience in the wedding industry and working with over 800 couples, she specializes in designing beautiful and personalized ceremonies and rituals.
As a Celebrant, Kit believes that a wedding ceremony is not just signing documents, it should be the moment to celebrate one of your most unforgettable milestones in your life with your loved ones, and it is the key to a marriage. She strives to work together with couples and offer her skills and professionalism to bring their vision for their life marriage.
Janice Chan joined the Vancity Officiant Team in 2018. She was ordained as a Spiritual Minister by the Canadian International Metaphysical Ministry, and she is a licensed Marriage Officiant registered with BC Vital Statistic Agency.
As a Certified Wedding Celebrant, she helps couples create and embrace the sacred moment of union in marriage free from the bounds of convention. She believes a wedding ceremony should be as unique as the couple's journey of becoming marriage partners. With her creativity and open-mindedness, Janice specializes in designing customized wedding ceremonies and performs intimate elopements that are inclusive, meaningful, and memorable.
Services offered
The business's wide range of services includes Classic, Simple, and their new Elopement Package. Some of the services in these packages include:
- Marriage celebratory ceremony in English and Chinese
- Processing paperwork for legalization of marriage
- Personalized element
- Wedding ritual
- On-site ceremony rehearsal
- Option to arrange witnesses, bouquet & photo documentary (Elopement Package only)
- Helicopter Elopements
Vancity Officiant offers customized vows for various types of weddings, such as civil unions, interfaith ceremonies, and rehearsals.
Areas covered
The business provides officiant services in Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Coquitlam, Delta, Surrey, Langley, and White Rock. (*An Additional travelling fee may apply for some locations.) They do not travel to Harrison Hot Springs and Victoria.
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Meet the team
As the first trilingual (English, Cantonese, and Mandarin) Wedding Celebrant in Canada, I am also a licensed Marriage Officiant in British Columbia, specialized in performing:
- spiritual ceremonies
- inter-faith ceremonies
- same-sex ceremonies
- multi-cultural ceremonies
- elopements
- renewal of vows
all across Greater Vancouver. With over 1000 marriages celebrated, I have become one of the most popular Officiants in BC and recognized as a true expert in the wedding industry. He has won several awards, including the Most Popular New Officiant Award in 2015 and the Best Officiant Top3 in 2018 & 2019. Follow him on Instagram @vancityofficiant and join the celebration!
Being ordained as Spiritual Minister in British Columbia since 2016, I am legally qualified to perform weddings in the Province of British Columbia. I offer:
- spiritual ceremonies
- inter-faith ceremonies
- same-sex ceremonies
- multi-cultural ceremonies
- elopements
- renewal of vows
With my extensive experience in the wedding industry and having worked with over 800 couples as an award winning wedding photojournalist, I am now more focused on my passion as a Marriage Officiant and elopement photographer for Vancity Officiant. My elopement photography is known for being a thrilling and unforgettable experience, full of unique and adventurous moments. I firmly believe that a wedding ceremony should be one of the most genuine and memorable moments in your life, and here to make that happen with her expertise and confidence.