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.