Located in Leduc, Alberta and serving the greater Edmonton region, Tidal Ceremonies is a company that specializes in providing meaningful ceremonies for couples on their wedding day. Rev. Dr. Karen (Kestrel) Arends, is a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant through the Celebrant Foundation and Institute and a minister of the Canadian International Metaphysical Ministry. She has more than 25 years of experience creating beautiful rituals and passages that perfectly reflect the desires of her clients. Her wedding ceremonies range from short-n-sweet, to personalized, to fully-themed ceremonies. Karen is inclusive, professional and eclectic.
Services offered
The services offered include licensed services and support for the couples' writing of their own vows. Tidal Ceremonies primarily serves the following religious affiliations:
Metaphysical
Earth-based Spritiuality
Pagan and Pantheistic
Agnostic
Non-denominational
How they work
The fees include consultation and writing of your desired ceremony; ceremony script consultations and updates via email; ceremony research and resource materials; client approval of the final script, a rehearsal if requested; consultations with your other vendors if needed; officiating of the ceremony on the agreed day; and a keepsake book of your ceremony.
Karen (Kes) is an excellent officiant. We had a lovely experience using her services for our backyard wedding. She made an in-depth inquiry into who we are as individuals and as a couple so that she could give us a ceremony that felt natural, flowing, and in alignment with what we wished to convey to our friends and family about our love story and our commitment to each other. Karen is warm, thoughtful, reliable and professional. She was easy to work with, did a great job of laying out the structure of the ceremony and then stepping back and allowing us to edit and make changes so that it was personal and the emphasis was on our voice as a couple. We were happy to work with her and would readily recommend her to anyone looking for an officiant that can deliver a unique, customized ceremony.
Photo credit: Emilie Smith Photography
Sent on 04/10/2018
Tidal Ceremonies's reply:
My heartfelt thanks, Stephanie! It was such a pleasure to meet your family at your farm -- what an amazing place for your special day. And the food truck catering was an awesome idea!
Lacey Boucher
· Married on 13 of July of 2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Customizable perfect ceramony!
Karen was Amazing from the start, she was personable, professional and went above and beyond for us even after the wedding. My guests and I were in complete awe of her work. She made our ceremony 100% more meaningful than we expected. Thank you so much Karen!
Sent on 22/07/2019
Tidal Ceremonies's reply:
Thank you, Lacey
It was such a pleasure to support you two in this new phase of your life together. Bright blessings to you!
Jimmy Chung
· Married on 04 of May of 2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Karen is Awesome!
Happy and professional. So happy to have picked her for my wedding. Loved her energy!
Highly recommend.
Sent on 05/05/2019
Tidal Ceremonies's reply:
Thank you, Jimmy! Hoping you and your beautiful bride enjoy lots of great games and outfit hunting adventures. Bright blessings on you both!
Wendy
Married on 01/09/2018
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Family blending
Karen put together a family blending celebration for our son’s engagement. She worked with both sets of parents to create a fun and joyful announcement during a summer BBQ with family and friends. It was awesome!
Sent on 13/07/2018
Jennifer Koch
· Married on 21 of June of 2019
4.8
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
4.0
Amazing, personal and super fun
We had such a fun experience with Kestrel. She really made our ceremony into exactly what we wanted. We got to know her and her husband really well while we worked together on our special day, they came to our house a few times and had tea while we wrote and organized our ceremony. They even stayed and drank with us for a while after the wedding! I totally loved the experience, Kes was fun, personal, open to our ideas, and suggestive of her own. I couldn’t have asked for more. The only setback we had was a tiny spelling error on the certificate itself, but that was very quickly corrected and we had no trouble filing our marriage at the registry.
Honestly, we can’t say enough good things about Kes. She was just what we needed in our lives.
Sent on 30/11/2019
Tidal Ceremonies's reply:
Thank you Jennifer. It was such a blessing to support the journey your family made this summer. I am so happy we are remaining friends!
