You may be planning for 150-200 guests in a large venue, 50 guests in a park near your home, or just your parents and siblings on your back patio. All ceremonies deserve the personal touch. Your wedding day is just too worthwhile to focus only on the food and fun that follows.

Your guests are not an anonymous audience. These are family and friends who are already filled with joy for
you. Here’s a way to meet them straight on with meaningful words, rich and memorable emotions, and a ceremony they will always recall.

Whether it’s 30 years ago or only three, vow renewals are a joyful reminder of who you are together at the heart of your years as a couple. Often a spouse will surprise the other, sometimes even  having the original best man and lady of honor with them.

Vows may be originally from your wedding day or altogether new.

Renewals may even include your children and grandchildren.

Many couples who no longer follow traditional religious practices still want a spiritual underpinning when they have a newborn.

A baby blessing with the story of the baby’s meaning to the family is a milestone ritual to establish the special qualities each baby brings to the
family.

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Parents, grandparents, god-parents and even siblings can participate in the blessing, creating a loving community for the newest member of your family.

Death belongs to all of us, but we often abstract its meaning to avoid the emotional burden we all must face. Everyone who has ever lived can be remembered well. Everyone who has ever lived deserves a final farewell that heals the survivors to continue through their own life in peace and harmony. This is the final story, the final ritual that gives us all meaning and comfort.

Funerals and memorials might be in a funeral home, a cemetery gravesite or a church or synagogue. Celebrations of Life can be almost anywhere, but are often planned as a seasonal event when family and friends can gather more easily.