How Can a Certified Celebrant Help Your Family?
A traditional funeral service featuring religious rituals or readings isn’t for everyone. A celebration of life, a personalized memorial service designed around the needs and wishes of your loved one, can be a meaningful way to honor a life. A certified celebrant works with a funeral director and an individual’s family to craft a special final tribute. However, the celebrant’s role is much more than this. We recommend families in Hamilton County consider such a unique way to commemorate life.
A certified celebrant will meet and share with a family.
A family’s initial meeting with a celebrant before the service involves sharing memories and stories of their loved one. At this stage of planning, the celebrant is trying to get a feel for the kind of person your loved one was and how their life should be honored. A celebrant may share from their vast library of resources, which includes readings, poetry, music, or other materials to provide inspiration for a service.
A certified celebrant can help you celebrate your loved one’s life.
Crafting a personalized service is a certified celebrant’s number one goal, as they work to capture the essence of a loved one. They can help you decide on everything from the type of music played at the service to any specific rituals or actions you’d like performed such as a candlelit ceremony or a dove release. Once service decisions have been made, the celebrant will pass this information on in detail to the funeral director who can start putting plans in place for the service.
A certified celebrant officiates the service.
A great thing about working with a certified celebrant is that they will officiate the ceremony and handle all aspects of the service on the day of the event. Your family can focus on grief and remembrance knowing that all the details are in place. Whether it’s a funeral, graveside service, or a scattering ceremony, a certified celebrant will oversee each aspect of the service.
A certified celebrant can help a family remember that an end-of-life ceremony is something to celebrate—not to do so in place of grief but to do so alongside your grief. If you’d like to learn more about working with a certified celebrant, contact our staff.
