Emily VanLaeys Certified Celebrant |
| It's Your Voice, Your Choice, Your Ceremony! |
My name is Emily VanLaeys. I am a life-cycle celebrant,
specializing in wedding ceremonies and vow renewals. If
you would like a unique, personalized ceremony for your
wedding or other occasion, I can help you create it! As a
graduate of the Celebrant USA Foundation & Institute’s
wedding certificate program, I have been trained in the
orchestration and art of ceremony. The Institute has
taught me the importance of working collaboratively with
clients while planning their wedding ceremonies. I will
guide you in choosing rituals, readings, symbols, and music
that will fulfill your vision of the perfect wedding. Best
of all, I will use the story of your relationship and your
personal feelings about one another, as the focus for the
ceremony.
These words from wedding photographer, Meg Arno, will
give you a good idea of the kind of ceremony you can
expect to have if you work with me.
"Having photographed literally hundreds of weddings, it is with much
experience that I pronounce the professional services of Emily
VanLaeys a refreshing addition to the wedding world. For couples
seeking a more non-traditional celebrant to conduct their marriage
ceremony, Emily provides a personal approach that adds as much
information into a couple's vows as they would like to have. Emily
obviously spends time with a couple before their wedding day, listening
to their stories of how they met and what they expect from their
wedding ceremony. Emily carefully and creatively weaves those
details together in a story-like form to share with the wedding guests
during the ceremony. While listening to Emily preside over a recent
couple's wedding, I was surprised to learn that she was not a relative
of the couple. She had done her homework, knew the facts and
prepared her statement to reflect the love of the couple in a genuine,
heartfelt manner which not only embraced the couple but the
witnesses as well."
"Beyond her well prepared message, Emily also is instrumental in
organizing the wedding party and making sure the ceremony starts on
time. Her sense of dedication to the couple is evident. I would advise
couples who are interested in customizing their marriage ceremony to
discuss their ideas with Emily. She is professional in every manner,
yet retains an air of friendship while doing so."
~Meg Anderson Argo
specializing in wedding ceremonies and vow renewals. If
you would like a unique, personalized ceremony for your
wedding or other occasion, I can help you create it! As a
graduate of the Celebrant USA Foundation & Institute’s
wedding certificate program, I have been trained in the
orchestration and art of ceremony. The Institute has
taught me the importance of working collaboratively with
clients while planning their wedding ceremonies. I will
guide you in choosing rituals, readings, symbols, and music
that will fulfill your vision of the perfect wedding. Best
of all, I will use the story of your relationship and your
personal feelings about one another, as the focus for the
ceremony.
These words from wedding photographer, Meg Arno, will
give you a good idea of the kind of ceremony you can
expect to have if you work with me.
"Having photographed literally hundreds of weddings, it is with much
experience that I pronounce the professional services of Emily
VanLaeys a refreshing addition to the wedding world. For couples
seeking a more non-traditional celebrant to conduct their marriage
ceremony, Emily provides a personal approach that adds as much
information into a couple's vows as they would like to have. Emily
obviously spends time with a couple before their wedding day, listening
to their stories of how they met and what they expect from their
wedding ceremony. Emily carefully and creatively weaves those
details together in a story-like form to share with the wedding guests
during the ceremony. While listening to Emily preside over a recent
couple's wedding, I was surprised to learn that she was not a relative
of the couple. She had done her homework, knew the facts and
prepared her statement to reflect the love of the couple in a genuine,
heartfelt manner which not only embraced the couple but the
witnesses as well."
"Beyond her well prepared message, Emily also is instrumental in
organizing the wedding party and making sure the ceremony starts on
time. Her sense of dedication to the couple is evident. I would advise
couples who are interested in customizing their marriage ceremony to
discuss their ideas with Emily. She is professional in every manner,
yet retains an air of friendship while doing so."
~Meg Anderson Argo
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| Check out the wedding stories on my blog: Emily's Wedding Ceremonies |
I want to thank you for the
beautiful ceremony you
prepared for my daughter
and her husband for their
wedding. You captured the
tenderness and love of their
relationship, the framework
of family traditions and the
support and caring of the
community of family and
friends in a very personal
way. This alone would have
been sufficient but it was
delivered with poise and
good humour during an
Upstate New York deluge!
Kudos for a ceremony that
left nary a dry eye at its
conclusion.
~Inez Kohn
McDonough Lake
beautiful ceremony you
prepared for my daughter
and her husband for their
wedding. You captured the
tenderness and love of their
relationship, the framework
of family traditions and the
support and caring of the
community of family and
friends in a very personal
way. This alone would have
been sufficient but it was
delivered with poise and
good humour during an
Upstate New York deluge!
Kudos for a ceremony that
left nary a dry eye at its
conclusion.
~Inez Kohn
McDonough Lake
