Lisa + Brent : a totally ‘them’ Rosewood Hotel Georgia Wedding

Gotta say… I heart working with couples who know who they are, honour this, and truly SHINE it OUT!

Lisa and Brent were awesome to collaborate wtih and simply to be with. Those two have fabulous energy.  It ws a highlight of my year to have them share their hearts with me so I could craft a totally custom wedding ceremony that was both beautiful and quirky!

To give you a written portrait of this wonderful couple… This is how they described themselves… (Lisa) – a fun and high-energy woman who’s sometimes blunt, sometimes forgetful, sometimes opinionated but always loyal. (Brent) – a fun-loving guy who has always loved to push the rules…and occasionally, people’s buttons. He’s as comfortable in a suit as he is in a tool-belt.

Totally admired Lisa and Brent’s ability to be themselves… before, during, and after their ceremony! Their custom wedding ceremony was a celebration of the love that exists between them. It was also their chance to honour the love they hold for their amazing and extraordinarily tightly-knit community of friends and family. They simply couldn’t imagine getting married without the people they love present. “Our family and friends are what we cherish most in life. So while “eloping” had a nice ring to it, being married in front of the people we love and respect will give our vows the significance they deserve.”

In the beautiful ballroom of the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, before the people they cherish most in life, I shared their own lovely words with each other. “Brent, with you I finally feel like I belong and that I’m home; something I didn’t know I was even looking for until I found you. +  Lisa, I love you and I officially decree a life long commitment to taking out the garbage, checking your car’s fluid levels, keeping your tires at their optimal pressure, unclogging drains, and bringing in all the firewood necessary to keep you warm.”

What a gift to get this note from Brent after the ceremony:

“Michele, You rocked that ceremony big time!!! Lisa and I couldn’t have asked for more and are over the moon with joy.”

Hats off to the fab wedding vendor team:

• Rosewood Hotel Georgia Weddings,
• Alicia Keats Weddings,
• Leanne Pedersen Photography,
• Upright Decor,
• Musical Occasions 
• DJLeanne

Vancouver and Whistler’s Modern Celebrant Michele Davidson works with newly engaged couples to create transformational and totally custom wedding ceremonies. She helps couples expand their vision of their ceremony AND their engagement. It’s a one-in-a-lifetime folks… make it sing!!! Email Michele at Michele@moderncelebrant.ca for Vancouver + Whistler wedding ceremonies.  She also travels internationally for weddings! Bali anyone?

Sarah + Geoffrey’s Winter Wedding at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia

As a professional wedding Celebrant, I am able to craft custom wedding ceremonies for a whole variety of couples. From simple beach wedding ceremonies to Vancouver luxury weddings at the most premier Vancouver wedding venues … entirely secular or deeply spiritual… ritual or no ritual.

Sarah and Geoff’s custom wedding ceremony was held at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, which is definitely one of the most elegant Vancouver wedding venues. Simply put, it is a stunning setting for a wedding, both ceremony and reception.

This couple’s wedding ceremony was their chance to show everyone how much they mean to one another… to share with family and friends the sacredness of their emotional bond. Sarah and Geoff are private people, but they thought that if there was ever a time to share their hearts… it was on their wedding day and especially in their wedding ceremony.

Sarah has a deep connection to First Nation traditions, and she has a heartfelt connection with a First Nation Elder who was invited to be co-Wedding Celebrant with me. I had suggested to the couple that we do a Directional and Elemental Blessing as part of their custom wedding ceremony. They loved the idea.

To begin, Sarah and Geoffrey cleansed their hands in water scented with fresh cedar. I used a sacred ceremonial abalone shell to scoop the water over their hands. The First Nations elder led the directional turns, while I sought the blessing. Everyone in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s stunning ballroom rose and joined Sarah and Geoff in turning to the four directions. Truly, it was an amazing sight to see.

I’m pretty sure it was the first Directional Blessing held in that grand hotel!

For this wedding I had the chance to work with such a fine team of professionals.

People who care deeply about the couple and their respective craftsmanship. The always sunny-hearted and uber-calm Alicia Keats from Alicia Keats Wedding, one of the finest Vancouver Wedding Planners… Talented and intuitive photographer Melia Sorenson from Lucida Photography… the phenomenally stylish and incredibly nice team from Upright Décor... stunning floral from Balconi Floral Design Studio... and the most perfect music from DJ Lance and (live) Musical Occasions.

Vancouver and Whistler’s Modern Celebrant Michele Davidson works with newly engaged couples to create transformational and totally custom wedding ceremonies. She helps couples expand their vision of their ceremony AND their engagement. It’s a one-in-a-lifetime folks… make it sing!!! Email Michele at Michele@moderncelebrant.ca for Vancouver + Whistler wedding ceremonies. She also travels internationally for weddings! Bali anyone? 

Alan + Nicole’s Whistler Wedding at the Edgewater

I love creating and performing custom wedding ceremonies in Whistler. More often than not, Whistler weddings take place outdoors. Nature offers many amazing ‘cathedrals’ of the heart. And when it comes to weddings Whistler BC has it all… from lakes to mountains to vast open sky.

Nicole and Alan, and their sweet daughter Sophie, were one of my most adventurous and nature-connected couples. Avid outdoors people, I simply could not imagine them getting married in any other Whistler wedding venue. The Edgewater Lodge has a stunning lakeside setting, perfect for a summer wedding.

I was so thrilled to serve as Nicole and Alan’s Wedding Celebrant and to vision a custom wedding ceremony for them that totally reflected their true selves and that involved their community as well as their daughter Sophie. Creating custom wedding ceremonies that honour the children in a couple’s life is very important to me.

In their five years together, Alan and Nicole have nurtured great depth and connection between them. There is a wonderful sense of ease to the relationship they describe as being, “spontaneous, playful, fun, active, understanding and perfect!”They share the same sense of adventure and instinctual commitment to get the most out of every second of life… be it family time, couple moments, engaged with the world around them, or with the family and friends they love so much. To say they love bikes is an understatement. Nicole has six and Alan has five. Even their daughter Sophie has two – and she’s still a toddler! Biking is a major part of their lives.

I’d like to share with you Nicole and Alan’s beautiful words about the future they stepped into through their totally custom wedding ceremony: “We want it to be an equal partnership where we make time for each other… and where we can talk openly, honestly, and often. We’ll ride our bikes together, laugh a lot, support each other, and be appreciative and forgiving of one another. We’ll feel contentment, happiness, and loved.”

The vows they wrote for each other were so personal… their words made everyone cry, laugh, and say ‘awww’. We had a very community based closing to the ceremony. And then little Sophie joined her mum and dad for their triumphant walk back down the aisle and towards their new life!

Was so touched by their note to me after the wedding:

“We will always remember our ceremony. It was truly a magical day and the ceremony you created was definitely everything we wanted it to be. Just thinking about it puts a smile on my face and gives me a feeling of love and warmth. And here’s what a friend of ours said, “The whole back row was crying and even I was welling up” ……… this from a big tough guy who’s probably not cried since he was 12 years old!”

Always a pleasure to collaborate with the lovely Wedding Planner Rachael Lythe from Sea to Sky Celebrations… the talented adventure photographer Robin O’Neill... and of course the Edgewater Lodge team.

Vancouver and Whistler’s Modern Celebrant Michele Davidson works with newly engaged couples to create transformational and totally custom wedding ceremonies. She helps couples expand their vision of their ceremony AND their engagement. It’s a one-in-a-lifetime folks… make it sing!!! Email Michele at Michele@moderncelebrant.ca for Vancouver + Whistler wedding ceremonies.  She also travels internationally for weddings! Bali anyone?

Rebecca + Geoff’s wedding at the Hotel Vancouver

Custom Wedding Ceremony at the Edgewater Lodge, Whistler BC

gadbois photography

Meet Ellie and Kirk. Aficionados of Fluevog… Unique soles for unique souls. Yep. These two are unique souls for sure and they wanted their entire wedding day to reflect their personalities. Including their custom Wedding Ceremony. They knew they wanted a Wedding Celebrant, did a search and found Modern Celebrant.

It was love at first sight for me when I met Ellie and Kirk. What a fun experience to vision a wedding ceremony for this hipster couple. They definitely did not want just a pretty ceremony, with rituals and words that looked and sounded nice but were empty of meaning.  A “Boring same-old, same-old” wedding ceremony wouldn’t have suited them AT ALL!

Ellie and Kirk wanted what I am passionate about creating… a wedding ceremony created from the inside, from the heart — through reflection and learning. This thoughtful open-hearted couple shared thoughtful words with me about their vision for their wedding day. They wanted it to “…be a day to savour. A day to slow things down and let everyone who shares our wedding day take stock of the love in their own lives and realize how important they are to us.” For Kirk and Ellie it was also a chance to stamp a certain point in time and say, “This is the one I love. This is US showing our community how much we mean to each other!” Read More >