Illuminating CeremoniesChristopher Shelley

Illuminate Your Story...

Christopher Shelley
Wedding Officiant & Life-Cycle Celebrant®
...as seen on 'The Rachael Ray Show' &
'A Taste of New York's Ultimate Wedding'
Serving New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Kentucky - anywhere people will pay me to go!
Featured on BBC Capital,
Wedding Confessionals & Wedding Ceremony Podcast
Author of BEST. CEREMONY. EVER.
(The Countryman Press, W. W. Norton)

Congratulations on getting engaged, or on being the parent of someone who got engaged, or on being the wedding planner for someone who got engaged!

A wedding is an opportunity to share love and commitment with friends and family. Your wedding ceremony is an opportunity to stir up their emotions with tears of laughter and joy. I am a licensed New York and Ohio State Wedding Officiant. My ordination with the Universal Brotherhood Movement allows me to legally wed couples in many other states as well. Is your state one of them? I have no idea; I don't know where you live!

I am a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant™. A Celebrant serves as writer, editor, director, show runner and host, making your ceremony meaningful and enjoyable. I am as dignified, serious and respectful as everyone expects a Celebrant to be, but I include more humor than anyone expects to hear in a ceremony, much to the guests' and most couples' relief. My process is designed to allow me to know the couple so well that guests wonder if I am a friend of theirs. The truth is, by the time the wedding day rolls around, I am a friend - the best friend you can possibly have: a friend who knows what he's doing.

It is my great pleasure to personalize wedding ceremonies for couples who are genuinely in love. This is your story. I will help show what you want the world to see, make clear what you want the world to understand, illuminate shy facts and highlight what everybody already knows in a new way. Your ceremony can be traditional or nontraditional, opposite-sex or same-sex, single-faith, multi-faith, omni-faith, sine-faith, or a faith that defies definition.

I also do elopement ceremonies! Elopements are just like big weddings, only much smaller, and completely different.

I am a fan of true love.
christopherfrostshelley@gmail.com
718.222.0110
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