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Asking a Friend to Officiate Your Wedding? What to Know Before You Ask

Asking a Friend to Officiate Your Wedding? What to Know Before You Ask

by Jennifer Nealon Garone | | Ceremony Tips

  Asking a friend or family member to officiate your wedding can be a beautiful idea. It can make the ceremony feel more personal, more intimate, and more connected to your actual life. It can also get weird fast. Because while this may seem like a simple favor,...

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I am Jen, a Ceremonialist and Jungian Coach. One-of-a-kind ceremonies and depth coaching for those craving authenticity, meaning, and connection.

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“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn’t have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.” –Elizabeth Gilbert

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I am Jen, a non-religious wedding officiant,  ceremonialist, and Jungian coach. Through Small Circles Ceremonies & Coaching, I offer one-of-a-kind ceremonies and depth work for those craving authenticity, meaning, and connection.

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