About Your Officiant
Are you looking for someone to give a voice to your ceremony?
Are you needing help to create a ceremony that is meaningful with personal touches?
I am Kathi Roy, a professionally trained wedding officiant and end of life celebrant.
I came to celebrant work after witnessing weddings and funerals that were not personal, with a yearning to give a deeper meaning to those ceremonies.
As a life-cycle celebrant I have learned to co-create a ceremony through listening deeply to peoples’ stories, desires and thoughts about themselves, those they love and the world around them, and to what is important to them.
For as long as I can remember I have been commemorating the transitions in my own life with writing, music, ritual and observance. I have a calling to put into words the thoughts and feelings that mark the paths taken in our lives, our choices…and to celebrate our passages.
I offer ceremonies for the transitions in our lives.
My experience includes same sex, spiritual and religious weddings, vow renewals, divorce ceremonies, celebrations of life, memorials, pet loss, baby welcoming/new mother and home blessing.
My life cycles include being a daughter, sister, student, travel agent, bartender, teacher, coach, hospice volunteer, wife, mother, facilitator, holistic practitioner, creative writer, grandmother and celebrant.
I can draw on all of these life paths to connect with those who want to give voice to their own life cycle event and honor their passage from one to the next.
Fun Fact! I lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for three years as a grade schooler and have lately been thinking back on how much that has influenced my perspective throughout my life. Remembering the people, food, language, customs, landscape and how we as a family navigated and brought those ideas and thoughts back to the U.S. and how they shaped my view of the world.
What Are Celebrants?
Life Cycle Celebrants are trained in the art of ceremony!
We are professional ceremony officiants who believe in the power and effectiveness of ceremony and ritual to serve basic needs of society and the individual. We collaborate with clients to create and perform personalized ceremonies that reflect the client's beliefs, philosophy of life and personality. We officiate all types of ceremonies and rituals: for welcoming babies and adoptions, coming of age, retirement, marriages, end of life and memorials.The opportunities to use ceremony to create connections among neighbors and families, and for healing and celebration are as varied as are the celebrants.
The Celebrant Foundation and Institute
Helping You Create a Meaningful, Personal Ceremony
My experience includes weddings, elopements, vow renewals, memorials, celebrations of life, house blessings, baby-welcomings and pet loss.
As a Life Cycle Celebrant, I’ve learned to co-create a ceremony for clients by really listening to their stories, desires and beliefs.
Finding the right words along with the most heartfelt rituals are what bring a ceremony to life.
I have a calling to craft your words and emotions into a ceremony that indelibly marks your transition and honors your intention and spirit. Honoring the passages in our life cycle is a way to live in the moment, acknowledge and reflect while we honor the past, present and future.
With my local connections, I can help you have an intimate, meaningful, one-of-a-kind ceremony that captures the spirit of eloping-- just you two lovebirds, a beautiful setting with meaningful words and photos that you will cherish forever.
If you are interested in bringing the personal and time-honored use of story to your life's ceremonies, I invite you to contact me to find out more about celebrating your story...
I am happy to share my experience and details with you! For ideas or inspiration call, text or email me.
*** If I’m not available, I may be able to help by having me write your ceremony for a family member or friend to deliver!
I travel for Love!
I will marry you on top of a mountain pass, among the grapevines, along the river or at your favorite brewpub.
I will marry you at dawn or dusk in the Utah desert.
I have married couples in vineyards, backyards, a town park, a fort in Aspen, slope side in Telluride, an observatory in Alta lakes, by the Frying Pan River at the Dallenbach Ranch in Basalt, along the Crystal River at the Redstone Inn, Storm King Mountain Ranch in Montrose, the top of Engineer Pass, Ridgeway State Park, in a meadow at Top of the Pines, the mountain garden in Crested Butte and above at Irwin Lake, Mesa Lakes on the Grand Mesa, Sorrel River Ranch and Deadhorse Point in Moab, trail side on Storm King Mountain, at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Rifle Falls, Open Heart Ranch in Rifle, Gateway Canyons Resort, in a field of bluebells on the mesa, on the Avalon Theater’s rooftop, Palisade’s Wine Country Inn, Orchard River View, Amy’s Courtyard at Maison la bella vie, on the Colorado National Monument and other beautiful venues all over the Western Slope.
I am happy to share my experience and details with you! For ideas or inspiration call, text or email me.
*** If I’m not available, I may be able to help by having me write your ceremony for a family member or friend to deliver!
Featured on Spoke & Blossom
“As a Life Cycle Celebrant, Kathi has married people on top of mountain passes, in meadows, in a town park, in Colorado National Monument and on the banks of the Colorado River. She has officiated ceremonies in backyards, at the famous Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs and on the rooftop of the historic Avalon Theatre in downtown Grand Junction.
Every wedding Kathi officiates is different — each one tailored to create a sacred occasion reflecting the personalities, values and experiences of the couple getting married.”
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“Kathi made our day better than we could've ever hoped... She has an incredible ability to make people feel wonderfully relaxed. Kathi's deep and kind soul is the icing on the cake.”