What is a Funeral Celebrant?

A funeral celebrant is trained and certified to meet the needs of families during their time of loss by organizing and conducting personalized funeral services. They offer families a service that strongly reflects the individual’s life who has died.

They lead family members in a service intended to be a personalization, deep, and loving remembrance and tribute to your loved one.

When it comes to funerals, we increasingly yearn for ceremonies that express the individual nature of our relationship with the deceased.

Tailored to Your Needs, Not Taken From a Textbook

Not everyone wants a textbook funeral that may not reflect the life, personality or wishes of the person who has died. A celebrant captures and commemorates the essence of the departed.

Skilled in Handling Family Sensitivities

Celebrants are experts in dealing with tragic or difficult circumstances. These could include sudden or accidental deaths, deaths of young children and adolescents, suicides, or lives that seem to have little to celebrate.

Spending The Time Needed

A further benefit of using a funeral celebrant is that a good practitioner is prepared to spend time with family members, friends or colleagues.

A funeral professional knows that reconciling the emotions of the family at this difficult time with practical issues needs a subtle blend of sympathy, empathy, and tact.

Celebrating With Creativity

Perhaps most importantly, but often lastly, great celebrants not only interpret your needs, and the lives and histories of the departed but they do so creatively. They can construct a service, which, while emotional, can also be calming, uplifting, and spiritual.

Recognizing The Right Moments for Humor

Great celebrants even know how to capture and re-present humorous elements of the deceased’s life in ways that can make their absence seem less rather than more painful. A combination of tears and smiles at a funeral says much about the celebrant. Where both are seen, they have probably captured the right balance of mourning, solemnity and celebration for a life well lived.