Family Ceremonies are wide ranging and highly under-rated (or even ignored altogether) in American society today.  In many cultures, the stages of family life and togetherness are celebrated with great passion and an understanding of the depth of connectedness that the meaning of “Family” encompasses. 

Regardless of your background, culture, and/or spiritual beliefs, your Family is the tribal group in which you find belonging, love, and acceptance or rejection.  Whether you classify your family as those who share your same genetic bonds, those whom you have chosen to walk the path of life with as more than friends, or a blending of the two, your family is a compilation of the persons (and sometimes animal companions) who bring meaning to your life and are unique to your life path.

Because of the myriad stages of life and the transitions and transformations that occur within this unique group, Family Ceremonies are an important aspect of life that are, sadly, often over-looked in today’s hectic American world-view. 

In American society, fewer and fewer families remember what it means to honor the voice that is uniquely theirs as a tribal group.  Celebrations are often created to focus on the individual while leaving out the connection to the whole.  In a Celebrant planned Family Ceremony, this connection is also celebrated and honored and a voice is given to the transitional stage that the individual is experiencing as well as to the family as a group.