About Wayne Prevett

A life formed by learning to notice.

Wayne is a Moment Specialist whose work is grounded in one governing belief: every person matters, and every moment matters.

Wayne Prevett standing in a warm library setting

Wayne Prevett My Story A life formed by learning to notice.

What Wayne believes

True presence changes how we receive a person and a moment.

Presence begins before advice, interpretation or performance.

It makes room for people to speak in their own voice and timing. It listens for words, tone, hesitation, humour and silence. It honours dignity without demanding closure, agreement, progress or a visible result.

Wayne believes every encounter—from a wedding or funeral to a conversation with a server, neighbour or stranger—offers another opportunity to choose that presence.

What “Moment Specialist” means →

How the conviction was formed

What it means not to feel fully seen.

Wayne’s attention to others did not begin as a professional method. It grew from life experience and became a way of loving people.

People deserve more than attention. They deserve recognition.

Knowing the ache of not feeling fully seen taught Wayne to notice details others may pass over—the change in a voice, the feeling beneath an attitude, the meaning behind a tattoo or the silence after an important sentence.

Faith gave that instinct its foundation. Wayne understands his purpose as glorifying God by loving God and loving others as Jesus commanded. That source remains explicit, while the welcome of the work extends to people who may not share it.

Ministry, family, entrepreneurship, teaching, leadership and ceremony became different places to practise the same conviction.

How it appears

One way of being. Many kinds of work.

Wayne’s roles are not competing identities. Each is an expression of the Moment Specialist philosophy.

Speaking

Bringing inspirational insight and lived wisdom to leaders, teams, founders and organizations.

Coaching

Listening in the person’s own voice and timing—whether the concern is personal, organizational or entrepreneurial.

Leadership & Enterprise

Helping people build, strengthen and sometimes restart businesses, ministries, teams and new pathways of service.

Writing

Giving language to presence, leadership, enterprise, calling, ceremony, values and faith.

Training

Developing officiants, leaders, teams and founders through practical experience, character and clear communication.

Ceremony

Guiding people through promise, remembrance and transition with preparation and care.

Where enterprise met calling

A trade-show booth, a converted closet and a new kind of work.

In January 2003, only days before Michaela was born, Wayne and Rosanne stood together at a London wedding show trying to explain a service most visitors had never encountered: a wedding officiant available outside a local congregation.

Soon afterward, they converted a vacant closet in an apartment building behind London City Hall into the Wedding Room. It held a desk, a consultation table, twelve chairs and a small ceremony space. City Hall began sending couples across the street, and Wayne and Rosanne led 187 weddings in its first year.

What began as Kettle Creek Weddings grew into a team of more than 100 officiants and close to 10,000 weddings. In 2013, serious illness made the scale unsustainable. Wayne and Rosanne stepped back from continued regional expansion and shifted their energy toward training, equipping and authorizing independent officiants through Celebrating Life Ministries.

Read the Kettle Creek Weddings tribute →

What Wayne has built from it

Conviction made practical.

The work has taken organizational form because ideas become useful when they create places for people to be served well.

3,000+

Weddings

Wayne’s experience guiding couples through promise and transition.

4,000+

Life celebrations

Weddings, funerals, memorials and other moments of change.

2,000+

Officiants and celebrants trained and certified

Experience and responsibility entrusted to others.

30+ years

Leadership and building

Businesses, ministries and pathways of service across Canada and the United States.

Wayne founded Celebrating Life Ministries, the Ontario religious body through which officiants are legally authorized, and co-founded Life Celebrations Academy with Rosanne Prevett and Jason Olver as the home for officiant and celebrant training. Their work has also expanded into the Certified Celebrants Association, extending that commitment to thoughtful, credible preparation for those who serve families at significant thresholds.

These organizations are not separate from the story Wayne tells here. They are evidence of convictions tested in real rooms, real ceremonies and real communities—and of work built with others rather than alone.

Experience that supports the work

Built in real rooms, organizations and moments.

Wayne’s perspective comes from decades of serving people, building organizations and carrying responsibility when words and decisions mattered.

Communication

Decades of preaching, teaching, speaking and leading ceremonies where careful words could not be separated from human consequence.

Enterprise

Experience building businesses, ministries, training organizations and professional communities in Canada and the United States.

Formation

More than 2,000 officiants and celebrants trained and certified through practical instruction, character, communication and responsibility.

Community service

Pastoral ministry, mental-health outreach and community leadership that kept attention focused on people who were easily overlooked.

Wayne Prevett with Rosanne and their daughter Michaela

Side by side

Different instincts. A shared life.

Rosanne and I have spent more than thirty years building life side by side. We did not build a career beside a family. We built a life together.

We are different people, and that difference has been one of the strengths of our marriage and our work. I tend to see possibility quickly and move toward the moment. Rosanne slows the picture down, asks what is true, what matters and what will hold together. I expand the horizon. She sharpens the map.

That pattern has shaped ministry, businesses, ceremonies, training, organizations, parenting and the decisions that changed our direction. I have learned that presence and possibility become stronger when they are tested by truth, clarity and understanding. Rosanne has learned that careful discernment does not have to close the door on possibility.

Our daughter Michaela is not a footnote to that story. Family has always been part of the work, the decisions, the sacrifices, the joy and the life we were building. Even when one name appears on the front of something, the other is rarely far from the thinking behind it.

Recognize what is happening. Understand what it means. Respond faithfully. That shared rhythm says something important about how Rosanne and I complement one another—and about the kind of life we have tried to build.

Visit Rosanne’s site → Read our couplepreneur story →

Every person matters. Every moment matters.

Begin with the person and moment in front of you.

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