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.

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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.

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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 separate Ontario religious body responsible for legal authorization and its protected membership, and co-founded Life Celebrations Academy with Rosanne Prevett and Jason Olver. The Academy is the separate international home for officiant and celebrant training. Wayne has also helped build wedding businesses, ministries, training systems and professional communities in Canada and the United States.

The 3K Officiant names the authority earned through practice. Moment Specialist names the larger identity that gathers the whole body of work.

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

The person beyond the platform

Family, faith and shared work.

Wayne shares his life and much of his work with his wife, Rosanne. Family remains central to his story, as do faith, conversation, nature, books and the joy of building something that can serve people.

Wayne and Rosanne met while serving as pastors and later built Kettle Creek Ministries with others who served regional mental-health patients and people living at the margins of their community. That experience helped form Wayne’s conviction that people deserve to be received with dignity, care and genuine presence.

The titles have changed across the years. The deeper calling has remained: make room, listen with care, honour the person and respond faithfully to the moment.

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Every person matters. Every moment matters.

Begin with the person and moment in front of you.

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