Ceremonies
We still say yes. Just not often.
Wayne & Rosanne Prevett
Thirty years of showing up for life’s defining moments.
I have officiated more than 3,000 weddings, and Rosanne has officiated more than 2,000. Between us, we have led more than 7,000 life celebrations — weddings, funerals, memorials, and the moments in between. For more than thirty years it was our whole week.
It isn’t anymore. Most of our time now goes to training the officiants and celebrants who do this work in their own communities, and that is as it should be. But we never wanted to stop entirely. Standing with a family on the hardest day of their life, or the best one, is the thing that made all of it worth building.
For twenty years, we never said no. Now we say yes about ten times a year.
Ten ceremonies between us is a hard annual maximum. We will have no more than four weddings committed at any one time. That’s the whole calendar.
Who we say yes to
Where there’s already a thread.
We give those slots to people we have a connection to — someone we know, the family of someone we know, or the family of an officiant we’ve trained.
That isn’t exclusivity for its own sake. It’s that ten is a very small number, and we’d rather spend it where there’s already a thread.
If that’s you, please ask. Early, if you can. Weddings in particular fill a long way out, and we hold room back deliberately so that when a funeral call comes — and those come with days of notice, not months — we’re able to answer it.
What it costs
The fee helps keep the number small.
Our fee is higher than it used to be. That’s honest: it’s part of how we keep the number small enough to give each ceremony everything it needs.
We also keep one or two occasions a year with no fee at all. That’s where this began. Long before there was training or certification, we were doing weddings and funerals for people who had no one else to do them — and we’re not willing to give that up.
If you’re in that situation, say so. It won’t count against you.
If we can’t
We’ll point you to someone we trust.
If we can’t take your date, we will point you to someone who can — an officiant or celebrant we’ve trained ourselves and would trust with our own family.
That isn’t a consolation. Many of them are extraordinary at this, and some of them are better at it than we were at their stage.