At Rites of Passage, we work with you to design personalized and meaningful ceremonies to mark your unique life events. A unique, customized ceremony can help ease the stress of a life transition or acknowledge feelings of gratitude, accomplishment, and delight in a life celebration. We welcome those with a secular or spiritual worldview, as well as those who identify with a faith tradition.

Kristabeth officiates life transition ceremonies throughout Vermont and in Northern New York (and online). We offer a variety of Life Transition Ceremonies Packages to meet your needs. Our fees range from $125 to $725 depending on the details of the ceremony.

Some of the life events we can help you mark include:

Celebrations:

• Renewals of Vows
• Weddings
• Pet Blessings
• House Blessings
• Pregnancy Blessings
• Baby Dedications and Naming Ceremonies
• Sobriety Anniversary Celebrations
• Family Celebrations and Holiday Rituals

Transitions:

• Coming-of-Age Rituals
• Leave-Taking Rituals for Moving and Retirement
• Blessings for Military Deployment and Homecoming
• Coming Out or Gender Identity Rituals
• Naming Ceremonies for Renaming or Reclaiming
• Divorce Rituals
• Life Review
• Ethical Wills
• Living Wakes

Healing:

• Funerals, Memorials, and Celebrations of Life
• Graveside Ceremony
• Healing Rituals for Illness, Surgery, Trauma, or Loss
• Grief Rituals
• Forgiveness and Letting-Go Rituals
• Miscarriage and Stillbirth Remembrances
• Death Anniversaries
• Pet Memorials
• Creating New Family Traditions

All of our Life Transition Ceremonies are designed with your input and your unique values, traditions, dreams, and guiding principles in mind. We offer personal consultations, a customized ceremony, and a draft review before the ceremony.

E-mail us for more information about any of these ceremonies and rituals or to discuss designing a ceremony for your unique life event. You can also schedule a free 30-minute exploratory call.

“When I rise up/let me rise up joyful/like a bird. When I fall/let me fall without regret/like a leaf.”

~ Wendell Berry

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