Dr. Alan Viau has been helping people with their Life Celebrations since 2004. Acting as a facilitator and guide, Alan assists you with life transitions and celebrations. He designs and conducts personalized Life Celebration services. Although Alan often fulfills the role of clergy in a Life Celebration service, he is not affiliated with any particular religion. You can include as much or as little religious content or ritual as you desire. The choice is in your hands to decide. Alan works with you to create a service intended to be a uniquely personalized, deep and loving event. His desire is to be there for you at these crossroads of life.
What Are The Life Celebrations Offered?
- Celebrating New Life ( Dedication Ceremonies) Naming ceremonies enable parents, family and friends to recognize the child within the family and greater community by ceremony. By making promises and commitments to the child a public declaration is made about the parents that you hope to be. Naming ceremonies declare your intent as a parent and identify significant adults acting as life support, thus strengthening the family unit and your child’s support network.
- Celebrating Married Life (Wedding Ceremonies) You can have the wedding of your dreams almost anywhere you can gather your friends and family. So whether you choose a stately home, hotel, golf club, tent on the common or your back garden at home you can have the ceremony you desire. It is a ceremony about what your marriage means to you! How you arrived at this point and where your hopes and dreams will take you together. Celebrate your marriage your way, in your own style.
- Celebrating Milestones (Commitment & Renewal Ceremonies) Commitments and Vow renewals offer an opportunity to affirm your love to one another. Whether it be to mark a significant anniversary, to celebrate the overcoming of challenges and adversity that life has thrown at you, or just because you want to affirm your love and commitment to each other. No matter your reason, it will be a beautiful ceremony. By truly expressing your feelings and commitments to one another, this ceremony is a reflection of how you feel about your life together so far and it’s continued journey into the future. I will be working with you to create a ceremony that reflects you and affirms your love.
- Celebrating A Life (Funeral/Memorial Services)When a loved one dies, it is always a very painful and distressing time. Every family is different and not everyone wants the same type of funeral. We can create a service that is written and designed to celebrate the life of the person who has died in a dignified and sensitive manner. Their personal tribute will focus on the life lived and their unique qualities which have made them so special. By working together we will create a ceremony that not only provide comfort, meets the deceased’s wishes but truly reflects their life. The funeral is an essential element in celebrating a life and presents a window from which to say goodbye to a loved one.
