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YOU are unique. Only you understand life - and see the world - the way you do.
Imagine guided collaboration on your ceremony which connects you with your emotions and surfaces rich questions around major life transitions.
Imagine a thoughtfully-designed, skillfully-written, and heartfully-delivered ceremony that enhances life’s breadth, depth, and meaning.
Martha Dallas is a professionally trained Life-Cycle Celebrant® with over twenty years of experience crafting and officiating rituals and ceremonies.
Serving Vermont, much of New England, and the Adirondacks, Vermont Celebrants is honored to serve as your wedding officiant, memorial officiant, or for vow renewals, baby blessings or whatever your key transition calls for!
We hope you’ll reach out!
Phone
802.858.6155
martha@vermontcelebrants.com
Location
Burlington, VT
Handing him the ring, his symbolic gift to her.
The joy is truly shared!
Covid made this couple wait a LONG time, but both were beaming when the moment finally came!
This wedding, with its breathtaking Adirondack views, incorporated Jewish rituals.
An apple orchard with stunning rock walls and forms was this couple’s chosen venue.
Kiss time!… and I’m yielding the moment to the couple.
Do you…?
This wedding ceremony incorporated Pagan beliefs and included this Celtic-inspired hand fasting ritual.
The dappling of sunlight with Lake Champlain behind us captured the spirit of the loved one’s life at this outdoor memorial service.
This couple renewed their vows in a beloved Burlington treehouse!
I print my couples’ vows on card stock and hand to them at the appropriate time.
When the family interred their loved one’s ashes, they chose and added soil from special places.
Each ribbon’s color brings a symbolic sentiment to this handfasting.
This couple’s Vermont anniversary and vow renewal ceremony was set on the shore of Lake Champlain at Shelburne Farms.
Sometimes, we all have a laugh!
The setting: an island on a private Adirondack lake. Musical accompaniment: Scottish bagpipes!
An interment ceremony in a memorial garden.
Smiles and laughter belong!
These college sweethearts had their siblings present the ribbons for the handfasting in their Adirondack wedding.
These two poured tea from different vessels into one cup, which they shared with each other in this classic unity ritual.
As Vermont went into shut-down for COVID-19, these two bumped up their date and I married them privately at Sandbar State Park a sunny but very chilly March day!
The bliss of a handfasting moment!
Warm hearts made up for cold hands on this crisp early autumn day.
This couple exchanged vows not only with each other, but with their son as well.
We braved the chill for a simple wedding in the treehouse at Burlington’s Oakledge Park.
This couple’s sweet dog was our witness at their stream side elopement in Stowe.
When the setting is the glorious Green Mountains and you know you belong there, in love!
Martha Dallas sharing the story of a loved one’s life.
This socially-distanced wedding was held in the courtyard of Shelburne Farms’ Coach Barn and included virtual guests from eight countries and thirteen states.
This ceremony captured autumn’s afternoon light during the couple’s ring exchange.
What a summer-in-Vermont backdrop!
This handfasting incorporated a small tablecloth from his family and a strip of traditional Hungarian dress, embroidered by her mother and grandmother.
This ceremony was to thank and say goodbye to a home. Friends and family shared memories, laughter, and tears.
The joyful moment of Pronouncement!
A crowning ritual incorporated the bride’s Thai and Greek heritage.
This creative couple designed a unique unity ritual with their handprints in silver and gold paint overlapping in a heart!
As a celebrant, I deliver some elements of the ceremony from the side, so the couple can be the focal point.
October’s afternoon rays warmed the handfasting union for this couple.
Simple and intimate; rich and meaningful: their guests were just their immediate family.
When we’re all present to the meaning of the words….
A cracking-up moment in a tiny, private ceremony.