Kathryn Blume Wedding Officiant & Celebrant

Strong Supporter of Gay and Lesbian Equal Marriage Rights

Ordained Minister of the Universal Life Church

Non-Denominational Spiritual But Not Religious

The Heart of The Wedding - Your Wedding Ceremony

In the midst of all the marriage planning, all the guest lists and registries and clothing choices and flower selections, is the wedding ceremony itself. This is the moment when you pledge yourself to your partner, to the sanctity, wellbeing, and ongoing tending of your relationship. This is a public statement of personal commitment, and the whole reason for bringing your community together.

Just as in all the other choices you're making around this landmark event, you want your ceremony to be authentically reflective of both who you are as individuals and how you have come together to transform yourselves into a couple.

In envisioning your ceremony, you're searching for the best combination of tradition and novelty, humor and heart, meaning and magic. You want a ritual created just for you, and presided over by someone who can create just the right atmosphere, and support your vision for how your union unfolds. That is exactly what I am here to help you do.

Creating Your Wedding Ceremony

When we meet to discuss your wedding plans, I'll ask you about your relationship and your reasons for getting married. We'll talk about what you've envisioned for the ceremony and whether you want to write it yourselves, have me write it, or create it collaboratively.

We'll incorporate all the poems, songs, and readings you love the most, and find ways to include all the friends and family you'd like to (or need to for the sake of family politics) have participate. My style is light, openhearted, warm, and (occasionally) funny.

Thanks to my background in theater, we can create ceremonies with a dramatic flair, or keep them elegant and simple.

My philosophy is that the ceremony is all about your relationship as you define it, and what it means to you to publicly enter into a serious commitment. I am here to support you in that process. I love helping couples create the ceremony of their dreams and finding ways to accommodate the needs of the most secular to the most spiritual family and friends.

On Being A Celebrant - About Kathryn Blume

Along with being an actor, writer, and yoga teacher, I'm also an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church a 60s era hippie church out of Modesto, California which believes in democratizing the marital process.

I got ordained for my birthday many years ago because I'd attended the wedding of friends who'd been married by a Justice of the Peace in a totally dry, nonspiritual, deeply boring ceremony (no offense to JPs in general most of them do great work but this one was a dud).

I knew that many friends heading to the altar were spiritual but not religious, and I figured there had to be a nondenominational way of infusing their ceremonies with heart, spirit, and meaning.