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Ceremonies

We go through many physical stages in our lives: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and maturity. We also go through personal, relational and emotional stages: we might choose a partner, build a career, have children; we live through the loss of family and friends. Since ancient times, we have created ceremonies to mark these rites of passage.

Weddings, birthdays, sweet sixteen parties, bar and bat mitzvahs, graduations, retirement parties, and memorials are only a few of what used to be many formal ceremonies in the complex adventure of our lives.

With today’s evolving sense of spirituality, of faith, of family and marriage, and what it even means to have a meaningful life, the personal and public markers of our important transitions are harder to define.

Meaningful Celebrations can support you and your family with any of the following types of ceremonies: