Ceremonies made for your story ✨
The moments that change our lives deserve more than a recycled script.
Ember & Oath offers personalized ceremonies for weddings, commitments, new beginnings, and the milestones that do not always fit neatly inside traditional boxes. Every ceremony is created with care, collaboration, and respect for the people at its center.
Your beliefs, identities, relationships, traditions, boundaries, and wonderfully unconventional ideas are welcome here.
Weddings & Elopements
A wedding ceremony should sound like the people making the promises—not like something pulled from a template.
Whether you are planning an intimate Las Vegas elopement, a small desert ceremony, or a larger celebration surrounded by your favorite people, we will create a ceremony that reflects your relationship and the life you are choosing together.
Your ceremony may be spiritual, secular, Pagan-inspired, traditional, unconventional, or a thoughtful blend of everything that feels meaningful to you.
Ceremonies can include:
- Personalized ceremony writing
- Your choice of traditional or original vows
- Readings, blessings, or symbolic rituals
- Recognition of family, children, or loved ones
- Pagan, spiritual, secular, or blended elements
- Coordination with your chosen wedding traditions
- Signing and completion of the marriage certificate when legally applicable
Handfastings & Vow Renewals
Handfasting is an old tradition with deeply personal possibilities.
Using cords, ribbons, or other meaningful materials, the couple’s hands are gently bound together to symbolize their intentions, promises, and chosen path forward. The ritual can be included within a legal wedding ceremony or created as a symbolic ceremony of its own.
Vow renewals offer couples a chance to pause, honor everything they have lived through together, and make new promises for the life still ahead.
These ceremonies may include:
- A custom cord-binding ritual
- Personalized wording and intentions
- Elemental call-ins or spiritual blessings
- Participation from family or loved ones
- Renewal or rewriting of vows
- Pagan, secular, or blended ceremony formats
- Guidance for choosing or creating your cords
Commitment & Naming Ceremonies
Not every meaningful promise requires a marriage license, and not every new beginning arrives with a traditional ceremony attached to it.
Commitment ceremonies honor the love and promises shared between partners without requiring a legal marriage. They may look much like a wedding, or they may become something entirely their own.
Naming ceremonies create space to affirm a chosen name, identity, new chapter, or personal transformation. They may be private and reflective or celebrated with a gathering of supportive friends and family.
These ceremonies may include:
- Personalized promises or declarations
- Symbolic rituals and keepsakes
- Recognition from chosen family
- Community affirmations
- Spiritual or secular blessings
- Celebration of a chosen name or identity
- Rituals marking transition and personal growth
Blessings & Personal Rites
Some moments need to be witnessed even when there is no traditional ceremony for them.
Ember & Oath creates personal rites for life changes, healing, remembrance, protection, and new beginnings. These ceremonies are developed around the meaning of the moment rather than forced into a predetermined format.
Personal rites may include:
- Home and space blessings
- Baby blessings or family-welcoming ceremonies
- Memorials and remembrance rituals
- Grief and release ceremonies
- New-beginning or life-transition rituals
- Spiritual cleansing and protection blessings
- Personalized rites created for a specific need
Because these ceremonies are highly individual, we will begin with a conversation about what you would like to honor, release, welcome, or transform.
Your ceremony does not need to fit a mold
You do not need to know exactly what your ceremony should look like before reaching out.
You may already have an entire ritual planned down to the smallest detail. You may only know that you want something meaningful, personal, and not painfully generic. Both are completely welcome.
We will work together to create something that feels natural to you—without pressure to include traditions, beliefs, or language that do not belong in your story.
Ember & Oath proudly welcomes:
- LGBTQIA+ couples and individuals
- Pagan, witchcraft, and earth-based traditions
- Interfaith and spiritually blended ceremonies
- Secular and nonreligious ceremonies
- Disabled and neurodivergent clients
- Polyamorous and nontraditional relationships
- People creating or reclaiming their own traditions
From first conversation to ceremony day
Every ceremony begins with getting to know the people and the meaning behind it.
We will talk about what you are celebrating, what matters to you, and how you want the ceremony to feel. From there, I will help shape your ideas into a ceremony that feels thoughtful, personal, and genuinely yours.
You will have the opportunity to review the ceremony, request changes, and feel comfortable with what will be said before the day arrives.
Ready to begin?
You do not need to arrive with the perfect words or a complete plan. Bring the story, the intention, and whatever ideas you already have. We will build the rest together.