The Celebrant Foundation & Institute (CF&I) honored the graduation of 98 certified Life-Cycle Celebrants® on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the Van Vleck House & Gardens in Montclair, NJ. This year’s day-long, family-centered celebration came at a particularly historic time with New Jersey set to become the first state in the nation to allow Certified Civil Celebrants to legally solemnize marriages and civil unions. The new law takes effect May 1. Governor Chris Christie signed the authorizing legislation back in January.
The CF&I, headquartered in Montclair, NJ is the nation’s preeminent online educational institute teaching and certifying people as modern day ritual and ceremony professionals called Life-Cycle Celebrants®. The CF&I’s rigorous, seven-month, transformational program is taught via real-time, web-based, teacher-led classes where students explore the art of ritual, ceremony, world and faith traditions, ceremonial writing and public speaking. Graduates of the program are certified as Life-Cycle Celebrants® trained to perform and co-create personalized, substantive and meaningful ceremonies for weddings, funerals and other life events that reflect the needs, beliefs and values of the people they are honoring.
