Meaning of family celebrant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations of life events, but who is not a government or church official.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, celebrant.

Examples

“Some families are taking this further and are finding their own family spokespersons or family celebrants.”

“On May 29, they are to have a nonbinding cultural ceremony at Luttrellstown Castle, an event space in Dublin, where Simone Walsh, a civil family celebrant, is to lead the couple in a Celtic handfasting ceremony in which they bind their hands together with a ribbon.”

“She is also a family celebrant and conducts baby naming ceremonies.”

“Family celebrants believe that familes are too good for justice. While justice negotiates between competing self-interests, family members share a single interest, the good of the family and each of its members.”

“Cesare Borgia followed his father, the Pope, up the aisle; in their wake were Cesare's mother, Vanozza, his sister, Lucrezia, and his brothers, Juan and Jofre. Behind them were other family celebrants.”

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