Celebrant
The days that hold a life
Weddings and ceremonies of passage, held with grace and sanity.
Some of the most important events of our life are the ones we also have little experience in creating — whether it’s beautifully joining two lives together, or saying goodbye to a loved one. Choosing Lorca as your celebrant brings grounding and structure, inspiration and serenity, allowing you to keep your focus on the reason you are there and the people you love.
From the simplest through the most extravagant, Lorca will help you determine what is truly important — and then how all the pieces can come together with both grace and sanity. As a singer, writer, poet, experienced resilience coach and the keeper of a great flock of white doves, Lorca brings beauty, grace, love and fun into what you finally create.
Everyone is welcome here. Lorca has married same-sex couples, and couples who come from different faith traditions to each other. She writes ceremonies that let people speak from inside their own tradition without leaving anyone in the room outside it — including the people who share none of it.
Memorials and farewells
When we lose someone close
We are suddenly asked to prepare a special marking of their lives, something we have little practice in and often with only days to prepare. Those left can be overwhelmed and exhausted as well as grieving.
I serve as a companion guide in this kind of human wilderness, helping you navigate being human, holding family, honoring faith traditions, and making the choices that let you bid farewell in meaning and beauty.
A ceremony, filmed
Underneath the Montana sky
Sara and Peter, married at the Yellowstone Club. Three minutes, and every word of it is Lorca’s.
How it goes
It starts with a conversation
From there I offer structure — the kind that helps you decide what would make a ceremony feel really yours, rather than one assembled out of what people usually do.
And I stay with you through the rest of it: the deciding, the difficult conversations, the self-honoring, and staying sane.
What it costs
Fees follow the ceremony rather than a price list. An elopement on a hillside and a large wedding with a rehearsal, a crowd and a long drive are not the same piece of work, and they are not priced as though they were.
- Weddings and ceremonies of passage — quoted once I know what you are planning, with a travel fee beyond the Gallatin Valley.
- Memorials — a $350 honorarium, usually arranged through the funeral home.
- A dove release — $300 on its own, or $100 when I am also celebrating.
Weddings
In their words
You are a beautiful writer. Your ceremony was so us, and made us feel so very, very married.
Wedding client
Visionary conversations. Humanity. Strength.
Wedding client
Your voice, your stories, your depth, and presence, kindness, calmness, gratitude, and generosity of spirit…
Wedding client
Doves flying
The moment of release
Held and launching, light and dark, trust and connection, gift and receiving, touch and sight, breath and heartbeat, age and strength, love and letting go, centuries and a moment, bone and feather and sky. For you, beloved.
Lorca
Magic. Just magic.
So worth it. You are such a beautiful speaker and your partnership with your birds is wonderful.
It’s years later and people still talk to me about the doves flying at the ceremony.
We received so many compliments on your behalf. It was an amazing thing to have you and your birds for our wedding. Thank you again.
You have no idea what happened inside me when I let that bird go. Thank you.
Widower
Ultimately, regardless of the subject of the gathering, I am inherently a celebrator of life in any of its forms. And that’s what shows through when I speak, and what people are left with: a gratitude for this, for life.