Humanist Celebrants provide meaningful, distinctly personal, and professional humanist ceremonies for a wide range of life’s major events and milestones. A Celebrant can help commemorate the welcoming of a child, coming-of-age, gender transitions, commitment unions, weddings, memorials, and much more. Our Celebrants are committed to humanism and, not bound by traditional religion and its dogma, they are able to provide custom-made ceremonies imbued with personal meaning and honor the shared humanity and values of those involved.
While most of our Celebrants primarily take a humanist approach, some also embrace performing inclusive secular, inter-religious, or other non-religious services. For individuals from differing religious and cultural backgrounds, Humanist Celebrants can be the perfect alternative. Humanist Celebrants are generally recognized in all states and many countries, being accorded the same rights and privileges granted by law to priests, ministers, and rabbis of traditional theistic religions. However, marriage laws vary by state and county in the United States. We suggest contacting your local county clerk’s office for the most accurate legal information.
The Humanist Society was first recognized in 1939 by the IRS as a nonprofit under section 501(c)(3); and as a church under section (i) of section 170(b)(1)(A) for our religious purposes.
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