Love Story Ceremonies
BC Wedding Officiant serving Vernon, Lake Country, Kelowna BC and surrounding areas of the Okanagan Valley
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Are you wondering what your wedding ceremony will sound like on your big day?
Click the arrow below to hear a sample of my speaking voice. I am the heart and soul behind Love Story Ceremonies and I vow to do a fabulous job!
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With passion and authenticity
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I tell your true love story, capturing the depth, the humour, the romance and the meaning. ​
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I capture hearts and keep everyone listening with their full attention!
I tell your story with a goal to keep your audience listening and captivated. This is always a beautiful and interesting way to draw your audience close and set a personal tone for the rest of the day, not to mention launch you off for the rest of your lives...
But wait!.. back to getting to know about me...
Hello my name is
Valerie Maria Maltese
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I come from a long line of artists,
actors, romantics and writers.
I could tell you a story or two..​
However
it is me who really wants to know about
your true love story!
Go ahead and tell it to me
and we will write it into
your wedding ceremony and it will
become a piece of family heirloom
a timeless and epic love story !
My goal is for your ceremony to draw your audience close, help you to honour and blend families and friends.
Encourage and Inspire them to believe in Love!
I will make them feel so welcome. I will captivate them heart and soul and keep them on the edge of their seats, interested and paying attention.
I vow to you that I will make your wedding ceremony intimate, personal, meaningful, entertaining, and a true reflection of you and your loved one.
I deliver an alive and entertaining love filled ceremony because I am a total romantic and a professional performer. A fun fact is that I began my acting career in the company of none other than the infamous Tony the Tiger. We ate cereal together on a Kellog's Frosted Flakes commercial and he told me I was grrrreat!
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Ok so guess what! The tiger was right about that, I am grreaat, you should see my reviews! !
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It still feels a lot like play to me. I think things come easier when you were simply born to do it! I have always enjoyed celebrating love.
Gathering in celebration and ceremony to mark transitions keeps us inspired, uplifted and gives meaning to our lives!
Ok fun fact, I was born to do this! As a teenager, I was like a "Cyrano Debergerac." I composed love letters and poems for my girlfriends to give to their romantic interests. It was thrilling, except I had to keep it secret so I couldn't even take the credit for those awesome teenage love letters.
Becoming a wedding celebrant allows me to celebrate my own calling to love and romance. I combine many skills acquired over a lifetime...and I am perfectly suited to this calling. Everyone tells me this, and I feel it in my bones, so that is why I decided to believe them.
I have been creating one of a kind wedding ceremonies since 2016. I began with All Seasons Weddings, (an agency for Canadian Wedding officiants and then I moved on to become more specialized.I already was an actor a member of UBCP/ACTRA but I studied storytelling and performance further and I loved it even more when I went out on my own.
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I can offer so much flexibility to use my ceremony script as it is or to edit it to your liking into a very short elopement style or personalize it further by adding your love story to it.
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Including your love story is perfect for a wedding ceremony.
The audience adores it!​
A Life-Cycle Celebrant delivers more personalized ceremonies and rituals than what you might get with other types of officiants or government appointed wedding commisioners.
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You have the freedom to be you and not adhere to anyone’ else’s belief system. You have the freedom to say it your way and do it all your way!
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So tell me, are you a bit of a free thinker and could a Love Story Ceremony
be your cup of tea?
I love this job. Creating your ceremonies allows me to celebrate my own calling to love and romance. I combine many skills acquired over a lifetime...and I am honoured to be the one to help you!
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Tree Planting, Blending of Wine, Hand Fasting, Blending of the Sands and any other Custom Created ideas or elements you would like can be integrated. I guarantee the words chosen for you will reflect you and your ideas, beliefs, backgrounds, and personalities. I adapt my writing and delivery style for each unique client and this is a co creation.
You have the freedom to be you and not adhere to anyone’ else’s belief system. You have the freedom to do it all your way!
Meaningful, personal, entertaining and heart felt while you stay true to yourself and uplift your friends and family in love!
On a hiking trail, on a boat, on a golf course, a beach or a winter's slope, I meet you there and I facilitate your personal beliefs in your way.
Click here to hear a clip from one of Valerie's custom written Love Story Ceremonies below including a blending of wines ritual !
