meaningful milestones

“I had a wonderful experience working with Isabella for my professional portraits.  

She offered excellent tips, suggestions and directions while remaining playful and relaxed. She brought a great combination of skillfulness and ease which helped me feel comfortable and confident in front of her camera. Isabella also worked to understand me and my business so that she could capture the feeling and message I want my photos to communicate to my clients.

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She encouraged me with prompts throughout the shoot that helped me connect with my work and embody that in the photos. The experience itself was so fun and fulfilling that the fantastic gallery she delivered almost felt like icing on the cake!! 

I knew from past shoots with other photographers that I could expect a few really perfect portraits, but Isabella exceeded my hopes in offering a tremendous number of photos I not only love and that really feel like ‘me’ but that can also represent the diversity of my professional services. 

I can't recommend Isabella more highly.” - Hannah

I’ve helped hundreds of clients over the past decade as an Interfaith Minister: officiating weddings, baby blessings and funerals; offering premarital guidance, marriage check-ins, grief care and soul support; and serving those suffering from pregnancy and infant loss with fertility healing rituals, miscarriage memorials and ceremonies to honor the life of a stillborn child (I love knowing Isabella and I share our work locally with Empty Arms Bereavement Support).

My job doesn’t feel like a “job” to me.  I get tremendous personal fulfillment from my work, and I know it has a powerful impact on my clients’ lives. They tell me their ceremony created much-needed space for them to pause and reflect, to grieve and heal, to celebrate and savor, and most of all, to feel connected: with themselves…with their loved ones…and with their own sense of that which is sacred, or just good.

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Hello!

In ten years of operating Grace Ceremonies, this is the very first time I’ve gotten professional portraits. I wanted to work with Isabella now because I not only have a new “look” – my super short haircut! – but I’m beginning a new chapter in my business.

As a Ceremony Guide, I’m expanding what I’ve done as an Officiant here in Western Massachusetts over the last decade to help even more people find meaning, joy, healing and growth through the passage of life’s important milestones.

Through written guides, webinars, workshops and 1:1 coaching, I’ll support couples in designing a beautifully customized marriage celebration; parents in creating a baby blessing with lifelong significance for their family; loved ones in envisioning a memorial service that honors both their loss, and their connection which endures.

Ceremony and ritual belong to everyone. They are not the sole privilege of religious institutions or clergy people; they are not available only to certain practitioners or experts. They belong to us. All of us.

Since prehistoric times, people have used ritual and ceremony as an “ancient social technology” to celebrate, to mourn, to express wonder, to offer gratitude, to ask for help, to find comfort in solitude, to gather strength in community…

As our society has become more secular and we are more isolated as individuals and households, we no longer have the same place for ritual and ceremony in our lives. And when we don’t slow down – when we don’t mark those meaningful moments, alone or with others – we can feel like what’s happening in our lives doesn’t really matter…to anyone else, or even to ourselves.

It is a joy and a privilege to help bring more meaning to people’s lives through ceremony…to mark what really matters with intention and care. I say almost every day that I have the “Best Job Ever,” and I’m so thankful to Isabella for capturing the joy I feel and the honor I have in sharing my work with the world.

You can find out more about Hannah at graceceremonies.com

Contact Hannah at info@graceceremonies.com

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