A Spirited Ceremony is a modern, spiritual approach to life’s most meaningful milestones, lead by Laura Garland. Laura is a modern ritualist, licensed minister of marriage, wedding officiant, writer and professionally-trained public speaker, with fifteen years of experience in the fields of communications and education. Laura has an innate ability to write and speak about real lives, real love, and real people. Her creativity takes flight in modernizing rituals that reflect the people who are marking a milestone with the ones they love.

Laura has been writing speeches and ceremonies since 2007, and officiating ceremonies in a professional capacity since 2018 across five states. She earned a masters degree in education from DePaul University, and a bachelors degree in communications and psychology from Michigan State University.

In 2020, Laura officiated micro-weddings and began supporting families in the planning of simple, spiritual Celebration of Life ceremonies. Her services have expanded to eulogy and obituary writing and coordinating simple, modern events for those who have passed for a fraction of the traditional cost of funeral services. In addition to wedding services, Laura also provides a wide range of writing services, from personal essays to supporting other officiants in their ceremony creation.

A Spirited Ceremony is based in Charlotte, NC and Chicago, IL. Laura is a proud mother of two girls, Ada and Lucia, and wife to her husband, KiAundre.