We were lucky to catch up with Sacha Jones recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Sacha thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you share a customer success story with us?

I absolutely love working with my clients from the first intro interview through to the day of the ceremony, but it is the feedback that I receive afterwards that really makes me happy. When couples tell me how many of their guests spoke of the ceremony afterwards and assumed we were old friends, or after a memorial service when grieving loved ones tell me I really captured the life of the departed and gave them a real sense of closure.
It’s truly an honor to work with clients across the milestones.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Sacha Jones and I am a Lifecycle Celebrant, a non-denominational minister and a wedding officiant based in New York City and Sullivan County, upstate NY.

I create personalized, meaningful ceremonies for life’s important milestones (from cradle to grave/womb to tomb) and am passionate about the art and magic of ritual and ceremony – it’s truly an honor to do this work.

I became interested in the concept of “celebrant” style ceremonies in early 2002, when my sister Toni and her fiancé Noah came to New York City from the UK with plans to elope. City Hall seemed somewhat impersonal, and because they were not members of a faith, wanted to stay away from religious institutions. They wanted to create a wedding that encompassed the spirit of them as a couple, to mark the moment with ritual and ceremony in a way that felt personal and playful.

We found someone to do the paperwork, but I felt called to create their ceremony – my very first. It was wonderful and truly embodied the two of them. We even had a parade!

A few years later, when my (now) husband Mike and I were getting married, we came up against the same scenario. Obviously I wasn’t able to officiate our wedding but we did design our ceremony, and to this day family and friends tell us it was the best, most intimate and unique wedding they’ve ever been to. It was inspiring!

All of this led me, in 2009 to the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, where I studied “The Art & History of Ritual & Ceremony”, as well as “Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies” ~ and shortly afterwards “Funerals & Memorials”.

I became ordained as a non-denominational minister with the Universal Brotherhood and officially registered with the city and state of NY so beyond creating beautiful meaningful ceremonies, am legally able to help you tie the knot.
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Whether it is the celebration of the beginning of life or the end; marriage or divorce; change of life; retirement or graduation from college; or a new home – marking these important milestones with ceremony is a beautiful thing. Ceremony and ritual help us transition from one chapter to another with so much more meaning.
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A Lifecycle Celebrant who is trained in this art (and magic) can make this celebration look and feel exactly the way you envision.

And that is what I do.
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I created Sacha Jones Ceremonies from the heart. Every single ceremony I create and officiate – be that a wedding, a memorial service, a naming ceremony, or anything in between – is made with love.
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It’s such an honor to get to work closely with my clients in order to create something beautiful that reflects their love or life story. The feedback I receive after my ceremonies always warms my heart, it feels so wonderful to be included in such tender and important moments in people’s lives.

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

– Word of mouth – Guests at ceremonies I attend
– The Wedding Wire
– and to a much lesser degree, instagram & Facebook

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.sachajonesceremonies.com
• Instagram: #sachajonesceremonies
• Other: https://www.weddingwire.com/biz/sacha-jones-ceremonies-new-york/fa577e12ba20e6c0.html

Image Credits
Harley Hall – many of these Christine Han (bio photo of just me, holding rings)