A celebrant is similar to a priest or a Rabbi or any religious leader.
we officiate and curate a beautiful, personal, unique and meaningful service for you.
The Service can include religious or spiritual beliefs or not.
Chief Celebrant, Jennifer is the founder and owner of Muldowney Memorials.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, she now splits her time mostly between New York and Dublin. Both cities are home for her.
Jennifer has been in the Funeral Industry for over 15 years and is a published author on the subject. Regularly featuring in the media in all forms, Jennifer is happiest when speaking with groups both small and large about celebrant work and funeral planning. She believes everyone deserves a personal and loving funeral.
Jennifer is a trained, experienced, and modern Memorial Planner, Celebrant/Master of Ceremonies and positive advocate of the funeral profession.
Jennifer Muldowney
Siobhán J. Regan is a proud Irish woman born and raised in County Mayo. She is fresh to NYC after 10 years of living, working and loving life in Chicago, IL. She attended Worsham College of Mortuary Science, Wheeling, IL and is a licensed funeral director and embalmer in the state of Illinois. As a celebrant, her integral focus is upon trust, and respect of the families she works with. Siobhán is committed to safeguarding peace and comfort of the bereaved.
In her spare time, Siobhán focuses on mental health and wellness activities and contributes to deserving causes such as The Arthritis Foundation. She has volunteered with Hope for the Day, a non-profit organization that focuses on mental health and proactive suicide prevention.
She enjoys travelling and listening to music/podcasts. She stays active by attending dance classes, running and walking with her beloved dog Rua. Siobhán is a strong-willed, kind, thoughtful and generous individual who prides herself on her Irish heritage. She believes in making every individual she encounters feel more at peace after being in her presence.
Siobhán J. Regan
Marc Sabin
Reverend Marc Sabin was ordained as an Interfaith minister in 2004. His background in spiritual studies, meditation and the martial arts, focused him to seek out peaceful ways to bring resolution to difficult, conflictual situations—on both personal, societal and global levels. “Many of life’s challenges arise in our closest relationships,” Marc observes. “It is here where we find the transitional power of love and compassion can be cultivated. We all experience the rites of passage in our own personal ways.”
Turning thoughts into words and words into actions, Marc is a compassionate advocate and spiritual guide for others who are traveling through the challenging passages on life’s journey. He has devoted his life to helping others. From celebrations to contending with loss, Rev Marc has offered comfort and solace to people of all faiths.
Susan Capurso
Susan Capurso is an End-of-Life Doula, Legacy Specialist, Celebrant and Author. Susan supports and guides an individual and their family holistically, emotionally, practically, and spiritually in their End-of-Life journey, while specializing in leaving their stories and memories for generations to come through creative legacy work.
Susan serves on several Patient Advocacy Councils on Long Island, including the Pulse Center for Patient Advocacy and with Stony Brook University Hospital’s Patient and Family Advisory Council. Susan is on the board of the National Aging in Place Council and gives back to Long Island communities through workshop presentations and educational symposiums. Susan volunteers for East End Hospice in Westhampton New York.
Susan’s mission is two-fold, to help individuals have a beautiful and peaceful passing with the closure they deserve and transform an individual’s life experiences into a meaningful legacy that will educate future generations to come.
Sarah Ritchie is a Funeral and Life-Cycle Celebrant, serving the tri-state area, since 2010. Educated at the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, she also completed a two-year inter-faith ministry program at the One Spirit Learning Alliance in 2016. More recently, she received the Integrative Thanatology Certificate at the Art of Dying Institute, an initiative of the New York Open Center. This spring, Sarah will pursue training to become a death doula conducted by the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA).
A native Oklahoman, Sarah has lived in New York for more than 20 years, working in in education, nonprofit management, and event planning. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate (history, economics, and politics) of the University of Oklahoma, receiving an M.A. and M.Phil. in political science at Yale University.
In addition to work as a Celebrant, Sarah is involved in a number of charities relating to education, children, health, and the arts. A life-long learner and ardent traveler, she brings compassion and creativity to honoring the life of your loved one.
Sarah Ritchie
Matilda Garrido
Matilda Garrido, MS, CT, has a masters degree in Thanatology (the study of death, dying and bereavement). She has worked with hospice patients and their families for years and is committed to honoring those who have died in ways that are most meaningful to their families and friends. In addition to her funeral celebrant work, she also teaches in the Companion Animal End of Life Doula Certification course at the University of Vermont, and writes for the National Funeral Director's Association blog Remembering a Life.
DiAnna Ritola
Rev. DiAnna Ritola is an author, Interfaith Minister and a Dianic Wiccan priestess. Her community-based ministry centers on rituals to honor life events and passages along with spiritual counseling for trauma, intimate relationships, and sexuality. She believes that the more we align ourselves with the rhythms of the Earth, the better we treat ourselves and each other because we experience how deeply interconnected we all are.
DiAnna lives in Queens with her wife, Michele, two cats (Lilith and Harriet) and their dog (Finnbar). She is a cheerleader for living an embodied life, fully honoring our humanity and our divinity, leaning into life’s questions and embracing the adventure of living.
Over the past 20 years, DiAnna has helped thousands of people reclaim the parts of themselves that have been cut off or suppressed, deepen their spiritual practice, integrate fragmented pieces, and love themselves into the power of wholeness.
As a Celebrant, she believes she is called to hold the ‘container’, to remind others that there is enough space for all the feelings, all the reactions, and that nothing is right or wrong within that. Her role is to facilitate expressions of emotion so that people leave feeling connected and embraced by the service.