Let’s write your story together
Emmanuelle Ricard · Wedding celebrant
You didn’t land here by chance…
If you have browsed my website and made it all the way here, it is because you have high expectations: a ceremony of the highest standard, one that calls for real skill and genuine experience. And because you have a wish: to live an intense, deeply moving moment, built and created for you, from what is most precious to you — your story.
Our first meeting
I suggest we take our time — starting with a first video call, before we even discuss fees. The aim: to talk about your wishes, everything you dream of, what you want to experience, and also what you don’t want.
Emmanuelle Ricard
Wedding Celebrant
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A question of chemistry
This first meeting lets us find out whether we click, and whether we each feel confident enough to build something beautiful together. It is often during this first spontaneous conversation that everything begins.
Your ceremony starts taking shape in my mind as we talk — from a shared look, an impression, a way of interacting that is uniquely yours. And the dream begins…
Emmanuelle, we had an instant chemistry that made our ceremony a success — a unique moment forever engraved in our hearts and memories. 41 degrees of love, connection and passion!
— Camille & Dan
Fees
Creating a bespoke ceremony is a long piece of work: several in-depth interviews, writing the entire text, arranging the music, fine-tuning, rehearsing the text, and my presence on the day.
Fees range from €3,000 to €4,500 depending on the nature and complexity of the ceremony.
For a bilingual or trilingual ceremony, cross-writing takes almost twice as much time — the fee reflects this. Travel expenses apply depending on the location — we discuss them at our very first meeting.
A living architecture
A successful ceremony is not just a series of speeches: it is a score built as much around your silences as around your words. Around your stories as much as those of your loved ones. And rhythm is its living breath.
Drawing on my background as an author and actress, I write so that everything rings true and every sentence carries you away: I sculpt the text so that it fills the space and soars all the way to you. Listening, asking, writing, giving it voice — then embodying the story that will resonate in you and your loved ones for a long time: that is what sets my work apart.
A ceremony lets you experience the most beautiful human emotions. From laughter to tears, from smiles to poetry, from depth to humour, to the joy of being together to celebrate love.
Interweaving languages
For my international couples, I refuse literal translation, which dilutes the meaning and sends the audience to sleep! Whether it is an English/French or French/Italian bilingual ceremony, I practise cross-writing. In each language, I weave in elements of your story — pieces of life told in turn with poetry or humour — and it is this alternation that keeps the audience spellbound. Rhythm within rhythm, because each language has its own. A kind of “linguistic hospitality” in which every guest, whatever their culture, feels personally addressed. It is haute couture work that brings the moment to life and stays in minds and hearts for a long time.
Every ceremony, bilingual or not, is a work of art in its own right.
Dear Emmanuelle, you truly gave us something exceptional, a timeless moment… All our guests still talk about it, 3 years later.
— Alex & Steeve
Your love knows no borders — and neither do my ceremonies!
Fontainebleau is my current base. From Paris to the skies of Provence, from the Alps to Sicily, from Switzerland to Spain — I travel wherever you wish to celebrate your love.
Dream beautiful, dream big…
A gentle or dazzling epic awaits you!