What is a Humanist Celebrant?
People celebrate things – and celebrants make those moments extra, extra special.
Humanist celebrants provide an alternative to religious ceremonies. We write ceremonies and serve as officiants for unique, meaningful, non-religious weddings and other ceremonies for important moments of life.
In addition to officiating, we can deliver Humanist invocations and readings, provide Humanist consultation & guidance, and other services.
A Humanist Celebrant will serve people of all religious, secular, and spiritual identities; however, we will only use secular language. We can help you incorporate religious elements into your ceremony through, for example, guest readings or music.
Celebrants endorsed through The Humanist Society are legally recognized as clergy in the United States, being accorded the same rights and privileges granted by law to priests, ministers, and rabbis of traditional theistic religions.
We provide an alternative to traditional religious ceremonies and provide guidance on inclusive practices that honor, affirm, and celebrate diverse Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Identities (RSSI) as well as the LGBTQ+ community.
Services include
- officiant for weddings, funerals (currently offering only inclusion advocacy), namings/welcomings, and other ceremonies,
- invocations for meetings and events
- writing services (custom ceremonies, invocations/secular graces)
- event management services (volunteer weddings, tiny weddings, and volunteer activities for groups/businesses)
- Consultations and workshops regarding inclusion for Humanists and other diverse identities.
Philanthropic Involvement
Humanist Celebrant Orlando proudly supports the STEM Gift Drive, increasing equitable access to STEM-themed toys, games, and books for at-risk youth, benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida. Tee is the project manager for the gift drive and has worked on this project since 2015. Learn more at STEMGiftDrive.org.
Meet Tee, Humanist Celebrant
Tee Rogers (she/her/hers)
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A Humanist Celebrant and Chaplain since 2016 and owner of Humanist Celebrant Orlando, Tee Rogers (she/her) enjoys working with couples to compose unique, personal ceremonies that honor and reflect their journey and traditions meaningful to them. Her background includes founding a Humanist non-profit, teaching diversity workshops on RSSI (religious, secular, and spiritual identities), and serving as Humanist Chaplain at the University of Central Florida.
Tee’s full-time work is funeral and cemetery pre-planning and she also volunteers as the project lead for a STEM Gift Drive initiative.
Tee earned endorsement as a Celebrant through The Humanist Society in 2016 and serves part-time as a Celebrant in Central Florida.
Her current full-time role is with Dignity Memorial, representing 15 funeral home/cemetery locations in Central Florida, plus Neptune Memorial Reef. She assists families with pre-planning decisions regarding funeral and cemetery, counsels families who face an imminent loss on these planning issues, is a certified representative of Neptune Memorial Reef, and serves on the Aftercare Team providing resources and support for families who have recently faced a loss.
Tee’s current volunteer work includes serving as project lead for STEMGiftDrive.org, an initiative to increase equitable access to STEM toys, games, and books for at-risk youth in our community.
Tee has been connected to the LGBTQ+ community for most of her life and has served as an ally and vocal & active advocate for inclusion. Humanist Celebrant Orlando is a member of the Orlando PRIDE Chamber and Tee also serves on the PRIDE Chamber as the representative for Dignity Memorial.
Tee’s degrees are in English and Philosophy. Her background is in community service; she is an event professional with more than 20 years of experience in event management, project management, and volunteer management.
Tee was a project and event coordinator at the University of Central Florida for 15 years. She managed, for example, the campaign and activities related to the university’s partnership with the United Way, UCF Blood Drives, the university’s records management program, a VP’s division assessment and annual reporting, and division website and information security management.
She founded and directed BE. Orlando Humanist Fellowship (2011-2020), a local non-profit dedicated to engaging secular identities and their allies in volunteer service at local charities and community events. BE also worked to educate the community, local businesses, and faith-biased organizations about the importance of including non-religious and minority religious perspectives in diversity training, policy, and practices.
She served as the volunteer Humanist Chaplain at the University of Central Florida, 2016 – 2019. [See Accomplishments Report] She taught university diversity courses related to Religious, Secular, and Spiritual inclusion, served as the advisor to the Secular Student Alliance, managed the university’s Secular Safe Zone program, and provided guidance to administrators to inform policy and attitudes related to religious, secular, and spiritual inclusion.
She facilitated the Orlando chapter of Recovering from Religion from 2017 to 2020.
She has volunteered personally at local charities including Harbor House, Safehouse of Seminole, the Mustard Seed, the Coalition for the Homeless, Seminole County SERV, Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida, OneBlood, Second Harvest Food Bank, Pet Rescue by Judy, Bacco’s Cat Rescue, In Harmony With Nature (wolf & wolfdog sanctuary), and others. She coordinated regular blood drives in 2020 and 2021 at the local Dignity Memorial funeral home group where she works.
Tee is a nature & animal lover. One of her life goals is to earn enough money & free time to be able to adopt a dog. In the meantime, she pet-sits and fosters cats & dogs whenever she can.
She was named the DEI Leader of the Year by the Pride Chamber in 2022, Florida Humanist of the Year in 2017 by the Florida Humanist Association, and has won numerous other awards for Humanism, activism, and service.
