Corinne Peretti

Corinne Peretti's homepage for Itinéraire de Vie carries 6 testimonials, and exactly one of them is labelled "Mariage." The others mark a funeral, a baptism, and what she calls an "étapes de vie" (life-stages) ceremony, plus 2 more thank-yous that don't name an occasion at all, one of them for a tribute to the writer's father. That split is the clearest evidence of what this practice actually is. She calls herself an "Officiante/Célébrante laïque professionnelle" for the whole life cycle, from birth to death, and a wedding is one occasion among several rather than the specialty a listing filed under "celebrants" might suggest.

She explains on the site how she got there. She spent 6 years caring for her parents through the end of their lives, and she writes that the experience made this profession feel obvious rather than chosen. What followed was 4 separate trainings, not one: a life-cycle officiant/celebrant qualification from the "Celebrant & Foundation Institute," a funeral-specific course with Sandra Widmer Joly at "Ceremoniae," a further end-of-life training with Lydia Muller, and a course at "Café Deuils" through the association "Vivre son Deuil." Her own account of where her interest actually started is specific: she says her original wish was to specialize in end-of-life care and funerals, not weddings. She also runs writing workshops and gives talks connected to the profession.

That history is worth knowing before booking her for a wedding, not because it counts against her but because it tells a couple what kind of celebrant they are hiring. The one wedding testimonial on the page, signed "R. & G.," credits her listening and her willingness to build the ceremony around what the couple wanted, and thanks her for what they call a beautiful ceremony. It's one testimonial, though, not a portfolio, and there's no way to see more of her actual work: the gallery section states plainly that clients are not photographed, for reasons of confidentiality and image rights. A couple used to browsing a photographer's or a florist's gallery before booking will not find that option here.

4 occasions, one description of what a ceremony is for

Peretti defines "cérémonie laïque" herself on the site: no religious content, but every religion and background is welcome in the room. Her own description of what the ceremony is meant to do, translated, is "welcoming, gathering, sharing, making peace, communing," and she frames the whole practice around 2 of her own interests, writing and listening, rather than around any single occasion. The testimonials bear that out. Alongside the wedding, there is a funeral tribute to a client's mother, a baptism, the life-stages anniversary ceremony, a second tribute (to a client's father) that reads as another funeral, and a general thank-you that names no occasion. Read together, funerals and tributes outnumber the wedding on the page she chose to publish, which lines up with both the training she lists and the specialisation she says she originally wanted.

None of that makes her the wrong choice for a wedding. It does mean a couple should read the one wedding testimonial as a data point rather than a track record, and ask her directly for examples of ceremonies she has led if that matters to them.

What her site does not publish about the process itself

A couple comparing celebrants usually wants to know how many meetings happen before the day, who actually drafts the script, and whether she will run or decline a specific ritual, a sand ceremony or a handfasting among them. Itinéraire de Vie's site does not answer any of that. It states her training and her interests, not her working method. It also publishes no price, no package structure, and no deposit or cancellation terms anywhere on the page. For a couple planning from another currency, the first real answer to what this costs comes from contacting her directly, not from the site.

English by phone, not on the page

The site itself is French only. Its main sections, home, about, what a secular ceremony is, ceremonies, and contact, have no English toggle and no separate English page anywhere. What the contact section does state is that Peretti's own languages are "Français" and "Anglais": that is a claim about her personally, not about the website. A couple who does not read French can phone or email her in English on the strength of that line, but they cannot research her in English first, and nothing on the page says how an English-speaking couple's ceremony would actually run on the day, bilingual throughout, English only, or worked out case by case.

On reach, the same section states 3 tiers under "Où j'officie": Suisse, Europe, Etranger, Switzerland, the rest of Europe, and further afield. That is a genuinely useful signal for a couple marrying in Switzerland from abroad, or asking her to travel somewhere else for the ceremony: she is stating, in her own words, that her practice is not bounded by canton or continent. No travel fee or minimum booking size for a trip that far is published, so that is another question for direct contact.

Foreign readers of this site will also want to know where a Swiss wedding actually becomes legal. Under Swiss law, a marriage is binding only once a civil registrar performs it, somewhere the canton has approved for that purpose. Itinéraire de Vie's own pages never raise this. There is no mention of a Zivilstandsamt, a registrar, or the legal status of any ceremony she leads, in either direction. That silence should be read as exactly that and nothing more: it is not confirmation that her ceremonies are symbolic only, and a couple who wants their Swiss wedding to be the legally binding one should confirm that step separately with the relevant civil registry rather than assume either way from this page. She is not a civil registrar, and nothing on her site claims she performs the legally binding part; what she leads is the ceremony itself.

A generalist's case, and the gaps worth asking about directly

For a couple set on one specific, familiar wedding formula, this may not be the obvious first call: her training leans toward loss and life transitions as much as toward weddings, and the site offers one wedding testimonial to judge her by. But that breadth is a real asset for a couple who wants someone practised at holding grief, gratitude and joy in the same kind of ceremony, since it is the work she trained 4 separate times to do, not a sideline added to a wedding business. Contact her directly for what the site leaves out: price, process, which rituals she will run, and how an English-speaking couple's day would actually be handled. What the testimonials that do exist agree on, across a funeral, a baptism and the one wedding among them, is a celebrant who listens closely and builds each ceremony around the specific people in front of her, which is the part of this job no template site could fake.