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My dad's memorial was in March of 2025.
My whole life, I watched him lead. He was a musician and a worship leader here in Bellevue, and he spent decades stepping into other people's hardest and most joyful moments. Weddings, funerals, memorials. He helped them find words and music for what they couldn't say on their own.
When the time came, I got to do that for him. I planned his service. I sang the songs that meant something to our family. I helped shape an hour that wasn't just something to get through, but something to actually sit in. It was the most heartbreaking thing I've ever done, and somehow also one of the most beautiful. I did it alongside my closest friends, and honoring him that way was one of the greatest privileges of my life.
I could only do that because someone else took the rest of it off me. A friend stepped in and ran the whole thing. He got the musicians together, talked to the church, and made sure everything that needed to be up on the screen was there: the words to the songs, the scripture, the video. He did all the work I had no room left to do, and because he did, I got to stand up and sing for my dad instead of running the day.
That's the whole reason this exists. I know what it is to be handed that, and I'd like to hand it to somebody else.
After that, people started asking me to help with their own memorials. Family members, friends, parents of people I know. Each time, I said yes. I know what it's like to be on that side of it, and it means something to me to honor someone's life like it's my own family.
That's what this is. I walk with families through planning a service, choosing the music, shaping how the room opens and closes, figuring out how to hold a whole life in one service without losing what made your loved one who they were. I've learned that a memorial isn't just an event to organize. It's sacred space. And I care about helping families hold that well, for their loved one and for each other.
This isn't a business I stumbled into. It's an extension of what I already know how to do and what I already care about, now offered to anyone who needs someone to walk with them through it.
"It means so much to me to offer a gift that I have in music to people who are hurting."