WaterFire Providence’s mission is to creatively transform and inspire our city. Our community is strengthened when we join together to acknowledge and remember the significant moments and passages of our lives.
Over the past fifteen years, it has been WaterFire’s great pleasure to work with families to create personalized memorial observances to mourn the passing of a loved one, to honor a life, and to mark significant community and world events. We are proud to be able to extend the very same invitation to you and hope that you will JOIN US TO CREATE A SPECIAL MEMORIAL or COMMEMORATIVE EVENT OF YOUR OWN AS PART OF WATERFIRE.
We have created many different ways to remember someone to better allow people to find
the best expression of their respect and love.
These offerings include:
Having up to eight family members join us on the water to assemble a brazier in a loved one’s honor and add personal notes and flowers to the bonfire;
Assembling a group to light and set forth a field full of Luminaria candle lanterns to symbolize someone’s impact upon the world;
Arranging for an unmanned canoe brimming with flowers and illuminated by candle lanterns to float silently past the crowds of WaterFire and head out to sea;
Having a toast or torch procession in someone’s honor;
Distributing to the crowd a hundred flowers, each bearing a ribbon dedicating this special random gift to someone’s memory;
There are countless ways to honor and celebrate the memory of someone you cherish in a very personal and meaningful way and we are here to work with you to create the best observance.
We would love to work with you to observe the important people and passages in your life and acknowledge those you hold dear. Please email us with a short description of what sort of event you are planning. Tell us more about yourself and the person you are honoring, what you have in mind, the time frame, and give us an idea of your event scale and budget. We will email back with a selection of additional ideas to get you thinking. The observances we create range from the simple dignity of a two person toast, to more involved affairs.