Kayla Allen
Wedding Officiant & Spiritual Director in Charlottesville, VA
Love makes life beautiful.
As an experienced companion and attentive guide, I am with you in seasons of joy & sorrow, sickness & health, and anything along the way.
What I Offer
Create a custom wedding ceremony that reflects your unique love story. Get legally married with a nonreligious, spiritual or traditional ceremony.
Strengthen your relationship, improve communication and prepare for a lifelong marriage with premarital counseling.
Offering supportive, non-anxious and confidential companionship for you to notice, listen & respond to God’s invitations in your life.
Hi, I’m Kayla
Love brings us together. It’s an honor that you’d invite me to share in a small part of your story, as we begin here’s a little bit of mine:
Small town roots & big city experience.
I’m the daughter of a roofer, raised by a single mother, and a first generation college graduate that left the comfort of the Midwest for a Washington DC adventure at 22.
Longing to live somewhere beautiful, my family made the move to Charlottesville in 2019, just in time to wait out the pandemic on a goat farm.
Love who you love.
I’m a gather of people and a collector of stories - usually around the table for tacos.
While I have a master’s degree in spiritual formation from an Evangelical Quaker seminary, my theological home is in the Presbyterian Church (USA). All are welcome, always.
As a survivor of postpartum depression and abuse, I’m experienced in the often too slow process of grief, healing and learning to hope again. Also, the medication is working.
Rest, play & connect.
I’m a contemplative extrovert, who loves meeting new people and yet, I’ve learned the gift of a simple and small life.
As a pastor, shepherdess and mother, I am tending and caring first to the light of love within, while also hosting play dates & preteen hangouts..
No one makes me giggle like my husband Greg of 17 years, and if you take me on a walk, I will talk about birds.
Spiritual but not religious.
Understanding that there more than a million ways to fall in love, so are there ways to live a meaningful life.
I am a follower of Jesus, making space for curiosity, mystery & doubt. Hospitality is at the heart of my practice & home because it’s a gift to be welcomed & wanted.
