Origin

 

Daniel Santos was born in 1985 in the city of Jacareí - SP where he remained until he was 21 years old when he passed the UNICAMP entrance exam for the Social Sciences course, entering in 2006 and graduating in 2010 as a sociologist.

 

He came from a middle-class, working-class family, and from an early age he learned the values of hard work and honesty as the only path to a full and happy life.

 

International experiences

 

With few resources to travel, but a huge willpower, he joined the ICP - International College Program of Walt Disney World Resorts in 2007, having been one of the thousand Brazilians selected by Disney, in Brazil, to work at the Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. The competition for this program, that year, was of 10 thousand candidates, all with fluent English and in the second semester of some college.

 

He worked for 2 months at the Epcot theme park, living in Vista Way, a condominium for young Disney workers, in Orlando. He successfully completed hospitality training at Disney University, finishing the program on time, in January 2008 when he began a train trip across the USA, Amtrak.

 

During this train trip, he stayed at the homes of several Americans through the Couch Surfing website, where he was able to immerse himself in American culture and observe how they really live in their daily lives.

 

In the second half of 2008 he left for an undergraduate exchange program between Unicamp and the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, where he studied literature and war and lived for a year in the 14th arr. in the south of Paris.

 

He had many experiences within French culture, working as a barista at the Gallerie Lafayette, right behind the Opera Garnier. She participated in extracurricular activities at the university, which are very common in France: discussion and study groups on politics, cinema and literature.

 

In 2010, I was part of a social anthropology study group in Haiti, but the research and the trip were interrupted by the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that left 300,000 dead in Haiti, the vast majority in Port-au-Prince, where Daniel and the team were at the time of the accident. The entire group of 9 people survived, but it was a huge scare that marked their lives forever.

 

At the moment

 

Since 2018, Daniel Santos has lived in Ubatuba, on the north coast of São Paulo, where he lives with his wife Hellen Nogueira, a bridal consultant, and his son Gabriel Henrique.

 

After spending 10 years in the corporate world of forklift factories in São Bernardo do Campo and Vinhedo, he decided to change his life and have his own business, living close to his family, with a better quality of life.

 

As a professional actor, trained at Teatro Escola Macunaíma in São Paulo, and a sociologist at Unicamp, he is able to personalize ceremonies in his own way, which can never be copied.

 

A student at the University of Celebrante, he is always seeking new knowledge and is always improving himself.

 

For this reason, and because he cannot be copied, Daniel helps people who have been invited by friends to celebrate weddings. He does not offer a professional course, but he gives tips and materials in two different places: in the celebrants' club and in the ceremony kit.

 

Given his professional and personal experience, he is one of the few celebrants in the world capable of celebrating a wedding ceremony in two, three or four languages. And he is recognized and recommended by consultants all over Brazil, to perform ceremonies wherever he is called!