Helen Tremblay of Brookline is a double threat to engaged, new home buyers: Not only will she sell you a house, she’ll marry you in it.

For Tremblay, who’s been active in New Hampshire real estate for 25 years, becoming an ordained minister wasn’t something that she necessarily planned.

“A few years ago I started to get into Reiki,” she said. “It’s energy healing, from Japan. I got into it because seven years ago I was really, really ill. I was in the hospital with colitis and went through a series of doctors, natural doctors. I had a hard time walking and one of them suggested that I try Reiki – and at that point I figured, ‘I’ll try anything.’?”

Reiki, she said, works with your natural energy, along the same idea as acupuncture.

“The energy comes through one person into another. So through that, I began to study Reiki and then became a master. And they actually do Reiki in hospitals now. They asked me to do it at St. Joe’s. They train nurses and so forth.”

It was Reiki that led Tremblay to become an ordained minister.

“Someone I knew through Reiki suggested that I become a minister. I thought, ‘I could do this,’ so I went to the Sanctuary in Raymond, and it was actually a long process, but it was awesome, it really was,” Tremblay said.

Shortly after, Tremblay and her husband bought a place in Rye and met a couple there who was engaged to be married.

“I sold them a house in Fremont, N.H., and I had mentioned that I was a minister and they asked me to marry them,” Tremblay said. “So I ended up marrying them in Fremont at the house that I sold them.”

And then in December, Tremblay married another client/engaged couple, at the Bedford Village Inn.

“It’s kind of cool to do this because I tend to get close to my buyers,” she said. “And there’s this yin and the yang to what I do – I try to find the balance of being extremely competitive and wanting to win, and then I have my other side, which is the real spiritual side. So the process begins with my showing them property and getting to know the clients and finding what they like, then I negotiate for them – that’s my favorite part because I love to win – and then there’s my spiritual side when they ask if I would perform their wedding ceremony.”

Seemingly, the planets need to be aligned in order for Tremblay to have to be selling to a couple that’s not yet wed.

“Honestly, I don’t come out and say, ‘Hey, do you want me to marry you?’?”

But she used the example of the couple she wed in Bedford last December.

“It’s very moving. You stand behind the podium and here’s this bride that looks like a princess as she comes down these stairs, and then there’s her husband and the best man, and I’m standing up there and we’re passing tissues because we all have tears coming down our face,” she said.

“And you’ve seen this couple from being engaged, and they work together, and you were involved in their buying a house and then you marry them, and to have that honor and to be that close – it’s just amazing, the whole thing.”

Ultimately, Tremblay can’t say what path has brought her to this point in her career.

“It was something that kind of just happened,” she said. “People ask me, ‘How did this happen?’ And I say I don’t know. I’m just along for the ride.”