As soon as you have a date, you should contact officiant/celebrant candidates in order to ensure you have the time to interview them and make your selection. Many celebrants are booked months in advance, so start early. A year ahead is not uncommon.

Your wedding is one of the most important, memorable days of your life. By entrusting your ceremony to an experienced and certified Celebrant, you help ensure things go smoothly, down to the last detail. I have performed dozens of weddings involving different faiths, cultures, races, and genders. Your ceremony will be in the hands of someone with a great deal of knowledge and experience who will work diligently to create the most fitting and personal event possible for you and your guests. I also handle the legal paperwork for filing marriage licenses, a detail often overlooked by others. Hiring a professional Celebrant also allows your friends to enjoy your wedding day as a guest, with no stress or pressures.

I take the time to get to know you and ask the important questions in my interviews before writing the ceremony to reflect your values, stories, and beliefs. This is an important part of my training as a marriage celebrant and one that most folks ordained on the internet will not do because they tend to use the same ceremony for all their couples. I also have a great depth of experience in serving as a wedding officiant, and I believe it is an important service to provide to those who may be spiritual, but not religious, or who do not want a church or synagogue wedding.

It is increasingly common to see women conducting ceremonies of all kinds. The majority of certified Life-Cycle Celebrants from the national Celebrants Institute are female. We bring a soft touch, an ability to listen, and a warmth that clients love.

Consider asking a parent to do a prayer or reading of a religious passage that you like during the ceremony. It will help them be more a part of the day while keeping the core message non-religious.

I have performed many ceremonies bringing people of different faiths together. One of my favorites was a Buddhist and a Methodist in which the couple had a tea ceremony in the wedding. I’ve also married a Muslim and a Presbyterian, and a Hindu and a Methodist. In all of these examples, I found marriage traditions among those religions and created simple ways for them to be incorporated into the wedding. The Korean ducks were an important symbol in the Greensboro wedding of a woman whose mother was Korean, but the groom’s family was American. There are many ways to use the symbols, readings or other traditions from different cultures to make your ceremony unique and sacred.

I would be happy to create just the right ceremony for you. With my background in helping couples in this very same situation, I am dedicated to creating a ceremony that will make you very happy and proud.

Of course! Vineyards make a beautiful setting for weddings and I have conducted several ceremonies at the wineries in our area. In fact, I have performed ceremonies at a wide variety of locations including dairy farms, public parks, castles, country clubs, lakes, hotel ballrooms, chapels, and many, many more! If you are thinking about having your wedding outdoors, just make sure there is a room indoors in the event of inclement weather.

Absolutely. I have saved dozens of different vows from my work and research, so if you need some ideas, let me know. I’m also happy to write personal vows that are fashioned just for you.

I price my wedding services based on the amount of time involved and the level of responsibilities you need me to manage. Typical wedding fees begin at $475.