WEDDING OFFICIATING
Your ceremony should sound like you.
Not a script with your names dropped into the blanks.
I create warm, personal ceremonies shaped around your story, your values, and the strange, ordinary, beautiful ways you love each other.
I officiate weddings, elopements, intimate ceremonies, nontraditional celebrations, and non-denominational ceremonies.
I welcome couples and families of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and relationship structures. Your ceremony will be created collaboratively and can be adapted around accessibility, sensory needs, mobility considerations, family dynamics, and the ways you feel most comfortable participating.
Big celebrations. Tiny ceremonies. Something entirely your own.
How this works
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Share your date, location, and whatever you are already imagining. You do not need to have the entire ceremony figured out.
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We’ll meet, make sure the fit feels right, and talk about your relationship, your people, and how you want the ceremony to feel.
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I’ll write a ceremony that holds your story with care and sounds natural when spoken aloud.
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I’ll bring the words, warmth, and steadiness. You bring each other!
Before the vows, there is a story.
The provided topics can stand alone or become the starting point for something more specific.
There is how you met. What made you stay. The private jokes, turning points, ordinary rituals, and people who helped you become who you are.
I take time to listen for those details and turn them into a ceremony that feels honest to your relationship.
It can be tender, meaningful, funny, unconventional, or a little weird. Most love stories are more than one thing.
I can create custom workshops for organizations navigating a particular challenge, supporting a specific group, or hoping to open a conversation that deserves more care than a generic presentation can offer.
My hope is that participants leave with:
A clearer understanding of stress, regulation, and their own well-being
Practical tools they can use beyond the room
More awareness of what their bodies may be communicating
Language for experiences that can be difficult to explain
A little more curiosity, playfulness, and room to breathe
What we’ll create together
Your Ceremony Experience Includes:
A relaxed conversation to make sure we feel like a good fit
Time to share your story, values, and hopes for the ceremony
A ceremony written specifically for the two of you
The opportunity to review important details and agreed-upon elements
Warm, grounded ceremony delivery
Completion of the required marriage-license responsibilities
Rehearsal attendance and additional support may be added when needed.
Investment
Custom ceremonies begin at $300.
Final pricing depends on the length and level of personalization, rehearsal involvement, travel, and any additional support you would like included.
Travel
I currently serve couples throughout Michigan and am very open to going somewhere new.
Destination ceremonies are available by arrangement. Travel and accommodations will be considered as part of a custom package.
Ordination and documentation
I am an ordained wedding officiant and will work with you to make sure the ceremony and required documentation are handled appropriately for the location where you are getting married.
A few practical things...
Start with your story.
You do not need to know exactly what you want your ceremony to say.
Tell me who you are, where you’re getting married, and how you hope it feels when you are standing there together. We’ll find the rest from there.