As a New York City civil wedding celebrant, I serve as a marriage officiant in NYC and throughout the metropolitan area, including New Jersey.

It is my honor as a NY and NJ wedding officiant to work with couples to create and conduct customized wedding ceremonies that can be traditional, spiritual, multi-faith, secular, or very nontraditional. It is my mission as a marriage officiant to conduct a wedding ceremony that uniquely reflects the love story of each Bride and Groom.

Couples who seek out civil wedding officiants typically want a special ceremony marked by their own beliefs and vows. I am trained in multi-cultural approaches to wedding ceremonies, and I enjoy including creative touches in the wedding ceremonies I create.

Typical of wedding celebrants, I follow the wishes of the couple in setting the tone of the ceremony – formal or informal, spiritual or secular, serious or light-hearted … but always focusing on the intent of marriage ceremonies – to tie a couple together in love, trust, fidelity, and hope for a wonderful life together.

Wedding officiants like me are not constrained by traditional church wedding ceremony requirements. Civil marriage officiants design a wedding ceremony to include a couple’s religious beliefs or to be quite secular based upon the wishes of the couple. A wedding officiant, however, does comply with the legal requirements of marriage laws in the ceremony’s locale. As your wedding celebrant, I assure you that your wedding will be legal!

I am also a wedding celebrant for gay and lesbian commitment ceremonies. These ceremonies contain vows, exchange of rings, and other unity rituals at the choice of the couple. As in all weddings, wedding celebrants work with gay or lesbian couples to have their ceremony declare their commitment to all who surround them on their special day.

As your wedding celebrant, I strive to ensure that your wedding ceremony sets the tone not only for your wedding day, but also for your marriage. I know you want the moments spent in the ceremony to be meaningful, not an impersonal perfunctory rite. A hallmark of my wedding officiant practice is to make your wedding ceremony be that special moment that starts your life together as a loving married couple.