Very professional and friendly, just more than our budget would allow.

Cheryl recently officiated our wedding on 5/12/18 at 2941 Restaurant. She was a pleasure to work with and made the process, even writing our wedding ceremony, easy and stress free. She was very helpful at the rehearsal to get our family ready for the wedding day. We enjoyed her warm personality and was happy she was part of our day. Thanks again Cheryl. VH & SN

Cheryl is a sweet lady until she disagrees with you. In our case, it started with her saying she sent emails that we never received. We didn’t push back on this because she seemed like such a sweet lady otherwise. Then she started acting odd about money. She tried to increase her fees and got pretty obnoxious, including sending a nasty email two days before the ceremony with our children. We didn't need that negativity on our special day, so we told her not to come. In the end we found someone else and our kids loved the ceremony with the other person, so it is tempting not to write a review of Cheryl since it ended well without her. However, because she seems so nice at first, we thought we should warn others.

Cheryl wrote a very beautiful ceremony from everything I picked out.

Cheryl is absolutely amazing and helped our ceremony dreams come to life. She was patient, organized, and a great communicator and everyone complimented us on how touching the ceremony was. Highly recommend!

Loved Cheryl’s ceremony. It was beautiful and funny and she made it perfect for us. The process was easy and smooth. Couldn’t be happier.

Cheryl was outstanding for our small, custom, semi-popup wedding ceremony in Washington DC. Her fun personality also contributed to the fun but intimate ambience we were aiming for. Despite it being nearly the hottest day of the year, she delivered on the custom ceremony we designed with her and kept the situation lively and fun. We recommend Cheryl to just about anyone wanting a full spectrum of flexibility on their wedding plans. She does this for fun because it is her passion, rather than being her primary means of making a living, so we enjoyed the fact that our wedding also meant something to her.

Officiants in DC area were more expensive than we expected... but Cheryl provided an exceptional service for the lowest price in the area! We had NO idea how to plan/build our own ceremony, but Cheryl made sure we understood everything, she answered all the questions, and provided suggestions based on her experience. From our initial consultation, Cheryl was very welcoming, kind, and professional. She also tried to get to know us as a person, which was nice and comforting. With Cheryl's help, we are able to have an intimate & customized ceremony that was filled with lots of love. We & our guests absolutely loved it!!

Cheryl was professional, warm and excited for our wedding. She gave us valuable documents that newlyweds should consider. My wife and I are Latinos and I was really impressed with how well she connected with us. We wanted our ceremony to be in Spanish and Cheryl impressed us with her Spanish skills. I know its not easy to speak another language so she went above and beyond. Also when the clercks office could not find our marriage certificate she went the next monday got two certificates for us and delivered it to us. Wow! Muchas gracias Cheryl por ser tan duce y profesional con nuestra boda. Eres una gran oficiante con mucho corazon. Eres la mejor! Gustavo y Ana

Cheryl did a fantastic job helping us navigate our options and guiding us through the hectic process of getting married! Not only was she exceptionally informative, but she also was patient, warm, and helped us have a truly authentic, joyous wedding. Our ceremony was genuine, full of love and happiness, and everything went so well - I would recommend Cheryl to any couple!

Cheryl of custom weddings is an amazing woman. She made sure that our wedding went smoothly. She's very flexible and helpful. She was amazing part of our wedding and everybody loved her sense of humor. We really appreciated having her there and being a part of our very special moment. I definitely recommend her as she's a very personable and sweet individual.

Cheryl was easy to work with. She performed our ceremony as we wrote it and provided feedback about our ceremony when we asked. She provided templates for the rehearsal and examples of ceremonies. She was responsive and returned emails/phone calls in a timely manner. I have no complaints.

My husband and I enjoyed working with Cheryl - she really took the time to listen to us and did an excellent job during our ceremony and making sure we were totally prepared beforehand. We even had multiple guests comment on how lovely her message and blessing for us was! After meeting with her the first time over Skype, my then-fiance and I knew she was a great decision for our wedding officiant, and her prices are really good. I would highly recommend Cheryl!

Would not recommend. After being asked multiple times by both of us, Cheryl continued to correspond with either myself or fiance, not both, which made communication difficult as we were preparing for our wedding and busy traveling for work. Despite being asked at least three times to simply "reply all" and loop the other back in the conversation, she would reply back to one of us. This created a lot of frustration and confusion. After she sent an invoice to only one of us, husband requested: "I'm sorry I thought you had it, I copied her in on all emails I sent to you and didn't realize you weren't "replying all" I frowarded her the invoice and she will take care of it. Please include her, and reply all in the future." She said she was unable to find any of this correspondence, but I have at least 3 specific times we requested her to reply all, and she said that she couldn't because she was on an iPad (?) She spent a lot of time explaining the name change process, and tips for sh... Read moreortening the time at social security, when I made clear that I was not in a rush to change my name and knew the steps that I needed to take. She repeatedly emphasized that to avoid waiting in lines, I should call the social security office and make an appointment. I tried calling them 3 times, and the waiting time was over 1.5 hours each time, so I just went to the office and was in and out in under an hour. I wasn't looking for or needing tips on this from our officiant, and while we made this clear, it was really the main thing she talked about on each of the times we spoke with her. When we had our call the week of the wedding she said she couldn't wait to meet us, when we had already met with her, and it felt very impersonal. She a few times mentioned the number of weddings that she had done that year/month, and while it may have been meant to convey her experience, it just made us feel like we were another number/dollar for her. As others have mentioned, she didn't seem very prepared during the ceremony. My fiance and I had both recently started new jobs before our wedding and were traveling a lot for work while planning. For wanting the ceremony to be the most special part of our day, the added stress of Cheryl not communicating with both of us was easily the most negative part of my entire planning process.