We held a private ceremony in our home. Joan really listened to us and understood our desire for a short ceremony, yet still filled it with all the love and customization we could have hoped for! She was professional and, in short, the perfect pick. So glad we went with her.

Joan was kind, thoughtful, warm, and made everything seem so easy and just right. She the took time to get to know us in person and by asking insightful questions and beautifully weaved our love story into the wedding script. We were delighted with the outcome and will forever be grateful for all the extra work she did, as we got married during the pandemic. Joan - Please stay lovely and healthy, as we last saw you under that gorgeous cherry blossom tree for our nuptials. Dan & Gigi

From our first outreach, Joan exuded professionalism, thoughtfulness, and positive energy! She instilled confidence by responding to out questions thoroughly. And based on her own of us, she ensured that she understood our inputs and was focused on making our day “ours”, not a preconceived formality. She really listened, shared resources, and wove our “homework” into a truly beautiful ceremony!!! Ours was a small home wedding and our family and guests were most impressed by Joan’s natural ability to bring people together into the community of our day. Whatever you have planned for your special day, we have confidence that Joan will make you and your day brightly shine!

Joan worked hard to create a ceremony that was extremely personal and extremely touching. It could not have been better. She is one of the biggest reasons why our wedding day was amazing. Highly recommended!!!

Joan is a genuinely kind and wonderful person who also happens to be an amazing officiant. Joan took the time to get to know who we were as a couple in addition to understanding what we wanted out of our wedding ceremony. Joan brings a wealth of past knowledge and experience with her services and uses that information to ensure that everything aligns perfectly on the day. Joan was not pushy about the the flow of the ceremony or the rituals that should be included, but used the information she learned about us to craft a truly unique experience. Our wedding ceremony would not have been as incredible or the same had it not been for Joan!

Joan officiated my sister’s wedding in Rockville, Maryland, and was a pleasure to work with throughout the process. Joan was organized, generous, and helpful during the planning process and on wedding day. My sister and her now husband told me that planning their ceremony with Joan was one of the things that made them most excited about their wedding day. Joan really tailored the ceremony to the bride and groom and took the time to chat and get to know them in the months leading up to their wedding. Not only is she an experienced and versatile officiant, but Joan also showed herself to be an all-around kind-hearted person.

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Joan was wonderful as our officiant! She was extremely flexible and made our ceremony very personal, warm and memorable. We had numerous comments from our families about how beautiful the ceremony was. There were tears and laughter and special touches she helped us add. Joan made the whole process easy and straightforward by giving us questionnaires about our lives and relationship, as well as giving feedback on our personal vows. We’re so grateful we hired Joan to officiate on our special day.

Joan made our ceremony so special! She took the time to get to know us through her questionnaire and created such a personal ceremony for us with all of the things we wanted. We had a small wedding with our parents, siblings and grandparents. Everyone commented on how great Joan was. I would highly recommend her!

Joan is THE SWEETEST, most professional, easy to work with officiant. We could not have chosen a better person to entrust with our ceremony. We opted to fill out her questionnaire and let her surprise us with the rest, and we couldn't have been happier as a result. She was able to weave together meaningful, intimate details with a little humor - per our request to give a very sweet, light, but romantic ceremony. After meeting with her, having her work with us for the ceremony and rehearsal, she feels more like family to us.

I hired Joan literally like 3-4 weeks before my wedding and I was so happy I was being picky! My husband and I were looking for a non-generic wedding ceremony that really explain us and showed our family and friends the love we share. Joan delivered that! She had each of us fill out a questionnaire asking our point of views in the relationship. She also helped us pick our vows and poems we wanted to include in the ceremony. It was beautiful what she came up with! My family raved about the ceremony and some even said it was the best one they've ever been too. If you want a personalized ceremony, pick Joan!

My husband and I realized early on in our planning process that we wanted a non-denominational officiant, as we were going to have an interfaith ceremony at a secular venue. Thus began the scramble to find the right person to whom we would entrust the creation and carrying out of the most important part of our wedding: the ceremony. We were so lucky to find Joan! Joan was wonderful to work with from day one. She is friendly and warm, professional and organized. She's a great listener who really gets to know you. Her questionnaire is good for your ceremony and good for you—it makes you sit down and think about why you love the person you are marrying, which is a nice thing to do between calls to florists and DJs. Joan used our answers to her questionnaire to craft our wedding ceremony story, so what she read at our ceremony was a perfect combination of our own words and hers (and she is a very good writer!). In our meetings and emails leading up to the wedding, Joan helped us to... Read more refine our ideas for the ceremony. She suggested what ended up being the perfect ritual to bring together my husband's and my respective heritages. After the ceremony, our guests could not stop praising Joan! They were so impressed with the ceremony—how personal and unique it was—and with her presence. Our wedding was really special and Joan was absolutely a crucial part of that.

It has been hard for me to write this review because I can't find the words to express how special Joan made our day. Joan was so helpful with every step of our ceremony. She had so many unique ideas and really understood us as a couple. She was very detail oriented and organized. She had a lot of different ideas to choose from and really worked to make our ceremony a reflection of us and our love for each other. We had talked with Joan a few times and met with her in person and she was so easy to talk to and we felt like she was a part of our family. So many of our guests asked us about her after the wedding and ceremony and how we managed to find her. People thought that we had already known her before the wedding because she seemed to understand us so well. I even had a friend and her husband tell us that they wanted to get married again because they would do their ceremony again just like ours. We had numerous people tell us that it was the best wedding ceremony they had ever seen... Read more and experienced. All (or most of it) was all Joan. She is the best! I can't recommend Joan enough for her amazing work and ability to understand a couple and make the wedding ceremony a perfect stress free experience!

Joan was recommended to us by our incredible wedding coordinator, GLOW Weddings and Events and we were thrilled with her. She met with us before our wedding and asked so many careful and detailed questions, and then had us complete an extensive questionnaire and the results were amazing. She made excellent recommendations about the flow of the service, and wrote a beautiful ceremony for us. People kept telling me how personal it was and that it were as though she'd known us forever. We wanted a non-religious ceremony and she absolutely respected that and still made it feel sacred and intimate. We were thrilled with our choice in Joan.