Reverend Joy Burke

We had a wonderful ceremony with Joy. The words she spoke were beautiful and we loved how she included our daughter as well.

We were so happy with Joy. She was great. The words she spoke at our ceremony were wonderful and we enjoyed it very much. She even included our daughter and we loved that.

Joy was great. We were planning our wedding while abroad in another time zone, but she still made it work with skype, email, and a meeting just ahead of our wedding. We had plenty of materials to figure out how to arrange the ceremony, and Joy helped us out. The ceremony itself was great and we couldnt have asked for anything more.

My husband and I found Joy through reviews on wedding wire and other wedding websites. She was very professional via email and we met with her in person eventually. At the meeting she made us feel very comforted and at ease. I felt right away like I wanted her to officiate our wedding!

She emails me a bunch of information to look at (like ideas for readings or other things you do at weddings like the unity candle, etc). She has each of you fill out a relationship survey and send it back to her. She uses this to put together your own personalized reading for your ceremony. She emails it to you the weeks before to check it over...I cried when I read mine!

In the weeks leading up to the wedding she sends you emails checking in on you and asking you if you need anything, so sweet! The day of the rehearsal she was there to coordinate everything and was very helpful. The day of the wedding everything went perfectly. The ceremony was beautiful and she was so professional. Afterwards she came back to get a picture with us and then she took care of all the paperwork. When I got back from my honeymoon my marriage license was sitting in my mailbox, so she took care of all of that.

Overall she was very sweet and professional. Her price is I think higher than a lot of other officiants so that may be a downside for...

Choosing Joy to officiate our ceremony was one of the best decisions we made. Our guests are still talking about how they have never been to such a beautiful and touching ceremony. Joy was wonderful to work with from the minute we first emailed with her. Since we were planning from NYC, we were also able to set a time to meet with her. She was very flexible and did everything possible to work around our schedules. She has SUCH great ideas for the ceremony, yet still made a point to get to know us as people so that our ceremony was US. We couldn't be any happier with how our ceremony turned out. Thank you Joy!

Rev. Joy Burke is a pleasure to work with. She takes the time to get to know her couples and creates the perfect ceremony that is customized to your own style. We are so pleased with what Joy had done for our special day!

Reverend Joy Burke is absolutely fabulous! She creates the most unique and personal ceremony. It was our most favorite part of our wedding! She has great ideas and a wonderful approach. Whatever you are looking for, she will tailor the most beautiful ceremony that surpasses your wants.

Reverend Joy Burke was the most important part of our wedding day. She created the most beautiful ceremony that captured exactly who Tim and I were as a couple and what we were seeking to become as a married couple. She was so responsive and effective in helping us plan the ceremony and delivered quality work. We have gotten numerous compliments on the beauty and uniqueness of our ceremony from family and friends who attended. It was the most perfect and memorable part of our day. We would recommend Joy 100%. She is such a part of our lives now and we look forward to continuing a relationship with her moving forward.

Joy did an amazing job with our ceremony! Her words were extremely professional, caring, well-thought, and heartfelt! Thanks to her, not only did we have an absolutely amazing ceremony that we will never forget, but our guests continue to commend her as well.

Joy is the sweetest and most heartfelt person you'll ever find. We found her online and spoke to her on the phone and immediately felt connected to her. We then met with her at her home and she was very warm and welcoming. My husband and I are not religious but come from families that really are so we didn't want to step on any toes but we also didn't want to cater to our families and leave ourselves out of the most important moment of our lives. NOT the wedding reception, the CEREMONY. Joy worked with us and made our ceremony beautiful, for lack of a much better word. We even got compliments on the smallest aspects of it, which I feel like you never get as everyone really focuses on the party. THANK YOU, JOY!!

Reverend Joy was absolutely amazing to work with. She made our wedding day truly special. From the time we contacted her (about a year in advance) until the end of the wedding she was there for us through and through. She answered our questions kindly and quickly and really got to know us. She was calm under pressure (even when the guest shuttle arrived very late and the best man fainted :)) and was extremely kind hearted. I would choose Reverend Joy again in a heart beat, and am so glad she was there to share our big day and marry us! Thank you for everything you did!!

The minute we met Joy we knew she was perfect. She paid attention to the little details and things we said and incorporated it into to her ceremony that made it simply beautiful. Every word she spoke made it feel like she knew us forever, she took the time to understand our relationship and it showed. I can't tell you how many people have commented on how perfect the ceremony was. I would highly recommend Joy to any bride and groom looking for an officiant.

Joy is such a sweet, kind and thoughtful person and provided the wedding planning experience we had imagined. We knew as soon as we met Joy that she was the person we wanted to officiate our wedding. She took as much time as we needed to answer our questions, incorporate elements that we wanted into the ceremony. She was able to accommodate our personalities and interests; she sent us some questionnaires and asked us to write our story so she could include some of these sentiments in our ceremony. The ceremony that Joy created specifically for us was perfect; it encompassed who we are, how much we love each other and our personalities perfectly; we also wanted to have our ceremony include our family and friends as much as possible and Joy had some wonderful and creative ideas that worked very well. We heard from family and friends that attended the wedding that this was the most beautiful ceremony they have ever been to, that the ceremony personified us as a couple perfectly and that the magic of that day came through during the ceremony. Thank you, so much, Joy!

Joy created such a beautiful wedding ceremony for us, we could not have been happier. She was so easy to work with, very flexible in her email communiciations. We received compliments from so many guests that it was most beautiful wedding ceremony that they've ever seen. What she wrote beautifully wove what we described of our relationship, the readings that we liked, and our vision for the future. She values the importance & significance of your wedding ceremony and it is very clear that she loves what she does, and was meant to do it. Appropriate that she is named JOY, because that is what we felt that day. Perfection.

Reverend Joy is aptly named- she is a joy to work with. She is very professional and takes her reponsiblity very seriously, and yet she has a warming and calming demeanor. She speaks from the position of authority in all matters spiritual, having trained as a interfaith minister; she is not simply a wedding officiant. You can tell very quickly after meeting her that she is just a great person whom everyone respects and loves.

One of the things we were looking for was someone who would be flexible with our particular needs for the wedding program - she was able to accommodate everything we asked for. On top of it, she has developed a personalized ritual, which turned into one of the highlights of the program and produced some of our most memorable photos. We could not have been happier with having chosen her.

Joy is upfront about the fact that she might charge a little bit more than other officiants in the area. My advice to you is that it she is completely worth whatever the difference might be.

There are hundreds of things to worry about during a wedding weekend, but with Reverend Joy your program will not be one of them. You will be in good hands, I guarantee it.

The guests at our wedding said "the best ceremony they had ever witnessed". And, of course, we agree. Joy is wonderful to work with and does an outstanding job, very personal ceremony and very in touch with the couple who is having the ceremony. It will be a day for us to remember for the rest of our lives and we are very happy that Joy was a part of it.

I would highly recommend Joy Burke! She was simply fabulous in every way. Our wedding ceremony was beautiful, and we credit joy for making it so personal to us. Our family and friends have been commenting ever since!

It was an absolute pleasure working with Joy, right from the beginning. She is patient and kind, and incredibly responsive. Her help with writing the ceremony was wonderful - we did not have to make any changes at all! Her wedding-day suggestions were very helpuful and insightful.
On our wedding day, I was (go figure!) very emotional, and she was a rock for me and my (also emotional) family.
I would recommend her to absolutely anyone. I had lots of feedback from guests, and they all adored her.

Joy was wonderful! I am remiss in writing this.
Joy married us last summer in her home. It was the perfect setting. She included our daughters in the ceremony which brought us all together as a new family. She was warm, loving and made our day very special.

Joy was thoughtful and accommodating. It was a perfect day.

I was so happy to find Reverand Joy Burke, I truly felt like it was meant to be. Our needs were so effortlessly met by her, and our day could not have been more perfect for the two of us. We had time sensitivity, privacy, and overwhelming emotions to deal with, and she was absolutely wonderful. We will forever look back on the day with fondness for not only our own beautiful memories, but for the way in which Joy made it special in short time for the two of us.

Joy was absolutely the best choice we could have made. Her professionalism was impressive and she is very sincere about her job and the words she chooses for your ceremony.
She even insisted that my new wife and I take a few moments to be "alone and together" right after we said I do--which was very nice and created another great memory.
Joy was awesome, you would be very happy with her services.
Thanks Joy!!!

Rev. Joy provided a beautiful and personalized ceremony. She was professional, warm, and caring to myself and my family.

Every couple should have an officiant who custom writes their ceremony for them. In the year before our wedding, Reverend Joy took the time to get to know us. We met with her in person, over the phone and via email. She asked us several questions, some together, some individually, so that she could understand what brought us together as a couple and what we value.

As an interfaith minister, she is knowledgeable on both traditional, and non-traditional ceremony elements. She is familiar with cultural, ethnic, and historical methods. We chose to incorporate Native American and historical Celtic elements into our ceremony. We received so many compliments, but the one we heard the most was "that ceremony was so YOU!" We agree. The ceremony fit us to a T, including the poem that my niece read.

On a more serious note, my father fell gravely ill the month before the wedding. Reverend Joy knew how important he is/was to me and called me several times while we were at the hospital to offer her support. She even gave us the option to get married in the ICU with him if it was critical to me to have him at the wedding. I chose not to do that as I did not want to have my father's death synonymous with my wedding. However, the fact that I had the option meant the world to me.

After he passed away, she reached out to ask about incorporating elements of my dad into the ceremony, which she did beautifully. I felt that he was honored and remembered in a positive light and I also felt him with me throughout the entire wedding day. I'm not going to lie and say that several of us (my sister, my husband and myself especially) weren't on the verge of tears at many times, but it was good tears :)

Reverend Joy is so good at what she does because she LOVES love. She loves bringing two people together. She loves the joy. But, not only that, she brings the joy with her (bad play on words... she literally brings the Joy with her LOL). Our Ceremony was PERFECT and US and she truly cares for her couples.

Reverend Joy Burke was such an amazing part of our wedding and truly made it special. Right from the beginning, she was helpful and so easy to work with. She offered suggestions and had such an open mind to do anything we requested which really helped to customize the event and make it feel more heartfelt. She spends a great deal of time getting to know the couple, regardless of if they live close by or far away and then incorporates what she learns into the ceremony which makes it feel so authentic. The wedding ceremony is truly the most important part of the wedding and we have been to so many weddings - this was the most heartfelt ceremony we had been part of and receive many of the same comments from our guests. We wholeheartedly would recommend Reverend Joy to anyone; you will be so happy you chose her.

Rev Joy was a pleasure to work with from the first meeting to the ceremony! She was professional, warm, and accomidating in creating our custom ceremony and guided us along the way to help us create a wonderful ceremony. The day of the ceremony she was punctual, calming, reassuring and a pleasure! Everyone is still complimenting us on how wonderful and unique the ceremony was. I would recommend her to anyone getting married!

Rev. Joy was AMAZING. My bride and I used her for our Officiant and she made our ceremony personalized and special. She is truly gifted in her craft. Do not hesitate to use Joy.. book her in advance!! She is very popular, and we understand why. Our ceremony was perfect.

Love you Joy!

Ryan + Alyssa Bakerian

Joy was helpful, thoughtful and made our ceremony meaningful and unique. She was great!

She is wonderful! She makes the ceremony very personalized and requests your input to make it exactly what you want it to be.

When looking for an officant for our wedding we did our research online. Out of all of the local area officants Joy was the best rated so we decided to meet with her. During our meeting my now husband and I knew that she was the one we wanted to marry us. Joy was wonderful, she made our vows specifically for us and made our wedding day so speical. There are not enough words to describe how lovely Joy is. I would recommend Joy for any couple who wants their wedding ceremony to be as speical as they are. Joy was a joy:)

As a lot of couples do, we encountered many issues while trying to find an officiant for our wedding. When we thought all hope was lost, we discovered Joy. She was truly a blessing and helped us create the personal and intimate wedding we have always wanted. She worked with us to create a ceremony that was tailored to US, something I found many officiants do not do. She is the perfect mix of professional and spiritual, and I have no doubt you will love her right from the start.

Joy Burke was fantastic in every sense of the word!!!! Her loving spirit, professionalism, flexibility and responsiveness to our special requests made our special day just perfect. AND we were going to write our own vows until we read how Joy fashioned our vows around some very brief comments about our religious backgrounds and what brings meaning to our lives. Being a non-traditional couple didn't distract Joy's purpose at all....she is an open-minded, loving soul who wants to make your ceremony all that you want it to be. In a phrase, Joy gets it!!!!! Jennifer and I heartily recommend her for your wedding ceremony. Many blessings to you who read this and decide to contact her.

Reverend Joy wrote and performed a beautiful wedding ceremony for us! We were so happy with her, and would definitely recommend her. She is very professional and you can tell she loves her work. Our friends and family had so many wonderful things to say about our ceremony, especially about how personal it was. We had a vision for how we wanted our ceremony and Joy took that and made it more wonderful than we imagined.

Reverend Joy met with us at her home in her sitting room and within an hour we decided she would be the best officiant for us. She was very organized and professional and yet personal. Our ceremony was perfect and she created a ceremony that reflected who we are and what we believe in, she included all of the elements that were important to us. She also gave us ideas of what elements we could use in the ceremony and she communicated with us all along the way helping us arrive at our big day relaxed and ready. Family and friends commented on how personable she was and what a wonderful speaker she is. We knew that we would not only have a ceremony that was well suited to us but that she would help us organize things so that on the day of the wedding everything went smoothly. She guided us with confidence and caring. I would highly recommend her to anyone that wants an officiant that is warm and professional at the same time.

Rev. Joy was able to create perfect ceremony and vows for our wedding. She was able to capture the tone, and reflect the values that we wanted to share with our friends and family. We recommend her to anyone in the area.

Reverend Joy Burke just recently officiated our wedding on 10-1-2011. She was absolutely wonderful! We wanted a spiritual ceremony that incorporated different traditions such as the unity candle and a handfasting. We used a pumpkin for our unity candle.:-) so fun! We also wanted to stand in some kind of a circle so Joy suggested that all of the guests write messages on river rocks prior to the ceremony, then all the Groomsmen collect them and place them into a circle for my husband and I to stand in. We did it and I was overjoyed when I looked down during the ceremony at all the messages on the rocks. We could really feel the love. It was an awesome experience and we could not have had our dream wedding ceremony without Reverend Joy!

Joy did a beautiful job as our officiant for our wedding last month. My husband was interested in a more Catholic inspired service and Joy truly listened to our needs and created a personal and touching ceremony for us. She was highly responsive and professional in all of our interactions and was easy to get in touch with as our needs changed. We are so happy with our experience with Joy and would highly recommend her to anyone and everyone!!

Rev. Joy Burke was an absolute dream to work with! My husband and I had an interfaith ceremony and she captured both the catholic religion and jewish religion. She was very hands on and a delight to work with. The finishing touches to our ceremony made it so special and are extremely happy that we were able to work with her! She made our wedding very special. I'd recommend her to anyone!

Reverend Burke wrote a beautiful ceremony. She was the perfect officiant for us. We are so happy we found her. Thank you again Joy.

Working with Reverend Joy Burke was absolutely amazing! My husband and I really wanted our wedding ceremony be personal and reflect who we are as a couple and Reverend Joy Burke really exceeded every expectation we had. She provided us with the most unique and personal wedding ceremony written just for us. We even got to read it a few weeks before the wedding to make sure we didn't want to change anything. Being able to preview our wedding ceremony felt really special and included us in the ceremony creating process. We would HIGHLY recommend Reverend Joy Burke to any couple. She was absolutely incredible to work with, she responded very quickly to every email we sent her and was so helpful in making the ceremony creation process so easy. We had so many wedding guests compliment us on how personal our wedding ceremony was and how full of love it felt. We promise you will get the ceremony of your dreams if you work the Reverend Joy Burke!

Joy created a personalized ceremony for our wedding that was truly special. She went out of her way to visit our home (the site of the wedding) previous to our day so she could get a feel for the land where the ceremony took place, because the setting was a very important part of our entire wedding. She took the time to incorporate all the little special details that we wanted, and made our day very special for us. I'd recommend Joy to anyone who wants a special, personalized and unique ceremony that everyone will be sure to remember.

Joy was wonderful. She is accepting of all couples, traditions and religions. She will listen to what YOU want and will create an amazing ceremony for you. She is also very respectful of your time. She understands that people have jobs, and family lives, and are planning a wedding. Whenever I contacted her she got back to me with a response within a few hours, not days. She had a very flexible meeting schedule including nights and weekends. Joy had factual and fun information that made the whole process a little more relaxed. She even gave me advice about current wedding trends that resulted in me wearing shoes that matched my bridesmaid's dress rather than a traditional white. The ceremony she created for us was unique and memorable. Our guests say it was a wedding they will never forget. One guest told me, "When I go to work and people ask how the wedding was, I will have something to tell them rather than just, 'Oh you know, it was a wedding'." Our ceremony ended with a Guinness toast as a symbol of how our relationship began. Joy also worked with our request to have family and friends do readings and blessings and worked them into the ceremony with ease.

Joy will create a wonderful and unique ceremony for your and your partner that you and your guests will never forget.

A thousand Thank-You's will never be enough to express how pleased we were with the beautiful ceremony Revered Joy provided for us. Every step from the very beginning almost a year before the wedding, was flawless and executed with absolute professionalism. Our day was beautiful and went off without a hitch, all thanks in part to Reverend Joy! If I could rate her any higher I would do so in a heartbeat.

Thank You again, we truly loved it!
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob and Courtney Deis

Joy was simply a "joy" to work with. We are very grateful to have found her to be our wedding officiant. Joy responded quickly to our initial inquiry on line and certainly made us feel relaxed and welcomed in her home as we started to plan the details of the wedding ceremony. My husband and I really had a hoot and enjoyed the ceremony planning questionaires and histories Joy had prepared. Joy had a plethora of ceremony, poems and reading examples to choose from to help us write our own vows, and to help make our ceremony distinctly special for us and our family and friends. Joy is clearly passionate to help make a wedding ceremony special and memorable. We totally didn't think of also having a Harpist at our wedding, but so glad we did as it made such a special and unique touch, and it was Joy who introduced us to the idea and referral to a great Harpist.

We feel we were blessed to have found Joy for our wedding, our first meeting with her was all it took. She helped with any question I had. She created a ceremony that left our guests in awe. She will always be there for us, even now. We love her. Linda & Gary Randall

Joy made our big day so magical and memorable. She guided us every step of the way and created a beautiful, personal and unique ceremony for us. She is creative and committed to helping couples turn their visions into reality. Our ceremony was so personal and meaningful to the two of us-- the highlight of our wedding day. Joy, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Reverend Joy was so great to work with! We planned a wedding in New York from Chicago, and only had a chance to meet her once before the weddng. We talked briefly and she was able to provide us with a personalized ceremony based off of the information she gathered from us! She was always easy to get a hold of both through email and phone, and always responded promptly with any questions or comments that we had!

Reverend Joy Burke was an amazing wedding officiant and we could not be happier with the service she provided. My fiance and I decided to elope at the spur of the moment and Reverend Joy was extremely accommodating. Her home is a former church and provided the perfect setting for exchanging our vows. She is a consummate professional and handled all the details so that our marriage would be recognized by the state of New York. Everything she told us she was going to do she did and her attention to detail allowed us to enjoy this very special moment.

Brides & Grooms , if your looking for a A+ Officiant, this is the one to pick ! Joy was so professional and helpful ! She gets stuff done any extremley organized. I started out with a bad experiance with one officiant that stiffed us on our pre- meeting before the wedding. But lucky for us we found Joy ! Dont be searching just for pricing, but the saying goes .. you get what you pay for !! So true !
Joy showed up early before the ceremony she explained what to expect and what to do ! She makes everything so deightful ! The ceremony readings she put togther is unbeilevable ! So stopped looking and pick up the phone and hire Joy Burke !

We found Joy not only to be flexible in every sense, but personable, open, helpful, words just can't express enough what a wonderful experience it was to have her officiate and be a part of our special day.

There are few words that speak loudly enough to be used to describe Joy and her work. Her commitment is unparalleled. More specifically it's her commitmnet to you as a unique couple that makes her the best in the business. Joy created a ceremony for us that was so beautiful, so individual, that our friends and family are still talking about it, months later. At the end of the process, which included revisions willingly and effortlessly made by Joy, she felt more like a family member than a hire. It was an honor to have the once in a lifetime chance to have Joy officiate our ceremony and we are so glad we did. I would recommend Joy with the highest regard for anyone looking for a meaningful, personal cermenoy for a fee that is modest when compared to the level of services received. When you choose Reverend Joy for your wedding ceremony, you will know that you are in good hands.

Joy was the perfect officiant for us, and we couldn't have been happier with our choice. We loved her from the first time we met her; she took notes on our interests and relationship history, and used this information to write a beautiful ceremony. She was very excited to integrate cultural traditions from each of our families into the ceremony, and did all the research herself. She kept us updated every step of the way to ensure that our wedding was perfect. We highly recommend her for creating a wonderful ceremony.

What a blessing to have Joy officiate our wedding. She was very attentive to our needs, and made our wedding ceremony a wonderful event for us. Many thank yous and much LOVE :) Sandra & Stuart

Joy was amazing! She truly made our ceremony
Just for us. She told our life story and re-created
Our love for one another. She is the best!

My husband and I thought we wanted a quick 5 minute ceremony, no bells or whistles, we just wanted to get it done.

That all changed once we got engaged and started thinking about an officiant. We decided that we wanted our ceremony to be meaningful and special to us. We thought, why rush through the most important part of the day. The ceremony is where you stand up in front of everyone you love and exchange vows, it is honestly the most important part of getting married.

Wanting this of course made it difficult to find an officiant and we contacted quite a few before meeting with Joy. We met Joy at her house about 6 months before we were to be married. She was warm and welcoming and asked us alot of questions about ourselves. After we left her house we knew we wanted to have her as our officiant.

We opted for a hand-tying ceremony (Joy brought this tradition to our knowledge) and Joy crafted an incredibly personal and meaning ful ceremony for my husband and I. I have gotten so many compliments on our ceremony from our guests. Everyone loved the originality and the romantic feel. I even heard from a handful of people that it was the nicest ceremony they had ever attended.

If you want a ceremony that is uniquely yours, I would highly recommend Joy, we really could not have been happier.

Lauren and Bryan Bednarz

Reverend Joy was wonderful right from the initial phone call. She wrote a truly beautiful ceremony for us, and really listened to what we wanted to make it perfect for us. Reverend Joy has a beautiful spirit and I am so happy she was part of our wedding.

We had such a great experience working with Joy. She really personalized the our ceremony and always listened to our feedback. We really felt part of the process which made it so special.

Reverend Joy made our wedding very personalized and special by creating a service that was one of a kind using a really nice questionnaire we filled out, including a special exchange of vows we really liked. Niether one of us wanted to speak too much because of our nerves and being shy in the spotlight, so the service she wrote was perfect. The best part, in my opinion, was that we had an outdoor ceremony, and she told us from the begining that she'd never had rain during any of her ceremonies, which gave me incredible peace of mind! Lo and behold, the rain did come....an hour after the ceremony was complete, true to her word!!! She never did guarantee it, but I think Mother Nature is on her side!

Choosing Joy to officiate my wedding was a no brainer. From the minute my husband and I met her, we knew she was the one.
She was very responsive with any questions or concerns we had along the way and was a pleasure to work with.
Her ceremony was perfect. It was unique to our relationship and not just another sermon you would hear at a church. She took the time to have us fill out a questionnaire to get to know and understand us better and in the process I think we kind of learned more about each other too.

I would recommend Joy Burke to anyone that is looking for a unique and special ceremony that not only they will remember, but your guests as well.

Thank you Joy for being apart of our special day!

Reverend Joy Burke was amazing. She helped us out with every aspect of our wedding and was inspirational. We are so happy she was a part of our wedding ceremony. We wouldn't have changed anything about our ceremony. She designed our ceremony from scratch and it was perfect. She gave us options to pick our readings and vows and personalized it beautifully. We are truly blessed to have met her and we will always remember how special she made our day for us.

Revered Joy Burke was absolutely amazing to work with. She wrote a personal ceremony for us and incorporated all of the aspects that we wanted in our ceremony. She provided us with an abundance of readings and vows so that we could make the ceremony our own. After the wedding we received many comments about how unique and "us" the ceremony was. Joy came to the rehearsal so that we would be well prepared for the ceremony. She was personable and professional the entire time and even brought accessories to coordinate with the colors of the wedding party!

I can't say enough good things about Joy. The ceremony that she created for us was far more beautiful and fitting than I could have ever imagined. Joy met with us in person twice and stayed in close contact through e-mail while she wrote our ceremony (which she did in almost no time). As a result our ceremony was not only unique to us, but also personalized by references to our past and how our love has grown. These "snapshots" were striking in how they conveyed to everyone just how much we mean to each other. Joy was completely flexible when it came to our specific religious and cultural needs, and she was never pushy about anything - it was truly all about us. On our wedding day Joy arrived about 1 1/2 hours early so that she could speak with the photographers and the DJ (he did our ceremony music) and made sure everything went smoothly. She also said hi to each of us early and assured us that everything was going great, which was a big relief to hear from her. All in all, Joy was reliable, dependable and very, very supportive. She made the ceremony beautiful and unique - while also making the process anxiety-free and easy. After working with her I realize that I got far more than I had expected from an officiant. Her rate is about the same as other officiants but I doubt they could provide what Joy does.

I have only wonderful things to say about Rev. Joy. She made our day so special and personal. I felt like I knew her forever when we first spoke. She has a way of making you feel so comfortable. Her calmness and professionalism gives you the confidence that everything will be just fine no matter what.

Reverend Joy Burke did an excellent job at our wedding. She was dedicated, punctual, professional, and very enthusiastic to be a part of our special day. It's obviously something she loves to partake in, which was refreshing, considering our other choice would have been a justice of the peace. It was a wonderful wedding and reception, and I thank Joy Burke for starting the wedding, reception, and our futures off right.

One of the best parts about our wedding was the ceremony that Rev. Joy preformed. She helped to make our ceremony the unique and heart-felt experience it was. She made the process of creating our ceremony easy and fun and really took the time to understand who we were and what kind of ceremony would make the most sense. I wouldn't hesitate at all to recommend her to anyone.

To celebrate our two year anniversary we read through the ceremony that Rev. Joy wrote for us. It's still amazing and really made the day special. Thanks Joy!

Johanna & Rett Waldman

My husband and I were very happy to work with Joy Burke as the officiant of our wedding. From our first meeting she was very receptive to our interests and was able to synthesize these interests into a meaningful and touching ceremony. She was highly flexible and adapted her material to incorporate our own suggestions and readings very fluidly. She also handled one "emergency" situation with aplomb. Professional, genuine and sensitive to our needs, I would, with pleasure, recommend Joy to serve another couple as officiant of such a precious moment.

Rev. Joy Burke created and performed a beautiful ceremony. My husband and I wanted to make sure that our wedding ceremony was unique and expressed the way we feel about each other and marriage- Joy was able to do just that!

Like the other reviewers, my husband and I could not have been happier with our overall experience with Reverend Joy. Her care, consideration and impeccable attention to detail was comforting and exciting to us during the process from the first day we met to our wedding day. She initially invited us to meet with her in person. We sat and talked about how my husband and I met, what values were important to us, out lives and families, what type of wedding service we envisioned for ourselves, etc. She then sent us a great deal of readings to review to incorporate into our ceremony. The ceremony she wrote for us was tailored perfectly to our principles, values and personalities. She graciously accepted our feedback and made every detail perfect. She is such a warm, accepting and beautiful woman, and we could not have been more pleased that she was such an important part of our wedding day.

I couldn't say enough on how wonderful our experience was with Joy. She spent time with us, getting to know us and our relationship together. She is an impecable listener and our vows were personal and beautiful. She guided us through our day seemlessly. She offered wonderful otions for readings that spoke of us as a couple. She made out day special and brings me joy to this day.

As I look back at our wedding, I’m still amazed at Reverend Joy’s depth of understanding, patience, and her ability to keep reinventing our wedding until it was absolutely perfect! When the day arrived, she delivered a spectacular ceremony, which combined our rather diverse beliefs, and gave us both a day we will always remember fondly. On a scale of 1 – 5, she’s a 10!
David & Camille

Joy is such a doll! You will really be happy you made her a part of your wedding day. :)!

Joy is awesome to work with! She does a great job :) She is must have for your wedding day!

Reverend Joy is an amazing officiant! She goes out of her way to add special touches to each and every ceremony to make it personal and memorable. She has an amazing way of really understanding a couple and their love for one another.

Reverend Joy is a JOY to work with! A genuine person who gets it right. I also find her ceremonies are unique compared to most as they are meaningful and personal. A different way of telling a story and involving everyone at the ceremony. Whether it be the ring passing in a beautiful secure bag or stories of how the couple met. I enjoy her presence. I hope to work with her soon and to many more!

Rev. Joy is a Sweetheart! You will love her!

I would highly recommend Rev. Joy Burke to perform a ceremony for any couple. We had the pleasure of working with Joy and found her to be most professional. Her ceremony was so fluently written with words that brought tears to the couple, guests, and me. Joy's articulated and compassionate words brought such deep meaning to the ceremony and this couple has such heartfelt memories of their wedding day. I am honored and humbled to be associated with such a dedicated, intelligent, and compassionate wedding professional. I wholeheartedly recommend Rev. Joy Burke to perform at your ceremony!!!

Linda Terricola, Owner/MC/DJ Eclectic Songs

Joy's ceremonies are always personal, touching and very much about the couple.

Reverend Joy brings all of who she is to help you bring out all of who you are, creating your wedding... the perfect celebration of your love!
She does this with integrity, joy and ease, making the experience of weaving a unique ceremony a blissful adventure.
Without a doubt, your best choice!!

Rev. Joy is just that a JOY! Her wonderful spirit and her ability to smith the perfect words for each couple on an individual basis. When I have couples request my services, but are in the Saratoga area, I refer Rev. Joy! Her ceremonies are to the standards I recommend, and any couple would be pleased to have her Officiate their special day.

I had the pleasure of meeting Joy at the wedding creemony of Katelyn and Chris which took pllace at Point o' Pines on Brant Lake. What an amazing setting for a ceremony!
Reverend Joy gave a heart felt sermon to unite Kate and Chris. It was such a pleasure to meet her and to work with her. It seemed she knew just what to say to make the couple feel at ease, and relaxed during their special day.
Thank you, Joy!!

Worked with Reverend Joy 2 weeks ago. She made her Bride and Groom feel like they were the must special people in the world. Her grace and ease made the wedding go so smooth.

Joy really puts her heart and soul into making every wedding special!

If you are looking for an officiate for your wedding Rev Joy Burke is a great choice. Joy has a depth and breath of knowledge about wedding ceremonies and will make the whole process a JOY!

She is personable, reliable, and able to work with couples from all faiths. She also creates beautiful ceremonies that focus on the couples love and relationship.

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Reverend Joy is a deeply caring and open minded officiant who will consult with you and create a ceremony that speaks to your spirituality and is especially personal and meaningful to you as a unique couple.

What a wonderful ceremony! Reverend Joy Burke creates a personalized ceremony that reflects the joy and love of the couple joining their lives in marriage. First rate!

The wedding ceremony is the reason for the celebration! Reverend Joy Burke is a accepting, caring, and open minded officiant who will create a special ceremony that is especially meaningful for you.
We highly recommend her for your Saratoga area or New York City wedding.