Bay Area Ceremonies - Wedding Officiant

The officiant sets the tone for the entire wedding, so finding an officiant that fit our needs was essential.

My husband and I are creative people and it was difficult to find an officiant that could capture our true traits and amplify it for our big day.

Rick is very flexible and he is also very understanding. After one meet and greet sit down he was able to attain our qualities as a couple and our sense of creativity and uniqueness. It helps that he worked in the field of psychology, so his ability to understand people quickly is a invaluable quality. Shortly after our meeting, he wrote out a rough draft script for us to read through and make the necessary changes.

He was also very professional and responded to emails and phone calls in a timely manner. Although I only had a month to plan the wedding, Rick was very helpful and loving in treating our day with professionalism and value that we wanted.

He came ready with a speaker and microphone, which was perfect for our outdoor, slightly windy wedding. Everyone can hear everything, no matter where they were standing. All the guests including us as a couple enjoyed his presence at our wedding, in fact we get compliments to this day on how flexible he was on the spot. I'm so happy my instincts fell on Rick because our day was special thanks to fantastically supportive and flexible people like him.

There is absolutely nothing we could fault with Rick or the delivery our ceremony.
He was very open to incorporating our ideas into our ceremony and actively encouraged it.
As our wedding was a destination wedding, good communication was essential for us as we planned our day some 14,000kms away. Rick was always responsive via email and made him self available to video conference when requested.
He was happy to meet us the day before at the site of the ceremony and he and his lovely wife even gave us a lift back into the city.
Thanks Rick.

Rick did an outstanding job for our wedding. He was prompt with everything he said he would do. Made a video of our wedding that he gave to us as well. We were very happy with Rick and all he did to make our day special.

Rick was great! Due to construction at the site we chose we had to quickly find another, he was very flexible and accommodating.

Rick provided the service we needed and even beyond what we expected. Communication was excellent and his sensitivity and professionalism were excellent. We highly recommended him to anyone needing officiant services.

Excellent job! Everyone loved Rick and asked how we found him. We couldn't be happier with the results.

Rick was fantastic! He made our ceremony special and unique to us. The process was easy and Rick let us edit the script to our liking. It was really personalized. Also kudos, to Rick and everyone involved, to walk up to our preferred spot for the ceremony. He walked over 200 stairs to get to the cliff and braved the wind and even a little bit of rain! Our ceremony was perfect and Rick was a big part of making it happen. Thanks!

I am very happy that i found Bay Area Ceremonies. Rick was our officiant for our wedding and he made it fun, unique, and he put some humor into our wedding. He is very creative and he is a very nice guy to work with. If i were to recommend a Officiant i would recommend Bay Area Ceremonies.

Rick was great. He listened well, his price was reasonable, he went above and beyond our initial agreement, and he created a very personal, genuine wedding ceremony.

Rick was professional and accommodating with providing us with and easy, worry free wedding. His ability to take just a couple of meetings, and turn into his own words, a wonderful and exact sequence of events for a very memorable wedding ceremony.
I highly recommend Rick at Bay Area Ceremonies to anyone who wants a hassle free, professional officiant with a wonderful sense of humor.

There are so many reasons why I would recommend Rick, but the most important one is his ability to listen to your story, take what he has learned and create a wonderful ceremony full of meaning and personalization. Our ceremony was interactive, funny, but serious too. It had all of the elements my husband and I wanted. Rick is easy to work with, he is responsive and most of all, we felt like he was truely a part of our wedding.

Rick was the key to our overwhelmingly successful wedding. The ceremony was absolutely what we wanted and truly captured the essence of who my wife and I are, he is a wonderful speaker and not only led our parts but fully engaged our guests and made them part of our experience, which is exactly what we were looking for. He captured the essential elements that we were looking to capture and then took them way overyour expectations. Lori and I both feel that Rick's work was the best part of our wedding and cherish his wisdom and advice. Wholeheartedly recommended Rick for anyone considering getting married!!!!!!

Rick performed a beautiful ceremony at our wedding.The poem he chose to read durning the ceremony was awesome and we really appreciate everything he have done for us on our special day.

Rick was amazing! Being older and having been married prior, we wanted the wedding to be about our families and friends rather than traditional. Rick understood and put together an amazing life story and incorporated our ceremony to honor all our famlly and friends and for them to be recognized individually. it really was a touching ceremony, elegant and fun, yet had solemness of what matrimony represents . Rick's quick sense of humor and flair was so apparent, our guests thought we had been friends for years. Welll, he will be now!
I can't thank him enough for such an amazing ceremony and.... the lovely video gift he left for me with a beautiful note!

Rick listened to our desires and helped us make the ceremony fit our plans. He was very open and flexible.

Great, worry free. We had a little miscommunication at the beginning via emails but we were very happy with him when we met in person and after the wedding.