Rev. Alma Daniel

Reverend Alma Daniel recently officiated our wedding in NJ (even though we live in NYC). We could not have been happier that we found her through WeddingBee and NY Magazine. She is the sweetest person. We knew the second we met her that she was the right person for the job!

She is calm, caring, and eloquent. We wanted a meaningful yet different wedding - definitely more contemporary than traditional since neither my husband or I are particularly religious. When we met her, she read different verses that she had written and asked us our opinions/what resonated most... She took notes, asked us to look over the verses via e-mail, and revise any words to our liking. This made it more personal... We received so many compliments on our ceremony. There was not a dry eye in the house!!!

We would highly recommend Reverend Daniel to any bride and groom. She was truly a pleasure to work with and the consummate professional. We look forward to keeping in touch with her for many years to come!

Alma is indeed fantastic. We found her contact information on this website and from there, everything went as smoothly as we could have imagined. She invited us into her airy apartment downtown to get a sense of what we were like and what we wanted. Starting off with several ceremony templates (from very traditional to more contemporary, from deeply emotional to more relaxed, from very profound to quite humorous), we selected a sort of direction with which we felt comfortable. Over the next few weeks, the ceremony text was refined, being sent back & forth via email, to add all the details we wanted included. She offered several great suggestions that we used, and several others that we didn't. It was a very smooth, simple, pleasant experience.

On the big day, we had some rather large last-minute venue and guest arrival issues, due to highly uncooperative weather. Alma took this all in stride, altering the text and taking into account who would and wouldn't be there. She had memorized the names of all our family members and wedding party participants. Everyone was very pleasantly surprised and it started the ceremony with a very personal touch.

Alma is a fine orator and a true professional without being slick or cute, and the ceremony itself was a big hit among our guests, full of laughter, emotion, reflection and expectation. We truly recommend her to anyone looking for a personal, distinctive and memorable experience.

Carol & Leigh

Alma is amazing. She worked with us on getting our vows just right. Our guests said that is was one of the most beautiful ceremonies they have ever attended. We thought so too. I would highly recommend Alma. She is warm, gentle and you can tell she really enjoys what she does. And she does it well.

We knew from the moment we met Alma that she was the right person to marry us. She was so warm and loving and had such a soothing voice – very important qualities for an officiant if you ask me. She worked with us prior to create a personalized ceremony (we not religious so there was none of that although I believe she does religious ceremonies) that really captured who we are. She gave us each a questionnaire that we filled out and read excerpts from our answers during the ceremony. We had not heard each others answers prior to that day so it really was a nice way to have a little bit of a surprise. Everyone absolutely raved about what a great ceremony we had and they loved that it was different than any other ceremony they had ever been to.