Rev. Mary E. Powers

Rev. Mary was so timely with our email exchanges. She met with us before the wedding at our home and was willing to travel - I believe an hour for us! She made us and everyone feel so comfortable. If you want an Officiant who is organized, prepared, caring and has a wonderful personality then I highly recommend Reverend Mary. We could not have had a better person to officiate our wedding and share our special day!

Mary was great! She worked with us to create a ceremony that reflected our personalities; she had so many nice ideas. We had a wine box ritual during our ceremony and it was perfect. Mary was so caring, organized, and nice to be around; our ceremony went off without a hitch!

We highly recommend Mary to perform your ceremony!

Andrea...

Rev. Mary Powers was a perfect fit for us!

Her flexibility, openness and innate sense of spirituality are her finest attributes. From the first contact via her website, followed by a prompt return call...to fulfilling requests (sending emails in a timely fashion with great resources and references for us to customize our vows)...to the pre-ceremony coffee meeting that was succinct and full of meaningful suggestions...to showing up at the ceremony site with plenty of time to prepare...to her joyous demeanor -- with a splash of bright yellow on her robes -- that calmed us...to the professional presentation of the ceremony we wrote, and ultimately leading us through those lovely moonlit moments from being partners to married now as wife and husband.

Rev. Mary also gets extra kudos for officiating our wedlock outside at sundown on a rather cold, breezy December eve. Thank you...

Rev. Mary E. Powers was a wonderful officiant, and I highly recommend her services. After seeing her officiate three weddings for relatives in my family, my fiance and I knew we wanted to hire her as our officiant. Even though she has moved to Maryland, she was generous enough to offer to still officiate at our Massachusetts wedding!! She is very professional and conscientious...she made sure to provide us with all the details well ahead of time, and guided us through the ceremony creation process (which you can personalize to your liking). During the rehearsal and ceremony, her experience and expertise proved invaluable, and both went off without a hitch. Rev. Mary is a fantastic officiant and I recommend her without hesitation!

Officiant Mary is a really a sweet person and performed a beautiful ceremony for us. She is friendly, responsive and very helpful. I am so glad that we found her and it worked out perfectly. She came through even at a very short notice and was supportive about the whole process. We couldn't have asked for a better officiant. We are very glad that she married us in the holy matrimony. She went above and beyond our expectations and surprised us with beautifully printed ceremony packet.
I will whole heartedly recommend Mary to every bride and groom out there.

Rev Mary Powers was very courteous, prompt, and gave us several options in order to provide us with the wedding service we wanted. Everything went off without a hitch, even though we had small kids and a dog involved and had a non-traditional wedding. Thank you Rev Mary, I have recommended you to friends who are also getting married soon :)

Rev Mary Powers was perfect! I can't imagine having had anyone else do the wedding. She was so genuine, caring and professional. If she'd fly to Spain, we'd have her do it agan, inside a chapel, in December 2012. I ABSOLUTELY would recommend her!!!!!!!!!! She is perfect at what she does!!

Sincerely,

Christine

Thank you Soooooooo Much Mary!!!!! You were awesome and made our ceremony the best ever. Everyone at the wedding enjoyed your service!! I wish i could put 10 out 10 stars you were excellent and for anyone reading this looking for a rev. Mary wonderful and you will love her!! I will recommend Mary to everyone I know that will be getting married!! thank you!!

Reverand Mary is a dream! My husband and I had no idea what we were doing going into planning our wedding and Rev. Mary made the ceremony process a breeze! The way that she is able to tailor every aspect of the ceremony to us was amazing. For anyone looking for an officiant that is respectful of different beliefs, while still making sure to hold to the tradition of the ceremony, Rev. Mary is the perfect choice!

Mary Powers was the first and only officiant my now husband and I interviewed to perform our wedding ceremony. From that first meeting, as well as the packet of information she sent us, we knew that she "got" us and was was a great choice to work with us to craft our ceremony.

If you are like us and are planning a non-denominational ceremony, but have no idea what that means, Mary will work with you to find rituals and craft a ceremony that reflects your personality. If you are having a traditionaly ceremony, I"m sure she'll do that well too.

Like any bride, I had a few freakout moments and Mary always responded quickly to email and was very reassuring.

Also day of - she's on top of it! Very reliable - she tells people where to stand and what to do without being pushy or anything. She put me and my entire wedding party at ease. She will make you look good when you are standing up there in front of your friends and family.

Rev. Mary Powers married my husband and I in Block Island, RI on September 3, 2011. She is an absolute joy to deal with. She met us in Mystic, CT earlier in the year (we were there for a holiday) to review the ceremony and go over any questions or concerns we had. This was a logical meeting place as she was at a wedding about an hour north of that from which she would be returning home to MD. As for accommodating, I can only say she went out of her way to meet with us. We were at immediate ease upon sitting with her. She made us laugh and enjoy the planning process and she provided us with a very helpful book that allows you to pick and choose what is said for each part of your ceremony. For us this was so important as we needed to combine our beliefs and those of our parents during the ceremony and this made it so simple and fluid. She was in constant contact with me as we grew closer to the date. She arrived at the ceremony on time and immediately took charge. I had little to nothing to think about knowing she would "run" the show, and she did. From the procession to Matt and I standing at the isle, she guided us all, during an extremely overwhelming moment, and made it look as if we had rehearsed several times. She gave me a tissue when I cried and she protected my husband from shedding too many tears, while I walked down the isle, with her kind words and advice. I received many compliments from our guests on how professional and perfect she was for our ceremony. Most thought we had known her for years. Honestly, it felt like we did. I highly recommend Mary Powers. I hope to stay in touch with her perhaps to renew our vows in years to come. Thank you Mary. ( I still have your umbrella!) Sincerely, Amanda Barnes Purdue

Reverend Mary was great! We had our wedding out of state and she was able to communicate quickly and efficiently with us. She even moved out of state before our wedding and was still able to be there for the rehearsal and ceremony. She was very professional and spoke loud and clear! There were no hiccups along the way. She allowed us to plan the entire ceremony and add or delete what we wanted. She even stayed and gave the blessing at the reception. She was great and I would recommend her to many other couples planning to get married!

From the first time we met with Rev. Mary we knew she would be great. She was extremely helpful throughout the whole planning process. We communicated through email and her responses were always very quick. With Rev. Mary you have the ability to plan your own wedding ceremony and she helps you in any way you need along the way. She made a lot of suggestions about different aspects of the ceremony that I hadn't even thought about. A few months before my wedding Rev. Mary contacted me and said she had moved to MD, and my wedding was in MA. But she said no worries, I have friends and family to stay with in MA and I will be there for your wedding. I have to admit, I did worry a tiny bit. However, Rev. Mary met with us about a month before our wedding while she was up performing another wedding ceremony and that tiny bit of worry disappeared. On our wedding day she was there plenty early and all prepared. Rev. Mary was the best vendor choice we made, by far. Our friends and family loved the wedding ceremony and thought it was very unique. Rev. Mary brings a positive energy and makes you feel very comfortable, she is wonderful at what she does. I highly recommend her to all future brides, you will not be disappointed!

Rev. Mary Powers was amazing. She was a perfect fit from day one I am so proud to have had her perform our service. From being able to hand pick our ceremony to her extremely warm caring personality she was outstanding. Even with 9 kids in our bridal party she never batted an eyelash. Very professional and really cares about what she does. Everyone complimented me on the wonderful service.

Rev. Mary was excellent to work with. She is very experienced and has a lot of great ideas to offer but she also encourages the bride and groom to customize the ceremony as much as you want. She was always very professional and responsive and just a pleasure to work with. I would highly recommend her to other couples!

I didn't really know what to expect when we starting meeting officiants. But when we met Rev. Mary, I knew she was perfect. She was really interested in how we planned to incorporate Jewish traditions into the ceremony without making it a religious ceremony, and she had some great ideas about seating and making the ceremony run smoothly. I loved the packet she had to help us customize the ceremony. She was great at responding to my questions and ideas. When I got hesitant about the quality of the ceremony, she gave me some much-needed prospective and made me feel so confident and happy. All of the instructions she gave us during the rehearsal were easy to follow, even for the youngest member of the bridal party - 13 months old! Rev. Mary's presence during the ceremony was so calming and her voice was beautiful reading us the ceremony we created. I am very grateful to her! (Although if you are doing a traditional "breaking of the glass" moment, make sure you use a lightbulb or she'll yell at you!)

Rev. Powers was wonderful compliment to my wedding, she was really sweet, funny and energetic. I was thrilled to have her as officiant!

We absolutely loved Reverend Powers! She is warm and friendly and completely understood our sense of humor. Her ceremonies can be as personalized as you'd like and she will help you to incorporate traditions, songs and special readings into your ceremony so that it feels very unique. Many of our guests commented that it felt like she knew us for a long time, and I truly believe that's because she listens to her clients and makes the effort to get to know them.

She's also very responsive and her rates are quite reasonable. We couldn't have been happier with her services and highly recommend her to other couples!

Fantastic, approachable, friendly, intelligent, prepared, responsive and on top of her game.

Rev. Mary was a pleasure to work with. She was very patient and helpful with all the questions I had throughout the months leading up to my wedding. She customized the ceremony to exactly as we wanted. I am very glad we decided to have Rev. Mary officiate our ceremony.

Rev. Mary Powers made our wedding day absolutely amazing. We were able to completely personalize our ceremony, which made our day that much more special. When I had any questions prior to the ceremony, I would email Rev. Mary Powers, and she always replied promptly (usually within the hour). After the ceremony, ALL of our guests commented on how wonderful the ceremony was. We were able to include poems, rituals and she even included a child's inclusion portion to include my husband's daughter.

If given the opportunity, we would NOT CHANGE ONE THING about the ceremony.

Thank you Rev. Mary Powers for making our Wedding day so memorable.

Lots of Love,
Matt and Meg Martin

What can I say about Mary? She answered all of my questions quickly, which I love. We had a fairly short, non-religious ceremony and she was fine with that. I sent her some passages that I liked and she incorporated everything so well. The whole ceremony was a crying blubbering mess. We did a sand ceremony and a sand dollar breaking, which she wasn't familiar with, but she pulled it off without a hitch. And she made sure she had tissues in her book. She's a doll!

The first time I contacted Rev. Mary, I had an idea that she would be the right fit to officate my wedding, and I was right when we met her for the first time in person! Rev. Mary is very upbeat and has a great sense of humor (which is a definite plus for us!). The workbook she provided for us was great and it gave us a chance to put together the most unique ceremony. We received lots of compliments about the ceremony and it couldn't of happened without Rev. Mary. Thank you, Rev. Mary for making Rich's and my day extra special. All the best to you!

Rev. Mary Powers is wonderful! She is very sweet & comforting. She made us feel at ease from the moment we met her. Her ceremony selections were so unique & there were so many selections to choose from! She had a huge part in making our day special & beautiful. I will definetly be recomending her in the future! Thank you so much for helping to make our special day perfect!!

I strongly recommend Rev. Mary for your upcoming ceremony. She 's an understanding and open person, willing to accomodate all your needs and wants.

We had a wonderful wedding ceremony and Rev. Mary was absolutely amazing!

Sincerely,
M&M

Mary was so much more than we ever thought an officiant could be. She kept in touch, answered all of our questions, offered many helpful ideas and was absolutely outstanding during the ceremony. Expertly professional, wonderful to work with and we will recommend Mary highly for anyone looking for an officiant.

We liked Reverend Mary as soon as we met her - she was warm, friendly, and had a great sense of humor.

Rev. Mary provided us with lots of options for our ceremony and allowed us to personalize it as much as we wanted. She was always so helpful and answered our questions right away.

The day of our wedding, Rev. Mary led a beautiful ceremony and was such a bright, happy presence.

Mary gives you all the freedom you could desire, though she also helps in giving lots of helpful options to choose from to get your mind flowing. I contacted her one week before my wedding and we had everything settled in two days. She's fantastic! Very professional, kind, and extremely responsive, as well as a great deal! Perfect!

Reverend Mary made my vow renewal ceremony effortless. We took care of everything by e-mail, which made life easy given the ceremony took place during the busy Christmas season. The ceremony was lovely and tailored to our taste!

Perfect!

Rev. Mary Powers is a wonderful choice. She is attentive, insightful, a quick read of a couple's style, flexible, caring, knowledgable, and has great attention to detail!

She made our ceremony unforgettable, our planning a breeze and she is a lot of fun too!

We are so pleased we chose her! Book her now!

Rev Mary is amazing!! She was easy-going, funny, and professional. Our ceremony was beautiful and everything we wanted. I highly recommend her!!!!

Mary did a fantastic job!! She was thoughtful, eloquent and professional. Everyone loved her!!
She put the both of us at ease and helped with aspects of the ceremony when needed and was very accommodating of our special requests.

Rev. Mary made our ceremony so very special. We were able to work with her to make our ceremony unique and exactly what we wanted. We really enjoyed working with her to make our wedding day exactly what we wanted. She is an incredible person to work with.

I think the About blurb here on Mary's page is a great description of how she works. We met with Mary on the one-year 'pre-versary' of our wedding, and I didn't even notice- but she did! She was so friendly and had a sweet personality about her, we were relieved tat we had found the officiant for us. Her enormous wedding packet was a Huge help in customizing our ceremony. In the end, it was exactly what we wanted, and nothing that we didn't. Our ceremony was very secular, and even the more traditional of my relatives commented on how great Mary was! Even though we basically wrote our whole ceremony, using Mary's packet to help, she didn't come off as reading a script- she made it personal and so appropriate to us.

My husband and I live out of state, and Mary made sure we knew how to get our marriage certificates and even took our extra check and order form to the town hall for us, when she dropped off our finished license. That way we received our copies in the mail, without having to make a special trip back to RI, I thought that was nice!

Reverend Mary Powers is amazing! She is beyond professional, kind, enthusiastic, accommodating, organized! She is an absolute pleasure and delight to work with. She did a wonderful job at our ceremony...attended the rehearsal...explained everything...She is a bounty of knowledge, and very detail oriented. She made everything so easy...She is simply wonderful!

Loved her!!! We didnt meet mary until the day of the wedding, i was a little sketchy not meeting her before hand. But once i saw her i was so relieved, she was the most pleasent woman ever! she was so sweet and made our ceremony perfect, she had a smile on her face the whole time and she has one of those contagious smiles. I would definitly recommend her to everyone!!

Rev. Mary was so helpful when we were planning our special day. She had wonderful suggestions and was always prompt with answering any questions we had about the ceremony process.

People are still talking about how memorable the ceremony was.We can not believe how many of our guests came up to us after the ceremony to tell us how much they enjoyed it and appreciated all.The information they provide to plan your wedding ceremony is great and effortless.Thanks you very much.

Reverend Mary was fantastic to work with. Once we met with her, we knew she would perform a beautiful ceremony for us. She emailed a large packet of information to us to select our reading, vows, etc. We changed some wording and wrote our own vows, and Mary perfectly performed the ceremony that we designed. We had a beach wedding and Reverend Mary was extremely helpful and flexible in making sure that everything ran smoothly. She went above and beyond for us. Our guests were also very impressed with Reverend Mary - we received so many compliments on her from our guests.

Rev. Mary was definitely the right officiant for the type of wedding we wanted. She was kind, open to new ideas, flexible in what we could do ahead of time (we had to collaborate long distance) and was very friendly and laid back. She even made our rehearsal a good time with her positive attitude and willingness to be patient with everyone! We also were glad to be able to work with her on every detail of our ceremony to make sure it truly reflected us as individuals and as a couple. Also she always got back to me right away through email which was a relief when you have a million things on your mind!

To put it quite simple, Mary is wonderful! Flexible, enthusiastic, willing to do anything / accommodating and efficient. She was probably the one vendor that followed up with me as much as I followed up with her. We truly enjoyed the freedom she gave us in choosing our ceremony.

She was very well spoken and our guests had no trouble hearing or understanding her. She allowed us to personalize our program to include some traditional pieces, some religious pieces, and some personal pieces. She presented everything so well and took such good care of us we didn't even need a rehearsal!

Mary is excellent

mary was very good. she also married our daughter .we had to post pone about 3 times and she was very understanding. if we renewed our vows again i would call her.

Rev. Mary has a reputation that I aspire to - her connections and network of people have nothing but the best to say about her. She has been a tremendous inspiration to our business. Rev. Alan Chianese - Soulmate Celebration