St. Patrick Abbey

My husband and I wanted a non-denominational ceremony, and when we first spoke with Rev. Carroll, we were impressed with his demeanor and excited about him performing our ceremony. Kenneth Warne, his subdeacon, was always extremely responsive and helpful with all of the administrative details and any questions we had. We spent a lot of time putting together our ceremony script and readings, and were very confident about the big day.

On our wedding day, the ceremony was set to begin at 4:00pm. Everyone was ready. Except the officiant wasn't there. At 3:30pm, I started calling him. His cell phone was off. I called Ken's cell phone - that was off too. At 3:55pm, my mother went to ask her brother in law, who happens to be a reverand, if he would be able to fill in if the officiant didn't show. At 4:05pm, Rev. Carroll and Ken finally showed up, and without an apology, asked where they could change clothes and get ready.

When the ceremony finally started, Rev. Carroll did not follow our script and added readings that we did not approve, and left out our vows! We had written our own vows which he had promised us he would whisper to us so we could repeat them aloud to each other, and instead he had us read the generic "with this ring I thee wed" vows, which we did not want to do.

All in all, we were happy with everything right up until the wedding day, which was a disaster. I would not recommend this vendor to anyone.