We chose Renee Silverman, A Lovely Ceremony to officiate our wedding, and it was one of the most important decisions we made during the planning process. It was also one of the BEST decisions we made!!
Renee is quite simply a lovely person with an open and giving heart, and she is a joy to work with. From the very beginning, we knew that the ceremony was the most important element of the wedding day for us. We wanted the ceremony to be special and to be intimate and to feel personal. We were concerned about making that happen, working with someone we didn’t know and who was so far away. We tried to arrange a face-to-face meeting during one of our trips to Florida during the planning process, but we weren’t able to make it work due to scheduling conflicts. But really, I shouldn’t have worried.
Renee made sure that she talked to both of via Skype, and she initiated and maintained regular email contact with us as well. As the ceremony approached, she also made sure she talked to us via phone. She really made sure that she got to know us as people, and to help us craft a ceremony that was special and really embraced who we are and what we wanted to say to each other. She was incredibly patient with us when we struggled to meet deadlines, and she was really helpful in calming this bride down a couple of times when I was getting really upset. She sent us lots of ceremony ideas and took everything we sent her that we loved and incorporated into our ceremony.
When our ceremony was turning out to be too long, she very gently identified the best parts to trim and again, dealing with an emotional bride, handled it like a pro to make sure that we both got what we needed and wanted from the ceremony while not boring our guests with a ceremony that dragged on too long. She even managed to work with my fiancé (now husband) and our Disney wedding coordinator to include a couple of very special surprises that this detail oriented, planned every minute bride had NO INKLING about and played the moments during the ceremony beautifully.
She has a great speaking voice, and a charismatic presence that really adds to the quality of the words she is speaking. She really cares so much about each couple and about making their ceremony perfect for them…we felt very special but we could tell that she makes that effort for everyone, it’s just the way she’s wired. Renee went above and beyond to create something that was so magical and so perfectly us, I can’t even express how special she helped make our wedding day. She was quite simply, wonderful! We cannot recommend her highly enough. She made our wedding ceremony absolutely perfectly us, and many of our guests commented that it was the nicest ceremony they’d ever attended.
Choosing Renee was also important to us because we wanted someone who was open to serving couples of all genders. While we are a traditional couple, we felt it was important as we planned our wedding to choose vendors that are inclusive and recognize that Love is Love, no matter where it lands. Renee embraces this philosophy, and has married many same sex couples, as well as many traditional couples.
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