Do you want your ceremony to be different?
Are you thinking of asking a friend or family member to officiate because you want the moment to feel personal?
Have you been trying to find a professional officiant but don’t want a random stranger up there with you?
Are you excited to have found me, but now you’re questioning my prices?
Guess what? You’re in the right place.
Welcome. I’m not your average officiant.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret… your friends and family want to enjoy your wedding, not to be tasked with making it enjoyable. Asking someone you know to officiate comes with a lot of pressure! Do you know what experienced wedding planners tell me is the most stressful aspect of their job? Dealing with the “Friend Officiant” who always needs a lot of hand-holding. It’s not their fault; they don’t know what they’re doing. They aren’t a professional… but I am! I started as a “Friend Officiant” and quickly built one of the most personalized and reputable officiant services in all of California. Heck, maybe even the country. How? Because I don’t do what everyone else does. A RomCom Wedding is truly unique, and here’s why…
1. Your ceremony should be an unrivaled experience.
Your guests are coming for the ceremony, not the open bar. They flew across the country (or at least drove through traffic), they bought new shoes, hired babysitters, and showed up for you — to witness the moment you make a meaningful commitment to one another. I intend to give them, and you, a memory worthy of that effort.
I'm not just an officiant, I’m an entertainer. My job isn't just to legally marry you, it’s also to hold space for you and to take your loved ones on a journey they don't see coming. I bring the energy of a live performance and the craft of a writer who knows how to pace a story, land a joke, and make an audience feel deeply connected to you. Your ceremony is built from scratch around the specific details of your relationship — the moments, the memories, humor and tenderness that are uniquely yours. I don't recycle scripts; every ceremony I write is an original because every couple I marry is an original. I listen, dig deep, and – once in a while - I find the opportunity to weave a surprise moment into the ceremony that makes even the most wedding-jaded guest lean over and whisper "that was awesome!" Leaving you absolutely beaming is my baseline.
2. I spend the time to really get to know my couples.
Most officiants will spend an hour with a couple. Maybe two. My “Hollywood Blockbuster” package often results in five to six hours together, and a meaningful chunk of that time is spent with each of you individually. There are plenty of $500 officiants out there who will send you a questionnaire and plug your name into a preexisting script. That is not me. Your ceremony is going to be chock full of inside jokes, personal anecdotes, and your unique personalities. Guests often ask me if I’m the college roommate. The childhood friend. The cousin nobody thought to introduce them to. They’re impressed by how I was able to capture so many of your amusing little peccadillos – surely we must go way back. We might not be longtime friends, but we will be by wedding day! I truly care about you, your ceremony, and the connection we share together. But don’t take my word for it…
3. Not to humble brag, but your ceremony is created by an award-winning screenwriter and legit filmmaker.
Before I was an officiant, I spent over fifteen years in Hollywood learning from A-listers. I even directed a romantic comedy that was released globally by Universal Pictures. I write love stories for a living and am obsessed with the architecture of what makes them work. Everything I’ve learned about storytelling and entertainment, like how to pace a narrative, how to set up a joke and pay it off at the best possible moment, how to make an audience laugh and cry in the same breath — I bring all of that to every ceremony I perform. It wasn’t until officiating my first wedding that I realized I had been training for this my entire career without even knowing it. You're not hiring someone who learned to officiate on YouTube; you're getting nearly two decades of professional storytelling craft distilled into the most meaningful thirty minutes of your wedding day.
4. I'm the only Certified Professional Officiant in all of Los Angeles.
Anyone can get ordained online. That's not a credential — that's a checkbox. What separates a professional from someone with internet access and good intentions is the commitment to learning the craft, the laws, and the art of holding space during one of the most significant moments in a person's life. This isn’t a side hustle for me, it’s a vocation. I'm one of a small number of officiants in the entire country who is certified through the International Association of Professional Wedding Officiants, and I'm the only one in Los Angeles. Real talk.
I've also earned recognition as an expert within the wedding industry. I've been profiled in publications, interviewed on podcasts, and invited to speak at industry events and conferences, including giving lectures and developing training courses for new officiants entering the profession. When other officiants want to learn how to do this better, I’m one of the folks they come to. Which means when you hire me, you're not getting someone still figuring it out - you're getting the person everyone else is learning from.
5. Collaborating with me means prioritizing your ceremony – an important distinction.
I'm going to be completely honest with you, because you deserve that from someone you're considering trusting with this moment: I care deeply about working with couples who value what I do.
Officiants are often an afterthought.The difference between a ceremony that people politely applaud and one they talk about for years to come is directly proportional to how much the ceremony was prioritized during wedding planning. I want you to be one of your non-negotiables. I want you to have read this webpage, heard me on a podcast, maybe stalked my Instagram a little. I want us to connect over a consult and for you to feel genuinely excited about what we're going to create together, because our unique collaboration is what will elevate the ceremony into something else entirely. It’s not a competition, but I want your ceremony to be the one thing that your guests will remember most from your wedding, and for it to be your fondest memory. That’s what makes it a RomCom Wedding; it’s something we create together, and I'd love to create one with you.
Think of your marriage ceremony as your very own RomCom. Every lead character has that best friend and confidant who talks them out of bad decisions and guides them toward their happy ending. I'm that guy! Ask me to be your officiant and let me be the friend you would have asked anyway.
“Here’s the deal. I love you. I know I do. Because I've never been so scared in my entire life. And I once shared an elevator with Saddam Hussein. Just me and Saddam. And this is way scarier. I love you.”
- The Long Shot