Los Angeles Wedding Officiant

I’m a seasoned Los Angeles wedding officiant who revels in the huge variety of gorgeous places to get married here in LA! As a seasoned wedding officiant and SoCal native, I adore that I get to celebrate your love in some of the most famous and picturesque venues. It’s also my job as a Los Angeles wedding officiant to make this experience as easy for you as possible.

Houdini Estate

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Los Angeles Wedding Officiant Package Pricing

Short & Sweet

The Basic Los Angeles Wedding Officiant Package
$ 899
  • The easiest wedding officiant service - all class and no stress!
  • A short & sweet pre-written ceremony
  • Options for unity ceremonies and readings
  • Guidance on the marriage license and certificate
  • All of my travel/mileage is already included
  • Book up to six months in advance

Let's Get Married

The Premier LA Wedding Officiant Package
$ 1,399
  • Everything included in the Short & Sweet
  • PLUS a fun and meaningful custom-written ceremony that's uniquely yours, written and performed by an award-winning officiant (that's me!)
  • PLUS a ceremony planning session for us to really get to know each other and sort out all the details for your day
  • PLUS options for custom-written unity ceremonies and unique readings
  • PLUS assistance for writing personal vows, should you so choose
  • PLUS exclusivity: your wedding will be the only one I accept on your date
  • Book up to 18 months in advance

Frequently Asked Questions About Los Angeles Weddings

For the Short & Sweet service:
This service may be booked up to six months in advance.

For the Let’s Get Married service:
Once you secure your venue, you should secure your day with me. Seriously. 

Before the pandemic, I was booking up to 18 months out. Now, I’m booking up to 2 years out and I already have bookings out that far. 

The best time to book my services is as soon as you have confirmed your wedding date with the venue. The second-best time is now.

For the Short & Sweet service:

I max out at two a day with plenty of travel time in between.

For the Let’s Get Married service:

Only one! That’s one of the benefits of this service: my full and undivided attention on wedding day. 🙂

There are only three situations in which I attend wedding rehearsals.

  1. You don’t have a professional (like a wedding planner or venue coordinator) to run it for you. In this case, I will run the entire rehearsal for you.
  2. Your ceremony is complex. We have an abbreviated tea ceremony as well as the lasso, aras, and veil, not to mention your two readers and a grandparents’ blessing… This is obviously a more extreme version, but you get the idea! A complex ceremony means I need to be at the rehearsal to help you sort out everything so everyone involved feels comfortable with what is supposed to happen on wedding day.
  3. It is really just going to make you feel better that I’m there. Yes, it can be that simple!


Please note that a rehearsal is a $175 USD add-on to cover my time and travel.

Only one!

In my early days, I used to schedule multiple weddings in a day (that’s how many officiants can be so cheap — “insert name here” ceremonies they already have memorized and performing several ceremonies in a day), but it was super stressful . And I don’t want that for you or for me!

That’s why I now only do one wedding a day. This way, you have my full and undivided attention, as well as my flexibility in case something doesn’t go as planned. No stress and all smiles!

No. I assume that you two are grown adults and can decide for yourselves what you want to do with your lives. Crazy of me, right?

I do offer a Premarital Course if you’re interested in having your arguments bring you closer together instead of driving you crazy, but it is in no way required!

Since I only do custom ceremonies, the answer is “it depends”. I’ve done ceremonies as short as 8 minutes and as long as an hour. I’d say my LA weddings tend to stay pretty truly in between the TED Talk to sitcom length of somewhere between 15-25 minutes.

Ultimately, the length of the ceremony is up to you! We’ll talk about what you want and don’t want in your wedding and we’ll collaborate to make it unforgettable (for all the right reasons).

Usually, just twice. The first time is for a consultation, which you can schedule HERE. The second time is for our ceremony planning session, which happens 2-3 months before your wedding.

Please know that I don’t limit our meetings, but in the over 1,200 marriage ceremonies I’ve done, we’ve only had to meet more than usual only twice. 

I require 50% of the total price as your reservation fee. The remaining balance is due 2 weeks before the wedding.

All of my contracts and payments are done online, so if you want to pay $75 each month leading up to your wedding until it’s paid off, you can do that. Or if you want to pay off your balance 6 months ahead of time at 1 AM because you’re on a roll paying off everything, you can do that too.

I will guide you through the process of how to obtain your marriage license whether you’re an Angeleno, coming in front out of state, or even out of the country. I always sign your marriage license after the ceremony (to do it before is legally fraud) and file it as required by law. I’ll also reach out when it’s time to get your Marriage Certificate and send you helpful tips on how to change your name, should anyone be electing to do that.

Sí, hablo español! Pero aunque mi mamá es de México, realmente no lo aprendí hasta que fui adulto. Y es mi tercer idioma! Por eso solo hago ceremonias en spanglish, no solo en español.

Check my availability for your Los Angeles wedding

Let’s see if I’m available for your date! Please note that this calendar is current and updated daily.

CALENDAR KEY

  • Inquiry – Someone is asking about the date, but hasn’t moved forward yet so it’s still available.
  • Booking in Process – Someone has booked a consultation with me for this date, but the booking isn’t confirmed yet.
  • Booked – I only perform one marriage ceremony per day and this date is booked.
  • Sold Out – I’ve closed the calendar and am not accepting more bookings for the time period marked.
  • PLEASE NOTE: You can click on the calendar event and see where I’m booked on a specific date. This is important because I require at least a day of travel time in between events more than 150 miles apart.

Contact me to start the conversation!