Eight years ago today (unplanned but serendipitously on National Coming Out Day), I first put up my officiant website. I was a social media marketer and freelance writer who was longing to get out from behind the computer screen to be with people and to travel.
Within six months, I was a full-time officiant performing several weddings a week.
Within nine months, I closed the doors on my freelance business and flung myself headlong into this weird hybrid of business and ministry I had so fallen in love with.
What a ride it has been! I’ve fulfilled so many of my own dreams because you chose me to help fulfill yours by celebrating the love and life you share together.
And my word, the stories I get to tell! The people I get to celebrate! The love stories you all have!
The experiences you all share with me get written on the walls of my heart. And after nearly 900 weddings (and counting!), I’ve had to learn how to expand my heart to hold more love and heartache and triumph and healing than I thought possible.
I’m so honored and privileged and delighted to be there for you as we speak your marriage officially into being. I wish I could explain how it feels to be so trusted and warmly welcomed into your lives for this incredible moment.
To every single one of my couples, THANK YOU!!! It has been an incredible eight years and I’m so excited for all the people and love stories yet to be celebrated!