The Best Wedding Ceremony Officiants in Aptos, CA

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18 Wedding Officiants in Aptos, CA

Elope Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay 
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)
  • Offers 8 ceremony types
  • Starts at $1,300
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Donna and Rebecca are an officiant + photographer duo creating stress-free elopements and intimate weddings along the California coast since 2010. Together, they handle everything from the ceremony to the photography, so couples can relax and enjoy the experience. Donna Rose Gardner of Honey in the Heart Ceremonies is an award-winning officiant known for heartfelt, personalized ceremonies, vow writing, and expert guidance through permits, licenses, and planning details. Rebecca Stark is a seasoned wedding photographer specializing in natural, relaxed imagery along the redwoods, beaches, and hidden coastal gems from Santa Cruz to Big Sur.

We are so thankful for Elope Santa Cruz! We live on the East Coast, but wanted to return to the college town where we first met and fell in love. From the moment I spoke with Donna, I knew we were in great hands. She was incredibly kind, knowledgeable, and truly knew the Santa Cruz area inside and out. Planning from across the country felt easy and stress-free because of her guidance. Donna and Rebecca made such an amazing team. Everything felt seamless, personal, and relaxed, and the photos captured the day beautifully. We couldn’t have imagined a better experience and can’t recommend Elope Santa Cruz enough!
Tina, 2 months ago
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Forever Mine Weddings LLC 
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
  • Offers 9 ceremony types
  • Serves Aptos, CA

At Forever Mine Weddings, I create romantic, bilingual ceremonies that feel deeply personal and meaningful. I specialize in English, Spanish, and seamlessly blended ceremonies that honor your story and bring both families together. From guiding you through your vows to helping you navigate your marriage license, I’m here to make your experience smooth, heartfelt, and unforgettable. Whether it’s an intimate elopement or a full celebration, your ceremony will feel like you—authentic, intentional, and beautifully told.

Forever Mine Weddings LLC made our ceremony feel personal and meaningful from start to finish. Communication with them was smooth the entire time, and they kept us informed at every step of the planning process. On our wedding day, they shared a beautiful story about our love that really captured who we are as a couple. Their commitment to quality work showed throughout, and we appreciated that they offered bilingual services which made our ceremony inclusive for all our guests. We'd recommend Forever Mine Weddings LLC to any couple looking for an officiant who cares about getting the details right.
Liliana U., 3 days ago
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Honey in the Heart Ceremonies 
Rating: 5.0 (1 review)
  • Offers 8 ceremony types
  • Starts at $500
  • Serves Aptos, CA

I believe that on the day you say your “I do’s” more love is brought into the world! I craft authentic, heartfelt, and unforgettable wedding ceremonies in Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur. Since 2010, I've blended cultural traditions and personal touches to elevate celebrations beyond the ordinary. All love is welcome here.

Working with Donna was one of the most loving and thoughtful parts of our ceremony experience. The care and attention she gave to truly getting to know us and curating a ceremony that felt deeply personal made such an impact every step of the way. We absolutely loved having her by our side throughout the process. If you have the opportunity to work with her, do it. We truly couldn’t imagine anyone else facilitating our ceremony and marriage. By the end, Donna felt like family. Lovingly carrying us across the threshold into this next chapter together.
Miles T., 2 months ago
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Monterey Bay Wedding Officiants 
Rating: 5.0 (1 review)
  • Offers 9 ceremony types
  • Starts at $320
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Since 2009, I have officiated nearly three thousand weddings and have enjoyed every minute of it. This is your special day, and my job is to write a beautiful ceremony that you, and your guests, will remember and enjoy. Over the past 15 years, I have officiated weddings from Santa Cruz to Big Sur, from Monterey to Pacific Grove and everywhere in between. Every wedding is special, and I always feel so grateful to be a part of a couple's special day.

Monterey Bay Wedding Officiants were an incredible choice for our wedding ceremony. From the start, they were incredibly responsive, providing in-depth and thorough communication to understand exactly what we were looking for. Brian, our officiant, truly took the time to get to know us as a couple, and crafted a creative and unique ceremony that felt perfectly tailored to our relationship. Thanks to Brian's thoughtful approach, our ceremony was incredible (the perfect mix of romantic and sincere with some great touches of humor) and we feel so lucky to have had him be a part of our special day. Monterey Bay Wedding Officiants provided incredible value, and we would highly recommend them to any couple looking for an officiant who will make your ceremony truly personal and memorable.
Katelin H., a year ago
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Pronounced by Patrick 
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
  • Offers 9 ceremony types
  • Starts at $450
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Hello there! I'm Patrick, a professional wedding officiant based in Paso Robles, California...Our little drinking town, with a farming problem...but I do travel! I take absolute delight in helping make your wedding ceremony just as you envisioned it. After all, it's your special day! In addition to working as an officiant, I'm also the owner of a distillery in Paso Robles, a voice-over specialist, and I have a multiple-subject teaching credential. That's right, the booze making officiant!

Awarded Best of Zola
Patrick did a wonderful job at our wedding. He talked us through all the steps leading up to it, helped my husband coordinate a sweet surprise and had the perfect energy to engage our guests and help tell our story. I highly recommend Patrick!
Katie, a year ago
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Let'S Get Married By Marie 
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
  • Offers 8 ceremony types
  • Starts at $149
  • Serves Aptos, CA

I'm all about #antiboringweddings. Whether you're having just the birds and trees as guests or 500 of your nearest and dearest, your marriage ceremony should sound and feel like you. (Crazy concept, right?) That's why every ceremony I do is about creating the experience you want for yourselves so it is both joyful and unforgettable.

Marie was the right officiant for our elopement. Her communication was direct and thorough she kept us informed every step of the way and made sure we felt prepared going into our big day. Beyond her professionalism, she was genuinely warm and welcoming, which put us at ease from start to finish. On the day of our elopement, her work was nothing short of exceptional. We couldn't have asked for a better person to help us say our vows and celebrate this moment with our loved ones.
Juzmeri B., 4 days ago
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Danny Bias Weddings | Wedding Officiant 
Rating: 5.0 (1 review)
  • Offers 10 ceremony types
  • Starts at $300
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Danny Bias Weddings creates calm, personalized wedding ceremonies across Southern California. As a professional wedding officiant, I help couples feel present, relaxed, and genuinely connected on their wedding day. Every ceremony includes custom vows, a personalized ceremony script, and thoughtful planning to reflect your story. Whether you’re planning an intimate elopement or a full wedding celebration, I’ll guide you through the process without unnecessary traditions, awkward moments, or added stress. My goal is simple: create a ceremony that feels authentic, meaningful, and unmistakably yours.

We hired Danny for our April 2024 wedding, and couldn't have asked for a better person to have been our officiant. From the very first time we met him, we knew we wanted him to be the one. He just had a wonderful energy and aura about him that made it very easy to connect. His great personality just naturally puts smiles on people’s faces. Despite traveling far, he arrived exactly when he said he would so you could count on him to be punctual and professional. We loved how he personalized our ceremony, and he did an amazing job letting our guests really feel connected to our love story. During our reception, so many of our guests told us how much they loved him. We are more than happy with the outcome of hiring Danny. He exceeded our expectations, and that is saying a lot because both of us could be a bit of perfectionists. We highly recommend him to anyone and everyone. You are in good hands with him. Christina F.
Christina F., a year ago
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[Online Only] Vowed and Clear Remote Weddings 
  • Offers 10 ceremony types
  • Starts at $299
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Vowed and Clear is a team of online wedding officiants built on fostering spirit of accessibility and inclusion that marriage deserves. Based in Utah, Vowed and Clear helps couples legally marry online from anywhere in the world, ensuring that love, and not logistics, guides the ceremony. Vowed and Clear’s officiants have proudly helped couples across the globe celebrate their commitment. Whether joining from different cities or different continents, we help couples create a moment that’s both deeply personal and fully legal, all while honoring the belief that everyone deserves the right to marry the person they love.

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Better Together Officiating-Events-Photos 
Rating: 5.0 (8 reviews)
  • Offers 8 ceremony types
  • Starts at $250
  • Serves Aptos, CA for additional fees
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Over 20’s years ago Terry started working for a wedding planning company in Traverse City MI and has since written and officiated countless wedding ceremonies, each one is unique and special as the two people who are getting married. We design your ceremony to capture your personalities, vision and wishes to most accurately reflect who you are as a couple. We love to meet with couples who want a candid heartfelt stressless ceremony full of genuine joy centered around two people setting off on a journey to conquer life. Leveraging our decades of officiating and event services, we’ll turn your dream wedding into a beautiful reality!

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Terry and Fabian were an absolute perfect fit for us and our vision for the wedding ceremony. Terry is experienced and when we talked about some of the complexities of our family’s needs and our own vision, she was able to make it come together better than I ever could’ve dreamed! She and Fabian even stepped in when the inevitable hiccups occurred before the ceremony. We mostly only brought in family and friends to work with us on our wedding, limiting the outside vendors. By the first meeting at brunch over bengients, they felt like family. We will forever be grateful that fate brought them to us and they were part of our special day. PS They also took a few special photos including the one here- it’s our favorite from that day!
Samantha & D., 7 months ago
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I Do X Two 
Rating: 5.0 (5 reviews)
  • Offers 9 ceremony types
  • Starts at $400
  • Serves Aptos, CA for additional fees

I love working with couples to write a ceremony that is authentic to their love story and with all the details they envision. I've officiated estate-sized wine country weddings and those at the Ritz; to ceremonies in art galleries and country clubs, to shoreline and backyard elopements, and vow renewals at a family picnic or a restaurant--each one just as special as the other.

Saundra was recommended to us by our wedding planner and we were glad we choose her. We were looking for a more casual and non-religious officiant for our wedding and Saundra was more than willing to accommodate our preferences. Our first intro call was extremely informative. She laid out her process and her experiences with other couples and different types of weddings she's officiated in the past. It was clear she was an experienced officiant from the well-established process she had. Her communication was very effective. Her meetings were tailored toward new couples who have zero experience with weddings and she was always responsive to any questions we had through email or text. We received many compliments about the Ceremony that she officiated. Saundra had developed 90% of the script herself and personalized it based on our preferences. Her delivery and energy was less officiant-like and more casual/home-like which was what we were hoping for. I definitely would recommend Saundra as an officiant for any wedding. Her support and preparation for our wedding left no ambiguity during the ceremony.
Kevin P., 3 months ago
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Love-N-Promises 
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
  • Offers 10 ceremony types
  • Starts at $120
  • Serves Aptos, CA for additional fees

Your ceremony doesn't have to be "cookie cutter" or "run of the mill." I work with all my couples to present a ceremony that truly reflects your relationship. My goal is to ensure that you and your guests experience a meaningful and entertaining wedding ceremony to start your special day.

Pamela did an amazing job creating a meaningful ceremony for us on a short-time frame, was incredibly communicative, and altogether a wonderful officiant! She was very gracious with how scattered some of the planning went and made us both feel so comfortable, which meant the world as a young queer couple. Her presentation of the ceremony truly felt like it reflected us as a couple, and our family members who were in attendance were amazed that she had crafted a ceremony that felt so perfect to us just from talking on the phone with us a couple of times. Absolutely would recommend:)
Kali A., 3 months ago
Santa Cruz Officiant 
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)
  • Offers 10 ceremony types
  • Starts at $600
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Hi, I’m Naomi—a multi-award-winning wedding officiant known for ceremonies that feel like soul nourishment. I’m part marriage midwife, part storyteller, part fierce, loving mama bear. I help couples stay grounded, connected, and deeply seen on one of the most important days of their lives. Guests swear I must be a family member or close friend because of how well I get to know the couples I work with. I’m re-imagining ceremony for a secular world, and creating ceremonies that feel transformative to you, and unforgettable to everyone else. The best way to reach me is directly through my website.

Choosing Naomi as our officiant was one of the very best decisions we made for our wedding. She embodies so much warmth and wisdom and has an extremely thoughtful process of getting to know her couples. We wanted our ceremony to be the most special part of our day, and while we trusted her from the beginning, we couldn’t have imagined a ceremony as beautiful as the one she delivered. We wanted to really feel the transition, the peace, the profoundness of the moment, and Naomi gave us this and so much more. Every word was meaningful and deeply personal, not a single one wasted. She slowed everything down. She helped us and our guests all be still and truly present and to notice even the tiniest details that were made not so tiny by the awareness: the trees, the smell of the cool forest air, the crow flying overhead. She was a grounding presence that steadied us in a moment that is often nerve-ridden and blurry for many people. Friends and family all commented on how it was the most beautiful ceremony they had ever been to. One friend even said that he had never been to a wedding where the ceremony was the best part until ours. If you are looking for an officiant who can truly see you and your partner, someone who is capable of honoring your story and your dreams, someone to anchor you in a whirlwind moment while acknowledging how once in a lifetime it is, then run don’t walk to connect with Naomi. You will be so glad you did.
Aubrey D W., a year ago
Lawrence E. Adjah, MBA, M.Ed, M.Div. 
Rating: 5.0 (1 review)
  • Offers 8 ceremony types
  • Starts at $2,250
  • Serves Aptos, CA

Lawrence E. Adjah, MBA, M.Ed, M.Div. is a pastor, marriage counselor and best-selling author on relationships. Lawrence specializes in marriage counseling and one-on-one spiritual advisory. He approaches his guidance in a biblically based, structured, relatable, and systematic manner, with clear owned outcomes and next steps. Lawrence will guide you through the wedding planning process with warmth, intentionality and clarity. Lawrence offers a wide array of services to guide you through your wedding and beyond. He provides both wedding officiating services and vow renewals, as well as pre-marital counseling and ongoing marriage counseling.

My husband and I worked with Pastor Lawrence for a year of faith-based pre-marital counseling and had an amazing experience. We, like many couples, went into our first session thinking we’d already discussed the most important topics and we’d maybe need to do 3 formal pre-marital counseling sessions. Our first session was so impactful that we immediately decided that we wanted a full year of counseling. That decision, we believe, completely changed the trajectory of our marriage. Pastor Lawrence asked difficult, thought-provoking questions that helped us see our relationship (with each other and with God) in new ways, and each session left us feeling better equipped for marriage than we ever expected. His depth of knowledge, approachability, and ability to guide meaningful, relevant conversations aimed at aligning us as one—even when we thought we had nothing new to discuss—was truly a gift. We are so grateful for the wisdom and encouragement he poured into us throughout this process and would highly recommend him to any couple who is looking to build a strong, Christ-centered foundation going into their marriage.
Veronica B., a year ago