The Best Wedding Ceremony Officiants in Aptos, CA

Let's Elope Santa Cruz, uniting all of today's couples from the redwoods to the sea, with elopement packages to include my photography. formal or informal affairs from 2 to 200..Love is in Bloom! Let's put a ring on it!

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.

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.

Hi, I'm April, the founder of All Love Ceremonies 🤍 I became a wedding officiant because I am a full time nurse 👩‍⚕️ and needed a balance. I truly believe every couple deserves a ceremony that feels personal, meaningful, and uniquely theirs. I love getting to know each couple and creating a ceremony that tells their story—not reading from a generic script. Whether you're planning a small elopement, a beach wedding, a backyard celebration, or a larger ceremony, I'm here to make the experience relaxed, enjoyable, and memorable. I welcome couples of all backgrounds, beliefs, & identities, and I'm honored to celebrate love in all its forms

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.

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.

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!

Danny Bias Weddings creates warm, personalized ceremonies that feel unmistakably yours. With more than 1,000 weddings officiated since 2008, including Season 15 of Married at First Sight, I bring experience, calm energy and genuine connection to every celebration. I specialize in spiritual, interfaith, modern and inclusive ceremonies throughout Southern California. As a Coast Guard veteran, former pastor and longtime wedding professional, I create each ceremony around your story, values, culture and sense of humor so you can feel relaxed, present and fully connected.

A. Scott Galbraith brings a lifetime of leadership, ministry, and service to life’s most meaningful moments. A USC Football alumnus and former NFL player who played nine seasons professionally, Scott has also served more than 20 years in professional sports chaplaincy, including with the Sacramento Kings. His experience as a pastor, mentor, and spiritual counselor brings warmth, compassion, and genuine presence to every ceremony. Scott provides personalized Christian weddings, elopements, vow renewals, and premarital counseling, creating ceremonies that honor each couple’s faith, love, story, and commitment.

Pastor Shun Newbern is a real ordained pastor with more than 30 years of experience in Christian ministry offering the finest customized and personalized wedding ceremonies in California. Will your wedding be in a church, park, winery, golf club, or yacht? Pastor Shun is the one to make it personal and special for the couple and the family to remember for years to come. He is also available for a quick and legal affordable ceremony as well. His service includes up to one hour of phone or video consultation to answer questions and to plan your celebration.

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.

I love love! All humans deserve to have the wedding ceremony of their dreams. I personalize your ceremony to be the best possible fit for each couple. I am honored to be LGBTQ + friendly. I can often arrange to perform last minute elopements or ceremonies. I can marry you and your small group in my beautiful backyard setting. I am happy to travel out of my home area to marry you. I also have a confidential marriage license certification and offer to be your notary to complete that paperwork process and I can also perform the ceremony if so desired.

Hi! My name is Anna Soco (she/her) and I'm the PNW's premiere Queer wedding officiant and believer in love. My work is rooted in the belief that love is alive, communal, and transformative - and because of that, your wedding ceremony should be, too! I work with soulmates of all kinds to create ceremonies that reflect what truly matters most to you. My clients (y'all!) are my "co" - each new client relationship is an opportunity to learn more about love, together. I adore, appreciate, and learn from each and every one of you. And I never quit rooting for my couples!

At Moore Love Enterprises, I believe your ceremony should feel like YOU—not something pulled from a script. I create fully customized, heartfelt, and inclusive ceremonies that bring your story, personalities, and vision to life. From intimate elopements and vow renewals to traditional weddings with a modern touch, every ceremony is thoughtfully created to be personal, meaningful, and memorable. I also offer rehearsal coordination, reception blessings, private first-look blessings, and personalized ceremony elements. Serving Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland & available for destination weddings—because love has no boundaries. Your love. Your story. Your ceremony. Celebrating love in EVERY form.

Hi! I’m Sabrina, the heart behind The Dream Collective Co.—a Reno-Tahoe (& beyond) officiant and custom keepsake creator. I craft ceremonies and details that feel personal, intentional, and totally you. From laid-back elopements to full weddings, I guide couples with thoughtful planning, fun storytelling, and meaningful touches, including custom keepsakes for your big day. No generic scripts here—just heartfelt, stress-free, and un-boring celebrations you’ll remember—and keepsakes you’ll treasure long after the “I do.”

Congratulations on your engagement! 💍 I'm Erica, owner of Married by 2 Letters, an ordained wedding officiant, wedding planner, and notary public based in Orangeburg, South Carolina. I specialize in personalized ceremonies, vow renewals, intimate weddings, marriage license signings, and wedding planning and coordination. I'm proud to provide LGBTQ+ inclusive, disability-affirming, autism-aware, and sensory-friendly services. Every love story deserves to be celebrated! IMPORTANT: Out-of-state weddings are welcome! Ceremony prices do not include travel. Additional travel fees apply to all weddings outside South Carolina. Explore my services and book your consultation on our website. Love Looks Good Here. 💕

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!

Madame Mystery is an award-winning Las Vegas entertainer bringing vintage glamour, theatrical wonder, and genuine connection to weddings of every style. Couples can choose from elegant walk-around magic, live-vocal cabaret, comedy hypnosis, tarot readings, or polished hosting and emcee services for cocktail hours, receptions, rehearsal dinners, and wedding-weekend celebrations. For more than a decade, Madame has entertained audiences in events around the world. Every experience is thoughtfully tailored to the couple, creating memorable moments that feel sophisticated, playful, inclusive, and completely one of a kind.

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.

Hi, I'm Reverend Luna. I'm a spiritual counselor, energy reader and a Reverend ordained by The Church of Natural Grace. Weddings, vow renewals and commitment ceremonies are deeply spiritual acts which set the intention for shared love, respect and support in your life journey. I am honored to be considered as part of this experience. I also work with couples to align their energy, find their highest growth vibration as a couple and shape their soul contract with pre-marital sessions.

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.

Your ceremony should be unmistakably yours and not a standard, dry template. I’m Trin with Verus & Vow, serving the Greater Bay Area with intentional ceremonies for all love stories. LAW STUDENT ADVANTAGE: Meticulous precision ensuring your California marriage license paperwork is flawlessly completed and submitted. A SAFE SPACE: I am deeply passionate about helping you cherish what you have. I hold the shape of the room and protect the environment so you can simply breathe and be present. EXCLUSIVE CLIENT SUITE: Premium collection couples receive private access to an elegant digital workspace where all timelines and materials live securely. PRICING TRANSPARENCY: No hidden travel fees. What you see is exactly what you invest in.

Elegance by Yvonne helps couples have their most memorable and magical wedding ceremony come to life with a unique wedding script made specifically for them from the beautiful journey that brought the couple together, to their wedding day.

We have been best friends for over four decades and decided that we wanted to create a business together that celebrates love, happiness and positivity. There’s nothing more beautiful than seeing the journey of a couple beginning their forever and we get to be part of that.

I create completely custom wedding ceremonies for couples who want something personal, meaningful, spiritual, and magical. With 20+ years of experience in mindfulness, ritual, public speaking, storytelling, and personal growth, I craft each ceremony around your story, values, humor, and vision. From heartfelt and simple to ancient traditions, handfasting, nature-based rituals, meditation, or even a mead ceremony, I love working with creative, adventurous, spiritual, fantasy-loving, and nontraditional couples.

I’m Naomi Rose, a wedding officiant serving Santa Cruz county, Carmel, Monterey and Big Sur. I’m an ordained reverend and certified celebrant who has officiated over 400 large scale wedding ceremonies and intimate elopements. I specialize in secular, spiritual-but-not-religious and Jewish ceremonies, as well as second marriage and blended family ceremonies. I believe a wedding is more than a production to curate, but a threshold to cross, and that it’s not simply an event requiring an officiant, but a rite of passage requiring a ceremony. I also believe that if you’re putting great care into your venue, photography, music, design and guest experience, your ceremony should reflect that same level of thoughtfulness and attention to detail.

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.

Hi, I’m XAN — and I help people create meaningful beginnings, whether they’re standing at the altar or standing at a turning point in their lives. With over 20 years of coaching experience and 4 years of officiating, I’ve had the honor of guiding individuals and couples through some of life’s most transformative moments. My work is rooted in presence, humor, and genuine connection — because I believe deep transformation doesn’t have to be heavy, and celebration doesn’t have to be superficial.

Guiding couples through intentional commitment, emotional growth, and meaningful ceremony. I started Aligned Newlyweds to help couples build a strong foundation for a lifetime of love.  Rooted in our company core values—Tenderness, Harmony, Curation, and Celebration—I'm honored to support you on your wedding day and beyond. As a Licensed Therapist and Marriage Consultant, I have the joy of co-authoring love stories every single day.  I’m excited to help you craft a beautiful beginning!

Roya Soleimani Winner is a wedding officiant, specializing in Persian and multi-cultural ceremonies. She works with each couple to design and conduct a ceremony that reflects their love, cultural traditions, and vision for their wedding. Roya works with couples to provide a loving, unique, and thoughtful ceremony. The Persian wedding ceremony has thousands of years of history, and Roya helps give it a modern feel. Love is the root of so much happiness in this world.