Amy Riesenberg, Interfaith Minister

We cannot say enough positive things about Reverend Amy! We were looking for someone that could guide us and give us space to prepare for marriage -- but outside of the church. Reverend Amy was so wonderful to work with. We had great sessions with her leading up to the wedding and then had all her assistance, support, and her marriage services the day of our wedding. She was thoughtful, empathetic, kind, while also encouraging us to grow. We had such a positive experience working with Reverend Amy and would highly recommend her services to anyone getting married!

Amy was the best! When we started planning our wedding, we had absolutely no idea what the ceremony should/could be like, but Amy helped us figure it out with shockingly little agonizing via discussion, some well-crafted questionnaires, and a comprehensive resource of examples. The process helped us to focus on the most important things, and the resulting ceremony was meaningful and genuinely resonated with us. Furthermore, she has a warm and reassuring presence, good humor, and real professionalism. We could not recommend her more highly!

Working with Rev. Amy was an absolute pleasure! She made designing our ceremony easy, fun, and very personalized to us. The bride is Christian and the groom is Jewish and she was able perfectly intertwine customs of both religious while helping explain the customs to all of our family and friends who may have been unfamiliar. We received so many compliments from our guests about our ceremony and Rev. Amy. She also went above and beyond to make sure all of our vendors were on the same page before the ceremony. But, I think one of the greatest gifts of working with Rev. Amy is her calming presence, she was able to help everyone relax and reduce all nerves before the ceremony. We are so grateful we were able to work with her!

Amy was the absolute perfect fit for our wedding, and she has the personality and flexibility to be the perfect fit for just about any wedding. She made the experience easy and stress free, while also making it personal to us. After getting to know us and gathering some information, she created a personalized message to deliver that our ceremony that was so fitting and perfect for my wife and my relationship. Thanks Amy, you're the best! - Tony (and Madison)

We had so many compliments from friends and family about Amy. She helped us create a ceremony that felt unique to us, and delivered it beautifully despite it being 95 degrees, full sun. We also had the privilege of doing premarital counseling with her. With everything, she was able to tailor it/meet us where we were at in our spiritual journey (rather uncertain about our faith) in a non judgmental way. We would have learned great things from her in counseling, and had a beautiful ceremony regardless of what religion we practiced. Highly recommend!

Amy is the absolute best! She not only did an amazing job on our wedding day, she helped us with planning the entire ceremony. She met with us twice before the wedding to get to know us and to help us plan. She even gave us a huge sampling of readings and vows that we could select from. We could choose from or modify any of them, or we could select/write vows and readings of our choosing. Amy is professional, she knows what she's doing, she's also flexible, and easy to work with. I can't recommend her enough!

I honestly cannot tell you how much we LOVED having Amy as our officiant! Before our wedding, we had a family member who was going to do our ceremony. That fell through and we had only 4 months to figure out what to do. We found Amy and all was solved! She was AMAZING! We wanted a spiritual ceremony with certain readings, ceremonies, and sage smudging and Amy was up for anything! She was so organized, fun to work with, and put our minds at easy! She was just wonderful! We wanted someone who had that energy of a friend. That could be serious but also laugh with us. That was Amy. I would recommend Amy to everyone. Not just because she did a terrific job. But also because she is just such a wonderful person.

Amy was incredible to work with! She listened to what we wanted and made it a beautiful ceremony. Amy is one of the sweetest people so if you’re looking for someone to officiate your wedding, look no further!

Amy was such a gift to work with for our wedding. We were bringing together multiple faiths and including many people in our LGBTQ ceremony. Amy listened so well and asked supportive and helpful questions. She guided us in the process of developing a ceremony that was such a good reflection of our love and commitment and values. Our guests loved her and so did we. We can't imagine our wedding without Amy!

Rev. Amy exceeded our expectations and was one of the best choices we made in planning our wedding. She guided us through the ceremony planning and let us create a service that fit our faiths and personalities. We appreciated her responsiveness and willingness to meet to discuss things. We always looked forward to those meetings because she put our minds at ease amid the planning stress. Her appreciation of all faiths/spiritual journeys, compassion and humor make her exceptional at what she does. She truly went above and beyond to make our day special and memorable!

Amy is exactly the officiant you are looking for! She was perfection! Amy understood our vision, took all our input and feedback, and understood exactly what we were looking for in our ceremony. We also completed the four pre-marital counseling sessions with Amy and it was enlightening and beyond fun getting to know her and getting to understand us as a couple (even after dating for 9 years before getting engaged!). She just had a way of making us feel comfortable and getting us to talk about everything. Our wedding guests are STILL talking about her ceremony, even months later. We cannot recommend Amy enough - she truly made our wedding day perfect.

We feel so lucky to have found Amy to officiate our wedding. Amy was so kind from the moment we spoke through video chat due to Covid. She spent time to get to know us and the guests thought we had known her for years. The creativity she put into our ceremony along with the ways she personalized it was beyond what we dreamed of. It was just perfect.

I can’t say enough good things about Amy. She made our ceremony so incredibly special I did not except it to be that amazing. She has a sense of humor, personalized it to us and kept our friends and family in line that need a little extra attention. I can’t put to words how great she is. She truly has a big heart and her calm personality made me feel so comfortable.

Amy was absolutely everything we could have wanted in an officiant. From our first call it was apparent that she was one of the kindest, most open minded people that we’d ever met, and it only got better from there. Every call left us feeling so calm and excited for our wedding. She made sure to get to know us and our religious beliefs and crafted a unique ceremony that was tailor made to us and ended up being my favorite part of the entire day. All of our family and friends commented on how genuine and full of love our ceremony felt. 

She was almost like having an extra wedding coordinator for the ceremony. She made a detailed itinerary, checked audio equipment ahead of time, and coordinated with our ceremony music to make sure everything ran absolutely perfectly. If you are looking for a personalized ceremony that reflects you and your significant other perfectly, I could not recommend Amy more.

Reverend Amy was a fantastic officiant for our wedding at The Quarterdeck Resort in Nisswa, MN. We were in a pinch as our other officiant could no longer perform our service. We were blessed to have found Amy. She is so friendly, organized, and communicates effectively. She personalizes your service. She takes the time to get to know you as a couple. After the service many of our guests though that we have known Amy for years. Hire Reverend Amy for your wedding if you want a personal service that you will never forget.

Amy is an amazing Minister. Her wonderful personality made us feel comfortable from the beginning. Very quick to respond to our emails and phone calls. Extremely professional and very easy to work with. She helped us create a ceremony that was exactly what we both wanted. We would highly recommend her to be a part of your special day.

We found exactly what we were looking for in Amy. She is a wonderful person and minister. She is extremely approachable and helped us find a balance between my husband's and my preferences and perspectives. She responded to us quickly as we were deciding the format and message of our ceremony. She came in with suggestions when we needed direction and encouragement in moments of frustrations. She arrived early to our rehearsal and wedding, which brought us ease. My husband and I both come from big families and she managed this flawlessly. Amy exudes a a great balance of professionalism and sincere care . Do not hesitate to have her as your minister. You will not regret it.

I can't undersell it - we were extraordinarily lucky to find Amy as our minister. She was on top of all of the details of the ceremony every step of the way. She ran the show flawlessly for the rehearsal and ceremony. And she was a brilliant pre-marital counselor that helped us grow our relationship in ways that I didn't think were possible. You won't regret choosing her.

Amy was so wonderful to meet with and was a fantastic guide in crafting our wedding ceremony. We truly enjoyed working with her and we were so pleased with our wedding day. Many of our friends and family sought us out afterwards to remark on how beautiful the ceremony was and how well it reflected us.

Reverend Amy Riesenberg was an amazing find as the officiant for our wedding. Rev. Amy was thorough, dedicated, and a pleasure to work with. From our first meeting with her and throughout she provided valuable guidance and ideas to make our wedding the amazing day that it was. We highly recommend her!

Amy did an amazing job officiating our wedding. She made the service very personal and was easy to communicate with. It also feels like we made a good friend on our journey of planning our wedding ceremony with her. We could not imagine anyone else helping us with our wedding. She made our day so much easier and perfect. Amy was outstanding.

We were so lucky to have Amy as our officiant during our wedding this fall. She is such an amazing person and cared so much for making our big day so special. I highly recommend her for your wedding day!

Amy was a real joy to work with! She helped us customize our wedding ceremony and make it perfect for our wedding day! Thank you Amy!

Amy was fantastic!! She made our day so much more special than I ever thought she could. Very thorough and makes sure you get what you want! Besides all that, she is such a fun person to be around and talk to.

We absolutely loved Amy as the officiant of our wedding! She is extremely kind, bubbly and easy to work with. I am Jewish and my now husband is not. She was so helpful in giving us ideas and options on how to do our ceremony while never pushing her own thoughts or agenda on how we should do things. She made the whole process of designing our ceremony and vows a total breeze. When the rehearsal and wedding day finally came, I was totally confident that the ceremony would go perfectly (and it did!). We were unsure how it would feel to have a "stranger" marry us, but Amy was so personable throughout the process that she definitely did not feel like a stranger on the day of our wedding. We couldn't have been happier with our ceremony and the whole process with Amy!

Amy was absolutely amazing, and my husband and I highly recommend her! She is so friendly and personable! After the first meeting, we felt like we had known Amy for years!

Rev. Amy was perfect for us and our wedding! My husband and I grew up in the Christian faith (me Lutheran, him Catholic), but we wanted a wedding ceremony that was more spiritual than religious and felt welcoming for everyone of all faiths. We did the premarital counseling sessions with her, which really helped us to learn more about how eachother thinks, and to identify where our relationship's growth areas were. I highly recommend doing the counseling with her if you're able to. Rev. Amy is caring, non-judgemental, very funny, and very fun! At our rehearsal dinner, she knew exactly how to wrangle routy groomsmen and unsure parents. The ceremony was beautiful - and Amy's words and message during the ceremony were so heartfelt, real, and represented my husband and I very well. Everything went so smoothly with Amy there. Highly recommend!!!

We are so glad that we had Amy officiate our wedding. From day one, she was communicative, warm, open-minded, and easy to talk to. She helped us create the perfect ceremony that made us and many of our guests cry. She was wonderful with our families and so helpful at the rehearsal. Amy is punctual, organized, flexible, and positive. She was extremely cool, calm, and collected when unexpected and uncontrollable things happened during our ceremony. For example, the sound system we rented from our ceremony venue broke-- not Amy's fault at all and she spoke loudly for the rest of the ceremony so our guests could hear. Also, right when I (the bride) was about to walk down the aisle with my parents, a loud train came through town! We all took it in stride and Amy was so calm about it. She has an incredibly welcoming and peaceful presence that we and our guests could all feel. Amy was incredible from beginning to end!

Amy is wonderful! Looking back at the wedding, I realize that we had absolutely 0 stress regarding our ceremony, and I think that it's mostly due to Amy. She has a wonderful process for planning out the ceremony, and she was very helpful in creating a ceremony that would appear "sufficiently religious" to please my parents while still being a ceremony that my husband and I wanted. As an added bonus (besides being an awesome officiant) Amy is just hands down one of the friendliest people I've ever met!

Amy did a great job balancing our different backgrounds and religions. The ceremony itself was extremely well-run, and we received a lot of great feedback about Amy and her delivery. I highly recommend Amy for any interfaith wedding ceremony.

Amy is amazing, so sweet, and a great choice for an officiant. We also used her for pre-marital counseling and we both loved the experience. We both appreciated her open mind, creativity, and positive attitude through everything. She knows her stuff!

My wife and I were thrilled with Rev. Amy! She brought her whole self to our ceremony, and all our guests loved her personal touch. Her kindness and ease with our unusual processional was truly wonderful. Whatever we suggested, she was able to incorporate it and make it special. All around fantastic!

Reverend Amy officiated our outdoor wedding ceremony this weekend, and she was just incredible! My fiancé and I are both very spiritual people, though we do not identify with a particular religion, and we have several family members who follow Catholic and Lutheran religious practices. Amy did an amazing job of helping us craft a ceremony that was true to our values, but also sensitive to the beliefs of others. We absolutely LOVED working with her for the past several months. She is kind, open-minded, big-hearted, and welcoming with a great sense of humor. I would highly recommend Rev. Amy to anyone and everyone! If I could give more stars, I would!

She made us so comfortable and was so fun and professional! So great!! Definitely recommend her!

Rev. Amy was great officiated our wedding this last July. Amy did a great job customizing our ceremony content to what we wanted. She was very prompt and organized for all of our meetings, rehearsal, and day of wedding. Some of our wedding party was a little rowdy after a day on the golf course for the rehearsal and Amy was great about commanding the room and getting everyone in line. We received lots of compliments on the ceremony and Amy from our guests!

We can't say enough wonderful things about Reverend Amy. For our wedding, the bride was Catholic, and the groom was Jewish. After contacting Amy via her website, we were able to meet her for coffee in Minneapolis. She asked why we didn't want a wedding in either a church or a temple. She made sure we were choosing an interfaith ceremony for the right reasons. After our first meeting, we were sold. Her approach to creating a wedding where we both felt included, and both of our backgrounds were represented was absolutely perfect. Her sense of spirituality and her sunny disposition helped us feel confident in choosing her to officiate our ceremony. Amy made sure that we could include traditions from both of our faiths. We wanted to ensure that our Catholic and Jewish relatives were able to feel welcome, without overshadowing either background. She made the entire process of planning extremely simple. Amy provided a wide array of traditional readings, prayers, blessings, and poems to choose from. Every aspect of the ceremony outline and wording was customized to our preferences. Best of all, we heard over and over again from our family and friends that our wedding was the most meaningful ceremony they had ever seen. Amy made both cultures feel welcome and represented. From modern liberal friends with no real religious ties to our most conservative traditional grandmothers, everyone said it was the best wedding ever. Amy made our wedding so incredibly special, and we will always be grateful for her guidance, presence, and support.

Amy was a delight to work with. She was very flexible for our meetings, and provided so much guidance when it came to writing our ceremony. She was perfect for us, and she'd be perfect for you!

Amy was great to work with, cared about our service, and helped make our day a success. Very capable and highly recommended.

Rev. Amy was such a delight to meet! We could tell right away that she was open to whatever we wanted to do and include in our wedding ceremony. She had great ideas to personalize our ceremony after only meeting once! It was like she already knew our personalities and what was special to us. Amy was also so easy to communicate with over email and phone as we live out of town and only made a couple trips to the cities. Our ceremony was emotional and touching, but fun at the same time. There wasn't a dry eye in the room when Amy read our personalized messages that even we hadn't heard yet. It was amazing and flawless! Rev. Amy stressed to us that if we ever needed her at ANY point in our lives, she would be there. What an amazing lady! We will definitely see her again!

Amy did an excellent job officiating our wedding! We had the opportunity to meet with Amy a few times before our wedding day and we were able to get to her know on a more personal level. She knows how to make the ceremony fun but yet still be professional.

Amy was wonderful, we were so happy to find her. Amy provided options for every part of the ceremony for the opening prayer to the vow, to the introduction of us as a married couple. Amy is professional, friendly, reliable, and really listened to what we wanted. I would highly recommend Amy to any couple getting married - stress free.

Amy was a fantastic fit for our wedding. She took the time to get to know my husband and I and she worked with us to create a ceremony that felt true to us and that was very personalized. It was great working with someone who had done many weddings before and who had a sense of professionalism, but also is very down to earth and easy to talk to. Amy is very warm, kind, and offered helpful suggestions for ceremony options. We are very happy we went with Amy - it eased any concerns we had about the ceremony and we were able to just enjoy our big day.

Amy is amazing! From the minute we met her, she made us laugh and feel comfortable. She was really easy to talk to and asked great questions about our relationship and what we wanted for our ceremony. Planning a wedding can be really trying at times so working with the great people makes it so much easier and that's what Amy did for us! We got so many compliments after the wedding on our ceremony and it was all because of Amy! So if you are where my husband and I were trying to find an Officiant for your wedding and feeling a little awkward picking someone from Google, you've come across someone whose truly a great person, who wants your wedding ceremony to be a great experience and we highly recommend her! We can't thank her enough for giving us a great ceremony we'll remember forever!

We were really happy to go with Amy. We had our original pastor cancel somewhat close to the wedding so we scrambled to find anyone. We were fortunate Amy was available. Several pastors we had contacted who were unavailable recommended her to us. She was very responsive, flexible, and worked with us on making our ceremony unique but also including a religious touch we were looking for. We heard lots of compliments from friends and family about her after the ceremony.

Amy was so great! From the moment my wife and I met with her, we knew that we wanted her to be our officiant. We met with Amy prior to the wedding day several times for sessions that doubled as premarital counseling and ceremony planning. During these sessions Amy presented us with numerous communication techniques that we think will benefit us for our entire marriage. Her fun personality and sense of humor also kept the sessions light and fun. She was also a great help planning the ceremony. She shared lots of great ideas and wisdom but never pushed us to to anything that we didn't want. On wedding day the ceremony went exactly as planned (which is a good thing!) Amy did a great job of letting us know exactly what to expect and she delivered a beautiful personalized message about my wife and I that was based on questions we had answered separately. Overall, we can't say enough about how great Amy was! We highly recommend her services!

We used Amy for premarital counseling and as an officiant for our wedding. We were a little nervous going in because we'd found her online and didn't know what to expect, but she was a really warm and wonderful person. I'd definitely recommend premarital counseling with Amy -- 100% worth the price to a) really get to know her before your wedding and b) get some really great insights into your relationship and how to make it stronger. My husband and I already had what I'd consider a strong relationship, but her counseling sessions were always eye-opening, enjoyable and really practical/useful. Then she used what she'd learned about is in the sessions to craft a personalized, warm, meaningful ceremony. And I should add she's also hilarious, so the ceremony really struck the perfect tone. Just the right amount of levity. All of our guests raved about Amy and the ceremony. (Seriously, even our wedding party raved about the wedding rehearsal she organized -- she's just so on top of everything and fun and knows exactly what she's doing. I cannot recommend Amy enough -- we wish she did regular marital counseling too so we could continue to see her! Just an all-around great person.

We were looking for a minister to perform our wedding ceremony because we did not belong to a church congregation, and we found Reverend Amy in an online search. Both of us were impressed by her reviews, and she met our criteria of being a progressive, interfaith minister. When we first met Amy for coffee to introduce ourselves, we were immediately drawn to her warmth and her humor. It was clear that she took her work as an officiant seriously, but also that her focus would be on crafting a ceremony that was unique to us as a couple. When she insisted on giving us each a hug before we left the coffee store, we knew that she was someone we could quickly build a connection with and decided to hire her for counseling as well as officiating. We met with Amy four times for counseling before our wedding, and each session was a chance for the two of us to explore aspects of our relationship that we had never discussed out loud before. Our conversations were enlightening, heartfelt, and often left us all laughing, while the homework assignments we received help facilitate more discussion at home. Amy also helped us understand our differences, and moderated the tougher conversations with grace. While the counseling sessions were great in their own right, they also had the great side effect of helping inspire her sermon at our wedding. She worked with us to plan our ceremony, helping us select readings, blessings, and vows; and she was great at working with our wedding party during the rehearsal to get everyone prepared for the big day. The ceremony went off without a hitch, and everyone found Amy’s words to be inspiring and personal, with just the right dose of humor. We could not have been happier with Amy as an officiant or as a counselor. She did a great job helping us plan all the minute details of our wedding day, but she also made sure we took the time to consider what being married would actually mean for us going forward.

Amy was exactly what we were looking for and more! My now husband and I both come from different religious backgrounds and wanted a way to display that at our wedding but not be overly religious. Finding an officiant that would make this unique for us was a bit of a challenge but Amy couldn't have been a more perfect fit. As soon as we met her we knew she was the one for us. Amy was very patient as we worked through how our wedding would be and gave insightful advise when she knew we needed it most. After our wedding, and still to this day, our guests talk about how personal our wedding was and how great of a job Amy did! I would recommend her to anyone and feel extremely blessed to have her be such a huge part in our day! Thank you Amy! Love - Ashley and Josh

Amy worked with my husband and I for our premarital counseling sessions this past summer 2015. We had a difficult schedule, and were living in 2 different states. She was fantastic at planning our meetings around that. More importantly, Amy is an incredibly down to earth, kind, intelligent, and open minded person. Her positive attitude and happy disposition helped make talking through some tough topics easy. She was able to work with us through the Prepare/Enrich inventory and evaluated the results in a realistic way which matched our spiritual/religious beliefs, rather than being a stickler. We appreciated her candid nature and ability to personally relate to us. We felt fortunate to be able to talk through a lot of the big topic issues many couples face, and reaffirm our love for each other. Amy is fantastic and I would highly recommend her to anyone!

My wife and I had an interfaith Jewish/Christian ceremony. We were initially worried about being able to blend our two faith traditions into a meaningful, enlightening ceremony, but Amy helped make our day more perfect than we possibly could have imagined. She was friendly, outgoing, and really made us feel empowered to make our ceremony what we wanted it to be. She provided thoughtful solutions and was, simply put, the glue that made the entire ceremony fit together. Her personality and demeanor was EXACTLY what we were looking for, and she was so knowledgeable about both faith traditions that we were completely at ease. One of our favorite things about working with Amy was that she was never pushy or adamant about doing something a certain way. She made sure we knew that she was there for us in whatever way we needed her to be, whether it was running the entire ceremony herself, taking a back seat to her co-officiant, or even singing some Hebrew prayers. Her biggest concern was us and our happiness, which is something that cannot be understated. DO NOT HESITATE to work with Amy – you’ll be glad you did.

Amy was an outstanding choice to officiate our wedding. We were looking for someone who could speak to the full range of people attending: religious and not, married and single, young and old, with respect for people's ideas and traditions, but without making our ceremony explicitly religious. Amy did this perfectly. Her counseling leading up to our wedding was also excellent. She is at her best when giving her own ideas and opinions; her canned curriculum, Prepare and Enrich, was not particularly useful for us, but her own words and wisdom were. Prepare and Enrich may be useful for some couples, but for us, as non-religious people who had lived together for a while already, it was overly focused on dimensions of marriage that didn't apply to our particular case. When she got away from Prepare and Enrich, Amy was truly fantastic, full of sage advice and realistic ways to manage expectations and to recognize each others' struggles. Her advice on communication was especially good. Planning the ceremony with Amy was easy. She had a great range of readings, rituals, and other things for us to choose from, and she did a great job of incorporating our requested changes even at the last minute. In all, Amy was a pleasure to work with, wrote and delivered a beautiful ceremony for us, and most importantly, made us and everyone else involved feel comfortable and confident about the wedding. She is a caring professional that we recommend to anyone.

Amy is a wonderful officiant. She made our ceremony meaningful and special. Thank you Amy!

I went to high school with Amy back in the day, and had the wonderful opportunity to have her marry my husband, Ignacio, and I earlier this month! She had a great way of asking us questions to help us think about what we wanted to communicate to one another during our ceremony. She also took what she learned about our feelings for one another and our relationship and wove them into a beautiful ceremony. Thank you so much for the perfect wedding!!!

Amy is fantastic. My fiancée and I instantly knew we wanted her to perform our ceremony when we had our first meeting. I felt she really took the time to know us and personalize our ceremony. It went awesome and was totally our personality. She made everything stress free and fun! We couldn't have been happier and we received many compliments from our family and friends about how lovely the ceremony was. Thank you Rev. Amy!

Amy was the perfect officiant. She was warm, respectful, offered counsel, was wonderful with both of our families, and made the entire experience a true pleasure. Highly, highly recommend.

I cannot say enough kind words about Amy. I feel truly blessed that our original Pastor was unable to marry us and we had to revisit who would be a good fit. Sometimes things really do happen for a reason. From the minute we met Amy both my Husband and I were both at ease. She has such a laid back personality and is open to tailoring your ceremony for whatever fits your needs. Many vendors I looked at had different price brackets for how many modifications you wanted to make to your ceremony. With Amy it was one price for as many modifications as needed to make it truly yours. After the wedding I had so many compliments about Amy from guests and how wonderful they felt our ceremony was. She not only tailored our ceremony to what was unique to us, but prior to the wedding day she sent both my Husband and I "Love" questions about each other. With these questions she prepared a short section during the ceremony where she described what we each loved about each other. It was such a special moment to be standing in front of our friends and family and hear this together. So many couples focus on the reception details. My best and highest recommendation is to not forget about the reason you're celebrating and find someone who will make that moment when you say "I Do" feel magical. For us, Amy was that person. Her passion, dedication to your love story and overall demeanor were worth every penny and I feel so fortunate to have stumbled upon her when searching for an Officiant. Thanks Amy for everything!

There aren't enough nice things I can say about Rev. Amy! We choose to do premarital counseling with her and we are so happy we did! It gave us the opportunity go grow as a couple, but also get to know Amy. She is so funny, kind and unique which flowed through to our ceremony which we are so thankful for! All of Amy's ideas for vows and readings were totally unique which is what we wanted, no cookie cutter vows for us. I would definitely recommend Amy to anyone! Thank you for making our day even more special, Amy! We can't thank you enough!

Both my husband and I truly enjoyed working with Amy on our premarital counseling. She was comfortable, warm and extremely helpful. Would highly recommend her to anyone. She also is one of the best officiants I have ever seen during a ceremony and was beyond impressed with her speaking skills and presence on the actual day. I had multiple people tell me after the ceremony how great she was and some asked me for her information. She was outstanding to work with and couldn't be happier that we chose her as our officiant. She truly made our day as special as I would of ever hoped for.

Amy did A great job and knew when and how to put up with my husbands being funny. Amy is so much fun to talk to and has a great sense of humor. Thank you Amy for your support and have fun with us on our day. Kelly Lundberg

Rev. Amy was FANTASTIC. From the moment we met, she made my now-husband and I feel incredibly comfortable. We had the opportunity to meet with her a few times before the wedding, and even though we were meeting to lay out wedding plans Amy made it really fun. She has a great sense of humor, is incredibly creative and caring, and made our wedding ceremony incredibly special to us. Amy is SO easy to work with and tailored our wedding ceremony to fit our preferences perfectly. She was also a rock star at our wedding rehearsal the day before, and kept our large wedding party and family on track while still keeping the tone of the rehearsal fun and light-hearted. A+++!!

When my husband and I were planning our wedding, the second most important decision we had to make (after picking the date and the venue) was who was going to marry us. We had both been raised in a faith that we no longer felt a great connection to, but we wanted our marriage ceremony to be more spiritual than a "justice of the peace" wedding. This search led us to Rev. Amy. Rev. Amy is an interfaith minister, and although my husband and I were technically of the same faith, she was willing to make our ceremony as spiritual or religious as we wanted it to be. She spent almost an entire year getting to know us prior to our wedding - she gave us surveys to complete about ourselves and our relationship and met with us several times over the year. Then, when she felt like she understood what we wanted our ceremony to be like, she drafted a first draft of our ceremony. We were allowed to customize it and make our own, and we went through several drafts. My favorite part was that she sent my husband and I "love questions" a few weeks before the wedding that we answered separately. She used our answers to those questions to craft a surprise message to us on our wedding day. Overall, the whole ceremony was beautiful and we got many compliments on it. Rev. Amy was very professional and really led the whole bridal party through the ceremony. The best part about getting to know Amy is that we now have a minister for any of our growing family's needs. She is truly a very special person and I'm really glad we got to know her through this process.

We met with a few wedding officiants and Rev. Amy was by far our favorite. We just felt so at ease with her, she has a great sense of humor. We had a blast in marital counseling sessions and her delivery during our wedding ceremony was so touching and memorable. I had guests at the reception commenting about the ceremony and asking where I found Rev. Amy! I highly recommend her!

We are so happy that we found Amy on The Knot and set up a meeting with her! She was absolutely wonderful to work with! We did our pre-marital counseling with her as well, and I am so glad we chose to spend the time doing it! Amy has the ability to make you feel comfortable talking about personal matters in a judgement free zone. My now husband, who is on the shy side, even felt comfortable with her! Our ceremony was beautiful! Amy included a personal message to us, and our guests (including myself) felt like she hit the nail on the head! We have received so many compliments on our ceremony! It was simple, personalized, and just plain wonderful!

We wholeheartedly recommend Rev. Amy as a wedding officiant because our experience was truly outstanding. She did a great job meeting both of us where we were at in regards to faith, including the level of spirituality we wanted and was really flexible to work with. Amy helped us create a ceremony that was truly authentic and represented our journeys and personalities. This included some tradition but also non-traditional rituals that we created. We were also so impressed at how fast Amy got to know us and incorporated this into the ceremony to really personalize the experience we and our guests had. We had numerous people tell us that our ceremony was the best they had ever seen. Co-creating our ceremony with Amy was just what we needed to help our ideas come into a reality as Amy provided a lot of resources and ideas to us along the way. Thank you Amy for sharing your gifts with us! We absolutely recommend you to couples that want a ceremony rich with meaning.

Looking back, I can't really imagine our wedding without Reverend Amy. She helped us to create a ceremony that was meaningful to us and I think it clearly came through to our guests -- nearly everyone we talked to complimented us on the ceremony and officiant. She led an organized, fun, and somehow meaningful rehearsal and was a popular guest at dinner. Once you meet her, you'll want to invite her to your wedding anyway, so you might as well hire her to officiate. :) Rev. Amy loves people and bringing out the best in them and their relationships. She is a special person and I feel so blessed that she was there to help us share our joy and love with everyone on our wedding day.

My husband and I don't currently belong to a church, so when it came to choosing an officiant we had a tough choice to make. We didn't like the idea of a judge as it was important to us to have religion in our ceremony, so I did some searching before I found Rev. Amy on this website. I was impressed with all the reviews, so we decided to give her a shot and as soon as we met her we knew we had found our minister! Rev. Amy is so easy to work with and she is all about making sure that the focus is on you on that special day. She tailors the ceremony to exactly what you would like it to be and she kept everyone organized at the rehearsal and the ceremony and had everything planned out ahead of time to prevent any drama. We ended up doing premarital counseling with her as well, and it was fantastic. She was impartial, non-judgmental, and really helped us to identify where our relationship could improve as well as what our strengths are. We are both so glad that we met Rev. Amy and we'd recommend her to anyone!

Rev Amy was exceptional to work with! We wanted to work with Amy from the first moment we met. She is extremely down to earth, and really takes the time to get to know you, and understand your wedding concept. Amy is an extremely positive person and will not let you down. Amy will also take the time to do the rehearsal if you choose. We both highly recommend having her at your rehearsal. Amy runs through the whole process, and more importantly gets to know the wedding party, and your family. It truly makes the actual ceremony run much smoother, and everyone is far more confident when it is Showtime! The ceremony went flawlessly, and everything turned out beautiful! If you are looking for a professional Minister, with a great sense of humor and full of experience, Amy is the right person for you. We both highly recommend Rev Amy!!

From our first premarital counseling session through our ceremony Reverend Amy was wonderful! She was very attentive, easy to work with, and extremely flexible. We enjoyed getting to know her through our premarital counseling. She also offered us many resources for us to continue to use as we start our marriage. Our ceremony was beautiful. We worked with Reverend Amy to create a ceremony that was unique to us and our families. She gave us a number of ideas and the freedom to create the ceremony we wanted. After our ceremony, we received so many compliments from guests about the easy going nature of the ceremony, so many people appreciated the personalized service. Reverend Amy has a very flexible style and her easy going nature made our service flow so naturally. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed working with Reverend Amy from the first premarital counseling session through our ceremony. We both feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Reverend Amy. During our rehearsal Reverend Amy really made things come together and was able to organize everyone, so we had an idea of what was going on. Reverend Amy had a wonderful balance of leading and letting us develop our ceremony. We appreciated her professionalism and humor. Reverend Amy knows how to work with people in a kind, humorous, and gentle way. We appreciated all of her flexibility and patience as we went through several transitions during our engagement. We appreciated Reverend Amy's wise words, support, and encouragement through our premarital and wedding. We cannot express enough how thankful we were to have the opportunity to work with Reverend Amy. We would recommend her to anyone looking for a pastor to work with.

Amy was fantastic to work with! We lived far away from her so we didn't meet her face to face until our rehearsal, but she stayed in contact with us during the planning phase. She made picking vows and readings very easy, and made sure our rehearsal ran smoothly. Our wedding ceremony was perfect, thanks to her!

One of the biggest questions we had when we began planning our wedding was "How are we going to create a wedding ceremony that is true to our own personal philosophies, but at the same time is still inclusive for our family and friends?" I was inviting about 100 members of my closest family members, many of which are midwestern Catholics. We also had my then fiancee's family flying in from Taiwan (they are Taiwanese and also Jehova's Witnesses). Rev. Amy helped us start with our general idea of what we wanted to say at our wedding, and turn it into something awesome - she helped us find readings, poetry, and even a unity candle idea that gave our wedding a more 'ceremonial' feel. She met with us several times, and I knew from our very first meeting that she would fit in so well with my family. She has a great sense of humor, and is really good at helping everyone feel at ease during the most tense times (especially our hectic rehearsal that I could have planned better!) She was always thinking about how to make our ceremony better - everything from offering her own great sound system and microphone for our vows to thinking of the little details that I missed when planning my wedding. She is multi-talented with backgrounds as a musician, minister, and even wedding planner, and also has a great speaking voice and did a great job reading a passage we chose. I can truly say when I look back at our experience, that my wedding day was the happiest day of my life, and am excited for everyone that has still yet to experience this! Amy was such an important part of our wedding and we're both so happy to have met her and are honored that she was able to be there make our wedding day a success!

After considering several ministers, we chose to meet with Rev. Amy. We knew immediately that she was the right fit. She was very personable and helped with the ceremony layout. Her warm smile and gentle embraces won us over. Her professionalism at the ceremony, along with a little humor, made for a perfect setting. Thanks Rev. Amy !

Amy is the absolute best. She is so kind hearted, caring and wholesome. My husband and I did pre-martial counseling with Amy as well as had her officiate our ceremony. Unlike many couples, we very much enjoyed going to our pre-marital sessions with Amy. Time flew by, it was so much fun and my husband and I learned a lot about one another. Amy was also amazing at our ceremony. We received so many compliments on how great of a job she did. I would highly recommend her to any couple!

Rev. Amy worked with us on Premarital Counseling and officiated our wedding. Amy is down to earth, super fun to work with,prompt and professional. Very understanding and took the time to really get to know us and to help us set our marriage up for success. The ceremony was so personal and many guests approached us afterward with wonderful comments. It was everything we hoped it to be!

Amy was a pleasure to work with and a true professional. She was patient with our of our requests, and we genuinely felt like she cared about us and our service. She was a leader at our rehersal, and kept everyone in line. Amy was kind and accommodating. She gave us several options to use for readings and layouts for our ceremony. She sent us several drafts until we were happy with the outcome. I would highly recommend Amy for any service, and we would use her again if the situation arose. We couldn't have been more happy with the services she provided.

Rev. Amy was absolutely wonderful! She was %100 accommodating to all of our requests. She married my wife and I, along with another couple (our best friends and witnesses). Rev. Amy went above and beyond. She met us the day after the wedding to ensure that the paperwork was done properly for an out of state marriage license. One of the best things about her was that she was very helpful and gave us suggestions when we asked without pressuring us to do anything in a way that wasn't just right for us. We feel so blessed to have found Rev. Amy and to have had her as such an important part of our big day. From the very happy couple, Allison and Jess

We met with two officiants before our wedding, and we had a hard time choosing between the two. Ultimately we chose Amy because I liked the vibe that I got from her-- she has a calm and reassuring energy that I thought would help me get through the ceremony if I was feeling nervous! After we had officially chosen her and then met with her "officially", we knew we had made the right decision. She is so easy to talk to and feel like you've known her forever. After the first official meeting, we worked mostly with her via email to create a personal ceremony for us. After the ceremony, we had a number of people compliment us on how beautiful and personal our ceremony was and remark on Amy's calming presence. (Even our very religious family members didn't seem to notice that we had created a completely non-religious ceremony and said that it was one of the most beautiful ceremonies that they'd been to!) I highly recommend Amy as a wedding officiant. She is one of the best!

So thrilled that we had Amy marry us! Amy came to us through our planner after a tough situation in which a family member could no longer marry us as planned. Honestly it must have been a sign because Amy gave us the most beautiful wedding ceremony we could have asked for. She genuinely wanted to know our story, and we've had so many people say how "us" our ceremony was. Amy wrote the ceremony specifically for our day and her huge heart and "love for love" is so evident in how she communicates with you as an individual and a couple. We did not want a "one size fits all" service, and it was anything but! We wish we could have Amy come talk to us about our love every day! :) Completely professional, organized and open minded, everything you want in a person helping you complete most important part of your wedding day.

Rev. Amy did an amazing job. We could not have been happier. When she did the rehearsal, she made everyone know what we (bride and groom) wanted. She is friendly and got to know us. Her emails in regards to ceremony details were very helpful. She provided lots of different options for our event and we were able to tailor it to our liking. She even added a personal speech which was very nicely done. Again, Amy is an amazing person and she did an excellent job. We will be staying in touch with her.

We could not have chosen a more ideal person to conduct our wedding ceremony! After speaking to a number of officiants, we knew she was perfect immediately. As a warm and professional individual, Rev. Amy Riesenberg was a pleasure to work with from the beginning to end. She was thorough in getting to know us and crafted a ceremony that reflected our values, personality, and style. It was romantic, fun, thoughtful, and gracefully delivered. She made rehearsal and the day of the wedding easy and organized. Her love for her job and investment in each ceremony shines through. Our guests had many compliments about her service. I can't thank or recommend her enough!

Amy was WONDERFUL throughout the entire experience! So helpful, always in contact, and understanding of our unusual circumstances (my fiance was in the U.K. almost our entire engagement, besides the last three weeks before the wedding). She was more than willing to Skype him in and was great at giving advice and sharing different ideas, without pushing us in any one direction. Whatever your background is, I would suggest Amy over and over again because she will make your ceremony exactly what you want. She clearly loves weddings, she was so happy and excited leading up to the day, which is a great quality always, but especially in the person who will be leading such an important day. She was very clear that we could tell her if we weren't happy with anything, she was so willing to change and edit the ceremony throughout the process. It was never awkward asking her to add or remove something, since she was always reminding us that she wouldn't be offended. She was bright, excited, friendly and smiley, exactly what I wanted from an officiant during the ceremony- she looked ecstatic to be there and so supportive of us, which I am sure is more enjoyable for guests that the officiant doesn't look bored! There is nothing I would've changed about our experience with Amy Riesenberg and I'm so happy she was a part of our day!

My husband and I got married July 27, 2013 outside in the country. Rev Amy was more than we could have hoped for! She made sure that our ceremony was totally tailored to exactly what we wanted and was so helpful in guiding us through the process. When it came to the big day and the weather was more than unseasonably cold and rainy she was so wonderful in adapting to the changes in location and making sure everyone knew what to do. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful and Amy's personal touch was just perfect! Amy is a kind and wonderful person and I would recommend her anyone!

We were married in May, 2013. Amy made sure that we had exactly the ceremony we wanted. We went through every word of the ceremony and Amy was willing to meet as many times as we wanted to get everything perfect. She also provided ceremony scripts for people that don't want to write their own ceremonies, or don't know where to start. She was very reliable and helpful through the whole process. We also did pre-marital counseling through Amy. She made sure that we understood all of the information from the packet and made it really worthwhile. I feel that we gained a lot from the counseling sessions. I would recommend Amy to anyone looking for a wedding oficiant or for pre-marital counseling!

Amy was a phenomenal minister and actually what my husband and I were hoping for. She was extremely positive and a great support to us. She helped us make our ceremony exactly how we wanted it. Amy will meet with you to answer any of your questions and to assist you in creating your ceremony as many times as needed. For any couple looking for a heartfelt, compassionate, and engaging minister, you will find all that and more when working with Amy.

As a couple, we couldn't have asked for anyone better to officiate our wedding. It was the perfect ceremony. When we met Amy for the first time, it was a instant connection, which made this experience even better! Amy is genuine, funny, caring, considerate and helpful! We told her exactly what we wanted and that is what we got! Amy is the perfect person to work with!!! Thank you so much for this amazing experience!

We had a simple New Years Eve in our living room with our family surrounding us. We were a little quirky - the groom wore flip flops. Amy was wonderful! Warm, funny,caring. She found a perfect reading for us. I found Amy online, met her for coffee and immediately knew she was the person I wanted conducting my wedding. I look forward to having an ongoing relationship with Amy. She is just that kind of person!

I contacted Amy through the Minnesota Officiants website, without knowing anything about her. We emailed back and forth for a few weeks before agreeing to meet face-to-face. As soon as my fiance and I met her, we knew she would be perfect for our ceremony! She was easy to talk to, humorous, compassionate, and so willing to work with our ideas. She made herself available to us, even though she was very busy with other weddings; you could never tell because she always made us feel like a priority. I even ended up calling her at home on a Sunday night, having a "bridal moment," and she very graciously took my call and talked me off my bridal ledge, lol! I would recommend Amy for anyone looking for an open-minded, caring, non-judgmental officiant. She is just WONDERFUL1

Amy is so much fun to work with. With our visions of our ceremony she gave us lots of ideas and helped to created the most memorable part of our day. She is simply amazing!! and so was our ceremony!