Another One Ties The Knot

s she added to the ceremony like the ring warming. It definitely added something special to our day. Her words during the ceremony were so touching and true to us as a couple. Highly, highly recommend her for all your officiant needs. Thank you for making our day that much more special!

e not knowing her before all of this, her process of questionnaires and a few virtual meetings made it very easy to help create the content of our ceremony (no religious elements and no bridal party for us), including being graceful and patient as we provided edits to the script. Cherise truly has a gift for words, and her presence, joy, and awareness of the smallest details throughout the ceremony are unmatched and make a huge difference. We received tons and tons of compliments from our guests on Cherise’s words and eloquent presence as she helped make our day what it was! My only wish is that we could have had more time to celebrate with her!

of course a bit of geek into our ceremony - and was more than happy to work with my best friend (and a maid of honor) to do a handfasting as well ^-^ She helped with timing and vow writing and even managed to print them out for us day of because we forgot to! 5 stars is not enough - 100/10 - hands down would recommend again and again. We cannot thank you enough - and apricate everything you've done!!! <3 Sami & Jaime <3

to share. Cherise wrote a beautiful ceremony script telling our love story. I also asked if the ceremony could honor my mom, who has passed, and Cherise did so very eloquently. Overall, the ceremony was exactly what we were looking for - short and sweet and beautiful. She is very organized, professional, and kind. Thank you Cherise! Would highly recommend.

rom guests on how amazing she was. Cherise is incredibly down to earth, funny and absolutely incredible at what she does! Highly recommend having her as a part of your day!

ed a beautiful ceremony just for us based on our journey together, our personalities as well as the beautiful rainforest backdrop we had wanted. We ended up incorporating a modified handfasting ritual involving our family members we made the moment extra special. Cherise definitely made our special day so much less stressful, and she was professional throughout the entire experience. There's no better officiant we could've asked for!

tell that she enjoys what she does. Cherise is on top of everything and checked in as necessary. We really appreciated that, especially when wedding planning could get overwhelming with other things happening simultaneously. She also provided options and tools when it came to our script and writing vows, which made it less daunting to tackle. She did an amazing job setting the tone on our wedding day and we loved that she put personal touches to our ceremony. We are so happy to have her at our wedding. Thank you Cherise!

cative, fast to respond and genuinely helpful and kind. We filled out a questionnaire, had a video meet and a phone chat before the ceremony to make sure everything was perfect. She gave clear instructions and timely email reminders to keep us on track to apply for our marriage license; payment was simple and easy through her website. Cherise suggested a ring warming for our small intimate group of 20 guests which we absolutely loved! We highly recommend Cherise and we’re grateful and honored that she officiated ours. Brian & Miki

d what a lot of other couples do, and we turned to Wedding Wire and The Knot for a list of officiants. We reached out to a handful that we liked and met with a few, but hands down, Cherise was by far the coolest, the most caring, understanding, communicative, and helpful. She genuinely wanted to get to know us and felt like this bright, warm, knowledgeable, and funny friend we'd known for years. After our consultation, we didn't even want to meet with anyone else (lol). We did, but it was unanimously clear she was the best choice. We're so glad we did too. She was helpful every step of the way, easing our fears, and confusion around how ceremonies are "supposed to go." She really wanted to tell our love story and make it a cool, modern, and relaxed ceremony. It wasn't stuffy (I did not want a stuffy ceremony), and it wasn't dragged on (I did not want a 45-minute ceremony; honestly, ours was probably 15 minutes, and it was perfect, especially because half of our guests had to sit in the hot sun). She also attended our rehearsal and helped us navigate that really well. She's VERY experienced and very fun to work with. We didn't want a very religious ceremony, but we weren't anti-religion either, so she kept it right in that sweet spot where it didn't offend ANYBODY. I even wrote her a message about some of the things I wanted her to say, and she said it verbatim. I thanked her for that, and she said, "If a couple tells me something they want said, I'm not going to change it thinking I can write it better than them." It was perfect. She added her own words to the ceremony as well that fit just right. She stepped out of the way before pronouncing us husband and wife, so she wasn't in the photo for the first kiss too. We got several compliments on her as our officiant (and my friends and family have no problems telling me how they really feel about something). She did a great job, and I definitely recommend her if you want the kind of ceremony we did. Thank you again, Cherise. Hopefully, we will work together on a different wedding soon (we're musicians [we co-run The Afterparty Band in Seattle], so we perform for a lot of weddings). :-) ~Tristin and Jeff Heiser

s super professional and easy going and easy to talk to. She made everything feel easy and helped calm the nerves on the big day. Overall, we would highly recommend Cherise for anyone's big day!

as it was. My whole family loved her! I’ve attended multiple weddings and the officiant never left much of an impression on me. I always found that their speeches sounded “samey”. With Cherise I felt the opposite. Her speech came off really heartfelt, flowed beautifully, and somehow the tone felt as if she knew us personally for many years even though we had only met her that day!! Finally, It warrants a mention that our marriage license paperwork was delayed so on the day of our ceremony we could not officially sign our papers and were not legally married quite yet. The delayed papers worried us leading up to the day of the ceremony as we thought it would negatively affect the ceremony somehow. Cherise quickly put our minds at ease and let us know that the ceremony would go on as planned. She then offered to meet with us once we received our paperwork in the mail at a later date to finish the signing. Well we received our papers a few days after the ceremony and thanks to Cherise’s willingness to meet up with us, my fiancée and I were officially married a few days later. Cherise was very professional and extremely accommodating throughout the whole process. We cannot recommend her enough!! Thank you for being wonderful Cherise!

wanted. Were not from the state of WA so having her handle the marriage license after the wedding was super helpful and relieve us the stress of doing it ourselves. Furthermore Cherise made everything easy from day one and it definitely showed on the wedding day as both of us felt at ease with her as our officiant!

y in between me hiring her and the wedding and even took the time to include him in our vows! She approaches you as if you were friends for years and took the time to explain everything! I would definitely hire her again for renewal’s when that time comes!

t and made our day PERFECT!!!

ure they’d mesh well. On the day of our wedding, she provided such a calm, positive energy, and created such a personal and beautiful ceremony for us. We have received so many comments about how people assumed she was our friend and have heard over and over that people loved the sentiment in our ceremony. We loved working with Cherise, and recommend her without hesitation!

had the most amazing energy! If we were to do it all over again, we would 1,000% pick Cherise!

ase. My husband and I kept cracking jokes at each other during the ceremony and she rolled with it like a pro. I have been getting texts raving about her and asking how long we have been friends which I think shows how comfortable we were with her! Thank you for making our day easy and even more beautiful!

our fur babies! She also told us about a really fun way to seal our ceremony with a shot, which our guests and wedding party loved. We received so many compliments after the wedding as well on the ceremony with folks specifically asking about Cherise! 10/10 would recommend!

b easy but she delivered a beautiful ceremony that had my dad in tears the whole time, and us beaming. Cherise took care to understand a few Jewish traditions, learned the tone of the ceremony we envisioned, and was a complete professional; I'd absolutely recommend her.

ng with a pep talk the week before my wedding about writing my own vows). Cherise was very easy to contact throughout the process over email and text. When the county called us about an issue with our marriage license while still on our honeymoon, Cherise took care of everything so we didn't need to!

through the process and helped us determine what we wanted our ceremony to look like. Choosing Cherise to perform our ceremony was truly one of the best decisions we made. For not having met each other in real life until the day-of the wedding, Cherise created an incredibly beautiful ceremony and described my husband and I's relationship perfectly and truly captured the essence of us. We highly recommend working with Cherise to officiate your wedding -- 100%!! Thank you for creating a perfect ceremony, Cherise! You are amazing! - Hannah & Alex