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Custom Ceremonies by Michele Zipp

5.0
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best-of-weddings

Hudson Valley, NYC, Tri-State Area

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Personally written custom ceremonies and rituals.

I am a non-denominational Ordained Minister and began this journey in 2011 when my best friends asked me to officiate their wedding. More friends asked. Friends of friends asked. And then word spread and I met with couples who became new friends. I love the ritual of weddings. I am a very spiritual person, a Reiki Master, empath, and healer. I’m also a professional writer and journalist, so telling your love story and finding the right words for your ceremony is part of my life’s work. Every ceremony is custom and can include meaningful rituals like handfasting, crystal grids, sage smudging, sound healing, Reiki, and more. I hand make handfasting cording, sage and botanical bundles, and a keepsake book with all the words spoken at your ceremony. I love all the beautiful details.

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Business Attributes
Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
Civil Union, Commitment Ceremony, Elopement, Interfaith Ceremony, Non-Religious Ceremony, Second Wedding , Vow Renewal Ceremony
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Spiritual
Wedding Activities
Wedding, Ceremony
Awards and Affiliations
Hall of Fame2022 Best of Weddings Winner2021 Best of Weddings Winner2020 Best of Weddings Winner2019 Best of Weddings Winner

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Reviewed On 7/12/2022 by Kelly B
Michele is the best officiant ever! We looked forward to our ceremony the most because we just knew how special Michele was going to make it. We were so blown away by how beautifully she put together our answers to questions. She had such an am...
azing understanding of us as a couple that our guests thought she actually knew us on a personal level. Everybody said it was the best ceremony they have ever been to. If Michele is available on your wedding day, do not hesitate to hire her to make your day extra special and magical. We will never forget how special our wedding ceremony was.
Reviewed On 6/26/2022 by Kate D
I don't even know where to begin to describe Michele-- so many of our guests were positively effusive about her work after witnessing our ceremony. My godmother was so impressed by our custom ceremony that she said if she were to ever be marrie...
d again, she would fly Michele out to Michigan for the event. If our GUESTS were that impressed, you can imagine what an absolute dream she was for the bride and groom to work with. Through two years of postponements, Michele was consistently supportive and reassuring, sticking with us and radiating light and wellbeing every step of the way. I will treasure our custom ceremony keepsake and the hand-woven handfasting cord that she created for us. Hire Michele to craft the words that will set the tone for your special day, it's the best decision you'll ever make :)
Reviewed On 10/21/2021 by Christina H
Michele is a dream! She made every aspect of our ceremony special and indicative of us as a couple. Our ceremony was nothing less than beautiful. Michele is perfect. She is exactly what we were hoping for in an officiant and more. The time, lov...
e, and effort she put into our ceremony was seen by everyone. Thank you for making our ceremony so incredibly special!
Reviewed On 9/24/2021 by Megan M
We booked Michele for our wedding ceremony after finding her here on the knot. Michele Zipp is an amazing human being. She is warm, kind, thoughtful, and even lets you in on her silly side. Michele instantly makes you feel like a friend. Her pr...
ocess of writing ceremonies is very personal, and a great way to reflect on why you are choosing your spouse amid the chaos of wedding planning. Michele is a story teller; she made our very average story seem like the most magical love story ever seen. And to us, it is the most magical story, so to have our feelings being portrayed so beautifully to our family and friends made our ceremony beyond meaningful. Michele also performed multiple rituals for us, including a smudging, a crystal grid for our rings, and a handfasting. All of our guests came up to us at the reception and were blown away by how beautiful and unique the ceremony was. Michele also makes a little booklet of the ceremony and gifted it to us along with the crystals from our grid and sage (that she grows herself). Michele is so amazing, and I cannot recommend her enough if you are looking for a meaningful ceremony.
Reviewed On 8/30/2021 by Victoria L
My family is catholic & for me to not get married in a church was a HUGE DEAL. MICHELLE Was amazing she delivered, spirituality , uniqueness and love to our ceremony and we loved every second. My guests were blown away.
Reviewed On 8/09/2021 by Kathryn S
Michele was beyond amazing! She did an amazing job sharing our love story with all our guests. Our guests spoke about how much they loved the ceremony all night long! It was our favorite part of the whole day too. A thousand times recommend!!!
Reviewed On 11/02/2020 by Rebecca W
Planning a micro-wedding during a global pandemic is probably the polar opposite of what I would call fun. But we honestly could not be happier with the way our day turned out, largely because of Michele. Throughout the processes, she has been ...
kind, professional and responsive. She has such a warm energy and is a beautiful writer. She crafted the most intimate and unique ceremony with custom rituals that felt right to us as a couple. She was able to weave in our personal stories and readings to make a ceremony that felt tailored perfectly to us. Everyone came up to us after to say how wonderful and personal it was. We will cherish the memory forever and we HIGHLY recommend Michele to anyone looking for an officiant!
Reviewed On 10/30/2020 by Arianna D
My husband Joe and I feel so grateful to have had Michele officiate our elopement ceremony. She is kind-spirited, open-minded, accommodating, and so thoughtful. She wrote the most beautiful script for us and really captured our love story perfe...
ctly. Plus, she put together the burned sage bundle, gorgeous ceremony book, ribbons from the handfasting ceremony, and the candles we used to have as keepsakes forever. She truly exceeded all of our expectations. Working with her was such a breeze, and I would highly recommend her to anyone!
Reviewed On 10/19/2020 by Katie D
For our wedding this weekend, my husband and I wanted something a little bit different and very special. We both come from different faiths, so we decided to go with a non denominational ceremony for our wedding. We came across Michele while se...
arching online and met with her shortly after. Michele is warm, loving, and so happy to be doing what she is doing. She really listened to us and wrote such a beautiful ceremony for our wedding. We were so touched by the way she chose to tell our love story - it really felt so personal to us and it was just perfect! All of our guests were so impressed with her and really felt that the ceremony was so special. We loved working with Michele, she was so wonderful and is so talented in the job that she does.
Reviewed On 10/07/2020 by Jenna G
My wife and I feel so lucky we were able to find Michele for our ceremony. She asked thoughtful questions about us as a couple and wove our answers into a beautiful story she told at our wedding. The unique rituals including the handfasting mad...
e the day so special. Our families were deeply moved. Michele is incredible to work with - we cannot recommend her highly enough!
Reviewed On 9/22/2020 by Amanda K
Michele delivered the most beautiful ceremony for our wedding - truly exceeding all of our expectations. She was communicative through the process, answered our questions, and worked with us as we changed locations last minute. We feel so lucky...
to not have had to worry at all about knowing the ceremony would be great, as Michele was so professional. Our guests are still talking about how wonderful our ceremony was, and how personal it was to us as a couple! Many shared that it was their favorite wedding ceremony they had ever been to. We wish we could get married again to have another opportunity to work with Michele.
Reviewed On 12/14/2019 by Ashley W
We were married last August and couldn’t be more pleased with Michele as our wedding officiant. The ceremony was absolutely our favorite part of the day, and many of our guests as well! I couldn’t imagine a more custom, more unique, and special...
way to tie the knot. Michele spoke to us every step of the way, creating custom vows and incorporating beautiful non-traditional customs into the ceremony. At the end she presented us with our vows in a book she made, and sent us dried flowers used in the ceremony grown from her own garden. Everyone was blown away by her professionalism and her personalized approach to weddings that we have even family members who want her to officiate their wedding! Couldn’t recommend more.
Reviewed On 11/01/2019 by Victoria M
Michele gave my husband and I the absolute perfect wedding day, and for that I will be forever thankful! So many people came up to us after the ceremony asking about our friend the officiant, not knowing that we only met once and enhanced a few...
emails. Michele is able to flesh out an entire love story of your relationship by a short questionnaire, and even my husband and I were amazed at how well she got us down! Michele was beyond easy to work with, and was nothing but kind and thoughtful through the entire progress, helping us from the rehearsal to the wedding. Our ceremony was behind beautiful, and everybody raved about the uniqueness behind the ceremony and rituals that encompassed it. If you’re considering using Michele as your officiant, say yes ASAP!
Reviewed On 10/30/2019 by Jessica E
Michele was recommended to us by Hasbrouck House in Stone Ridge. We are so glad to have had her as our officiant. She is a warm spiritual person. She clearly takes an interest in making the wedding special. She is well organized and atte...
ntive. Our wedding was small and intimate. We connected with Michele by phone and email. We never met her until the day of the ceremony! (That was just the way it worked for us). But we connected with her along the way and were confident she was the right choice from the questions she asked, her sincere interest, and obvious experience. She took our suggestions and incorporated them beautifully into a very meaningful ceremony. At our ceremony, we did an herbal handwashing, a crystal grid for our rings, read our vows, did a Ketubah signing, and had a breaking of the glass. Everything was very well prepared and flowed smoothly. It was a brilliant day and Michele was the perfect person to officiate. It is a pleasure to write this review for her!
Reviewed On 10/29/2019 by Katherine S
Michele was a dream to work with! We couldn’t imagine having anyone else officiate our wedding in June. Michelle was kind spirited, open minded and really helped personalize our wedding ceremony. An absolute pleasure to have met her!
Reviewed On 10/27/2019 by Katrina T
It can always be nerve racking choosing a stranger to help express your love for your significant other but I can tell you, there’s nothing to worry about when you choose Michele!! From the very first phone call there was a sense of warmth and ...
connection with her and we knew immediately she would be perfect to officiate our wedding. The ceremony is one of my fav memories of our wedding it was made just for us and Michele was there to help us mold and make it better than we could’ve imagined! Thank you!
Reviewed On 10/27/2019 by Sarah T
Michele is the best! I’m so happy to have found her. She is so sweet and really takes time to get to know you. Her ceremony was fully customized and included a telling of our love story along with fun rituals we picked together like singing bow...
ls and reiki. She also has the best speaking voice and goes with the flow (like winging it when the mic died). Couldn’t recommend her more highly!
Reviewed On 10/25/2019 by Kelly S
This was everything I hoped for. Michele and her team were not only professional and prompt, they put such thoughtfulness and emotion into our ceremony that made my heart swell. i cannot thank them enough.
Reviewed On 10/25/2019 by Alice N
Michele is absolute magic! She crafted the most lovely and personal ceremony for our private elopement. She is easy to talk and connect with. As well as very open to our ideas and offering her expertise to make things flow flawlessly! Michele b...
rought so much joy, creativity and peace to our wedding day!
Reviewed On 10/25/2019 by Emma W
Michele was a beyond amazing officiant! She is not only lovely to work with but crafted the most emotionally powerful ceremony for us! She sent us a seemingly simple list of questions to answer separately in the weeks leading up to our wedding....
However, the way in which she asked these questions allowed my husband and I to really express how we felt about each other and why we had decided to get married. When we met her the day of the wedding, it was if we had known her forever. She took the words we sent her and wove them into the perfect depiction of our love story. So many people approached me after the wedding asking if she was a friend of ours as she had spoken about our story with so much personal detail and love that the guests could feel it! The ceremony was my absolute favorite part of the entire day. I remember it vividly but she also gave us a copy of her words so we can relive it in case time makes us forget. She is so special and you would be so lucky to have her as part of your big day!
Reviewed On 10/25/2019 by Ramses G
Michele was absolutely amazing! She went above and beyond our expectations and really helped make this a memorable day for us. From the beginning until the end she was completely invested. After our wedding my wife and I actually had multiple...
conversations on how great she did, I would highly recommend her to anyone!
Reviewed On 10/09/2019 by Noel M
Michele is incredible! My husband and I were looking for someone to officiate our ceremony that would really showcase our love. Michele surpasses any expectations I could have had for the most important moment of our lives. She told our love st...
ory in such a beautiful comprehensive way that truly allowed us to reflect and appreciate one another while letting our guests in to our world. We did a unity candle ceremony, reiki for rings, and a crystal/botanical grid for the rings. Michele made us a beautiful ceremony book which includes everything she spoke. She also gave us a gift bag which included the botanicals and crystals from the ceremony as well as a handwritten note. She made our special day even more special than we could have imagined.
Reviewed On 9/09/2019 by Amanda G
Michele is an angel! That’s the only way to describe how she can be so utterly good at what she does for those who start out as strangers to her and end up as friends for life. She takes such great care to truly understand her couples, from i...
nitial connection and leading up to the wedding, and craft their most special and sacred ceremony moment that is perfectly unique to them. It’s incredible! She is in incredible! Leading up to our wedding, my husband and I knew that although we were both raised Roman Catholic, because were are not so religious as we are spiritual, we did not want to hold a traditional ceremony in a church. For our parents this was hugely upsetting. However, fast forward to our wedding day... our parents, families, and friends could not stop talking about how beautifully touching and “us” our ceremony was. In fact, we still have guests talking about it now, months later! And our parents!!! For us it was important to incorporate into our ceremony all the love and well wishes of our guests in witness. Michele helped to develop our suggestion of a ring warming, where our rings would be passed through each row of our guests so that they could bless our rings. Together with Michele we, also, worked to incorporate a crystal mandala for added blessings of our rings and of our marriage, a unity candle lighting, reiki, and a couple readings which we asked family members to read aloud, and an intimate vow exchange sans microphone. Michele managed to fit everything we were hoping to say and do into our ceremony program so smooth and effortlessly. Our ceremony was beyond magical and mystical and love-filled and unforgettable. For my husband and I and for all our guests. It was simply put: perfect! To add to it all, Michele so thoughtfully put together a beautifully handmade ceremony book for us to have as a keepsake of our wedding day. She gifted it to us with purposefully selected crystals, herbs, and flowers for a blessed marriage. So special. If you want a ceremony that feels like YOUR unique love, with an officiant who is capable of delivering an unforgettably heartfelt experience like no other, choosing Michele should be a NO-BRAINER! Thank you Michele for being beautifully you! We love you! :)
Reviewed On 7/23/2019 by Todd E
Michelle gave us just the ceremony we were looking for. Although we had only spoken once and emailed a few times, she still made it very personal. We were looking for a spiritual / natural ceremony and Michelle helped guide us in the right dire...
ction while also accommodating any of our requests. It was wonderful.
Reviewed On 6/06/2019 by Erica C
My wife and I had our spiritual ceremony about a month after our City Hall wedding. Michele had a beautiful set of questions she asked at the beginning of our correspondence, and those questions actually helped me to write my vows. After our Ci...
ty Hall wedding (which Michele was not involved with), she reached out to talk more about the types of rituals, if any, we wanted to have in our ceremony with her. (We wanted all of them ;)) Anyway, Michele was so thoughtful and present throughout the process, and the ceremony itself was amazing. I don't know if she does this with everyone, but we did some Reiki, we 'tied the knot' (the ancient way), and we exchanged crystals. We had no idea how meaningful this would be for us and we are so grateful to Michele for guiding us through the process. The words that she prepared for us felt so special they made me cry. Additionally, we got to take with us a beautiful book with all of her words, the props for all of the rituals, and some amazing memories and photos. Thank you Michele!
Reviewed On 1/22/2019 by Veronica P
When searching for an officiant, it was incredibly important to my fiancé and I to find someone whose personality resonated with us/who felt like an old friend, but that would also make our ceremony feel sacred and spiritual. Michele brought th...
e perfect balance of these things to our wedding day! We were both raised in catholic/christian homes, and while we're both spiritual people in general, neither of us personally identify with either practice. That said, we still wanted to maintain a certain level of non-hokey-ness for our families, who we thought might get a little weirded out by our need for palo-santo and lack of a priest. That said, we loved all of the options and ideas that Michele offered us, and she easily guided us through several ritual options until we agreed upon what felt right for us. Next, she guided us individually through questions about our relationship/each other and used this information to design our ceremony. What she was able to put together based on just a few conversations with us and a short questionnaire was nothing short of magic. Her ceremony style was relaxed, warm, humorous and heartfelt - everyone laughed and cried and it truly felt so - us - that it set the perfect tone for the rest of our celebration. We received the most compliments about how special and truly meaningful our ceremony was and we couldn't agree more! I am truly so thankful to have connected with Michele and highly recommend her!
Reviewed On 10/16/2018 by Erika W
Michele’s gift and presentation will last with us a lifetime. Beyond special! Every part of it. The smells, feels, herbs, cords and her words are so individualized. I was welled up reading the card last night and she radiates with her smile and...
energy in her photos with us. Again, thank you for being there and making it all the more special and unique. Everyone should be so lucky to have a ceremony like that. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Reviewed On 10/14/2018 by Jen T
Michele doesn’t just do weddings. She celebrates love!! I’m not very romantic so I didn’t plan anything for our wedding. We hired Michele and met in the park. Michele made our ceremony so special and personal. She took the time to get to know...
our love story and told it back to us in a way that made us and the 10 people at our wedding cry. It was special and full of love. We didn’t have a big venue, I didn’t wear a big white dress, no flowers, nothing really. Just Michele!!!! ❤️❤️ (And my awesome husband of course)
Reviewed On 10/11/2018 by Christina E
Michele wrote the most perfect ceremony for us. It was very personalized and many of our guests commented on how great it was! Michele was so helpful before and during our day. I highly recommend working with her!
Reviewed On 10/09/2018 by Amanda O
Michele was absolutely amazing as out officiant. She took the time to get to know us, learn our story, and was able to develop the most beautiful ceremony. Her attention to detail was second to none. We received MULTIPLE comments from our guest...
s saying how it was one of the best ceremonies they have ever seen. If you have reached this review, look no further, Michele is the only way to go!
Reviewed On 10/09/2018 by Amanda O
Michele was absolutely amazing as out officiant. She took the time to get to know us, learn our story, and was able to develop the most beautiful ceremony. Her attention to detail was second to none. We received MULTIPLE comments from our guest...
s saying how it was one of the best ceremonies they have ever seen. If you have reached this review, look no further, Michele is the only way to go!
Reviewed On 10/09/2018 by Rachael J
I highly recommend Michele Zipp as a wedding officiant. She did a beautiful job crafting us a personalized, romantic, and meaningful wedding ceremony. She was extremely kind, detail-oriented, and professional. We were so happy.
Reviewed On 10/03/2018 by Caitlin D
Michele was incredible! Her hands on approach as well as the care and consideration she put into discovering who we are as people, as well as a couple, made us feel so confident and ready leading up to the big day. Her abundance of positive ene...
rgy made us feel so at ease and eager, and it carried all the way through the nuptials. We loved the personalized bound book of our vows and readings, and the crystals and herbs Michelle incorporated into the ceremony and then gave us as a gift. We received so many compliments on how personal and unique our ceremony was. Michele truly went above and beyond the call of duty and put so much care and consideration into making our vows and ceremony breath taking, we can’t thank her enough!
Reviewed On 10/02/2018 by Jennifer S
In April 2011, Michele officiated at our wedding. Since my husband Leathen lived in England at the time I had to pull our wedding together in 6 short weeks with the help of some friends, family and most of all the help and support of Michele an...
d I couldn't have done it without her. Michele to say the least, helped to make our special day, extra special. She was thoughtful, caring, funny and worked with us to help make the ceremony completely personal and helped to create a celebration that reflected who we are as a couple. On the wedding day which was highly emotional and unpredictable, Michele for both Leathen and I was a source of serenity and strength. We all laughed, some shed a few tears and overall had the most beautiful ceremony that was beyond what we had imagined. We are forever grateful and blessed to have had Michele marry us. Thank you Michele!
Reviewed On 10/02/2018 by Elizabeth H
When we got engaged 8 years ago we knew pretty quickly that we wanted Michele, as one of our most trusted friends, to officiate our wedding . She was instrumental in helping us put together a Brooklyn bar room ceremony that represented us perf...
ectly. I was very reluctant to include any traditional elements, but she encouraged us to include some parts that would pull things together and make a lasting impression on everyone. Without her I don't think we would have been able to pull off such a special day.
Reviewed On 9/19/2018 by Clare K
Working with Michele was incredibly wonderful! We couldn't have asked for a better officiant to make our wedding so beautiful and truly ours. We knew we did not want to have a traditional wedding and Michele worked with us to form our ideas int...
o a beautiful ceremony. She used home grown flowers and sage for a hand cleansing ritual, we brought our birth flowers to braid together and Michele created a beautiful ritual, describing the significance of the flowers. At one point she asked everyone in the room to close their eyes and set intentions for the couple and word from our guests, everyone actually did! She asked us questions and got to know us and used our answers to create a beautiful ceremony, crafted so personally, for just the two of us. Guest's couldn't sing their praises loudly enough about how literally magical, romantic, and unique the ceremony was; They said they've never attended a wedding as specially tailored to a couple, and formed around love as ours was and may never again. Having many religious folk on both sides of our family (and us not being so), they personally recalled the ceremony as the best they've ever experienced. Michele gifted us the flowers and sage used during the ritual as well as a hand made book with the text of the ceremony. I've already gone back and re-read it many times :) Thank you so much, Michele! We almost skipped the ceremonial part of the wedding (i was wanting something short and to the point) but I am SO glad we did the research and found you and we opened our hearts to a much more meaningful and romantic ritual. The day would not have been the same without your sweet and caring soul guiding us into marriage!
Reviewed On 9/19/2018 by Myriah A
Words cannot describe how incredible Michele is. We were originally going to have our friend officiate the wedding but things didn't turn out as planned and we started our search to find someone special. For us this was one of the most importan...
t pieces. We met with Michele one evening and knew right when we started talking with her that she was perfect. She has so much passion and love for what she does and you can see it shine through her work. Every detail, our correspondence up until the wedding, and all our interactions with her made us feel at ease. Not to mention she went above and beyond her officiant duties and offered to help day of if anything came up. Michele made our ceremony the most beautiful moment and more than I could have ever dreamt of. She was able to capture who we were as a couple, and even though we didn't know her before you would have never known - the way that she captured our love through the ceremony was unbelievable. Don't look anything further if you're on the search for an officiant and reach out to her to set up a time to talk. She'll make your day perfect!

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Hudson Valley, NYC, Tri-State Area
(646) 509-6600
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Michele Zipp
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I got started officiating weddings when my best friends asked me to officiate theirs in 2011. I fell in love with the practice and I love working with couples to create a magical day that is unique to them and their personal love story. I find great inspiration in the couples I have the honor of working with, and also love nature, botanicals, crystals, and meditation. I'm also a mom of twins, a writer, and Reiki Master. I live in the Hudson Valley with my family.

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