Custom Ceremonies by Michele Zipp

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.

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 :)

e, and effort she put into our ceremony was seen by everyone. Thank you for making our ceremony so incredibly special!

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.

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!

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!

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.

e the day so special. Our families were deeply moved. Michele is incredible to work with - we cannot recommend her highly enough!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

rought so much joy, creativity and peace to our wedding day!

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!

conversations on how great she did, I would highly recommend her to anyone!

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.

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! :)

ction while also accommodating any of our requests. It was wonderful.

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!