About this vendor
Located in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, CA, Helen Emberly provides professional wedding officiant services for engaged couples. Helen, the founder of the company, is deeply committed to her couples and will strive to create their dream ceremony. She truly understands the importance of a couple's wedding nuptials, focusing on the finer details from the very beginning. Helen will bring each couple's vision to life, designing an occasion that accurately reflects their values and beliefs.
Helen has been coordinating celebrations of love for more than 16 years, officiating at ceremonies throughout Northern California Wine Country and the San Francisco Bay area. After receiving a master's degree in marriage and family therapy, Helen was drawn towards being a wedding officiant. She started her role within the church working with young adults and engaged couples and later became an ordained minister with Rose Ministries.
Helen services a wide spectrum of wedding events, such as religious ceremonies, vow renewals, commitment ceremonies, elopements, and more. She is focused on the deliverance of a personalized experience, tailoring her services to suit the needs of each couple. Helen also serves an array of religious affiliations, including spiritual, protestant, and catholic couples.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Religious Affiliations
- Buddhist
- Christian
- Catholic
- Orthodox
- Protestant
- Quaker
Wedding Activities
- After The Wedding
- Newlywed Life
- Getting Engaged
- Premarital Counseling
- Wedding
- Ceremony
Awards and Affiliations
2-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2022.2021.
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“Helen was absolutely amazing — incredibly sweet, kind, and professional! She officiated our wedding exactly the way we envisioned it, following all of our specifications and makin...
g everything feel so personal and special. She also gave us wonderful suggestions that made the ceremony even more beautiful. Helen was very punctual, and she married us in a gorgeous park that made the whole experience feel magical. Everything was perfect from beginning to end. Thank you, Helen, for your professionalism, kindness, and for making our day so unforgettable!”
We had the pleasure of working with Helen Emberly as our wedding officiant, and we couldn’t have been more grateful for her presence on our special day. Helen was the perfect combi...
nation of professionalism, warmth, and kindness. From our first meeting, she took the time to truly understand us as a couple and personalized the ceremony in a way that reflected our values, personalities, and wishes.
She brought a deep sense of reverence for the seriousness and meaning of the occasion, which made the ceremony feel truly special and grounded. Her experience was evident throughout—from helping us shape the wording to offering thoughtful tips that made the day flow smoothly.
Helen has a calming presence and a heartfelt delivery that resonated with us and our guests. We highly recommend her to any couple looking for an officiant who is not only experienced and professional but also genuinely cares about making your ceremony personal and memorable.
Helen was amazing. Sweet, professional, and such a warm personality for our small ceremony. She always responds quickly and was ready to help with whatever we needed. We are so hap...
py we chose her to be our officiant!
Helen was the perfect officiant for our private ceremony. She was incredibly professional and just the warm personality we wanted on such a special day.
Helen was professionally, caring, and affordable. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect officiant. She went above and beyond for us.
Oh my goodness... Helen is the MOST amazing officiant, and we are so grateful to have hired her. She is detailed oriented and prides herself in officiating the exact kind of weddin...
g service you want. She absolutely delivered on every level for our wedding! There wasn't a dry eye among all of our friends and family. The wording of the ceremony surely tugged at everyone's hearts, and I owe all of that to Helen...
Leading up the wedding, she wrote drafts for us to proof and again, we are so grateful! We added different elements to our wedding (a unique glass ceremony), and she was completely on board and went above and beyond to find the exact wording for our ceremony.
Having Helen as our officiant truly made our wedding exactly how we wanted it to be.. she's a caring, loving and professional officiant, and we will never forget our ceremony. Thank you Helen!
Helen is the most amazing person! We chose her as our officiant when we eloped from Maine to California, and we could not have been happier. No one at home knew what was happening,...
so Helen's love and support was so appreciated. She helped us with travel plans, helped me choose my florist, even delivered the bouquet! She took care of everything and she was absolutely invaluable to us. She is so sweet. Thank you so much, Helen! ❤
We are so happy we chose Helen to officiate our wedding on 10/18/2023. From the moment we met with Helen for lunch, we knew we were in good hands. Helen took the time to get to kno...
w us and personalized our ceremony making it truly unique. Helen also provided us updates on license processing and made herself available to answer any questions we had. We will always remember the beautiful words Helen shared on our special day and could not be more grateful. We wholeheartedly recommend Helen’s services to any couple looking for a dedicated, personable, and professional officiant. Thank you, Helen, for making our special day so perfect!
Great experience! Helen was totally on top of the whole wedding. We got married at the Sonoma County Clerks office. It was also last minute and Helen did everything in her power to...
think, arrange and get it all lined up. She is on it and reliable! Our was challenging in many ways yet she was personable and fun. Sweet and kind woman!
Helen was absolutely wonderful and made sure our ceremony went perfectly. I cannot recommend her enough.
After looking at several officiants, I just knew that Helen was the right choice and she certainly didn’t disappoint! Not only did she help us personalize our ceremony (I appreciat...
ed getting to give input), but she helped with details like photographer, etc and was so kind and helpful throughout the process.
Helen was a joy to work with. With her guidance and expertise, the organization and personalization of our ceremony was top notch. Helen is very sweet and has a ton of experience. ...
I'd recommend her in a heartbeat!
Helen was a fantastic officiant! She did a wonderful job of coordinating our ceremony structure. I'm a busy professional and very much appreciated Helen's patience with my mom and ...
I booking and then my choosing of the parts of the ceremony. She provided just the right amount of options and truly fit my requested style. Helen's ceremony will always be deeply remembered for the beautiful words and tone. We even had a symbolic wine unity blessing which gave us and our out of town guests a special way to remember the Sonoma Valley and Capo Creek winery we were married at. I highly recommend Helen!
Helen officiated our wedding last week, and did a wonderful job. Prior to the wedding she was extremely helpful and answered any and all questions that we had, was very quick to re...
spond to any messages, and very thorough in explaining everything. On the day of the wedding she was on time, dressed very nicely and professionally,and she did a great job dealing with a lot of chaos (had an at home wedding) with friends and family being unorganized and stressed out,and even though our toddler daughter cried the entire ceremony, Helen kept her composure and stayed calm and went with the flow. We truly appreciate the service she provided us!!!
We picked Helen because her site was professional, she's dealt with same sex marriages and she really gave of the wisdom in handling these precious moments, wow weren't we just bl...
own away. She looked at the space helped blend my ideas together and really handled the unique entrance and ceremony quite the incredible tear Jerking moments in our wedding. And if I had to do it again, she would be the friend to call. She was above and beyond down to the wedding cows cue cards because lord knows my mind was all over the place and couldn't have been more of a breeze for my wedding. Book her, NOW!!! Haha
Helen was amazing. She was extremely professional and organized, and she was a huge help in making our day special. She got ordained through a special church at our request. Our l...
ocation wasn’t the easiest to get to but this didn’t stop her. We wouldn’t have changed a thing!
Helen was absolutely delightful to work with for our wedding! She had wonderful ideas and made the ceremony choosing process a breeze! She helped us include our daughter and made s...
ure we understood the legal steps/process to get married. I would highly recommend her for your big day!
Helen is amazing! Choosing Helen to be our officiant was one of the best and easiest decision of our wedding planning. She was so flexible, kind, sweet and so helpful throughout th...
e entire process. There was a last minute change due to covid and decided to elope a month before our actual wedding date and Helen helped us reserve a spot at our dream venue, drove all the way to the state park office to help us pay and reserve out spot! We highly recommend her service! :)
Helen is such a kind person who obviously loves what she does. Even though we had never met her in person, she was very communicative, friendly, flexible, and made us feel comforta...
ble while planning the ceremony. Unfortunately, our wedding plans have been put on hold due to the coronavirus, and while we had only paid a deposit, Helen offered to officiate whenever we were able to go through with our plans for no additional cost. I am so happy that I found her and would recommend her to anyone looking for an officiant!
Helen was really great at helping us out at our very last minute ceremony on Super Bowl weekend of all weekends! She came to our home and performed the wedding ceremony in the gard...
en of our own backyard. She was very sweet, professional and everything we could have and did ask for. She was very helpful in suggestions to make the event a success. We appreciated her very much. Thank you Helen!
Helen performed our Spring Lake elopement ceremony. She spoke so eloquently that her words touched my heart and brought tears of joy. She made our elopement very special with her p...
atience and kindness that she showed us. She gave us several vow options and was always very attentive to our needs. Her response time to my questions was amazing. I definitely recommend her. She takes her role as a wedding officiant very seriously and is very passionate about making everyone happy!
Helen was great from beginning to end. She is truly compassionate about her work
If can I will give her 10 stars. Please don't overlook her, she is an excellent wedding officiant...
. She made our day so easy and comfortable. Helen is a gem.
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