5.0
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Justice Lydon & Co.
Greater Boston Area
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Working with Lydon & Co was a breath of fresh air. As one of our last-booked vendors, Roberta immediately assuaged our stress. Throughout the entire process she was warm, assuring, and collaborative. She was so welcoming of our unique additions and tweaks to the ceremony script. She was a clear communicator and an excellent public speaker who made us feel at ease and so cared for before and during our ceremony. Don’t think twice—book Lydon & Co for a peace-of-mind Justice of the Peace!
Emily M.
5.0
My husband and I were married 5/1/26 — Rose was an absolute dream to work with! We had very vague plans for our ceremony and she walked us through different traditions and ceremony options to create something personal. The ceremony itself was beautifully done and so well crafted for the two of us
Cameron B.
5.0
AWARD WINNER (5X)
Thanks to recommendations from couples on The Knot
Located in Quincy, MA, Justice Lydon is a wedding officiant company. Celebrant Michelle Lydon has had the pleasure of overseeing over 1,000 weddings throughout Cape Cod and the Greater Boston Area. She covers multiple religious ceremonies, non-religious occasions, and vow renewals, working with couples of all backgrounds and orientations to create one-of-a-kind celebrations.
Michelle works alongside her daughter Justice Roberta Black, as well as Justice Rose Pope, offering full-service Justice of the Peace ceremonies and more. Michelle has been curating ceremonies for over 10 years and delights in making each wedding unique and special. Whether you envisage a traditional chapel wedding or a drive-through elopement, she is on hand to make your vision a reality.
There are a number of wedding packages to choose from when collaborating with Justice Lydon for your big day. Michelle’s Sweet and Simple options are ideal for couples seeking a private and swift elopement. Other packages include the use of the chapel in Quincy. The “I do” Out of Quincy package is perfect for couples tying the knot further afield and includes a pre-wedding consultation. You can connect with Michelle and her dedicated team today to begin planning the day of your dreams.
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Civil Union
Commitment Ceremony
Elopement
Religious Affiliations
Buddhist
Christian
Catholic
Interfaith
Jewish
Muslim
Wedding Activities
Wedding
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5-Time 'Best of Weddings'
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Lydon & Co. officiants are warm, professional, and highly communicative, creating personalized, heartfelt ceremonies that put couples at ease. They guide couples through readings and vows, handle logistics like licenses, and make the process stress-free. Highly recommended.Review photos
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Emily M
5.0
5/29/2026
Working with Lydon & Co was a breath of fresh air. As one of our last-booked vendors, Roberta immediately assuaged our stress. Throughout the entire process she was warm, assuring,...
and collaborative. She was so welcoming of our unique additions and tweaks to the ceremony script. She was a clear communicator and an excellent public speaker who made us feel at ease and so cared for before and during our ceremony. Don’t think twice—book Lydon & Co for a peace-of-mind Justice of the Peace!
Cameron B
5.0
5/28/2026
My husband and I were married 5/1/26 — Rose was an absolute dream to work with! We had very vague plans for our ceremony and she walked us through different traditions and ceremony...
options to create something personal. The ceremony itself was beautifully done and so well crafted for the two of us
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Jennifer T
5.0
12/12/2025
My wife and I were married this past weekend in Boston. We cannot say enough wonderful things about Michelle! Michelle and her team were very communicative and easy to work with. M...
ichelle showed up early to our ceremony and had such a warm and calming presence which helped kick any nerves to the side. Our guests said our ceremony was one of the best they’ve attended in years and we contribute much of that to Michelle who absolutely nailed our ceremony including poems and a unity candle component. I highly recommend Michelle and her team for your wedding. Thanks so much again Michelle!
Mary S
5.0
10/27/2025
I can't speak more highly of Roberta! She made the entire planning process for the ceremony easy. She provided readings and different vows for inspiration, and made sure we were co...
mfortable beforehand. With all the other details that needed to be taken care of, it was a relief knowing that she would ensure things went smoothly. She even tried to help us get new accommodations when ours were cancelled at the 11th hour! I would recommend her to anyone getting married!
Sally N
5.0
1/24/2025
It’s been one month since our wedding and every day I go back to how loved and supported I felt on the best day of my life. Michelle played such a major role in that. Everyone was ...
asking us who are officiant was, and whether she was one of our aunts, because she came off like family so naturally. She made our ceremony seamless, personal, and funny.
Scheduling the officiant was admittedly one of the more stressful parts of the planning. We were not doing it in a church, nor was there someone that both my husband and I were equally close to who we thought should play the role, so I worried about finding someone I did not know. But within the first phone call with Michelle, it felt like I had known her for years. She is warm, kind, supportive, and professional, and any couple would be lucky to have her.
Thank you for everything Michelle!!
Sandra H
5.0
10/02/2024
We hired Michelle as our Justice of the Peace for our wedding. She crafted a beautiful and simple ceremony that we took to heart. She showed up with this vibrant energy and I just...
knew we were in good hands. She quickly took care of the marriage licenses as well. We certainly recommend her.
Catherine L
5.0
10/02/2024
We absolutely loved working with Roberta from Justice Lydon and Co. She was so personable, friendly and made the process as seamless as possible. Totally recommend her as your JP!
Leah S
5.0
7/23/2024
We found Justice Lyndon & Co online and contacted them based on their great reviews. Roberta is the JP that connected with us. She asked questions to help to completely personalize...
our ceremony. She also sent us many examples of "readings" and vows. Roberta was kind, funny and professional. She put together and carried out an amazing ceremony. We can't thank her enough.
Absolutely amazing!!!
Taylor B
5.0
6/17/2024
Roberta was so professional we would highly recommend her! She was so helpful and responsive through out this process and really listened to our story to craft the perfect and pers...
onalized ceremony. She made everything run smoothly and at ease. We can not say enough about her.
Nina R
5.0
5/05/2024
Justice Michelle Lydon served as our wedding officiant this past April in Cambridge, and she did an absolutely fantastic job! Justice Lydon personalized the ceremony for us and mad...
e our day feel so special. We consider ourselves extremely fortunate to have had her officiate our special day!
Kayla C
5.0
12/11/2023
Michelle was amazing! She made our wedding ceremony exactly like we had asked. In a short but sweet ceremony, she managed to still make it heartfelt and personal. My husband and I ...
knew that she was the perfect person to marry us the moment we had our first meeting with her! We HIGHLY recommend Michelle to anyone and everyone!
Andrew W
5.0
11/07/2023
Roberta officiated our wedding and we would recommend her to anyone. The communication before the wedding was great. On the day if the wedding she provided a beautiful 15 to 20 min...
ute ceremony that we were all happy with. Thanks Roberta!
Kayla C
5.0
9/24/2023
Roberta was amazing and made our day so special! Even leading up to it she was very thorough in communicating with me as well as making sure we knew everything that needed to be do...
ne. She was the best addition to our day and we are SO thankful she was the one who got to marry us!
Victoria R
5.0
9/04/2023
Roberta did a wonderful job officiating our ceremony! She made it so beautiful and personable that all of our guests thought she was one of our family members! Roberta was so easy ...
to work with and made our ceremony exactly what we wanted. The planning process with her was so easy and stress free. We would highly recommend her!
Shira C
5.0
7/19/2023
Roberta was great! We had so many people go out of their way after our ceremony to tell us just how beautiful it was. Despite not knowing her well, it felt super personalized and I...
wasn't worried at any point in time about it, which is a great bonus with everything else going on!
Anita C
5.0
6/18/2023
My partner and I eloped just last week, and we could not have done it without the help of Justice Lydon & Co. Well, we could have, but it would have been a disaster. The team at Ju...
stice Lydon & Co. were communicative, flexible, and understanding. When we got caught up in daily life, they checked in with us to make sure everything was in place for our special day. On the day of our elopement, we, of course, got lost and Justice Roberta was so kind and patient. The ceremony that she performed was beautiful and knocked the socks off anything that we could have written ourselves. Roberta also gave my family direction for the best photography and helped fix my unruly hair. She is certainly a woman of all trades, and we are so happy that she was the one to officiate our special day!
Charmaine J
5.0
5/25/2023
ROBERTA, ROBERTA, ROBERTA!
She was awesome. She made our day even more spectacular. Please make sure to have her phone ringing off the hook.
Jocelyn G
5.0
1/31/2023
We enjoyed working with Michelle very much. She was responsive to our questions, and was very easy to work with.
Marisa F
5.0
1/25/2023
Michelle was so wonderful throughout our wedding. She was so genuinely excited for us and it made us so happy. She took our personalities and our ideals into consideration and crea...
ted a perfect ceremony!
Erin S
5.0
11/11/2022
Roberta was amazing! She’s very personable and easy to talk to during the meetings prior to the ceremony, she made sure our ceremony had some personal touches, we got a lot of comp...
liments on how beautiful our ceremony was! Thank you so much!!!!
Caitlin N
5.0
11/09/2022
We could not have asked for a better officiant for our wedding. Justice Roberta Black made us feel comfortable throughout the whole process of planning and gave us the perfect cer...
emony. She was flexible with setting up calls, and extremely responsive via email and text. We weren't really sure where to start with planning the perfect ceremony, but she was our guiding light to get us through it and help us along. When the big day came, she was so calming and comforting during the ceremony when nerves and emotions were high. Highly recommend Roberta!
Kristen W
5.0
9/29/2022
Roberta is the best!! She goes above and beyond to ensure your ceremony is perfect! She was super easy to talk to and get a hold of, very quick response time. We were guest at a co...
uple Weddings that she had done and we loved how professional and just amazing she was, we knew we needed to have her on our special day! You will not go wrong with any Justice over at Lydon! Roberta and Michelle are top notch!!
Emily J
5.0
8/21/2022
Justice Roberta was awesome to work with! We immediately clicked with her the first time we chatted, and she really made an effort to get to know us and tailor the ceremony to us a...
s a couple. She wrote a beautiful ceremony and included the entertaining story of how we met, we loved it! She was extremely well spoken in front of a big crowd, she had a relaxed and comfortable presence and made us feel at ease. She reminded us to just relax and enjoy, and she laughed with us when we struggled to repeat basic lines. She was so fun to work with, and made our ceremony really memorable for us and our guests!
Thank you so much Roberta, the ceremony was legitimately everything we'd hoped for and more, and it set the tone for the rest of our wedding!
Olivia K
5.0
12/28/2021
Roberta is the best person I have ever met. We did the drive-through wedding and she made it so nice and intimate. We loved every minute of it! Thank you so much for all the extra ...
detail and attention and making this day feel so special for us.
Maureen H
5.0
11/20/2021
If you are looking for a top-notch, caring professional for your big day, then hire justice lydon. Michelle is warm, patient, professional, and thorough! She made our wedding cerem...
ony intimate and fun! We had numerous compliments on how beautiful the ceremony was! We are so grateful to Michelle and her team for making our wedding day so special. If you’re looking for someone with years of experience and makes the planning process smooth, I highly recommend Justice Lydon!!
Caitlin R
5.0
10/26/2021
We had such a great experience with Roberta! She performed such a beautiful ceremony for us that I will never forget. Even though we met in-person for the first time on the day of ...
the wedding, it felt like a friend was marrying us. She made our ceremony so personal and was so enthusiastic to work with us to include our family and friends as readers, singers, etc.
Kelsey M
5.0
10/08/2021
Michelle officiated our wedding and was AMAZING to work with! She is so friendly and someone we instantly bonded with. Not only did she deliver an unforgetable ceremony she made th...
e entire process stress free ensuring delivery of our marriage certificate while we were enjoying our honeymoon. I would recommend Michelle to anyone!
Sasha L
5.0
10/04/2021
Justice Michelle Lydon was an amazing addition to our special day. She not only took the time to understand our relationship, our beliefs, and our desires, but she made sure that o...
ur ceremony was the perfect mixture of sincerity, humor, and celebration. Wedding ceremonies are always a combination of regions ceremony, crowd management and celebration of those getting married and without a shadow of a doubt Justice Lydon was outstanding across all three elements of our ceremony. Given that our marriage is one of an interfaith, and intercultural relationship, the ability to understand us and navigate a diverse set of backgrounds and beliefs was absolutely vital and Justice Lydon handled this with the perfect mixture of care, sensitivity and humor.
Chris M
5.0
7/22/2021
Justice Roberta from Justice Lydon & Co. made our little elopement ceremony a truly heartfelt and memorable one! She was very responsive, flexible, and easy to work with throughout...
the entire process. She even arrived earlier than expected on our big day. We would recommend her services to anyone!
Brianna B
5.0
7/21/2021
We cannot begin to thank Michelle enough for making our wedding day so special. Without a doubt, she is the absolute BEST. It is easy to tell that she loves what she does, as she p...
uts so much time, thought, and devotion into her ceremonies. She made sure that our ceremony was all about us, and worked with us every step of the way to make sure that our vision came to life. We can't imagine being married by anyone else, and will forever recommend her to everyone we know. Thank you Michelle!!!
Courtney B
5.0
6/14/2021
Justice Lydon was simply amazing! She understood what we were looking for in a small family-only ceremony and made planning a breeze! We are so thankful to have found her and for t...
he beautiful job she did with our reading and vows. Thank you so much! -The Bettencourts
Sienna P
5.0
5/03/2021
She was so attentive and thoughtful! she truly made our wedding day so special for us and we cannot thank her enough for that.
Mercedes M
5.0
4/12/2021
Had an nice experience they were very friendly and accommodating. Would definitely recommend them to anyone who wants a small intimate ceremony.
Ty M
5.0
11/13/2020
They made a hectic day perfect, thank you so much! Everyone said it was a sweet & beautiful!
Dan Y
5.0
10/14/2020
Michelle and her team are very professional and very patient for listening to our requirements. The wedding was sweet and simple and just the way we wanted.
Meghan W
5.0
9/27/2020
We had the best experience with Roberta. She was so responsive and friendly. Also she was so flexible when we had to change our ceremony location due to covid. The ceremony was mor...
e then we could have asked for- sweet, simple, loved filled. Truly amazing!! She helped make our wedding day the best day ever. Would recommend 10/10!
CORINA G
5.0
9/22/2020
My husband and I have nothing but great things to say about Justice Michelle Lydon! She has such a calming air about her and is so empathetic and emotionally secure. We were unable...
to meet in person before the wedding due to COVID restrictions, but that had no impact whatsoever on her ability to pick up on our needs during the wedding day. She was funny, able to adapt in the moment, and very responsive and receptive. We would absolutely recommend her to any couple!
Jeremy H
5.0
8/25/2020
Michelle did such a great job!
Melissa N
5.0
7/18/2020
When we had to postpone our wedding, we were scrambling to figure out if we could pull off a smaller ceremony in Boston. We reached out to Lydon Chapel and worked with Roberta--she...
was outstanding, start to finish! The whole experience of planning and replanning a wedding is nerve wracking, so having a JP who was calm and ready to work with us on anything was super helpful (and calming!). Would highly recommend working with Roberta!
Molly M
5.0
6/12/2020
In case you only read this first sentence, I’ll start by saying Michelle did an unbelievable job and we would HIGHLY recommend her. We planned to get married on June 6, 2020 but we...
had to postpone the wedding to next summer due to COVID-19. Although we were thrilled to secure a new date, we wanted to memorialize our original wedding date through a private ceremony. We contacted Michelle just a few weeks before June 6th. Given how amazing she is, and how close to the date we called, it was no surprise to us that she had limited availability. Nevertheless, she was happy to work with us and find time in her schedule to marry us on our original wedding date. When we arrived for the ceremony, Michelle was the light at the end of the tunnel. After a long and stressful couple of months, Michelle made our day better then we ever could have imagined. She’s an incredible officiant, and an even more amazing person. We couldn’t have been happier with her services.
Pam M
5.0
12/07/2019
Michelle was wonderful, guided us through everything, kept us at ease, made the ceremony very special and personal. Our guests even commented about how great she was. We could no...
t have asked for more.
Olivia T
5.0
10/31/2019
When you are preparing for your wedding, sometimes you get caught up in all of the “other stuff” and forgot that the Justice of Peace is just as important, and that they will be up...
there with you for your special day. Roberta made everything easy, and provided great direction while still leaving everything up to us. She got to know us and adapted to our personalities perfectly. We would recommend her to anyone that prefers the day of to be easy and stress free.
Melissa O
5.0
10/31/2019
Michelle was amazing from start to finish! We met with her in person and we knew she would be great for our ceremony. She made us feel comfortable since we had no idea how the proc...
ess worked. I would definitely recommend her to anyone needing a JOP. Thank you Michelle!!
Megan H
5.0
10/22/2019
My husband and I selected Roberta to be the JP for our wedding and she was awesome! She listened to everything we asked for and was so easy work with. She was warm and kind while s...
till being professional and getting everything done exactly as we asked for it. We got a lot of compliments on how beautiful our ceremony was. She totally understood we wanted a love based ceremony and did not want a religious ceremony, and she performed a beautiful Celtic handfasting reading for us as well during the ceremony. We would highly recommend you choose Roberta for your wedding!
e b
5.0
9/18/2019
Justice Lydon provided us with such a sense of ease and comfort. She felt like a part of the family. Very accommodating and personable. Lots of compliments on the service from gues...
ts as well! Highly recommend.
Lindsay M
5.0
8/27/2019
Roberta was so wonderful! She was very accommodating and immediately made us feel comfortable. Our ceremony was very emotional and even she choked up a bit which was really heartwa...
rming. The experience was so smooth and her ceremony was perfect for us!
Linda S
5.0
6/05/2019
Michele Lydon was absolutely wonderful. She performed a beautiful ceremony putting everyone at ease and incorporating a great sense of humor. I would highly recommend her to anyone...
getting married!
Rachel B
5.0
11/20/2018
Michelle was the absolute best!! Me and my fiancé were very nervous about how everything would go and Michelle was extremely reassuring, calm and guided us through the entire cerem...
ony! It was beautiful and she kept it light and sweet! Couldn’t ask for a better ceremony.
Christie W
5.0
10/21/2018
Michelle was super nice and catered to the type of service we wanted. She was very responsive to any questions we had and took care of all the paperwork afterwards. I would definit...
ely recommend!
Hope L
5.0
8/21/2018
Working with Michelle Lydon was an amazing experience from start to finish. Communication was easy and professional. We were in search of a Justice of the Peace for our August 11, ...
2018 wedding in Boston and researched hundreds of JPs in the area. Reviews about Michelle's professionalism, experience, humor, flexibility, and empathy drew us in and she embodied all of those things and more on our wedding day (and throughout the planning process). We were able to customize our ceremony, add and subtract aspects, bring in family and friends for readings, and leave the rest up to Michelle. It was the perfect combination of having a trustworthy JP with experience while also being able to craft a ceremony individualized to our priorities. We truly can't say enough about Michelle and recommend her to anyone looking for a JP who is genuine, relaxed, professional, prepared, and full of love. Thanks, again! - Hope & Mario
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