5 out of 5 stars and 46 reviews Best of Weddings (3x).
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(46)Tampa, Riverview, Brandon, Dade City, St. Petersburg
About this vendor
Professional Wedding Officiant, Tampa, FL
Dana Caggia, declares assuredly (avows) that Love Avows will compose a memorable and meaningful wedding ceremony for every couple. I am a Notary Public in the State of Florida who is commissioned to marry two individuals who can't imagine life without the other! Love Avows is flexible, respectful and accommodating to every couple’s unique needs and preferences. Love Avows...joining joy, families and love! Call or email now to reserve your wedding date!
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Business Attributes
- LGBTQ+-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Religious Affiliations
- Christian
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Interfaith
- Jewish
- Secular
Wedding Activities
- Wedding
- Ceremony
Awards and Affiliations
Reviews
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It was such a pleasure of working with Dana. From the first conversation, she was warm, professional, and incredibly thoughtful. She took the time to get to know our story and pers...
onalized our ceremony in a way that felt so meaningful and true to us. Our family and friends are still talking about how beautiful the ceremony was. We’re so grateful we found Love Avows!
Thanks again for your service!
Dana is amazing to say the least!!! Super professional, sweet, soft spoken, beautifully written service for us, we will cherish having her there on our special day forever!
Dana officiated our wedding in Feb. 2024. She was a pleasure to work with! She helped to write and personalize our non-religious wedding ceremony and vows and did a great job with ...
the ceremony. She was prepared and calmly guided us through what would have otherwise been a very stressful process. Absolutely recommend!
Dana was awesome! Dana was very easy to work with, she was super responsive and wrote beautiful vows for us. Dana incorporated our feedback and made changes to the vows in a timely...
manner. We would recommend Dana to anyone. Great person!
Dana was an amazing officiant! She was incredibly kind and patient the last few years and really made sure our big day went off without a hitch. She has a beautiful way with words ...
and she made us feel very comfortable during the ceremony when we were anticipating being very nervous. Dana is a wonderful person and we can't recommend her enough!
Jose and I wanted to express our deepest thanks for all you did on Saturday to make our loosely planned ceremony unforgettable. If it hadn't been for your flexibility, quick and o...
ut of the box thinking, there is no telling what may or may not have happened that day. The Bunker was such a cozy and intimate setting. I never would have considered it and it was perfect!
Dana was wonderful! Highly recommend! I was a little nervous hiring someone off the internet as the officiant is a really important role. So I did my research, read a ton of review...
s, and ultimately choose Love Avows. Dana did a great job writing our vows and was very patient with me when I wanted to make some changes. She kept in contact, showed up on time, and was very kind and considerate. Best of all she was professional and sounded fantastic.5 stars!!
I wanted to find an officiant that would fit my needs, for a short and sweet wedding ceremony at Hillsborough River State Park for mid March. I didn’t have to search far when I go...
ogle searched in my area and as soon as I read the many reviews for Dana, I knew I’d found the right person. I searched no more and contacted her, hoping my wedding date would be available. I emailed her only at the end of January for a mid March wedding. Luck would have it, Dana was available and I booked her immediately. She was very helpful, great communication and quite nice. The day of my wedding ceremony, I had to push back the time due to inclement weather conditions, by a couple hours. I was so grateful at how accommodating Dana was in this. Meeting her on the day of our ceremony was reassuring, with her calm demeanor and soothing voice. She conducted our ceremony so beautifully, with presence and poise. Friends and family at the ceremony and via live steam, all loved it. We couldn’t have asked for a better officiant and for things to line up perfectly on short notice & with the weather conditions that morning. Thank you Dana 💕
Dana was amazing! She guided us through the process and helped us understand it! I cried of happiness when I read what she had prepared for us!!
Dana was amazing throughout the whole process. She took the time to write us a ceremony specific to us and our lives. We got so many compliments after the ceremony about how specia...
l and personal she made it. Highly recommend her.
We had a wonderful experience with Dana! She was very attentive and wrote a beautiful ceremony that was just what we were looking for. She is accepting of all people and was the pe...
rfect person to do our wedding ceremony!!
Dana was extremely professional and she responded to me within a timely manner. She created a beautiful ceremony based on the answers to the questions she gave me and my now husban...
d to answer. I highly recommend her and have already given her information out to my friends who plan on getting married soon!! She truly made my wedding special and everyone at the venue said she was wonderful as well!
Our wedding was in Nov. 2021, and Dana was our officiant which couldn't have worked out any better. She was helpful throughout the entire process, helped us put together a great ce...
remony speech and provided everything we were hoping for on our wedding day. She was very easy to work with, super friendly, and communicated with us a lot leading up to wedding weekend. Overall my wife and I were very happy to have Dana play a part in our special day, she made it look easy and helped make our ceremony a memorable one.
Dana was the perfect officiant at our non-religious ceremony! She thoughtfully incorporated some of our songs lyrics into the ceremony script which was a wonderful surprise. We spe...
nt a lot of time picking the songs that meant most to us so it was so nice to have them as part of our ceremony. She was on time, professional, and very well spoken. She was very responsive when we asked for a copy of the script. She truly made our day very special!
Dana was amazing. Punctual, courteous and constant communication with us. She tailored our wedding to our specific requests and included everything we wanted. Definitely 5 stars. T...
hank you so much!
Dana was amazing!
She was exactly what we were looking for on our big day. Dana was very professional and answered all of our questions. She was even able to help us come up with ...
the words to our tree planting ceremony. If you are looking for a reliable, professional ,well spoken person to marry you. THEN YOU HAVE FOUND THE ONE!
I would recommend Dana to anyone looking for that person to marry them!
She was perfect.
Dana was amazing. I wanted our vows to be written but my husband isn’t good with his words. Dana sent us over questions and turned our answers into our vows. It turned out amazing!...
We got so many compliments on our ceremony. I can’t thank you enough.
We had a wonderful experience with Love Avows. They are quick to respond, flexible, accommodating, and personalize the service. Our day was perfect.
We are beyond thankful that we hired Dana as our wedding officiant! She has been so helpful with our ceremony and rehearsal! She worked magic with her officiant speech and truly ca...
ptured our life story to share with others. We had an elopement, Aug 2020 (due to COVID) and a big ceremony 6 months later, March 2021 and she was there for both!
Dana is WONDERFUL!
She personalized our wedding ceremony and did a beautiful job. I highly recommend her to officiate anyone's wedding she truly makes it extra special.
thank you ...
so much for making our wedding day that much more extra special! 🤍
Dana with Love Avows is an absolutely lovely human being and I got that sense from the moment we started messaging on Face Book (and very prompt with replies!). She captured exactl...
y what we wanted with the ceremony (a last minute sunrise elopement with our feet in the sand on the Gulf of Mexico! Just us and our 2 dogs!), she helped us find our photographer, and was adventurous and flexible! The morning of we sent her different coordinates for the area of the beach we wanted to get married on, and she was totally game and still on time! I would highly highly recommend -- she gave my husband and I a beautiful ceremony for two men, and we will both cherish those moments for the rest of our lives! Highly highly highly recommend!
We worked with Dana as the officiant for our wedding in November of 2020. Dana kept in close communication as our event approached and worked with us over several sessions to make...
sure that we were comfortable with our ceremony, and that it would be special for us. Dana offered several tips and suggestions around how the ceremony could flow, while also working with us to add personal touches. Dana played no small part in our beautiful ceremony by helping us write our own vows, and working with us to even do a wine box ceremony with our family. We even had a few people ask if she was a family friend because of how personal the ceremony was! Dana was great, and we’d highly recommend her as an officiant for a wedding or special event in the future.
In the middle of Covid our dream wedding in Hawaii was cancelled and we moved to Florida. The year like for so many others has been difficult and tumultuous.
After finally settl...
ing into our new home and coming to the realization that Covid wasn’t going anywhere, we decided it was time to get married. Hawaii or no Hawaii.
I found Dana online through one of the wedding sites and decided she was the one to call. She was understanding to everything we had going on and made our now elopement so easy. She helped us with our location and even with the vows.
Dana was an absolute treasure to work with. You truly felt as if she was an old friend in her mannerisms even upon meeting the first time.
She was on time and spoke eloquently and has always been easy to communicate with. I truly can not say enough good things about Dana. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for that special officiant that cares, the one who becomes part of your family instantly.
Dana is lovely! Very professional and her the ceremony was sweet and beautiful. Highly recommend
Dana was truly great! She put together vows that were meaningful and we loved how she captured both my husband and I’s personality in every word. We were able to go back and forth ...
if we wanted to change a sentence here or there and Dana was very quick to respond. We absolutely enjoyed the experience and couldn't be more grateful!
Dana is so kind, patient and understanding. Corona ruined our original wedding plans, but Dana helped us change our plans without hesitation so she could still marry us on our orig...
inal wedding date. She married us yesterday on 4.18.20. We are still having our actual wedding celebration in September which she will be performing as well. We totally forgot to take a picture with her yesterday because of the excitement, but in September we definitely will!! ♥️
**9/20/20 wedding update - we finally had our venue wedding and we loved Dana so much that she joined us again as our officiant. She’s the sweetest person. We have nothing but great things to say about her.
It was such a pleasure to have Dana officiate our wedding ceremony. She assisted us with the creation of our vows, outlined the ceremony so we’d be comfortable, and was so pleasant...
to talk to. She personalized our ceremony with so much detail that our guests thought she was a close friend. She truly made our day special and we couldn’t have found a better officiant.
Dana was AMAZING to work with. She wrote us an incredible ceremony. We highly recommend her!
Dana was a life saver! She responded quickly to our request for a short-notice wedding. She contacted the couple (I am the bride's mother), and gathered information about the coup...
le which she used to write a beautiful service. She was very professional, wore a mask without being asked, and her professional fee was very reasonable. She was lovely in every respect and I am so grateful to her.
To say getting married during COVID-19 was difficult to plan is an understatement but Dana was so amazing and flexible with all that was happening. When the day came we had a rain ...
delay but we weren’t letting that deter us (good luck they say) and she was flexible and finally we had our moment and her ceremony was perfect. Her words were amazing and she did such a great job sharing our story. Thank you a million Dana for making it so memorable.
She was perfect I would recommend her services to anyone! My wife and I were simple but we had no idea what we wanted our vows to be and she had us fill out a questionnaire. After ...
filling out the questionnaire she tailored our vows to our personalities perfectly! I can't thank her enough for making our day that much more special!
Dana is all around amazing! She was perfect during our ceremony and created custom vows with us that turned out truly touching. She’s a beautiful person inside and out! She brought...
such wonderful energy to our wedding, and we are so grateful to have found her. I would recommend Love Avows to everyone! Thank you Dana💖
My wife and I got married on January 11, 2020 and Dana ensured that our ceremony reflected us. We had some last minute changes and she rolled with it. We didn’t receive any pushbac...
k, she always had suggestions of her own to provide us when we needed direction drafting the ceremony, and she was very quick to make the changes we requested.
We work and live an hour away from Tampa and Dana didn’t make it difficult at all to meet or communicate when necessary. Communication was easy for us because it was through email after our initial meeting in person. She was really open to our ideas, helped develop them and placed each element in the right moment in the ceremony.
On the Day Of, Dana was very professional, spoke clearly and audibly, while also keeping us calm with her smooth tone. Honestly, just the way she speaks and her presence is calming. I lost it during the ceremony and I think if we had another officiant, the tears would’ve been way worse.
Dana definitely exceeded our expectations. When we decided to have a quaich ceremony AND a broom jump last minute, she already knew exactly what the two were (while I had just learned about a quaich 10 minutes earlier) and had ceremony wording ready to send us. Her execution of the ceremony on the day of was perfect and I wouldn’t have changed anything!
We could not be any happier with our decision to have Dana as the officiant of our wedding. At first we were a bit hesitant to have a stranger conduct our ceremony, but Dana took t...
he time and did the prep work to ensure that our moment felt genuine and authentic to our history as a couple. Dana's ceremony truly felt loving, attentive, binding, and fun!
Dana did amazing! Our wedding was a destination wedding for us as we live in Atlanta and got married in St. Pete Beach. Dana was very communicative, open and flexible. The ceremony...
she wrote for us was perfect, and our personal touches she incorporated with ease. Dana also mailed in our marriage license so we would not have to worry about that in the process of transitioning to our honeymoon... I highly recommend her positive high energy and professionalism.
Dana was the perfect officiant for our beach wedding! My husband, myself, and all of our guests loved her soothing voice and words of wisdom during our ceremony. Thank you for all ...
your dedication and hard work to make our day so special!
We reached out to Dana with a very short window before our elopement and she wrote the most beautiful ceremony for us! It felt as though she had known us for years, but we'd only s...
poken via email before the day came. She was even willing to meet us at the beach at 6:30 in the morning on a holiday weekend for our sunrise marriage. Her words were such peaceful magic and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out! Aside from the ceremony, she was also incredibly sweet and professional. If we did it over, we would pick her again in a heartbeat!
Dana is simply amazing! Within the first few minutes of meeting her, we knew she was a perfect fit for us. She was so easy to work with and was always helpful with ideas (and rem...
inders)! Our ceremony was catered perfectly to what we wanted, and the presentation was heartfelt and sincere. After the ceremony, all of our guests just raved about how beautiful of a ceremony she performed!
We loved having Dana as our officiant. My wife spoke with her on the phone to go over the specifics. From that brief conversation she was convinced that Dana was the perfect match ...
for the job. She was very quick in responding to us and answered all of our questions and concerns. Before the ceremony we also communicated over email in order for Dana to get to know us better and tailor the ceremony to us specifically. The day of the wedding she arrived early to go over the details of the ceremony so we would be at ease and know what to expect. She was able to create a very personal feel for us and included details unique to us and our relationship. Our guests loved how intimate the ceremony was and their reactions affirmed that Dana was the perfect choice. Thank you so very much!
We found out ten days before our wedding that our officiant was unable to marry us. I posted on a Facebook site searching for someone. Dana was recommended to us and after looking ...
at her page, we decided to book with her. I’m am so glad we did. She was on time, calm, and so personal. We did a destination wedding so we didn’t meet her until about 20 minutes before we got married. It was like she’s known us for years! Our ceremony was personal and beautiful. She incorporated so many personal touches and it was wonderful. I couldn’t imagine having anyone else marry us and I wouldn’t change a thing. We recommend Dana 100%.
She was amazing ..she wrote our vows and hit every point about our life together and our love for each other ..definitely reach out to her for your wedding ..she was kind ..funny ....
.loving ..and on time ..!!! Just amazing
Love Avows did amazing with our wedding. She created a ceremony that was so much like us it felt like we had known her for years. She was very responsive and professional. We would...
absolutely recommend her.
My husband and I just got married last weekend and we found Dana on wedding wire. She was so great! She sent us a rough draft of the ceremony she had written and we instantly loved...
it. We also did a hand tying ceremony that she provided some history on as well. Our guests could not stop complimenting how beautiful the ceremony was. I would absolutely recommend Dana to anyone looking for a unique and dependable officiant!
Dana was a wonderful officiant! She made the planning so easy! Her tone was warm and calming so any nerves we felt during the ceremony went away. We couldn't have been happier with...
how our ceremony went. And our families and friends also commented on how they loved her.
Dana was FABULOUS! I stumbled upon her after seeing a link on Facebook. I'm so glad I followed through and reached out to her. She really knows how to put together the words, the f...
eelings and emotions on paper, and then speak them with such love in her voice. She also gave us some great ideas on how to make our wedding, ours. Don't hesitate one minute to use Dana as your wedding officiant.
Dana did a wonderful job. She had no problems tweaking our vows (or writing them for us for that matter). She included everything we asked for and the guests said they liked her as...
well. We contacted her fairly last minute but she was very accommodating.
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Tampa, Riverview, Brandon, Dade City, St. Petersburg
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