About This Vendor
Fully Personalized Weddings & Bilingual if Needed
I have over 13 years of experience performing weddings and I would love to help you or any of your friends or family members to have a beautiful, personalized ceremony. My professional and personal experiences as a lawyer, a mom, a business owner, a multicultural, multiethnic family and being fully bilingual in English and Spanish, have given me a multicultural background that will help me to customize your wedding in a very unique and special way. Feel free to give me call or contacting me via e-mail, I look forward to meeting you and it would be my privilege to be able to be part of the most important day of your life.
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Business Attributes
Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business, Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
Civil Union, Commitment Ceremony, Elopement, Interfaith Ceremony, Non-Religious Ceremony, Religious Ceremony, Second Wedding , Vow Renewal Ceremony
Planning
Se Habla Español
Religious Affiliations
Christian, Catholic, Interfaith, Spiritual
Wedding Activities
Wedding, Ceremony
Awards and Affiliations
Married by Maria Reviews
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There is no way to describe the role that Maria played in helping make our wedding ceremony our DREAM ceremony. From the moment we contacted her she presented herself with the sweetest and most professional personality. We had no question about...
choosing her from then on because of how calm and welcomed she made us feel.
Working with her was effortless and she listened to all of our needs from a bilingual ceremony to adding a heartfelt prayer to God during the ceremony. However, her speech went above and beyond. Not only does she speak with an angelic tone, but everything she said in her speech was relevant to us and it was evident that when she interviewed us she was clearly listening to who we truly were.
I had so many family members and friends that commented on how much they loved her and I even had some hesitant-to-marry friends already asking me to pass on her number to them! If that doesn't speak to how inspiring her words were then I don't know what does.
All in all, Maria, I am so grateful for you and wish you the best of luck and blessings.
Maria was AMAZING!!! She was punctual, communicative, and incredibly kind! She made our guests feel welcomed and appreciated. Her beautiful words were moving and inspiring! Thank you so much for such a beautiful speech! We could not have had a ...
better officiant!
Maria did my wedding and the ceremony was wonderful. She is very intuitive when it comes to designing the words she says as it relates to your special day.
Both families commented on how wonderful it was.
Maria is an amazing wedding officiant and I would 100% recommend her. My husband and I wanted someone who was bilingual (English and Spanish) and she was the perfect person for this task.
Maria agreed to several video and phone calls with us ...
before our wedding day to help us plan for our ideal ceremony. She asked us a series of questions that helped her put together a beautiful wedding ceremony transcript, which she sent to us for any revisions before the wedding day.
She also sent my husband and I several questions separately that were instrumental in helping us write our vows. She put together the first draft of our vows, and then sent to us (separately) so we can make our personal edits. She printed our vows and brought them with her to our ceremony because she knew we would be too stressed to remember them the day of our wedding!
The wedding ceremony she delivered was amazing. Several family members mentioned that she was great!! After the ceremony, she also mailed our Marriage Certificate for us, so we did not have to worry about that after our big moment. Maria is organized, friendly, and a pleasure to work with!
Maria was exactly who we were looking for! So many of my guests commented at how beautiful our ceremony was. We couldn’t be happier. She performed a bilingual ceremony that our family and guests loved. She sent over a copy of her draft so that ...
we could review together and followed up even when I was so busy with all the other details of wedding planning. She also made suggestions for the ceremony and provided advice when it was needed. We trusted her experience- and she delivered. She was professional and dressed so well for our ceremony. Thank you Maria!
Maria was so great for my bilingual ceremony. Every guest and even my wedding coordinator were so impressed by how great she was. My wedding ceremony was so perfect. I would definitely recommend her to everyone. Thank you again, Maria.
Maria was the best wedding officiant and we were very lucky to have her officiate our nuptials. She was great with communication and supporting us with our vows. The ceremony script was so beautiful and all of our guests gave us great complimen...
ts on our ceremony. We highly recommend Maria and her services!
Maria did us the honor of officiating both our small private civil wedding and our big official wedding and we could not have asked for a better person to do so. We had a multicultural wedding and as someone who had a multicultural wedding hers...
elf she understood how to best balance our our ceremony and made sure both families were taken care of. She made our special day 10x better.
We searched for an officiant over a few websites and came across Maria. We got a good vibe from her based on her bio. The first step was setting up a consultation on the phone and she explained to to us what she does and asked what we wanted fo...
r our wedding. It was more of a conversation and didn't feel like we were forced to chose her. We let her know we wanted to do personal vows and a candle ceremony and she sent us a draft of how the ceremony would look like. We were able to edit the draft to what we wanted so it fit our ceremony. Maria was very responsive to texts, emails and calls and was easy to communicate with. She was friendly and we were glad we chose her as our officiant.
Maria did a great job at our wedding, very professional in what she does. She answered all our questions and explained us everything we would ask her.
My husband and I wanted our ceremony to be meaningful and in Spanish because our family is mainly Spanish-speaking. I found Maria on Yelp. After I contacted her she made us feel very special, dedicating time to speak with us various times as we...
ll as offering to help with our vows. Maria was very helpful when I had questions about our marriage license as well and guided me to where I can go apply. Many of our guests complimented her ceremony and they stated it was very meaningful and engaging. Maria was wonderful and we could not imagine our wedding ceremony any other way. It was perfect!
Maria was extremely helpful throughout the entire process. She is very understanding and tries to make your ceremony as personal and unique as possible. All of our guests complimented how beautiful our ceremony was. She is bilingual, which was ...
a plus for our ceremony. Thanks to her we had a beautiful ceremony, I am so gald we found her!
Maria officiated our wedding September 25th, 2021 and everyone loved the way she did. We were so lucky to found her because we wanted in Spanish. I totally recommend her for your special day. She is so professional and helpful.
Maria was the perfect person for our ceremony. She helped make our ceremony meaningful and memorable. The speech that she made for us left our guests in awe and complementing how beautiful it was. She answered all our questions and made it poss...
ible to include some form of religion to leave our parents with comfort that we didn't go the traditional route in the church. Highly recommend her.
Are you looking for a Spanish/English bilingual officiant? Look no further, Maria is the ONE!
Maria officiated our “micro wedding” ceremony on Monday, June 14. She was knowledgeable, responsive and super helpful!
She was always available b...
efore our ceremony and performed the ceremony in both languages.She was accommodating to our script suggestions and she helped my partner translate his vows to Spanish.
Thanks to Maria, I was able to include my Mom and Aunt in our ceremony. Im forever grateful!
Working with her was a breeze and our ceremony was lovely! Our guests had many compliments.
Huge plus- Maria is LGBTQIA+ friendly!
Everyone loved the wedding officiant. We had a small hiccup with our paint ceremony but Maria kept the guest laughing and entertained until we found the paint. People are still raving about the ceremony. So much attention to detail.
Maria was absolutely amazing. We had trouble finding an officiant who was bilingual and when we came across Maria I was so excited to have found someone who I can trust would marry my fiancé and I. She arrived early, came in to visit me and my ...
fiancé to ensure we were both ok and reassured us both. She was extremely professional and so flexible, despite letting her know of a covid test last minute.
Thank you Maria! If getting married please book Maria, you will not regret it.
Maria was an amazing officiant, she was very helpful and with us every step of the way, there was not a question she could not answer. She was very professional and her words during the ceremony were beautiful. Her ability to perform the cere...
mony in both English and Spanish was just what we asked for. I would recommend her to anyone looking for an officiant.
My husband and I had the pleasure of getting married by the absolute best! Maria was more than what we were looking for when it came to our officiant.
We got married in December 2020, and my husband and I were fearing that because of the holi...
days we were going to be out of luck in finding an officiant but we were wrong! Maria was extremely supportive in anything that we needed. She gave us constant reassurance, even when things got complicated with the pandemic and being able to obtain our marriage license.
Our wedding date was pushed back a month and Maria was still supportive and more than happy to work with us! She answered every email/text/phone call almost as soon as it was sent.
Maria officiated our wedding in all Spanish and it was beautiful!! We loved every minute and every word. Maria is not done until you are happy with your ceremony. Stop your searching because Maria is the best!
Maria officiated my wedding and she was just amazing! My husband and I are extremely pleased. We had our wedding in December 2020 during covid and she made everything so easy -offering many great suggestions on how to safely have our wedding, h...
ow to safely get our marriage license during covid, & offered suggestions for readings, poems, vows.. etc.
I was very stressed days leading up to my wedding but with Maria's help and guidance, she made me feel completely at ease. She answered every email, text, phone call in a timely manner. Maria maintained professionalism while keeping the ceremony meaningful and light. She was able to make our ceremony very personal as if she's known us our whole lives.
Our families are still talking about our wedding and how special it was thanks to Maria! They said she was fantastic. I highly highly recommend Maria as an officiant and we are so glad we chose her to marry us!
Thanks for everything Maria!
We threw our ceremony together very quickly and she was very helpful and attentive throughout the entire process! We had a bi-lingual ceremony and she did a fantastic job with it. She’s also very kind and gave us a beautiful ceremony, we were h...
appy to have her!
So glad we had Maria officiate our wedding! She included all the personal details we wanted and really listened to what we were looking for. She was very accessible whenever we needed to talk to her and she was accommodating when our wedding pl...
ans had to change a bit because of the pandemic. Her words truly made our ceremony special. Definitely consider her if you want an officiant that listens to your needs and makes an effort to make your ceremony feel specially designed to you and your future spouse.
Maria was absolutely amazing! She is very professional and from the moment we chatted via Face Time, we knew that she was the perfect person to officiate our wedding.
She crafted the wedding ceremony of our dreams, conveying exactly what we wa...
nted our friends and family to feel. She really set the tone for a fun and romantic night.
She also helped my husband with his wedding vows, co-drafting some of the most beautiful thoughts that just blew my mind! He was very grateful that she assisted in writing exactly what he wanted me feel with his words. Everyone was in tears!
It's a bonus that she is bilingual and was able to construct a beautiful ceremony in both in English and Spanish as our crowd was mixed. It flowed so well and received so many compliments on the ceremony.
So grateful to you Maria! Thank you for making such a memorable ceremony that we will cherish forever.
Maria was exactly what we were looking for: classy but not stuffy, prompt, professional but with a sense of humor. She prepared a ceremony specifically for us that really conveyed our feelings and was so tender it brought tears to quite a few g...
uests. My husband and I highly recommend her.
Maria! Was amazing!
Couldn’t ask for more, very organized and prepared. Loved that she spoke two languages and was able to translate very beautifully. Also, she took her time to get to know us and provide all copy of the ceremony beforehand, w...
hich I loved!!
She was amazing, good vibe and energy. Will def recommend her. Also, my family loved her!! :)
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Maria was awesome! She is very professional and helped us make sure every detail was perfect! Thanks Maria! Would recommend highly!
When searching for a wedding officiant I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking for . My the finance and I were looking for someone who could do a nondenominational ceremony in Spanish. That’s when I came across Maria. I’m really happy that I f...
ound her. I wasn’t quite sure how an outdoor ceremony would be so I had a lot of questions. Maria is super easy to talk to, extremely sweet. from our first convo over the phone I knew she was a great fit for us. She walked us through everything,the structure of a ceremony by providing an outline revising it as many times as needed until we were happy with it. she also helped us in the writing of our vows to each other. I knew that I wanted to write vows since they are so personal and wanted to be blue and express to my partner how much he meant to me on our big day but knew I wouldn’t be able to get threw it without crying the whole time. So Maria offered an alternative way for us to do it with her help. she advises she could read my vows to my fiancé during the ceremony on my behalf and vice versa. We both loved this idea and it helped us to be more relaxed on the day of and she did the most wonderful job of expressing how we felt about each other from what we had mentioned to her. She sent me a roughy draft of my vows in English and translated them in Spanish just in time for the ceremony. I could not have said the vows better myself. My family loved how personal the vows were and how beautifully she read them. This was one of my favorite parts of my ceremony.
Maria is just the best! if you’re looking to hire a wedding officiant that you can feel comfortable with I would definitely suggest her she is very professional and caring about her work. You can count on her to make your ceremony memorable.
There are not enough words to express our gratitude to Maria! She was such an Important part of our wedding ceremony, we had a vision of what we wanted and she made it happen! Forever thankful for all her help, time, details and advice!
Maria was a godsend. We wanted an intimate ceremony, fully in Spanish, and she delivered beyond our expectations. After a couple of calls with her, she wrote a beautiful and personal ceremony for us. She had great suggestions on how to make our...
ceremony extra special. Our parents greatly appreciated her suggestion to give them each a rose. It was a beautiful part of the ceremony.
Everyone at the wedding loved her and commented on how beautiful her words were. I have already recommended her to family members with upcoming weddings.
Thank you, Maria! Our day was extra special because of you.
Maria was just wonderful. Communication was great and her words and service were put together beautifully and I wouldn't of had it any other way. Thank you Maria
Maria was everything we were looking for. We were looking for someone who was Bi-lingual (english/spanish) and she spoke both languages fluently. I've been to some weddings where the officiant was "bi-lingual" but butchered the language they cl...
aimed they were bi-lingual, lol. So it was a huge plus hearing her speak Spanish so effortlessly. Another huge deal was the fact that she marries interfaith couples. Neither my Husband or I wanted to change or convert to each other's religion and also felt like we didn't need to in order to get married. We both believe in God and that's all that mattered to us. Maria was the best fit overall and she was kind, helpful with helping us figure out whether we wanted to do our own vows or stick traditional and was ready for whatever we came to her with. She really is the best at what she does and we will forever recommend her to anyone that's deciding to get married. Glad we chose her to be part of our big day!
Maria was absolutely professional when it came down to officiating for our wedding. When my husband and I first met with Maria, she asked many questions about our relationship and how my husband and I met. She asked how we envisioned our weddin...
g day and what we wanted to include for our special day. When we got stuck on certain things, she would provide us with ideas which was super helpful. She knew exactly how to put our ceremony together. Before our big day, she made sure to provide us with a copy of what our ceremony would be like word for word ahead of time. She was sweet and kind and we loved the turnout of our ceremony. Guests at our wedding even enjoyed hearing her voice :) I would definitely recommend her to others. Thank you Maria for making our ceremony so special!
Maria was very helpful putting together an appropriate ceremony for my wife and me. She was there to assist during the rehearsal and performed the ceremony beautifully.
We asked Maria to marry us about a week before the wedding due to unexpected circumstances, but she was very responsive and flexible so we knew we could count on her immediately. Maria helped us a lot drafting the ceremony and followed all of o...
ur wishes. We were able to have the interfaith wedding we dreamed for, tailored for us and! It was beautiful and several of our guests took her contact right after the ceremony to have her officiate their own or relatives' weddings. Thank you Maria!
Maria is an amazing officiant. She took time to really listen to our story. Our wedding ceremony was lovely, personal and ended with a prayer. Our guest really liked her and thought she was wonderful. We were very pleased to have her marry us!...
Thank you, Maria!
Maria was awesome in helping my husband and in the preparation process and on our wedding day. Her words were so meaningful to us both and we couldn't have asked for a better experience. We highly recommend Maria when couples are looking for a ...
professional, experienced and genuinely kind officiant.
Contact Info for Married by Maria
15760 VENTURA BLVD. #828, Encino, CA | Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties & Surrounding Areas
Meet the Team
Maria
Owner
I am a romantic at heart and an altruist, who believes that we are all children of God and the Universe and we all have the right to be happy, loved, respected and accepted. I believe in love and I enjoy immensely witnessing couples profess their feelings to each other, committing to a beautiful life together and most of all being part of one of their most memorable dates. I deeply enjoy what I do and I will make sure your ceremony is entirely of your liking.
