Our experience was amazing, the day was perfect. Pamela was kind, caring and made all steps easy. Would 100% recommend
Nicole B.
5.0
Pam wrote a beautiful ceremony for us that fit exactly what our vision was. She sent us a ton of examples that we were able to use for inspiration, and then she curated the final version for us. We are so happy with how the whole process went and it ended up being a perfect day!
Fiona L.
5.0
About this vendor
Pam Swider
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AWARD WINNER (9X)
Thanks to recommendations from couples on The Knot
PS I Love You Ceremonies is a wedding officiating business based out of Ferndale, MI. For over 10 years, we have helped hundreds of couples take the next step in their love story.
Owner and officiant Pamela Swider specializes in customized ceremonies, tailoring every detail to reflect the to-be-weds' love story. She is happy to travel throughout the greater Detroit metropolitan area and beyond. Bridgette Wolf and Stephanie DeSantis are her assistants for day of coordination and can also fill in to officiate or run a rehearsal in order to help out more couples!
Pamela has always loved celebrating love. She had years of experience in event management before opening PS I Love You Ceremonies, so she understands all of the work that has gone into planning your day. Some of the ceremonies she can perform include civil unions, interfaith ceremonies, commitment services, and non-religious celebrations.
PS I Love You Ceremonies has a selection of wedding packages to choose from, depending on the size of your wedding. Elopement packages are also on offer. She is happy to meet with you via Zoom or in-person for a free consultation to go over the plan for the day and hear any of your ideas. Rehearsal and day-of coordination are also offered as part of some of these packages.
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Meet the team
Pam Swider
Owner
I have always loved weddings. I have been an event planner and sales proposal manager for years, and when I decided to open my own business, weddings just fit.
I am very calm in the chaos, know how to roll with the bumps and can come up with plan A, B, C on the fly. One of the biggest compliments I get from my couple's is "Whenever you are around, or we meet, you always make me feel so much calmer." High praise in a hectic time. My goal is always to work with you both to make your wedding reflect the 2 of you!
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PS I Love You Ceremonies is highly recommended for weddings. The officiant is professional, organized, and responsive, crafting personalized ceremonies and assisting with rehearsals, timelines, and paperwork. She’s accommodating of nontraditional requests and calm on the day, making ceremonies intimate and stress-free.
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Nicole B
5.0
7/10/2026
Our experience was amazing, the day was perfect. Pamela was kind, caring and made all steps easy. Would 100% recommend
Fiona L
5.0
6/09/2026
Pam wrote a beautiful ceremony for us that fit exactly what our vision was. She sent us a ton of examples that we were able to use for inspiration, and then she curated the final v...
ersion for us. We are so happy with how the whole process went and it ended up being a perfect day!
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Makenna H
5.0
1/13/2026
The rehearsal and wedding day all ran smoothly! We’re happy our vision was captured :)
Miranda K
5.0
9/09/2025
Pamela was very easy to work with, she was timely in her responses leading up to the event and helped us craft a uniquely perfect script for our ceremony. She was attentive during ...
our rehearsal the night before, making sure we all felt comfortable, and even had her husband there to help line us up and time us so we walked down the aisle at the right pace. Working with her was a truly pleasant experience and I would 100% recommend her for your wedding ceremony!
Olivia C
5.0
7/22/2025
We were so happy with our decision to book with Pam to officiate our wedding. Pam was super available and insightful throughout the planning, and ultimately made our ceremony so mu...
ch more intimate and meaningful. We also really loved how happily open and flexible she was with our non-traditional ceremony plans, while helping us work through a lot of the little logistics. We absolutely recommend Pam’s services for any kind of wedding!
Brittany E
5.0
7/11/2025
The best officiant! Pamela is very professional, friendly, and accomadating. She created a beautiful custom ceremony for us that had our guests in (happy) tears. She answered all o...
ur questions, filed our marriage license for us, and was overall a pleasure to work with. We could not recommend her enough!
Sarah E
5.0
11/03/2024
Ceremony went perfectly! Pam was a wonderful officiant! She was super accommodating when planning our ceremony script and very thorough during the rehearsal to ensure everything we...
nt to plan.
Noelle S
5.0
8/20/2024
Pamela and Stephanie were so wonderful to work with for our wedding and helped us with so many final details and timeline decisions! Highly recommend their services for anyone seek...
ing a day-of coordinator and/or officiant for their wedding.
Katie T
5.0
8/19/2024
Pam is a kind and reliable. She even renewed her registration in Ohio so she could officiate our wedding. The planning process is very organized and straightforward. Definitely rec...
ommend.
Emily L
5.0
8/14/2024
We used PS I Love You Ceremonies for ur elopement wedding and loved it. We had a small ceremony and Pam helped plan every last detail with me and helped with what we need to do aft...
er the wedding. Emails were answered fast and efficiently!
Sarah S
5.0
6/10/2024
Pam was great! I had multiple guests say that the ceremony she delivered was beautiful. I would recommend her services to anyone!
Victoria M
5.0
5/29/2024
We had a great experience with Pam. She was readily available for our ceremony just a few weeks ahead of time which was great, and super friendly, responsive, and open to answering...
any questions we had along the way. Highly recommend!
Rachel C
5.0
11/16/2023
Highly recommend! Pam was so accommodating as we ended up making edits up to two days before the ceremony! She was very kind and I loved how our ceremony went, it was the perfect b...
lend of faith and customization.
Rachel S
5.0
10/10/2023
Pam was terrific to work with from start to finish! She was so professional, organized, experience, and attentive.
We had an initial Zoom call and a meeting in person to make sur...
e she knew what we wanted in our ceremony. We didn't have much of an idea of how to craft our ceremony, but Pam provided helpful guidance while still giving us room to make the ceremony unique and our own.
Pam also has a wonderful attention to detail and clearly has so much experience that helped make our wedding day run smoothly. Pam was punctual, communicative, and professional. Not to mention, Pam is also a super kind and friendly person, so it was great to work with her. I would highly recommend PS I Love You Ceremonies for your wedding!
Hannah T
5.0
10/03/2023
We booked Pam (PS I love you ceremonies) for our wedding at the Roostertail on 9/23/2023. She was wonderful and so easy to work with throughout the entire wedding planning process....
She makes everything really simple and straightforward by providing a bunch of examples on how you can put together your ceremony and make it unique. She is always available and prompt to respond to any questions you have. I received some compliments from our guests about our ceremony with Pam. After the ceremony, she even returns your marriage license paperwork for you. I highly recommend her for an officiant!
Andrea S
5.0
8/26/2023
Pam was such a wonderful officiant! She was friendly, very easy to work with, and incredibly organized. Everything went seamlessly and the ceremony was beautiful! I definitely reco...
mmend working with her!
Elizabeth L
5.0
8/12/2023
Pamela was amazing. Her communication was great and she was prepared and calm, even when I signed my name on the wrong line on the marriage license! She took the time to cater her ...
ceremony for us. The day was just perfect and I think she’d be great for your event too.
Casey S
5.0
8/10/2023
Pam was very professional in our communication and made a stop after another wedding to sign our marriage license for us in Detroit. Very quick process! Thanks.
Jessica V
5.0
7/04/2023
Pam was great! She was very understanding and worked with us to make our day special. She answered all my questions, is very professional, and was able to help with our wedding las...
t minute. I highly recommend it!
Amanda B
5.0
6/27/2023
Pam was great! She sent us a lot of examples for our ceremony and we were able to pick and choose what we liked and created a ceremony that felt like us!
Jessica Y
5.0
6/23/2023
She was very understanding and worked with us made our day very special thank you so much I highly recommend
Alyson M
5.0
6/18/2023
Pam was great to work with and did a great job understanding how we wanted to combine two different faiths and cultures. She helped us create a ceremony that felt authentic to us a...
nd did a wonderful job day of. I greatly appreciated working with Pam and highly recommend her as an officiant!
Laura L
5.0
5/17/2023
Pam was great! Everything was perfect, she gave us plenty of options for our vows to pick from and even options on the ceremony.
Sherry C
5.0
1/14/2023
Great experience!
Kim T
5.0
1/01/2023
Pamela Swider from psiloveyouceremonies.com was punctual and very professional. She worked with us to make a date and time worked even though she had a commitment later in the aft...
ernoon.
Jessica F
5.0
11/14/2022
Pam was great!!! I thought she did a wonderful job helping me set-up the ceremony and providing great examples to use. Even though things did not go as planned she did excellent by...
providing us instructions and keeping calm for our ceremony. I feel so bad having her drive over an hour to come marry us but so thankful she agreed!! Thank you!!
Ellen D
5.0
9/14/2022
My husband and I are so happy that we booked Pam to be our officiant! She is so helpful and fun to work with. She has helpful ceremony templates and allowed us to customize the cer...
emony as much as we wanted. She is also so professional and made us feel really relaxed and comfortable the day of - she came to our rehearsal, brought a backup mic just in case, knew all about the marriage license process etc. Thank you so much for being a part of our special day Pam!
L W
5.0
8/19/2022
Pam married us in our backyard during Covid in 2020 and officiated our vow renewal just recently. She's incredibly great to work with! She had samples of vows and ceremonies that...
we could look at.
Pam was also our Day-Of Coordinator and assisted us with overall wedding planning - she was basically our everything! She's very knowledgeable of the industry and was able to help us find our caterer, florist, and other vendors. She was incredibly organized, made sure the ceremony and wedding went smoothly, and made us feel very comfortable every step along the way!
Linda C
5.0
8/15/2022
Rev Pam was very interested in our story and getting to know a bit about us to prepare the ceremony. She is very easy to communicate with
DANIELLE A
5.0
8/11/2022
I hired Pam as my Day-Of Coordinator. She was absolutely awesome!! She guided us throughout the whole process and made everything go smoothly. The only mistake I made was having so...
meone else as my officiant. Pam is great and I highly recommend her!!
Samantha D
5.0
7/11/2022
I cannot recommend Pam enough! She was our officiant on June 17th, 2022. She put so much thought into making sure our ceremony reflected us as a family, and her suggestions regardi...
ng how to incorporate our children made our ceremony that much better. Any changes we had requested, or customized wording was done effortlessly. Pam absolutely knows what she's doing. She is extremely professional, she answers any and all questions, and she will make sure your ceremony goes as smoothly as possible. Thank you again Pam, we appreciate you!
Caren W
5.0
3/15/2022
Pam was on point and made our special day a cool breeze! We signed our wedding licenses at home, having been together for more than 20 years. Keeping it basic didn't make it any le...
ss tender, and Pam was friendly, organized and easygoing--perfect for what we wanted. :)
Shannon F
5.0
3/10/2022
Pamela was very professional and provided great communication throughout the planning of wedding. It was absolutely wonderful. Everything was perfect. There isn't anything I woul...
d do differently.
Nina K
5.0
3/06/2022
We were interested in hiring Pam (and her husband Tom) because this was both of our second marriages and Pam’s story made us feel that she’d understand us. We felt very well taken ...
care of, and communication was great.
Mike P
5.0
1/24/2022
Pamela provided wonderfully written choices to be used for the ceremony. It went better than we had hoped.I would not hesitate in recommending Pamela and her services!
Emily S
5.0
1/20/2022
Working with Pam was fantastic! She was so helpful in making sure we had our ceremony planned out properly - she even provided some very helpful ceremony scripts for us to referenc...
e in building something custom. We highly recommend working with her!
Melissa B
5.0
1/16/2022
Pam from PS I Love You Ceremonies was fantastic. She is so sweet and caring about her clients. She offered so many different options for couples. Once we met her, we knew right awa...
y that she was going to be the one to officiate us. The only thing we wish we would have done was have her be our day of coordinator for our entire wedding. She was so helpful with everything we needed through the process and was even available after we had to postpone our wedding 3 months because of covid. Thank you Pam for making our day so amazing and so special.
Kelly M
5.0
12/27/2021
We had a wonderful experience with Pam. We had a small, but perfect wedding, right in our own backyard.
Tyler F
5.0
9/15/2021
Pam did a great job with our ceremony. She communicated clearly and quickly, and her backyard for our ceremony was very cute!
Alexa B
5.0
9/13/2021
Pam was an amazing officiant! She was incredibly personable from the initial inquiry email that we sent her - that’s what made her stand out to us. She was understanding and flexib...
le with us as we had to postpone our wedding due to COVID. She was easy to contact by email and phone. She was understanding of our beliefs and helped to make our wedding ceremony tailored to us as a couple. We would recommend her to anyone!
Patricia W
5.0
9/13/2021
Very greatservice
Kylie G
5.0
8/30/2021
She made me feel very comfortable and worked great with us and what we wanted our ceremony to look like. Would recommend to anyone. I can’t thank her enough !
Mary T
5.0
8/15/2021
Pam was very professional, kind, and attentive to our needs. When our venue cancelled our late-March 2020 wedding, Pam was quick to suggest other options to get us married as plann...
ed. While the wedding didn't happen then, she was able to work with us when we had our microwedding in January 2021 with no hiccups. Although our wedding wasn't religious, she came with multiple options for secular and religious couples in terms of readings, and her price was pretty reasonable. We recommend Pam Swider/PS I Love You for any couples looking to get married in metro Detroit.
Kelly C
5.0
4/06/2021
10/10! Pam was great! She took the time to get to know my now husband and I to create a ceremony personalized to us and we couldn’t have been happier with her. Highly recommended...
!
Victoria S
5.0
12/27/2020
I can not thank Pan enough for her wonderful service she was able to provide on a last minute basis! My (now) hubby and I were all set to have our wedding on April 4 2020 but due t...
o the pandemic and restrictions, the ceremony was postponed. We wanted to still get married and Pam was very flexible and had a beautiful set up for a simple ceremony in her back yard! Everything was efficient and perfect for our Pandemic Elopement. Thank you so much Pam!
Kait G
5.0
10/30/2020
Pam was fantastic! After our original plan for an officiant fell through (our friend couldn't travel due to covid), we booked Pam with relatively short notice. She was flexible wit...
h her time and with the package she offered. Meeting her over Zoom beforehand was a great way to make us feel more comfortable and make sure we were all on the same page. The script she customized for our ceremony was so special and able to be tailored to our own relationship. She also takes covid precautions very seriously, which was important to us! I would recommend Pam to anyone planning a small wedding in this time where it can feel challenging to seek out joy. Well worth the (very reasonable) price!
Jaclyn C
5.0
10/29/2020
Pam was wonderful to work with! She was very responsive to any questions that I had, especially during these crazy covid times. My husband and I wanted our ceremony to be very sho...
rt and sweet, she took all of our notes and created the most perfect ceremony for us!
Batool H
5.0
10/23/2020
Pam was beyond excellent and perfect as the officiant for our wedding. She was super accommodative and very communicative; she let us know of all the procedures way ahead of time a...
nd did her part in a very organized manner. She was always super approachable for any concerns we had, even if they were not related to her part. She not only helped us get exactly what we wanted but also guided us in ways we did not even know we needed to make our day super special and great. She was very punctual and made sure things went very smoothly on the day of ceremony. Even later on; she provided post-ceremony services like ensuring our marriage certificates were mailed to the county and answered her questions at great length and very compassionately. She is a super sweet person and very easy to work with!!! Not only did we love our experience with her but even our guests were all praises for her.
Amber W
5.0
10/13/2020
I loved working with Ms. Pam! After cancelling our courthouse wedding last minute due to Covid-19, Ms. Pam quickly accommodated us! The process before-hand was simple, and she made...
our day special! She was very professional and kind. Ms. Pam adhered to the governors orders and always wore her mask. I will be recommending her to everyone I know! Thank you so much Ms. Pam!
Kate B
5.0
9/18/2020
Pam was awesome! We originally hired Pam for our December 2020 wedding, but once COVID-19 hit our plans moved up to September. Pam was so flexible throughout the entire process and...
was so helpful! We didn’t actually meet Pam until the day of our ceremony but communication was still very thorough. Pam was wonderful during the ceremony and we received many compliments on how it went. We highly recommend Pam!!
