Irvine Officiants + Premarital Counseling

Rabbi Larry Seidman -- The Rational Rabbi

Southern California and destinations everywhere

About this vendor

Mazal Tov! The Jewish wedding tradition gives us a wonderful base for building a unique wedding -a spiritual, romantic, beautiful wedding. This is true if you are both Jewish, if you are an interfaith couple, and even if you are not religious. Before I officiate at your wedding ceremony, we'll probably spend four hours together in talking, planning and creating. We'll start with the outline of the traditional Jewish wedding. Then we will personalize the wedding ceremony to reflect who you are, what you believe, and your personal styles. We can include aspects of other traditions that are meaningful to you. , I can also co-officate. This is your wedding. Lets work together to make it unique, to make it meaningful. and to make it memorable and authentic. Let's talk--no obligation.

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Ceremony Types

Civil Union
Commitment Ceremony
Elopement
Interfaith Ceremony
Non-Religious Ceremony
Religious Ceremony

Religious Affiliations

Interfaith
Jewish
Conservative
Reform
Pagan
Secular

Wedding Activities

After The Wedding
Newlywed Life
Premarital Counseling
Wedding
Ceremony

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12/18/2018 • Sarah F

Rabbi larry was amazing and so helpful from the beginning all the way until we signed the marrige papers. Thank you so much for a wonderful ceremony and we appreciate you so much.

11/16/2018 • Elizabeth M

A vital addition to our special day. Rabbi Larry really took his time to get to know us and provide a personalized ceremony. We got many compliments on how beautiful everything was.

8/23/2018 • Terri H

Rabbi Larry was absolutely wonderful! We enjoyed our time getting to know him before our ceremony and getting to know each other better as a couple through our sessions with him. He guided us through everything we needed to know, before, during and even after our wedding ceremony. He is such a kind and caring Rabbi and we absolutely loved having him officiate our wedding ceremony! We are so thrilled to have found him! Thank you Rabbi Larry!

6/20/2018 •

Rabbi Larry did an excellent job officiating our wedding. We like that he took a lot of time (3 meetings, multiple questionnaires) to get to know us and our story. He guided us in the details of the ceremony and was very flexible in incorporating what we wanted in the ceremony. A wonderful experience!

1/29/2018 • Deborah R

Rabbi Seidman was wonderful to work with. We had 5 meetings with him. He listened to our ideas about our wedding and created a service tailored just for us. He was a pleasure to work with.

11/22/2017 • Lori I

I can not stress enough just how blessed I was to have had Rabbi Larry officiate my wedding! He was always so accommodating to my husband and I throughout the whole thing. We knew we were going to have a pretty unconventional ceremony, since we wanted to include our daughter in it, with a mix of both religious traditions and modern rituals. It was really important to me to have a Jewish ceremony, but my husband had grown up LDS and is still learning about Judaism. My husband is fully supportive of us raising our family Jewish, but it meant the world to me that Rabbi Larry didn’t just dismiss him as an outsider and, instead, took his time to help him understand the religion and culture he was marrying into. Our wedding was small and meant to be very intimate, so i really appreciated that Rabbi Larry took his time to really get to know us before the ceremony; it made all of us feel so much more comfortable in a situation that we’d, otherwise, would have felt very awkward and nervous in. I could really just go on and on, but to cut to the chase- if you’re looking for an Officiant that will take his time, get to know you, and genuinely seem like he cares about your ceremony as much as you do, then book with Rabbi Larry. You’ll be glad you did!

9/20/2017 • Linda G

Rabbi Larry was very accommodating and flexible with my husband (Jewish) and I (Christian) who are an interfaith couple. He was very informative and open to personalizing our vows to make our ceremony unique, but still within both Jewish and Christian traditions without offending the other. Our guests enjoyed the Rabbi because he spoke so well, the ceremony flowed beautifully. I'd highly recommend him.

7/23/2017 • Gary F

Rabbi Larry did an wonderful job at our wedding and helped to make an already amazing day even better! He spent the time to get to know us and was able to make the ceremony very personal and special. We would recommend him to anyone!

6/04/2017 • Shifra B

This rabbi could not have made our day more perfect!!! He gets to know you on a personal basis and really makes the ceremony your own! Thanks again rabbi

4/11/2017 • Claire D

Rabbi Larry Seidman was such an amazing rabbi to us! We had destination wedding and he had a thorough process of getting to know us up until our wedding day and helped to keep us on track with what we needed to make our ceremony complete and following Jewish traditions which was important to us and we are not orthodox, more traditional and he was very educated and compassionate towards us! During our ceremony , it felt like he was part of the family , he was also really emotionally invested in us and wedding us which was so touching:) Thank you Rabbi Seidman