Lead Your Love Life

We were really drawn to Sarah by how thoughtful she was, and genuinely interested in us as people and as a couple. We liked her approach to crafting the ceremony - we were able to incorporate our individual selves as well as our families and communities in ways that were meaningful. Sarah was easy to work with, and she knows what she’s doing! She has a robust process for creating the ceremony script with a structure that helped us figure out what we wanted, while allowing us to make it our own. She gave us timelines and reminders for making decisions. She made the process fun too - she had us do an exercise of answering questions about how we met, experiences we’ve had together, and describing each other. We also really liked that she had some of our friends write a few words about us to share as a surprise! That was a highlight of the ceremony. She even gave us a beautiful gift on our wedding day, as well as a commemorative copy of our ceremony script. She also gave us resources for writing our vows and financial stuff that were really helpful. We would definitely recommend Sarah to another couple! She made the process easy and fun, was very professional, and did a great job performing the ceremony. :)

Sarah was an absolute joy to work with throughout the entire wedding planning process. Designing the ceremony was an easy, enjoyable endeavor under her lead. We had numerous guests come up and compliment the ceremony and officiant, I think that speaks volumes. Sarah's grounding spirit and loving energy is what you'll want on your wedding day - from the bottom of our hearts, thank you Sarah.

Sarah did an over the moon experience for my Wife and I all within a short notice due to a change in officiants that happened with Covid. She created an elegant customized and personalized ceremony for us that fit our needs, spoke directly to us, talked about specific moments, and helped us feel comfortable on our special day. Working with Sarah is easy, creative, and get you talking about the "WHY" around marriage and one another. She is very talented and can adapt to anything. I would recommended Sarah to anyone who wants a one of a kind ceremony that will leave memories that last a lifetime.

Sarah did an amazing work! Our ceremony was perfect! just as we wanted it. she takes the time and tailors your ceremony as you and your partner want it. she is always on top of things and talking to her is so easy. she is calm, a good listener and wants the best for you. She is also a counselor so she really helped me and my husband talk about things we were not even thinking about. I am so happy to have found her!!! If you are getting married and need an Officiant, YOU NEED SARAH!!!!

We were married by Sarah in September 2019. During planning, she had us answer some questions together and individually, which she used to lay out a framework for the ceremony with a diverse set of suggestions and options to think about. This greatly helped take the stress out of ceremony planning. We loved her suggestions to do a ring warming (where the rings are passed among all the guests) and a joint candle lighting. With the foundation in place, we customized the plan to our liking. On the actual day, she conducted the ceremony beautifully, and many guests commented afterward on how well she ran the show. We felt very confident that Sarah had everything under control, which allowed us to become completely absorbed in the unforgettable moment. We also did two couples therapy sessions with Sarah before the wedding. We didn’t have any particular relationship problems that we wanted to solve, but we thought that doing couples therapy would be a good opportunity to check in on our relationship and ask if there is anything we would want to improve. For each session, Sarah took us to a beautiful spot beneath some redwoods in the hills of Oakland. The location and the attitude that Sarah cultivated during those sessions gave us the perfect space to reflect on why we were getting married, and what we actually wanted to build together during the happily ever after part. One nice side benefit of doing these sessions was that we felt much closer to Sarah and supported by her, which made the experience of being married by her that much more special. If you can, we would highly recommend doing some sessions before your wedding. Overall, Sarah was the perfect celebrant, and we would highly recommend working with her.

Sarah led my fiance and me through several sessions of pre-marital coaching and I cannot say enough positive things about the experience. She facilitated difficult conversations with professionalism and sensitivity. Sarah immediately picked up on our dynamic and was able to offer fantastic insight into our relationship almost immediately. We had to do our sessions over video calling due to COVID-19 and felt the experience was equally enriching. No matter the status of your relationship, I am confident Sarah can help you build a stronger bond.

Somehow, we managed to convince a pregnant Sarah to officiate our wedding half a world away on a dairy farm in New Zealand! On top of that, we also requested a highly bespoke, non-traditional ceremony to emphasize our passion for storytelling, science, and the outdoors. Sarah worked graciously with us to artfully weave the threads of our lives together in a creative ceremony script montage of our separate pasts, our love, our dreams, and our commitment to each other. She even humored our quirky request to throughout the ceremony metaphorically compare our lives to our favorite husband-wife team of famous scientists! Leading up to the wedding, she became our guiding light amidst a chaotic sea of decisions. On the day, she remained a pillar of calm, providing gentle guidance where needed. We were continually amazed at Sarah’s unique ability to bring people together. Seemingly effortlessly, she engendered an atmosphere of community and created a space for our diverse guests to feel connected to us and to each other. During the ceremony itself, her powerful presence spurred openness and sharing, elevating our ceremony to something deeply personal and inspirational not only to us, but also to our guests. Unsolicited rave reviews of the ceremony poured in, many guests pronouncing genuinely that this was the best ceremony they had ever been a part of. We of course think so too. We cannot recommend Sarah highly enough!

We were IMMEDIATELY blown away. Sarah was patient, thoughtful, organized, attentive, caring... basically everything we were looking for in a wedding officiant, but SO much more. Every time my husband and I would end a session with her, we were shocked by her careful attentiveness and presence. She KNEW what she was doing and she did it so well. She was SO easy to work with. Overtime, we had multiple sessions with her - which felt like intimate relationship coaching sessions. Which, allowed my husband and I to deepen our relationship. It's like she was helping us connect through being a wedding officiant, and through the process, my husband and I would fall in love with each other more. Sarah created an incredible ceremony for us. An amazing ceremony beyond words. My husband and I agree, the ceremony and her work was THE best part of the wedding. So many people came up to us... even a couple weeks later... asking about her and the ceremony. To this day, they compliment us with our ceremony and how it was so "us", and how they felt so "connected", and felt the deep love because of Sarah. So many people complimented us on our wedding officiant - which is a rare thing to do! If you're thinking of hiring Sarah Oswald as a wedding officiant, let me tell you, you MUST DO IT. We have nothing but spectacular, amazing things to say about Sarah, and if we were to get married again, we would hire her in a heart beat. Thank you, Sarah, for making the wedding process so easy, organized and spectacular. You made our wedding ours and it was the best part of the special day.

Simply put, Sarah from Lead Your Love Life was the officiant of all officiants. The word “officiant” almost doesn’t even really capture all that Sarah puts into working with each and every individual and unique couple. In fact, people kept asking me after the ceremony, “who was that INCREDIBLE friend of yours who officiated your wedding??? She was so lovely, personal, kind, touching, etc….” Everyone was always SHOCKED when I said I found her online! I chose Sarah to marry my husband and I because from the time I found her website, I absolutely loved how unique and different the experience was! It wasn’t a simple cut and dry wedding speech, deliver and done. Sarah works with each couple to get to know them, reaches out to their community of friends and family to collect personal and meaningful words, learns what is important to each couple, really listens when you express what you want your day to be, and even coaches you through the entire process! Let’s face it, wedding planning can be stressful, and most people are navigating and planning an event they’ve never planned before. Sarah really felt there for us every step of the way. I never really understood when people used to say their wedding was the best day of their lives, but with Sarah’s help, this was 100% true for me. The ceremony was so beautiful and personal – it was probably the happiest I had ever been in my entire life, and Sarah was a driving and central force behind why. She worked with us to craft the PERFECT wedding in every way and make sure it was everything we ever wanted. Not only did she deliver on this, she went above and beyond with her own unique touches and glowing and kind heart and personality. I didn’t see Sarah as a “vendor” at my wedding… Sarah was there as a cherished guest and kindred spirit. She was crucial in making our day perfect, and I will always be grateful to her for that. Any couple who has been married by Sarah knows how incredibly lucky they are, and I feel like one day she will be this incredibly famous person with waitlists years long for her services. I am so grateful I got to have her there with me and my husband in the happiest moment of our lives.

Sarah’s the full package, we would strongly recommend having her as an officiant to anyone! It created a stress free environment knowing that our officiant had it all planned to a T and had back up plans to make sure it all went smoothly. A very great experience! Sarah worked with us on every last detail and made sure to keep our wedding unique and everything that we wanted. She was helpful in answering all questions and was timely about making sure everything got taken care of before the ceremony date. She was so prepared for everything and made sure we were prepared as well and even had copies of our vows, all very helpful! I’d also like to mention that Sarah went out of her way to check out our venue location in person for us since we live in Indiana and wanted a wedding in San Francisco. She was amazing at writing the script and creating a ceremony that was perfect for us and completely captured our relationship.

Sarah is the best wedding officiant. She is so caring and it reflects on her work. We honestly didn’t expect such a beautiful ceremony outside of church but thanks to the greatness of Sarah, everything was perfect. The ceremony was beautiful in so many ways. We love how Sarah made us reflect about love and marriage. Sarah went through the entire wedding preparation with us. She communicates well, she is friendly, caring and reliable. She loves what she is doing and gives marriage the value it should have. I am glad we decided to go with her instead of getting married at the county. If you do not hire Sarah, you are missing out. Thank you Sarah for your great work. Stay blessed!

Before planning our wedding, we had a fairly concrete vision set for our ceremony. To give an idea of how specific we were, our ideal ceremony included: Chinese translation (done by our maid of honor), a tea ceremony, Christian elements, an emphasis on our personal values, community thank-yous and our dog bringing us our rings! Sarah refined our initial ideas and made the ceremony really shine with a carefully crafted process. First, she sent us a survey with questions that let us reflect on our relationship, our feelings for each other and our community. She then put together a ceremony draft together that we collaboratively edited. Sarah also made sure to meet up with us several times in person to go through any questions we might have. Besides the ceremony writing process, Sarah has a unique presence which makes her a natural public speaker. Thank you for making our wedding day wonderful!

Sarah did an amazing job officiating our wedding. She helped give us direction and get us thinking about how our perfect ceremony would unfold. We discussed our vision. She gave us a framework and asked us the right questions to create a ceremony that truly represented us. She connected with our family and friends to gather details about our love story and how our community views our relationship. Sarah is a very open individual, who can connect with anyone on multiple levels and really read into what it is that you are needing or wanting. You can feel by her presence she is someone who embodies love and wishes to contribute to and grow the love of your partnership. We highly recommend using Sarah as an officiant to anyone who wants their wedding to build community and connection! She does a fantastic job creating a beautiful ceremony and loving community!

Sarah was the best! Sarah was amazing to work with and the perfect fit for what we were looking for in an officiant. We wanted a unique ceremony that was very personalized, which Sarah delivered on and then some. She was always quick to respond, thorough with her communication, and organized with a structured process. What we appreciated the most was how Sarah took plenty of feedback from my husband and I, as well as our close family and friends to help create the ceremony. We wanted everyone to feel the love we have for one another and that mission was definitely accomplished. If you decide to work with Sarah, you won’t regret it!

How important is a beautiful, memorable ceremony to you personally? We’ve all been to weddings where the officiant is the grooms first college roommate, or the brides sister’s boyfriend. And I’ll admit, they can be a lot of fun! But if you don’t think you’d like to hear the line “As a recently ordained minister via BudegetOfficiant4U.com, I now pronounce you man and wife”, you’re going to need to make some decisions about the tone and cadence of your ceremony. This is where Sarah enters the picture. This review highlights the aspects of the start to finish process of choosing Sarah as your officiant, though equal if not greater accolades are deserving of her calm, reassuring demeanor throughout as well as her encouraging, loving attitude towards you and your partner. We started from almost absolute zero as far as ceremony planning goes. We had a list of things we definitely did not want to do which, as we quickly found out, is not a great starting framework for building a touching wedding ceremony. In the initial meeting Sarah walked us through typical ceremonies, explained how she built her’s, and really helped to demystify the whole process in a way that makes it seem much more manageable. It’s not actually that easy, but it seems like it considering Sarah does a lot of the heavy lifting. From her ceremony framework she is then able to assemble your customized experience by asking about you, your partner, how you communicate, what traditions you share, and what’s important to you currently and as you embark on a new stage of your relationship. She solicited feedback as well throughout the process, giving us a chance to voice any concerns or wants that had yet to be addressed and building that feedback into the final script. We were understandably a bit nervous at each step and Sarah was able to assuage any concerns with her ability to present our task at hand simply, it is just a script after all, and calmly. Again, we were feeling nervous but practiced on the actual wedding date. Sarah suggests a brief walkthrough of the full script in the days leading up, which was extremely helpful to address any last minute concerns and practice builds confidence. Sarah arrived early, looking stunning, and after giving us a quick pump-up pep talk, took command of the guests who were starting to take their seats. We didn’t do a full rehearsal beforehand so this was all mostly on the fly by her aside from the script we had built together. The ceremony itself was a bit of a blur and without incident except for one small hiccup, which Sarah was able to sidestep effortlessly. She ended the day with us by affording us some wisdom she has learned from her time as a relationship coach and from her experience dealing with couples. I find it worth repeating how calm and reassuring she was from start to finish. It would have been possible to do this without her, the reason I would suggest Sarah to officiate your wedding is because she can take this stressful process and transform it into something you’ll enjoy and actually look forward to, which I would not have previously believed. I cannot speak more highly of Sarah’s professionalism, positive attitude, and ability to address and capture a beautiful moment in your life. For what she is able to provide, it is well worth her rate, and I’m glad to have met and enjoyed her as a kind and compassionate person.

We are so glad we picked Sarah as our wedding officiant! We picked Sarah because we wanted a very personalized ceremony, and she really delivered. She was great at guiding us through the process of planning the ceremony and laying out all of our options. Lots of our family members came up to us after the ceremony to say how much they loved it. My aunt thought she knew us because of how well she told the "love story" portion and how well she captured our sense of humor. In addition to being great at the creative side of putting together and leading a wedding ceremony, Sarah is also incredibly organized and really thinks through all the little details. We highly recommend her!

We cannot thank Sarah enough for officiating our wedding. Sarah did such an amazing job and it truly is something we will cherish forever. She was kind, attentive, and truly showcased the love that my bride and I shared. She did an incredible job of providing examples and tid bits to help us form a perfect and personalized ceremony script a long with providing guidance for writing our vows.

We loved everything about Sarah as our officiant! Booking the officiant was one of our last vendor selections, I think it's easy to kind of forget about this piece of the wedding and take it for granted that it will be easy to fill in later. It really isn't and I recommend doing this earlier than you'd think. I started my search on one of the wedding vendor websites by location and by type of ceremony - we are non religious and wanted someone who would make our ceremony feel traditional but without reference to any specific religion. Once I reached out to Sarah through, she quickly responded and setup a call with my fiance and me. She asked questions mostly about *us* to get to know us, not just the wedding details. She made it not feel like just a transaction. I found Sarah to be very organized, she setup check-in points leading up to the wedding that helped me stay on track. I appreciated that so much! On our wedding day, Sarah's delivery was powerful and personal. She has a very soothing voice and she talked about us like she knew us. Several of my guests asked me if she knew us and said she was great - they were surprised she didn't know us beforehand! Just another testament to how seriously Sarah takes each wedding. I am already enjoying going back to listen to my wedding video and listening to the ceremony, she put the words to our love story and made it shareable with all of our friends and family. That brings me to another point - if you are having your wedding recorded - having a strong speaker as your officiant is key! They are like a narrator, and the quality of your officiant will show on your video. My husband and I wholeheartedly recommend Sarah.

We fall in love with Sarah 2 years before our wedding. She was the first vendor with met with when we started to plan our wedding. She was the only one who wanted to meet us right away while others I contacted said to call next year! Our chemistry and energy matched from the first meeting. She understood our vision and our goofy personalities. Together we created a very special, emotional and fun ceremony that even pouring rain and stopping half way through didn't matter. She was able to hold it together in such loving calming way, that everyone was very complimentary about her. We have had so many magical moments during the ceremony, that no one will ever forget it. Thank you so much dearest Sarah, for making our Day, day we were waiting for 11 years - absolutely PERFECT! Much love, Gosia and Scott

Sarah is absolutely a dream to work with! We didn't take choosing an officiant for our wedding (April 2019) lightly. It was very important to us to have someone we connected with, who understood us as a couple and aligned with our personal belief and morals. From the very beginning e-mails with Sarah it felt like we were old friends. She is professional and also personable. She got to know us as a couple and as individuals. We decided we wanted to craft our own unique ceremony and write our own vows. We weren't entirely sure HOW to craft a ceremony BUT Sarah gives you many ideas to include to make it your very own. We aren't religious people but wanted to include our own take on Hindu traditions. (My husband's family is rooted in India.) We also wanted a way to include our 3 children as part of our ceremony as well. Sarah has a very in depth questionnaire for yourself, your partner AND your close friends and family. (This part is so fun because we wanted to be surprised during our ceremony about what our loved ones had to say about us!) The process of crafting our ceremony with Sarah's guidance brought us closer as a couple- forcing us to look deeper into our relationship and ourselves. It was a very vulnerable yet beautiful experience- like falling in love all over again. During this entire process we had several skype meetings and met twice in person to go over all the details of exactly how our wedding ceremony would be preformed. She wove in all of our ideas together to come up with a ceremony that was true and unique to us as a couple. Sarah also offers a pre-martial counseling session with her services. She gives honest and un-biased advice during this process and it felt really good to set the wedding planning aside and just express our feelings about our relationship. WEDDING DAY! Sarah prints and brings your ceremony script (and vows) so this isn't something you even have to think about on your wedding day. Sarah a special gift for creating the space, grounding and setting the tone for your wedding day. She also gathers your wedding party and gives them directions and guidance on where to stand, walk etc. ( This is all discussed beforehand and she executes it flawlessly when the day comes! Just trust her!!!) She includes your guests and wedding party as a part of your ceremony- as they are all your community. She tells your love story crafted from the info you, your partner and your loved ones gave her. My favorite part of our ceremony was an idea Sarah gave us to include all of our guests, which was a ring warming. Our rings were passed through every single person (110- 120) and they each took a moment to infuse our rings with their own well wishes, love and blessings. Our guests LOVED that they were all included in such a beautiful and meaningful way. We had so many compliments on our ceremony, everyone kept saying it was the most beautiful and unique ceremony they've ever been to! That they were so engaged in what was happening and how eloquently our love story was told. There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd and the entire ceremony was the most surreal moment of my life. Sarah hung around a little while during our reception to say hello and get to know our friends and family as well. We couldn't have found a better person to officiate our day, truly! We are so honored to have had her. We look forward to working with her throughout our marriage as our friend and counselor.

Sarah did a wonderful job as our officiant. She kept in contact with us through every step. She also coordinated our rehearsal day and the day of the wedding. She was flexible with our requests for wardrobe. She was kind, considerate, and extremely understanding of possible family issues that may have arose. She spent time getting to know us, and had us fill out a well-thought out questionnaire to enhance her ceremony speech. She also let us fully customize what she would say, and that was truly the best part. You could not do better than to hire Sarah as your officiant.

Sarah was incredible. Warm, inviting - and deeply thorough in her process. She took the time to know us as a couple, and made our wedding everything it could be, and more. If you're looking for a true professional - someone unafraid to challenge your notion of marriage, commitment, and the systems that drive a healthy union - Sarah is unreservedly the officiant for you! Thanks again, Sarah. We loved having you guide us through this journey, keeping us engaged/positive/playful and curious. We'll never forget it! Cheers!

From the moment we first met Sarah, we knew she was going to be the one to marry us. She was grounded, genuine, and confident. She made planning out the ceremony effortless and allowed us to easily come up with what we wanted to say. Though our wedding was just one of many that Sarah has officiated, my wife and I truly felt like our wedding was the only one that mattered to her due to her dedication and obvious love for what she does.

I wanted to say thank you for facilitating our whole pre-marital counseling experience. I feel like we know each other so much more now as a couple, from our couples' sessions and all the little moments in between that we reflect on the questions and topics you've provided. So grateful for your experience, presence, and patience, Sarah!