5 out of 5 stars and 51 reviews
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(51)Best of Weddings (4x).Dayton to Cincinnati to SidneyOh to Richmond IN & Columbus O
About this vendor
Your Special Day Ceremonies is dedicated to co-creating a unique wedding day ceremony for you and your fiancee. Rev Linda works with all couples to create a ceremony you will love and remember. Services include unique religious, non-denomination, non-religious, and pagan. She works with all couples, including LGBTQ.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Religious Affiliations
- Christian
- Protestant
- Interfaith
- Pagan
- Secular
- Spiritual
Wedding Activities
- After The Wedding
- Newlywed Life
- Getting Engaged
- Premarital Counseling
- Wedding
- Ceremony
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Linda was so wonderful as our wedding officiant! Not only is she professional, but she is a very sweet person. She met with us on multiple occasions, gave us ideas for our wedding ceremony, and let us customize our ceremony to how we wanted. She was quick to respond to any questions we had, and confirmed details with us in advance. We had many people compliment our wedding ceremony. I highly recommend hiring Linda as your wedding officiant!
Linda was so wonderful to work with! Helped us create a ceremony that was perfect for us. Excellent communication throughout process. Would highly recommend!
Linda was awesome! She responded quick and was very accommodating. Linda was also professional yet provided a comfortable atmosphere.
Reverend Linda was amazing and so very helpful to find the right type of ceremony and the perfect vows for our wedding. She met with us to get to know our story and personality so she could customize our perfect vows. She sent us templates to choose from and that we could add to or take away to make our vows more intimate and relatable to our love story.
At rehearsal she was so helpful in making sure that everyone knew were to be and gave us different ideas on our the ceromony could go.
Linda was so sweet and she helped us create a beautiful ceremony! She had great ideas! The poems and readings she came up with were absolutely perfect! She attended our rehearsal as well which was very helpful!! We adored her and highly recommend her for anyone seeking a wedding officiant!
I had the pleasure to work with Linda last weekend as the DJ for a couple's wedding. She was a true professional in every aspect of her role as the officiant. It is obvious that she cares about her couple and is well spoken.
Linda was amazing to work with! She made picking our vows so easy. She was delightful to be around. Very blessed to have had her officiate our wedding.
Reverend Linda was wonderful during our wedding planning, she sent us several different samples for our ceremony and let us piecemeal our perfect ceremony, and we had pretty free range over edits. She was very professional during the ceremony, and even left us a copy of our ceremony readings to keep with our vows.
Linda is very punctual, professional, and patient. Service was well written and exactly everything we could have asked for. We highly recommend her and are blessed to have had her. Thank you Linda!
Rev. Linda did an amazing job! We had to find a new officiant last minute and Linda came to save the day. She was very quick to respond via text or emails and even after the ceremony she kept me updated on my marriage license. She performed a beautiful ceremony!
I 10/10 recommend hiring Reverend Linda Ketchum for your wedding day! My wife and I are a same-sex couple and Reverend Linda was perfect! She helped craft the most incredible wedding ceremony for the two of us that had excellent passages about marriage from various sources that I had never heard of, including Native American and African-American traditions. Everyone remarked about how beautiful our ceremony was and told us how they had never been to a more loving wedding. It was a ceremony to be remembered. To top it all off, she gave us a commemorative copy of our wedding ceremony that we will treasure for years to come. She was flexible with editing our ceremony and was knowledgeable about weddings in general. She helped remind us when to apply for a wedding license with the state and what documents we would need. She was timely with mailing out our wedding certificate and even gave us an image of our marriage certificate to use for any perks we needed to access on our honeymoon. I thought that was an excellent touch! She has literally thought of everything. Reverend Linda's pre-marital counseling was top-notch and helped us build a foundation of trust and understanding in our relationship. Book her now! You will be glad you did it!
Reverend Linda was the officiant at my wedding with my wife. We chose her because of her connection with our spiritual center. After hearing her speak several times at our center and taking her forgiveness workshop, we noticed her kind heart and genuine passion for strengthening relationship with oneself and others. This is a very important factor in an officiant. We elected to choose the larger package she offered with the pre or post-marriage counseling. The advice she gave us during our pre-marital counseling was very beneficial and made us think about how we could grow as a couple before the wedding.
In addition to this, her guidance during the entire process was so helpful. You can tell she has worked with many couples and knows what questions to ask and what advice to give. She gave us the appropriate timeline on when to apply for a marriage license, provided sample ceremonies and readings, and helped the entire wedding party figure out their places on the night of the wedding rehearsal. The day of the wedding was absolutely perfect and she was very prepared with the printed out ceremony, readings, and our vows as backup in case we forgot to bring them. She also blessed our food at the reception. We truly could not have asked for a better officiant. As a same-sex couple, we wanted to make sure our officiant was completely supportive of us. Reverend Linda checked all our boxes and exceeded our expectations.
For all future couples looking to book Reverend Linda, I hope that she has availability on your special day and that you are able to do the pre-marital counseling.
Rev Linda was the best, not only did she perform our ceremony with a short notice, she fit us in her already busy schedule to accommodate our date. The ceremony she performed was perfectly sweet for my husband and I, she also allowed us to come to her. I would highly recommend her and her services.
We had to completely adjust our original wedding plans due to Covid. I felt lost on what to do given the big changes. Luckily, we were able to find Rev. Linda. She responded quickly via text and email, even up to the date of our wedding. She made suggestions for locations nearby and made our event special, simple, and relaxed. We look forward to having her come back for our anniversary wedding with the original venue.
We wanted to thank Reverend Linda for the beautiful ceremony she did for us today! She was very professional and nice. The ceremony exceeded our expectations and we would highly recommend her services to anyone thinking of getting married. We would give her a 5/5 stars! Highly, highly recommend!
Wonderful to work with! Created a beautiful, warm ceremony as if she knew the family personally.
Linda was a true pleasure to work with. From the beginning she was professional and also very kind. Whenever we were unsure of something, she would offer suggestions to help guide us. She listened to what we wanted and created a beautiful ceremony that we will cherish forever. If you want someone who listens, truly cares, and is also very professional- please consider her as your officiant. You won't regret it! We are so happy we chose her for that very important time in our lives.
Amazing...Reverend Linda gave an exceptional heart felt ceremony. I was throughly impressed with the quality and personalized ceremony. Reverend Linda took the time to understand what my nephew and his bride wanted, and she even offered suggestions to the young couple. Very impressed!
I have had the opportunity to work with Linda on several occasions. She is a very happy, generous person and takes a personal interest in our couples. I appreciate her professionalism, excellent communication, and genuine desire to make our couples day extra special.
Rev Linda Ketchum was a wonderful officiate, beginning, middle and end, for our daughter's wedding this past September. In the meetings before the wedding, she took time to really listen to what the bride and groom wanted while also bringing up ideas and components that they may have not thought of to make their ceremony complete. She was open to the special needs and concerns that were shared about the people involved in the wedding party and special wishes for the readings and extra components wanted. Rev. Ketchum was also fantastic about communication. She connected with me during the rehersal , exchanging cell numbers and let me know what she needed further to help make the special day go smoothly. She was spot on time to the wedding, 30 minutes before, and had ample time to connect with the readers and other special participants in the ceremony. She was pivital in keeping everyone in line and set up to help the wedding go off without a hitch! My husband and I were thrilled to have Rev. Ketchum officiating our daughter and new son-in-law's wedding and reccomend her highly.
Linda was awesome! She was very knowledgeable, and helped walk us through our ceremony script, as we had no clue what we wanted to do. She made the whole process a breeze! Also she was very flexible with our schedules for meeting up to discuss our vision for the ceremony, and the rehearsal practice.
After decades as a Wedding DJ I have worked with hundreds if not thousands of Officiants. Linda is the Best. She is professional, well spoken, and obviously cares. Which is unfortunately not something that can be said for all Officiants. Her delivery is outstanding and she is absolutely the Best I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Very friendly and personable. Listened to our thoughts and ideas.
We are so thankful that Rev. Ketchum was available on our wedding date to officiate our ceremony! She was very responsive to all our questions via emails or text messages.
She also worked closely with us to create a ceremony that was just right for us. Our rehearsal time was changed at the last minute by our venue, but Rev. Ketchum adjusted her schedule to make it to the rehearsal for which we are very appreciative. Thank you, Rev. Ketchum, for your help in making our day a very special one.
Reverend Linda Ketchum was personable, friendly, helpful and catered to our every wish for our wedding. Even though we chose to have a small wedding, she created a beautiful atmosphere with her choice of readings. We enjoyed meeting with her and having her officiate our wedding!
I am the owner of Glamorous Weddings and Linda and I were two of the professionals working a wedding together in June 2019. From the very beginning, she was professional and courteous. I had called to ask a few questions and she was able to answer without hesitation. We needed her advice during rehearsal and she was quick to come up with a resolution. I will definitely recommend Linda to my future clients.
You should choose Reverend Linda to officiate you wedding! She is kind, personable, and helped make our wedding perfect. She met with us several times, and worked with us closely to design a ceremony unique like us! She even gifted us with a binder to commemorate our special day!
My husband and I wanted a more unique wedding, a Halloween Handfasting to be precise. Reverend Linda was more than happy to accommodate our request! She gave us our "spooky" themed ceremony and also dressed the part (witch hat and all). She is very sweet, kind and understanding. Very easy to speak with. I highly recommend her, especially if you are looking to have a "non-traditional" wedding.
We were so lucky to have our officiant be Linda Ketchum. She was very special and very professional.
I would highly suggest anyone else needing an officiant to reach out to Linda as she has been amazing.
She was a real blessing for me and my now wife to meet. We can't thank her enough for all the amazing things she did for us on making our lives better!
Thanks so much Linda!
Mike Chaffin
Reverend Linda was very professional from initial Skype interview to wedding day. We are a family who was looking to be hands on with choosing the right kind of ceremony and reverend linda delivered!
Reverend linda took every request we had into consideration and made us feel exceptionally special on our big day. We had so many ideas we wanted to incorporate, and she made it all happen seamlessly. From the first meeting, to after the ceremony, it felt like we had known her for years. She even prayed with us and our families before the ceremony. Thank you reverend linda for your time and attention to detail (I felt like I was losing my mind sometimes!), and she was there even for emotional support with things that didn’t have anything to do with her part.
Linda did my wedding on October 13th, 2018 - and it was amazing! She was very easy to work with, and made everything special for me! I'm Wiccan, and I was scared I was going to have a hard time finding an officiant who knew what they were doing - but Rev. Linda was very knowlegeable about the whole ceremony including the handfasting and the broom jumping.
Definitley recommend!
Rev. Linda is a wonderful wedding officiant. She officiated my step daughter's wedding and helped the bride and groom feel calm and comfortable with her caring personality. She is professional and personable and I would choose her for future weddings.
We found Rev. Linda through an internet search, which I initially had some hesitation about, but she ended up being the best officiant we could have asked for. We wanted a very quick, casual, private, non-religious ceremony and through a quick but thorough video chat, she made sure to ask lots of questions about what we were looking for, asking about ourselves, our beliefs, and our lifestyle, as well as location and length of ceremony. When I mentioned we were very open to suggestions, she actually offered up a location we ended up using, and asked if she could include our daughter in the ceremony, which I thought was so thoughtful. She showed up early, prepared, well-dressed, and led us through a beautiful ceremony she had prepared. I felt like she delivered exactly what we wanted, and although it wasn't religious, it was still personal, intimate, and emotive. We would enthiusiastically recommend Rev. Linda to anyone looking for an officiant for their ceremony.
Linda is hands down this sweetest lady. She made our special day everything we hoped it would be.
Rev. Linda was wonderful to work with. She was warm, responsive, and so helpful with picking out readings and creating a secular ceremony that was respectful to our religious families. Rev. Linda was especially invaluable as a calming presence during the rehearsal and ceremony. We're so grateful to her and highly recommend her!
Rev. Linda was always available and ready to provide her help whenever we asked for it. Whether it be in writing the ceremony, reviewing ceremony programs or giving general advice. Linda traveled what I would consider far for our rehearsal dinner and was held up due to late members of her bridal party, she was very patient and understanding and did not complain. The only reason I’m giving 4 instead of 5 stars is because she prounounced our last name wrong during the ceremony, which overall was not a big issue as we have a difficult last name and everyone laughed it off. I would highly recommend Rev. Linda Ketchum.
Rev Linda Ketchum was absolutely sweet and amazing. She responded to my calls, texts, and emails promptly. She was just as excited about my nuptials as I was. She has very good open availability and is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. I would totally recommend her to anyone.
Rev. Linda Ketchum - How can I begin to thank you so much for the lovely ceremony you gave for my daughter's wedding. The entire ceremony was heartfelt and beautiful and it helped to make our special day memorable. Unfortunately, most guests had a hard time hearing everything due to technical difficulties, but other than that everything was perfect!
Reverend Linda was so easy to work with and ensured that the ceremony was exactly what we wanted. She sent us various options, readings, and ideas to fill in the ceremony, and followed up with us several times to make sure it was what we wanted. Reverend Linda was extremely responsive and quick to respond to emails. She went along with our goofiness during the ceremony, and overall, she helped make our day beautiful and special!
Very happy with our choice in Reverand! Linda made our day so special and provided me with so much support through the wedding
I could not be more pleased with the ceremony Linda performed! Everything was absolutely perfect. She worked with us to make sure that everything was the way we wanted. It was a completely stress free experience and I would not have anyone else be our officiant. I recommend her 100 times over!! Thank you Linda!
Reverend Linda was an amazing officiant and truly helped make our ceremony everything we had imagined and more. She is incredibly compassionate, experienced, wise and great to work with. She helped us create a ceremony that blended our backgrounds and felt very personal. We had many guests tell us that it was the most beautiful ceremony they had ever been to and that was in great part due to Rev. Linda. She was also very prepared, flexible and organized throughout the entire time working with us. We also had the pleasure of doing a pre-marital session with her where she provided great wisdom, listening and guidance. Highly recommended! We hope she can make your day as special as ours!
Overall Linda did an amazing job with our wedding. She delivered exactly what we had wanted, was very kind, and was very attentive. I would highly recommend her to anyone for their special day and me and my family cant thank her enough.
Everything was perfect...excellent service. Highly recommend
We have loved working with Rev. Linda! She has been very supportive throughout the entire planning process. She helped us customize our wedding ceremony to fit our needs exactly. I would recommend Rev. Linda to any couples looking to get married in the area! :-)
Rev Linda officiated our wedding on September 10, 2016. She was very patient and helpful throughout the planning process. She tailored the service specifically to our tastes and we absolutely loved our ceremony.
I could not be happier with our ceremony with Rev. Linda! She was professional and timely. Yet personal in allowing us to work with her in creating unique vows. Our wedding day was everything we had hoped and our ceremony was the most memorable part thanks to Your Special Day Ceremonies.
Reverend Linda created a wonderful, meaningful atmosphere for our wedding. She worked with us on the things we wanted, made new suggestions that were great, and combined it all together into a fantastic day for all.
Rev. Linda helped give us the ceremony we wanted. She was very helpful in getting every detail right for the wedding we always wanted. Can't recommend her enough!!
Linda,
Thank you so much for the beautiful service you delivered on mine and Dustin's wedding day. We recieved so many compliments on how well spoken you were, and I personally am greatful at how much aid you provided Dustin and I with planning. Thank you again!
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