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Rev. Matt Skiles Wedding Minister

Wedding Officiant to Indianapolis/Central Indiana

Central Indiana and surrounding metropolitan areas.

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Pastor Matt Skiles made our wedding ceremony perfect! He let us personalize our entire wedding ceremony while ensuring nothing extra was included beside what we planned. We got to meet with him twice before the wedding to plan it out during which time he also got to know us personally. He sat with and got to know our family and friends at our reception. Overall he has a very friendly, professional demeanor which made every part of the ceremony perfect. He made sure we were the center of attention for the day. We appreciate all his work and open communication.

Grace S.

5.0

Pastor Matt Skiles was such a meaningful and memorable part of our wedding journey. From the moment we met him for pre-marital counseling, we knew we were in the best hands. He guided us with wisdom, humor, and compassion, helping us grow even closer as a couple and laying a strong foundation for our marriage. On our wedding day, his presence brought a sense of calm and joy. The ceremony he led was heartfelt, personal, and beautifully delivered—there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. He spoke with sincerity and warmth, making the moment feel truly sacred and special. We’re so grateful to have had Pastor Matt by our side through this season, and we can’t recommend him highly enough to any couple looking for a thoughtful, genuine officiant.

Nolan S.

5.0

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Reverend Matt Skiles--Wedding Minister, located in Lebanon, Indiana, is a wedding officiant who has been providing couples with custom wedding ceremonies for over 20 years. As an Ordained Minister, as well as Senior Pastor, Reverend Matt Skiles offers professional services for couples from non-denominational and Christian backgrounds. Reverend Matt Skiles-Wedding Minister wants to create a wedding ceremony that reflects each couples' unique values and personalities. Services Offered Whether your ceremony is formal or informal, traditional or contemporary, Reverend Matt Skiles can assist you. He offers free consultations throughout the entire wedding planning process to help make sure the creation of your ideal ceremony. Reverend Matt Skiles-Wedding Minister, provides services for ceremony rehearsals, ensuring your ceremony will run smoothly the day of. If you need assistance with your vows and preparation for your wedding, he offers customizable vows and readings and ritual resources, as well as counseling. Additionally, Reverend Matt Skiles provides optional premarital counseling to couples to help them prepare for their marriage following their wedding ceremony.

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Rev. Matthew J. Skiles

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For the past 26 years, I have had the privilege of officiating wedding ceremonies as a Senior Pastor of my local church, and also as a Wedding Officiant for couples celebrating their wedding on location at local venues. I have a wealth of knowledge and experience, having worked with over six-hundred couples to help make their wedding day both special and memorable. I always work by the belief that each couple is unique and they have a special story to share, so their wedding day should be a reflection of their special relationship. It's your day so you should make it special!

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Pastor Matt is a warm, professional officiant who provides thoughtful premarital counseling and helpful, personalized ceremony planning. Couples praised his communication, calming presence, and excellent delivery on the wedding day. He also handled logistics like the marriage license.

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Grace S

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5/05/2025

Pastor Matt Skiles made our wedding ceremony perfect! He let us personalize our entire wedding ceremony while ensuring nothing extra was included beside what we planned. We got to ...

meet with him twice before the wedding to plan it out during which time he also got to know us personally. He sat with and got to know our family and friends at our reception. Overall he has a very friendly, professional demeanor which made every part of the ceremony perfect. He made sure we were the center of attention for the day. We appreciate all his work and open communication.

Nolan S

5/05/2025

Pastor Matt Skiles was such a meaningful and memorable part of our wedding journey. From the moment we met him for pre-marital counseling, we knew we were in the best hands. He gui...

ded us with wisdom, humor, and compassion, helping us grow even closer as a couple and laying a strong foundation for our marriage. On our wedding day, his presence brought a sense of calm and joy. The ceremony he led was heartfelt, personal, and beautifully delivered—there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. He spoke with sincerity and warmth, making the moment feel truly sacred and special. We’re so grateful to have had Pastor Matt by our side through this season, and we can’t recommend him highly enough to any couple looking for a thoughtful, genuine officiant.

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Brandon W

9/11/2024

Pastor Matt is super great to work with. My wife and I would highly recommend him to couples looking for an officiant.

Allie T

9/07/2024

We love Pastor Matt! We immediately felt comfortable with him due to his personable demeanor. We opted to do premarital counseling leading up to our wedding. Pastor Matt made these...

meetings easy and rewarding. When it came time to plan the ceremony, he gave us several outlines that allowed us to easily create a personalized version. By the end of our time together, we felt like we had truly built a meaningful connection with him. He is genuine and caring. He did an incredible job officiating. He also took care of our marriage license for us afterwards. We highly recommend Pastor Matt!

Elise H

7/25/2024

Pastor Matt did a wonderful job! Very easy to talk to and positive. We were able to sit and talk with him of what we were envisioning. He gave us a lot of options of the ceremony w...

e wanted. Great speaker and couldn’t asked for a better person to do officiate our wedding.

Nicole S

9/07/2023

We were incredibly fortunate to have Pastor Matt as our wedding officiant, and we cannot express enough how much we adore him. It's safe to say that our special day would not have ...

been the same without him. From the initial planning stages to the wedding day itself, Pastor Matt exceeded all our expectations. Both our families were impressed by his warm and genuine demeanor, and they couldn't stop singing his praises. In fact, many of our guests commented on how great he was, praising his sincerity and the way he conducted the ceremony with grace and elegance. He is undoubtedly an amazing person who radiates kindness and compassion. In addition to officiating our wedding, we had the privilege of undergoing marriage counseling with Pastor Matt. This experience was invaluable to us as a couple. He provided us with tools and insights that will strengthen our marriage. His patience and wisdom made us feel comfortable discussing even the most challenging topics, and we are grateful for the foundation he helped us build. We cannot thank Pastor Matt enough for the role he played in making our wedding day a truly unforgettable and beautiful experience.

Jenna H

5/09/2023

Pastor Matt was wonderful to work with. He was personal and professional. We opted in to do marriage counseling and very much enjoyed our talks with him. He made creating our cerem...

ony easy and was always so reassuring. We're so thankful he was a part of our big day.

Megan Z

11/03/2022

Pastor Matt was amazing!! We opted for marriage couseling and were able to get know the pastor on a much more personal level. He was very professional, and helped us have a beautif...

ul ceremony. We would highly recommend him.

Cohen J

10/27/2022

Pastor Matt is the sweetest man. He is so kind and has such a wonderful personality. We not only had the honor of him as an officiant, but took on his Pre-Marriage Counseling. Get...

ting to know him and ourselves better over the months was a blessing. He is very professional and an absolute delight. It was out pleasure and privilege to have him on our special day. Thank you so much for all you have done!

Natalie W

10/26/2022

Pastor Matt took so much time to really get to know us and work with us on creating a beautiful ceremony outline that included so many moments we will treasure forever. He was res...

ponsive and helpful throughout the whole process. He delivered an absolutely beautiful ceremony. He even printed and held onto our vows for us which took one extra thing off our plate! Thank you so much, Pastor Matt, for being a wonderful part of our day!

Selah H

5/19/2022

I was able to meet Pastor Skiles and work with him on my first wedding of 2022 in Fort Wayne. I am a wedding planner and a very important part of any wedding is the officiant and P...

astor Skiles did not disappoint. He connected very well with the bride and groom and fit the ceremony to the couples personalities and love story. It was such a pleasure working with such a caring and amazing Officiant. Matt was also very quick to affirm me as a wedding planner, which always helps in the chaos of a wedding day! I will definitely be recommending Pastor Skiles to my brides! Seeds Of Love Wedding Planning (Ft. Wayne, IN)

Madison S

11/20/2019

Matt was amazing from day one! Our premarital counseling sessions were fun and full of information/conversations that every couple should have before saying "I do". Matt did an ama...

zing job with our ceremony and our prayer! I would recommend Matt to everyone I know!

Lauren M

4/26/2019

Pastor Matt was amazing to work with! We crafted our ceremony exactly to our specifications and Pastor Matt had over 20+ examples to pull from. We ultimately created the ceremony o...

f our dreams and Pastor Matt delivered it perfectly! He was very responsive and super friendly to work with, as almost we had always known him! Everything at the ceremony and day of went exactly as planned and our ceremony was one that I will never forget. We highly recommend Pastor Matt!

Romie B

1/18/2019

Pastor Matt was the best! We met a handful of times before the wedding to go over details and to do some premarital counseling. Pastor Matt never made us feel uncomfortable; we tru...

ly felt like we could be ourselves instead of pretending to be someone different just because we were in front of a pastor. He let us customize our ceremony to add quotes and verses that were important to us. I definitely recommend Pastor Matt to anyone looking for a pastor for their wedding!

Keri S

11/18/2018

Pastor Matt made us feel extremely comfortable and at ease from the very beginning. It felt as if Pastor Matt had known as our entire lives. He is an extremely kind and jovial ma...

n. He genuinely cares about the union of your marriage and making sure he performs a ceremony that is exactly what you want and a celebration of the two of you. He was extremely helpful in the ceremony process and sent over several scripted examples of how the ceremony could go. Both sides of our family just love Pastor Matt. He is such a wonderful man and did a fantastic job, I’ll never be able to thank him enough for it!

Megan B

6/30/2018

Pastor Skiles is an extremely genuine caring person. In our initial meeting with him to determine if he would be the right fit for us, he answered every question we had and made us...

feel comfortable about creating a ceremony that reflected who we were as couple. He was professional and gave us comfort that he was someone we could count on. We felt no pressure to book Pastor Skiles, and when we decided to book him, he made the process easy. For preparation of our ceremony, he sent us several different examples to review. This helped give us many ideas to structure our ceremony. We also completed the marital counseling sessions he offers. This was optional. We met on four different occasions to discuss various topics and found these sessions to be helpful in thinking about topics we may not have thought about as a couple. Pastor Skiles was amazing and I would highly recommend him.

Anonymous

9/18/2016

Pastor Matt was great to work with! He offered a large variety of options and guidance for our ceremony and readings. He presents himself well, is very considerate, and was a true ...

professional.

Ashley B

10/06/2015

My husband and I were so happy that we went with Rev. Skiles. He met with us a few times before our wedding to do premarital counseling with us and to get to know us. He provided t...

he materials for the counseling and we found it very helpful in preparing us and getting difficult conversations started. We really felt like we developed a relationship with Rev. Skiles and felt very comfortable having him direct one of the most important moments of our lives! He did a great job and was very accommodating and knowledgeable. Thank you so much for helping prepare us not only for our wedding day but for our marriage!

Katie K

6/30/2014

Pastor Matt was absolutely wonderful to work with, from the first day that we met him, through to our wedding day. He is kind, wise, and a joy to have had as a part of our journey ...

through engagement and our wedding day! He does a great job guiding you through the pre-marital counseling, sharing his own life experiences as a husband and father. We felt blessed to have found Pastor Matt, and we would highly recommend him! We will be forever grateful!

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2014 Sweet Cherry Meadows, Lebanon, IN

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Central Indiana and surrounding metropolitan areas.
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(765) 481-1123

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