Roots of Change Ceremonies

ch we loved each other. From the first time we spoke with Leigh Ann on facetime (because of Covid) we both realized what a talented and unique writer/celebrate/officiant she is. We talked about our dreams for the day and what parts of the ceremony where most important to us, and Leigh Ann listened to everything we had to say. She made us both feel so confident and excited that she could create a ceremony that was special to us and our closest family and friends. Once we officially started working with Leigh Ann she was incredible! I loved how she got to know both of us on a very deep level. She learned about our relationship, our families, and our best friends so that she could incorporate that into the ceremony. Even during Covid when all of our plans were changing, Leigh Ann was our rock, She helped us stay grounded and focused on what mattered most to us on our wedding day! ( Her calming presence was one of the main reasons we both loved her and it was even more impressive during a pandemic.) We both can't thank her enough for all of her work, flexibility, and support. All of our guests told us it was the most beautiful and personal ceremony they had ever heard. Our guests also said it was "The most positive and joyous event they had been to this year." We loved the way that she included special family recognition for our grandparents and moms. There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd. We can't say enough wonderful things about Leigh Ann and her work. She truly made our ceremony a highlight during the best day of our lives.

family join in through zoom due to COVID and Leigh Ann made sure that everyone online and in-person felt included. We also felt very safe in Leigh Ann’s presence as everyone in the ceremony including her wore masks and even though we could not meet Leigh Ann in-person before the ceremony, she made sure we had enough phone conversations to feel prepared for our big day. Leigh Ann is extremely warm, patient, creative and thoughtful and we couldn’t have asked for a more meaningful ceremony. I highly recommend Roots of Change to add a personal and warm touch to the most important day of your life.

ve process also allowed us to also reflect the emotional theme of the ceremony in our decorations and overall event plan. Ultimately, it was a tearful but emotional journey that both us and our close family enjoyed immensely! Amazing work - and highly recommend.

husband and I had contemplated pre-marital coaching, and the moment we met Leigh Ann we felt so comfortable and inspired- we knew we had to work with her! She is one of the warmest, kindest people we have ever met and her wisdom on relationships is invaluable. Her research on creating and maintaining joy-filled, loving relationships is something we carry with us each day and has made our relationship even stronger! Leading up to the ceremony, Leigh Ann was unfailingly encouraging and helpful. Her thoughtful questions helped to ground us as individuals and our love for one another even more deeply (especially powerful during a time when it can be easy to get swept up in the details of wedding planning). We really wanted our ceremony to feel personal to us, and the ceremony that Leigh Ann crafted was special in every way! Leigh Ann was able to weave together our story in such a way that everyone was able to feel our love and re-live the journey of our relationship. Her creativity with the ceremony was incredible! We were able to incorporate a Ritual of Appreciation for our friends and family to express our gratitude for them in our lives. We felt so much love and communion with everyone that day. All night we received compliments from our guests that it was the most amazing ceremony they had ever been to! Everything we could have hoped for was beyond our imagination and we feel so honored that Leigh Ann was able to create that for us. She is one of our absolute favorite people we have ever met and her knowledge on marriage and relationships has helped us in so many ways! Leigh Ann’s extraordinary ceremony and work set the tone for our special day and our journey together as a married couple!!

for us giving support and love, and we continue to stay connected today. It was a busy year for us with the wedding, a new job, and relocation, and she was there to provide guidance and keep us centered on what is most important in life. Leigh Ann worked so hard to make our ceremony custom to us and incorporate everyone involved, and we are so grateful to have her in our lives.

about the outcome and having one less thing to worry about. The guests have all expressed their admiration for how the ceremony was uniquely displayed. Our officiant was very warming and made us feel comfortable through the entire process. She communicated with us about conflicts and issues promptly. I would recommend Leigh Ann to anyone planning a wedding.

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at was unique to us, our relationship, and our idea of marriage. Leigh Ann was able to do that for us! After our ceremony (and still to this day, over a year later) our guests comment on how they enjoyed learning more about us as a couple and our love for each other. The best part was working with Leigh Ann to share from my heart with my bride and our guests what my wife means to me. Her ceremony planning questionnaire really helped me to reflect on our relationship in a way I hadn’t done before. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect or meaningful ceremony!

ur families, friends, and anyone who helped make us who we are today. It was such a wonderful way to share appreciation to the people in our lives. Even though I don't like to be the center of attention and am not great at expressing myself, she helped me put what I wanted to say in (my own) words. My husband and I highly recommend her!

ily asked how long we had known Leigh Ann and really we met only a couple of times. She knows how to ask the right questions that allow her to make your wedding yours and not like all the others. I can’t say enough wonderful thinks and highly recommend Roots of Change and Leigh Ann

t was clear that she was our best choice. She guided us through a clear process to make sure we could share our love story with her in a way that would make our ceremony truly tailored to us. So many of our guests complimented the personal nature of our ceremony and commented on how different it was from others they had seen. They felt like they got a window into what led us to that moment! We really appreciated Leigh Ann's warmth, care, and calming energy throughout the whole process.

ceremony nor a short ceremony with only enough time to say “I Do”. We were having a larger wedding and knew that most people would not know us well. So we decided we wanted a longer, highly personal wedding ceremony so that all guests felt like they got to know us a little better. Meeting with Leigh Ann for the first time had both my husband and I feeling at ease. She was able to immediately connect with us and we ended up talking for over a hour just sharing personal stories and talking about how we feel in love. My husband and I knew that she would be the person that would marry us after that first meeting. I remember getting the first proof of our ceremony and reading it with my husband on Valentine’s Day; it was so emotional for both of us to read how we both felt about each other and we ended up crying tears of joy. Every step of the ceremony planning was amazing with Leigh Ann and my husband and I both felt so connected through the entire process of building a highly personal wedding ceremony. On our wedding day, Leigh Ann really went above and beyond our expectations. On my wedding day, it was HOT. Instead of our guests focusing on the heat during our ceremony, Leigh Ann was able to pull their attention onto us through her beautiful words. Everyone that we spoke with talked about how they have never been to a ceremony like that and how they felt they were brought into our love through our words and our love story. My husband and I have watched our wedding video 3 times already, and just rehearing/watching the ceremony Leigh Ann created reminds us how lucky we were to have her on our wedding day. It was great to see how our guests reacted towards the ceremony, and it made me happy to see their emotional, happy responses.

al. Leigh Ann Phillips-Knope with Roots of Change did an incredible job of meeting our wishes. Months ahead of the wedding she sent us a questionnaire, which the ceremony was based on. We worked in concert with Leigh Ann to finalize the ceremony until my husband and I reached a place that we felt reflected our relationship. A number of our guests told us afterwards that it was the best ceremony they had ever experienced. I would recommend Leigh Ann for anyone seeking a guide to support them in crafting and officiating a unique and personal ceremony that will leave guests feeling even more connected as you continue on your journey.

in deep to discover exactly what makes your relationship special, so she can share that with everyone at your wedding. She's great at suggesting ideas to put into your ceremony, and is also excellent at incorporating any unique rituals you would like. Quite simply, she is the best officiant you could ask for.

showed up early to our initial meeting with her, extremely well-prepared (she had a binder started with our information, take-home flyers, etc), and professional. This was extremely encouraging because a few of the other officiants we met with didn't have simple details such as the Wedding Date written down when we met... In terms of process, Leigh Ann was extremely helpful the entire way. She has a questionnaire that both sides fill out and she creates your custom ceremony from there based on the responses. We went through quite a few revisions - mostly nit-picky stuff - but we were convinced the ceremony would be perfect as-is from the moment we saw the first draft. Also, Leigh Ann was extremely accommodating along the way. She allowed us to change our rehearsal date very late in the game and was always available to text or talk along the way. Friendly, cheerful, organized, professional - these are just a start. We highly recommend Roots of Change for your custom ceremony.

ver experienced a wedding like ours or heard something so heartfelt. One of our friends told us we made him believe in true love! We want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making our ceremony the best it could ever possibly be and for helping us share our story, journey, and love for each other with our family and friends. You are AMAZING!

th and caring who was a joy to work with, but her methods for crafting the perfect wedding ceremony are uniquely inspiring. To get started, Leigh Ann gave us a comprehensive questionnaire with a section for us to fill out together as well as sections for us to fill out solo (and to keep secret from each other as a nice surprise during the ceremony). It asked insightful questions and was so much fun to do! Leigh Ann was also very open to the unusual ideas we wanted to incorporate in our wedding (handfasting and ringwarming) and guided us toward including some readings (which I hadn't planned to do originally but now love!). The entire experience with her was smooth, fun, and surprising in the best ways. The ceremony she created for us was touching, funny, meaningful and novel. We received many compliments about how the ceremony was so unique and very "us." Cannot thank her enough, and cannot recommend her highly enough. Thank you, Leigh Ann!

, Pedro and Ellie, and one would have thought she had known the them for years. We really appreciated how the officiant made sure the wedding couple were the stars of the day. The incorporation of Pedro and Ellie's touching statements to their families was a beautiful surprise to all of us and became a wonderful memory of the ceremony. I would highly recommend Leigh Ann for anyone's special day.

ed our ceremony to reflect both of us and to be very personalized, and Leigh Ann worked with us to do exactly that. We thought our ceremony would be complicated because we wanted it to be bilingual and very personalized, but Leigh Ann is so talented that she made all of our requests work perfectly. She is always full of joy and excitement, and makes you feel like your ceremony is just as special to her as it is to you. My husband and I learned about each other and grew to love each other even more during the process of working on the ceremony with Leigh Ann. Leigh Ann was able to seamlessly incorporate Spanish translations (read by one of the groomsmen) throughout the ceremony while also maintaining the natural flow. We wanted to somehow make our ceremony accessible to everyone in the audience because we had a large number of family members who came all the way from Chile, but we weren’t exactly sure how or where in the ceremony to incorporate elements of Spanish. After discussing with Leigh Ann, she constructed a ceremony with a “thread” of Spanish translations throughout each ceremony element. It was absolutely perfect; the translations were enough to help guide those who didn’t speak much English and were also a really special way to appreciate my husband’s family and culture. It worked absolutely beautifully and it was such a special addition to our ceremony. We also incorporated a family member remembrance and appreciation at the beginning of the ceremony, which was absolutely beautiful! It brought such a feeling of love and thankfulness into our ceremony space and was such a nice way of thanking our families. If you know exactly what you want your ceremony to look like or if you only have a vague idea of the tone that you want to convey, Leigh Ann will make it happen! I lost count of how many people told me that ours was the best wedding ceremony they had witnessed, and it’s truly all thanks to Leigh Ann!

no longer carry out our ceremony. Two newlyweds from our school recommended Leigh Ann very highly, and we emailed her right away. We could tell by a quick glance at her website that she would be perfect. We could not believe it when she told us she had our date still available (which was entirely fortuitous since she typically books out months in advance!). In preparation for the ceremony, she had us fill out separate and joint questionnaires about our relationship. This activity in itself was very meaningful and helped us appreciate the sanctity of the journey we were about to embark on. Importantly, it also led to a deeply personal, intimate wedding ceremony. We got SO many compliments on our ceremony with multiple family members and friends telling us it was the best they had ever experienced, which we attribute to Leigh Ann's work. What is even more remarkable is that she made it happen in a small fraction of the time she normally takes, all the while remaining calm and encouraging as can be. We could not be happier with how our ceremony turned out. Her ability to connect with not only the couple but with all their guests through thoughtful infusion of personal touches throughout the ceremony is truly remarkable. We give the highest recommendation to Leigh Ann and Roots of Change. -Brian and Regina Royan Stamm

The way she told our love story made me fall in love with my husband all over again. I feel like people at a wedding rarely talk about the ceremony, yet we received so many comments about how beautiful and real the ceremony was. It truly set the tone for a fun filled and happy night. I would HIGHLY recommend her if you are looking for a ceremony that is unique, customized, and full of love.

d tell she was a special woman and would be the perfect person to execute our wedding ceremony. My husband and I wanted a ceremony that wasn’t “cookie-cutter”. We wanted something that we could ground our marriage in and look back on for all our years to come as our foundation when times get tough. We wanted something authentic to our relationship & that spoke to us as individuals. Leigh Ann gave us all of that and more! She was so kind and supportive throughout our experience working with her. She helped us to reflect on our selves and our relationship to give her the information she needed to create our ceremony. When we got the first draft we were blown away with emotion and in shock that Leigh Ann had been able to capture our love in such a beautiful way and write a ceremony like we’ve never heard before. We then had the opertunity to edit it with her. Leigh Ann did such an amazing job so we didn’t have many edits to make but she was so helpful and worked with it until every little word was perfect! After we had finalized our ceremony, just weeks before our wedding, my grandpa passed unexpectedly. Leigh Ann was so loving and understanding when I asked her to please write something extra and edit our ceremony to include a remeberance for him. Leigh Ann gladly worked with me after our ceremony had already been finalized to make sure that I could include my grandpa in our special day. Leigh Ann was there for our rehearsal to make sure everything was in place and she did an amazing job on our wedding day! I got endless complements on the uniqueness of our ceremony. Many of our guests expressed that it was the best ceremony they had ever witnessed and that it was so wonderful to actually hear so much about me and my husband and our relationship. And that’s the most amazing thing about Leigh Ann. I can tell you how amazing my wedding ceremony was and I can promise if you go with her yours will be just as amazing because it will be so uniquely yours! She will work with you to make you and your partner’s ideal ceremony become a reality! I cannot say enough good thing about Leigh Ann and I wouldn’t have had my ceremony any other way! If you want something different, if you want a personal connection and someone who will listen to everything that’s important to you & your partner, and you want an authentic and unique ceremony then Leigh Ann is your officiant! Thank you Leigh Ann! We have so much gratitude for you!

a chance to reflect on what's most important - our love and all the chapters of our relationship - at a time when our minds were so consumed with all the tiny details of planning a wedding. I remember one of our guests asking who Leigh Ann was. She had assumed we'd known Leigh Ann for years after hearing our ceremony! Thank you so much, Leigh Ann! We'll be re-reading our ceremony guides this Sunday on our one year anniversary:)

sence. We had guests approach us later and laughingly say they wanted a do-over for their own weddings they enjoyed our ceremony so much. It was exactly what we wanted: an elated, intoxicating moment to publicly declare our love for and commitment to each other in front of our dearest family and friends, and Leigh Ann enfolded our vows in her delightful storytelling, sharing the experiences from our relationship that have crafted us into the couple we are. While our ceremony was very personal, a collection of stories, the gravity of tradition was still very present. The ceremony was about us, but it still had reflections on love as we see it, and having those themes intertwined together made it powerful. Leigh Ann worked with us to ensure the tone of the ceremony was exactly what we hoped for (in our case, that meant warm and light-hearted, full of love and gratitude, joyful, intimate, and honest). We absolutely loved the process of filling out the planning guides, answering questions about each other and about us. Exploring our memories and reflecting on our time as a couple, first separately, then together, was such an important part of our process as we planned and prepared for our marriage. So happy Leigh Ann was part of our beautiful day. Thanks to her, our ceremony felt peaceful, joyful, resonant. My mom says it was the best wedding ever! ;)

uplifted by Roots of Change. I learned so much about wedding ceremonies from Leigh Ann. One of the reasons I chose Roots of Change was my celebrant is because Leigh Ann challenged me to create my own version of my wedding. The time and effort I spent reflecting on my relationship and writing about my life drastically improved the quality of the ceremony. I was so proud of the ceremony we created! Working with Leigh Ann was wonderful, she is upbeat, but challenging. She is very organized, timely, and makes the process exiting and enjoyable. My friends and family were awestruck by our marriage ceremony. The expressions on our guests' faces indicated to me how intrigued they were by the ceremony. The emotions that were present during our wedding made the celebration one-of-a-kind: we were all crying, laughing, and everything in between. I think that working with Leigh Ann assisted me to mentally transition into my current role as a husband. I would hire this vendor again in a heartbeat. The process that I went through aided me to transition through one of life's ceremonial moments successfully.

ith; her warmth, compassion, and passion for the work she does was truly evident in how she greeted us and pieced through our vision and ideas during our first meeting. She supported me, an anxious bride, in following my heart and planning the wedding of my dreams, and she even suggested a location that fit our vision to a tee! And, she was willing to travel quite a distance to be part of our special day-I couldn’t have imagined anyone else joining our souls. Everyone raved about how unique and special our ceremony was. It was meaningful to us, our families, and our friends. Leigh Ann was an amazing support both in planning and theoughout our special day!

ork with, I felt confident that she was trying to truly understand who we are and how to make our ceremony perfect for us. I can really tell she loves what she does. I highly recommend you meet with Leigh Ann and let her help you design the perfect day for you!

as individuals and stronger as a married couple! I first met Leigh Ann 8 years ago, when my friends got married: the bride being Muslim and the groom Italian Catholic! I thought to myself, how could it be possible to bring these two very different cultures together? When I witnessed the gifts Leigh Ann offered my friends, I was truly amazed and touched. I wondered how she was able to create such an extraordinary experience--how did I get to know my own friends better through their wedding, both as individuals and a couple? How did she take us all on a journey together? I told myself that day, that if I ever got engaged, I wanted to share that kind of experience with my husband and our families! Fast forward 8 years later. I found the man of my dreams, and getting married was becoming reality! I knew Leigh Ann had to guide us through! I wanted the same experience for us that she had given my friends, not realizing how they had gotten there. Working with Leigh Ann in the year leading up the wedding was incredible, as she took my future husband and I on a journey that was spiritual, thought-provoking and soul-searching in ways we didn't expect! Walking us through every step with patience and grace, Leigh Ann interviewed us, had us consider inspiring questions about the ceremony and our lives, getting to know us so well. She did all of this behind the scenes work with us, together and separately, which laid the ground work for the most exceptional ceremony experience--not just for us, but for everyone who attended! Through this enriching process, Leigh Ann identified the most compelling parts of our history, and wrote our very own story. When she shared that love story with our families and friends on our wedding day, it was life-changing! Not only did we get to share an amazing journey with Leigh Ann before the wedding, but then all of our guests were brought along on that amazing journey, knitting our community even closer together, because of the very special skills that Leigh Ann brings! There are not words to express the power of the experience Leigh Ann offered us all that day! We feel incredibly blessed to have had her at our sides!

She created a lovely and intimate wedding ceremony that was tailored to our love story and unlike anything that I've heard before. If you want a ceremony that is unique and celebrates you as a couple... choose Leigh Ann!

hroughout the years, I've had the pleasure of being in 14 weddings, from flower girl to bride, so I've met and witnessed several different styles from Catholic Priest to an Officiant at the gazebo in the park. I would best describe Leigh Ann as the favorite Aunt that all the kiddos can't wait to see at EVERY family occasion, or the teacher who believed in you and said you could be anything you set your mind to, or the labor/delivery nurse that stayed past her 12 hour shift just to witness your little miracle coming into the world--she was incredible to say the least Leigh Ann was so thorough, she had every base covered, and made you feel so comfortable with her ability. My best friend David and his husband Bobby had paid very close attention to every wedding detail, with a breathtaking venue and a delicious meal, and an evening that will be forever etched in my memory as one of the best nights ever. Leigh Ann was the icing on the cake--she made the wedding so personal as she told the story of their love, as if she had been with them from day one. It was captivating to listen to her words and her genuine love for this couple. I was asked to do a reading and of course was honored to do so but knowing I would have to get up in front of their family and friends made me a nervous wreck. At the rehearsal I spoke to Leigh Ann about my concerns, and she immediately put my mind at ease by saying that they chose me for a reason because I was the girl for the job. She even met me the day of the wedding and let me practice my reading a handful of times until I felt totally confident that I could do it without concern. Leigh Ann was truly amazing and went way beyond the call of duty to make sure my best friend had the most memorable wedding possible. I know everyone in attendance that night thought she was wonderful and felt so lucky to have been a part of their day. Thanks LeighAnn~ You're truly the best! Amme Knight

ion we had with her. As we answered the vast array of questions she had for us about how we met, important milestones in our lives, what we hoped our wedding would include, etc., Bianka and I spent time reflecting on our lives together which really shaped exactly what our ceremony would be. Leigh Ann is a tremendous listener, gifted writer, and talented celebrant. The wedding ceremony she wrote and led for us was beyond anything I could have imagined. She embraced our family and friends, remembered our loved ones, incorporated our traditions, and laughed with us. It was a day filled with love, connection, and pure happiness. Thank you, Leigh Ann.

my wife and I were finally able to share our answers with each other, it was memorable in and of itself.   Flash forward to the wedding.  Much of the evening is a blissful blur. As we spend time with people who attended the wedding, a frequent question we have been receiving is, "How long have you two known Leigh Ann?"  You see, within the relatively short time that she spent with us, and by reading our "homework," Leigh Ann was able to verbalize some of the very things that we were wanting to share with our loved ones.  She was able to capture both of our wildly different personalities and illustrate our shared values, our dreams, our history, and the story of our love.   Thank you, Leigh Ann, for the magic that you weave.

g the best ceremony we could possibly have had. From our initial meeting with Leigh Ann, all the way through the planning, until our wedding day and beyond she kept in contact with us offering support and an ear if we needed it. By listening to us and understanding who we are as individuals and as a couple she created a heartfelt and touching ceremony and many of our guests stopped us and told us it was one of the most touching beautiful ceremony’s they had ever witnessed. Leigh Ann’s kind spirit and calming nature speaks to her character and I would without and hesitation recommend her to anyone. Thank you Leigh Ann for all you did for us!

everyone there. Leigh Ann put together a beautiful ceremony for us that incorporated all of the elements of our love story and tributes to our loved ones. Working with Leigh Ann was calming and easy; her friendliness and genuine desire to get to know you to truly tell your story is obvious. We've gotten so much positive feedback from our ceremony!!

that she could preside over their wedding ceremony with humor and grace. The ceremony was simply beautiful! Personal, poignant, and inclusive are words that best describe it. Family members who could not be there were remembered with loving tributes. The bride & groom shared vows that were heartfelt. Leigh Ann's guidance and preparation helped them create a ceremony that was tailored exactly for them and our families. We wouldn't have changed a thing.

every detail of our ceremony and our day overall. She took so much time with us to create and edit a ceremony specifically for us. I would recommend her highly for any ceremonial needs :)

ting years and special things about their relationship The ceremony including placing letters they had written to each other in a special keepsake envelope to be opened on their anniversary and a special tribute to their parents and grandparents I received many compliments from family and friends who truly enjoyed the ceremony and echoed my same thoughts

and Leigh Ann and we went ahead. We are very glad we did! From the beginning of the process, Leigh Ann took a very hands-on approach to crafting a very personal ceremony for us, was receptive to our opinions and needs and worked with us to write something deeply meaningful. She was understanding of our hectic schedule and was always patient with us as we moved slowly through the process. When it came time to the ceremony itself, disaster almost struck as our outdoor ceremony was now being rained on! She quickly pivoted things around and helped to take charge of adapting to a now-indoor ceremony and everything went great! So all in all, working with Leigh Ann was wonderful and everything turned out as well as we could ever have hoped. Leigh Ann was kind and professional through the entire process, and as mentioned before took a lot of time to make sure everything was fitting with our needs and beliefs. We highly recommend her services!

ts I knew we had to meet her. We met at a cafe in Ann Arbor where she brought a tomato from her organic garden to give to us because her son insisted :).... She has a calm and peaceful presence that is easily recognized. Almost immediately we realized that she would turn our "wedding" into a ceremony that would not only engage our 6 active boys but make our commitment to each other and celebration of love and family unforgettable. She took the time to understand our vision and get to know us as a couple and as a family. This being our second marriage and having children to blend, Leigh-Ann gave us great suggestions and opportunities to include our boys in the ceremony. She turned our small, second wedding into an intimate celebration of love and forever commitment to one another and our boys. We feel so lucky to have found her❤️

as well as heartfelt and deeply moving. It's not easy to find someone who understands the complexities of two women coming together in marriage, and can hold the space for their courage while also reflecting back the beauty of their love. Leigh Ann did this seamlessly and authentically. Her telling of their love story and the rituals of their special day were touching...I'm not sure there was a dry eye in the house!...and the ceremony was true to this gorgeous couple. I have no doubt that the same care she took in crafting their ceremony to match Cierra and Erica's dream for the day would be experienced by anyone Leigh Ann worked with. She's a truly gifted celebrant!

t Leigh-Ann. She didn't talk about marriage and its principles in general, she spoke about us. She told our love story in such a captivating way that everyone in attendance felt more connected to my wife and I once it was all said and done. So many people came up to us afterwards saying they learned something new about us or that they were inspired by our story. Overall, everyone was connected to us and it is because of how Leigh-Ann arranged the ceremony. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER!!

er write our ceremony and we were lucky enough to have a family member do the officiating. Leigh Ann's process was simple; fill out a questionnaire that had 2 parts; one part that the partners do together and another done separately . From that interview process Leigh Ann crafted a wonderful ceremony that was inclusive of family members, included readings, and told the love story of me and Lorie. Our friends and family learned a lot about how we've come together and the story was told so that everyone felt a special connection to some aspect of our history together. We highly, highly recommend Leigh Ann for making your special day, even more so.

across Leigh Ann, we were just as certain about including her to assist us in achieving our perfect day. Our wedding took place in a breathtaking backyard garden, but Leigh Ann stole the show with the beautiful way she crafted our ceremony. She was able to share our story with all of our guests, and really shine a light on who we were as individuals. It was personal and intimate, yet down to earth, making everyone feel very connected in sharing the experience. Afterwards, I got so many comments about how loving and real the ceremony had been. We even heard from one guest how it was the most beautiful and loving thing she had ever witnessed. During the entire process, Leigh Ann was very in tune, loving and genuinely supportive of what we wanted. She obviously has lots of experience, and is great at suggesting fun or unique ideas to incorporate. She meets with you (we face-timed because we live out of state) and then the couple fills out fun questionnaires. Once she has a solid grasp of what you envision, she makes a draft and asks for feedback. We wanted to have our ceremony very simplistic and centered on our love and life together. We got exactly that! It was so great to have Leigh Ann so excited about our day. It really added to the whole experience. Not only is Leigh Ann one of the sweetest people I have ever met, but she is hands down the best celebrant I have ever seen or heard. I would recommend her to anyone looking to add a little love and zest to their special day!

a part of the creation of it, as well as helping craft a thankful message for our guests. I highly, highly recommend her if you're looking for a personalized, perfect day.

us. In addition to her ceremony work, she was a very calming part of our wedding ceremony and the preparation. We would highly recommend her to any couple.