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Wedding Officiant - Rev. Sark Elking
Located in St. Louis, MO, St. Louis Wedding Chapel is a top-rated wedding officiant company that provides services for couples of all faiths and backgrounds. They take a flexible and open-minded approach to ensure that your ceremony is as unique as your relationship.
Reverand Sark Elking has run St. Louis Wedding Chapel since 2003. He has officiated over 1,000 weddings and finds great joy in creating beautiful customized ceremonies. All the officiants on his staff are experienced ministers ordained in Missouri and share his passion for helping couples achieve their dream wedding ceremonies.
The team at St. Louis Wedding Chapel will get to know you and your values before the big day to incorporate them into your ceremony. Whether you'd prefer a religious or secular ceremony, they can do it all. If you'd like to include any special elements in your ceremony, your officiant is happy to oversee them. They provide services to couples on any budget and treat everyone with warmth, respect, and professionalism.
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Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Religious Affiliations
- Buddhist
- Christian
- Catholic
- Hindu
- Interfaith
- Jewish
Wedding Activities
- Wedding
- Ceremony
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Andrew did a phenomenal job of executing our last minute cermony as ur orginal cermony got cancelled due to a hurricane for ojr destination wedding in FL. We was prompt to reply and communicated clear and concise. His w o rds were eloquent and not cookie cutter like you typically hear. It did not sound redundant and was fresh and had a bit of humor. For example when repeating after he made it fun and more humorous.
He showed up way ahead of schedule and explain clearly how he was going to conduct the cemrony beforehand to run it by me. It was fresh and inspirational. Highly recent him for your cermony services. 10/10. You won't be disappointed. We even got a picture taken with him as well. Very personable.
Thanks Rev Andrew. From Crawfords.
He is a really good wedding officiant. very professional flexible and pleasant personality. recommended.
Rev. Sark was extremely professional, prompt, and thorough. His evident years of experience truly helped ease some of the anxiety that comes along with the stressful process of planning a wedding. I was grateful for his guidance along the way and we are beyond happy that we chose with the St. Louis Wedding Chapel.
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After reading the reviews below, I am not sure I can add anything. "what they said", lol. Rev. Sark was awesome. And the chapel is really cool. Highly recommend.
Rev Sark was an absolute delight! We are an interfaith couple and I wanted to make sure certain elements of both faiths were included in the ceremony and it was just fantastic! The whole ceremony went without a hitch and he answered the many questions I had during the whole wedding planning.
WOW! We were so blessed to have found Sark!! We were planning our wedding from Florida and decided to book Sark before even meeting him in person, it was the best decision ever! He is so sweet, very organized and took so much stress off of us. He made our ceremony incredibly special and very memorable. I can't tell you how many guests reached out to us afterwards to compliment us on the ceremony and compliment Sark's work. Choose him, you will not be disappointed!!
We cannot speak highly enough of Sark. He did such a wonderful job officiating our wedding. It was everything we asked for - a perfect mix of faith and speaking about us as a couple and our future together. He also did an amazing job running the show, and at the rehearsal made everyone so comfortable and prepared for the next day. He seriously had every detail covered. If you’re looking for a wedding officiant, please look no further!
Rev. Elking was amazing! We had a non-denominational wedding at Four Seasons hotel and Rev Elking was so helpful, informative, and pleasant to work with. We had very limited experiences with a wedding ceremony and Rev Elking was there to assist us and was extremely patient, accommodating, and guided us the whole way. We would have been lost without him. He gave an awesome speech and all of our guests loved it. We’re so glad to have found Rev. Elking as our wedding officiant.
Sark Elking was out officiant for our wedding in June. It was such a pleasure having him as our officiant for our wedding! He has such a warm personality and he worked with us to create a truly beautiful ceremony incorporating both of our backgrounds and was perfect for both of us. I love that he suggested saying a special paragraph about each other during our vows. When seeing this back in our wedding video, we are truly so happy and it made the day that much more special. We definitely recommend him to any couple getting married.
Heather and I both highly recommend you consider The St. Louis Wedding Chapel and Rev. Sark Elking for your ceremony. He led our entire party through the pre-ceremony instructions, performed a beautiful service, and stayed around for post-wedding photos and conversation. He provided a wonderful wedding experience that we will obviously remember forever.
Sark was the perfect fit for our wedding. Our ceremony was personalized and beautiful. He took the time to get to know us and make our ceremony special. Everyone who attended our ceremony made a point to stop and tell us how much they enjoyed it! We would 100 percent recommend!
Reverend Sark Elking was a delight to work with. He made our ceremony very personal, beautiful and memorable! Highly recommend him to officiate your ceremony!
I have been to a lot of wedding ceremonies, Reverend Elking with St. Louis wedding chapel knocked it out of the park. He was amazing professional, caring, and calming everyone’s nerves was the icing on the cake. He knew how to control the wedding party without being over bearing, and keeping everyone on track. His personalization and his words we’re point on. The wedding was over two weeks ago and everyone is still talking about the ceremony that he performed.
St. Louis Wedding Chapel was a pleasure to work it. We tall to Sark and he seems like a great fit. He knew the venue well and little personal ideas to use. Havinh many text conversations and in person visits, everything was planned out. Being a professional, I left much of the words and ceremony to him. Sark did such an amazing job that a friend told me he couldn't help but hold his wife and saw many people doing the same. He was professional and humorous which is exactly what we wanted.
Having Sark as our officiant was one of the best parts of our wedding. I couldn't have asked for a better ceremony. He stayed to our wishes and made the ceremony not only memorable but also made it so everyone in the crowd could relate. He tied in our family and friends into our special day making themselves feel special too. Everyone of our guest informed us on how wonderful of a job he did. The words and emotions in the speech was so beautifully creative to the point where everyone person said when he spoke all they wanted to do was grabbed their loved ones closer and hold them tight. Our guest felt like they were falling in love all over again with their significant other. I would absolutely definitely and highly suggest him for anyone else whose looking to tie the knot. No one else I would offer, only him because he truly understands marriage and love.
St. Louis Wedding Chapel and Reverend Sark were amazing. The whole process was easy and affordable!! The chapel and props were beautiful and suited our small, intimate family gathering. Completely seamless and stress free.
We were so pleased and glad we chose to use Rev Sark Elking for our ceremony. From the beginning, he allowed us to structure the ceremony with readings and a mini candle ceremony to our preference. We met a few times before our wedding, and day of he came early to go over the whole ceremony with our parents and the string quartet we had hired. Everything was flawless and flowed smoothly. We didn't write our own vows, but did write letters which we shared with him, and he incorporated small pieces from them into the ceremony. The small group of people that attended were very impressed and only had good things to say about our ceremony.
Sark is amazing! We were nervous about our big day but Sark and his wife made us feel so comfortable, checked in before the ceremony, and made it an unforgettable day for both of us. Without him I don't think our ceremony would have been as special as it was. He is very professional and very kind. He talked with my husband before our wedding and like most couples my husband was just going to walk down the aisle to any old song. Instead, Sark suggested a song that really help put everyone in a good mood and lighten up the ceremony. He got to know both of us and really just made our ceremony better in so many ways. We have no regrets at all and I would recommend him to everyone! Thank you again Sark. You were wonderful!
We had a wonderful experience with the St. Louis Wedding Chapel! I communicated with Mr. Sark via email as soon as I became interested in the chapel. From the very first email he was informative, quick to response and it was very convenient to make payments electronically! The chapel is exceptionally beautiful!!! My photographer captured beautiful pictures inside the chapel ! Mr. Sark was very interested in how we wanted the ceremony to go...beliefs, preferred names and he had a wonderful speech before we said our I DOs . We are very happy we chose to get married here!
I highly recommend Sark! We didn’t really know what we wanted in a ceremony and he did such a great job. He was also very kind and patient with our large wedding party.
Rev. Sark Elking was thorough, friendly, professional, and thoughtful. Me and my now wife used his expertise on 10/4/20. We were very pleased with his services and we could tell he was an experienced professional. I am very glad we chose him as our officiant for the big day.
Reverend Sark Elking is absolutely amazing!
As a mother of a daughter who has been waiting to watch her daughter and future son in law get married, our bubble was burst when we found out that their wedding day might be cancelled. Luckily, we reached out to Reverend Sark Elking. We have been to a couple of weddings that he had officiated so there was no doubt that he was the one.
On extremely short notice, he went above and beyond to make sure that during this confusing time, that their day was truly special. The ceremony was exactly what they wanted and all of our quests were raving about the wonderful ceremony.
Reverend Sark Elking preformed such a beautiful ceremony. So, my advice to all brides and grooms who are looking for someone to officiate their wedding, look no further. He is the one for you! He spoke with them many times throughout the planning process and asked them many questions to ensure the ceremony was exactly what they wanted.
Reverend Sark Elking is truly a professional and spoke deep powerful words during the ceremony that touched everyone at the park. I highly recommend him. Rev Sark is the BEST!!!
He loves his work and it shows!
Kudos to St Louis Wedding chapel—Sarky !! Sarky did A phenomenal job for Kim and Tony’s wedding. Sarky was punctual and deliver a ceremony was that was very heartwarming.
Sarky you are an awesome person and thank you for a top Notch Wedding unforgettable wedding!
Sark was amazing. We both loved him the first time meeting him. He really personalized the ceremony and gave us great ideas to keep everyone involved! He was one of the best choices we made for our wedding!
Rev. Sark Elking was phenomenal! He was so nice and easy to work with from the beginning! Sark took us through every step that we needed, took the time to get to know us, and made us feel so comfortable and stress free along the way.
He made our ceremony unique and beautiful and we could not be more thankful. We had so many guests come and compliment us as well about how great of a job he did.
I would recommend Sark to anyone, he went above and beyond for every step along the way!
Rev. Elking was phenomenal! He was so helpful and so kind. Everybody told us how great he was during our ceremony. He kept us all knowing what to do and when and where to do it.
Sark was literally the only officiant we met with before we knew we wanted to hire him for our wedding. He is so kind and considerate and willing to work with you on format, theme, and direction. Sark works to get to know his couples and makes the ceremony feel personal. His ceremonies are sweet and funny and thoughtful. There is no doubt that our wedding day was more unforgettable because Sark was at the helm. Thanks Sark!
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
WARNING! If you use St. Louis Wedding Chapel as your wedding officiant, be prepared:
•to be treated in the nicest most professional way
•to have an officiant who returns calls and shows up exactly on time
•to have an officiant who is sensitive to all your wishes, values, wants and concerns
•who conducts a sensitive, soulful wedding ceremony that makes you want to do it all over again!
This is the experience we had and we wanted to share it with everyone else.
Reverend Elking was absolutely awesome!
Reverened Elking helped make our wedding dreams come true. He helped give wonderful suggestions to add to our ceremony to make it all the more special. Extremely prompt, dedicated and confident, Reverned Elking helped bring our wedding to the next level!
My husband and I would like to thank St. Louis wedding chapel for the wonderful experience of officiating our wedding. It could not have worked out better. Reverend Elking was so pleasant and thoughtful in the preparation, presentation and officiating of our wedding in his chapel. He made our special day as wonderful as we hoped it would be and his sense of humor made it even more enjoyable!
Thank you again for a flawless wedding experience !
The people here are extremely easy to work with and will guide you through your special day from start to finish with respect and a true passion for making people happy. I reccomend St. Louis Wedding Chapel and the fantastic ministers to anyone that wants to check officients off the worry list. The Best in the wedding world no matter what kind of wedding. They are amazing!!!
St. Louis Wedding Chapel is the bomb! I could not believe how easy it was from the first phone call to walking out the door after our ceremony. Rev. Elking has such a calming voice that was appreciated the day of our wedding. He put in all the little things and made it so personal for us. I would recommend this place if you want a small wedding. Also I did not have to worry about any flowers because it is beautifully decorated and they even had a bouquet I could use. This is THE PLACE to get married!
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My wife and I were happy with Reverend Sark. He gave such an amazing wedding service and really included some important aspects we wanted in the wedding. He made me feel calm and really directed our whole wedding party on where they should be and walk. We definitely needed the assistance. Everybody at the wedding loved him. I have been recommending him to other couples looking for an officiant.
Very professional and personable! Our wedding ceremony went so smoothly and I loved every minute of it! Thank you Sark for making my day wonderful!
Rev Sark made our wedding ceremony so special! We had so many guests compliment us on our officiant and the ceremony. Sark is very personable and makes you feel comfortable. He puts a little humor in the ceremony as well as personalized touches. He encouraged us to try to write our own vows and I'm so glad we did. Don't look any further! Rev Sark is your guy! Thank you so much!
We absolutely love this little
Chapel! It’s was so perfect for us and the owners are the kindest people
You will ever meet !! The inside is extremely nice and I love the room for the bride to get ready in !! If your
Looking to have a little wedding please concider this place because it the best !!!
We recently hired Rev Elking from St Louis Wedding Chapel and could not of been more pleased. Rev Elking helped us thru the whole process and made everything very easy and stress free for me and my now wife. Did I say wife? I love the sound of that. He is very friendly and personable, and you can tell he has a lot of experience. All of guest keep coming up to us all evening telling us how wonderful our ceremony was. I would highly recommend Rev Elking, He is the best!
St. Louis Wedding Chapel really knows how to help a bride when she is clueless! They walked us through our day step by step so that we had no concerns whatsoever. Any questions we had, all the amazing staff were so willing and able to answer them without us feeling overwhelmed. Our wedding day was incredible without any hiccups. Reverend Elking did such an amazing job with our ceremony. We simply couldn’t ask for anything better!
Sark Elking did an amazing job on my daughter in law and sons wedding ceremony. The wedding was very personable and I had several people tell me what an amazing job he did. I highly recommend him and would use him again. Thank you for making their day so special.
Sark is such an sweet person! He did absolutely amazing with officiating our wedding! Everyone complimented my husband and I on how great our ceremony was! I couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out! He came up with everything to say and it was a perfect day! Thank you Sark!
Rev. Elking was recommended by our wedding coordinator, and we could not be happier that we chose him to officiate our ceremony. From the beginning of the process, he listened to our wishes for the ceremony, and worked to make it very special and unique to us. So many of our family members and guests complimented our ceremony, and were very impressed by Rev. Elking's thoughtful, moving words. He helped us come up with some ideas to personalize our ceremony, while still keeping it short and sweet, which was important to us. We are so grateful to Rev. Elking for his excellent services, and were very happy with his pricing and professionalism.
Oh my goodness, we don't have enough kind things to say about Rev. Sark Elking! Ben and I were looking for a non-traditional ceremony that would feel like our own and also make our inter-faith families happy. Rev Elking surely delivered! He took so much time to sit down with us to get to know us, our story, our preferences and guided us through the whole process. He had so many great and unique ideas to weave into our ceremony and he did a truly beautiful job. We couldn't have been more pleased. He made everyone feel so comfortable and was a calming presence throughout the whole process. We knew we were in great hands with him! Highly recommend!
Sark was absolutely amazing and made our wedding ceremony perfect!! Every one told me it was the best ceremony they have been to because it felt natural and really focused on us as a couple. He was so easy to work with and has a very calming/warm personality so my nerves were at ease. I recommend hiring him no matter where your ceremony venue is, he can work anywhere!!
Sark did an Amazing job! We received so many compliments about our ceremony from our guests. Our ceremony was exactly what we wanted! Sark took the time to listen to us about what we really wanted our ceremony to be, and delivered. We would recommend St. Louis Wedding Chapel to anyone looking for a great officiant.
Reverend Sark was amazing to work with! The first time we met was over the phone because we live out of state and even with just a short conversation, we knew he was the right officiant for us. He is so genuinely nice and easy to talk to. It felt like he had known us forever by the time we got to our wedding even though we had only spent a couple of hours with him. He was very detailed in walking us step by step through creating our ceremony (this is a lot harder than it sounds!) and made sure we got exactly what we wanted. On the actual day, he did such an incredible job and we had so many people tell us it was the best ceremony they'd ever heard. We absolutely loved the job he did and would without a doubt recommend him to others!
Rev. Sark is AMAZING! So personable and so sweet! I knew I had nothing to worry about for the ceremony. I've gotten so many compliments. Our ceremony was absolutely perfect! Sark listens to what you want and seriously tailors the perfect ceremony for you. Everyone thought we knew him personally because he was so comfortable with us. Definitely recommend!!!
Rev. Sark Elking did an AMAZING job with our ceremony. It was a perfect mix of modern and traditional. After the ceremony, everyone was talking about how great it was and that it was one of the best wedding ceremonies people had ever been to. Rev. Elking did a great job including our personal interests into the ceremony and is overall a great speaker who keeps the audience's attention.
Love this Chapel! Great experience!!!
Rev Elking was our officiant for our wedding on June 2nd, and I cannot recommend, nor thank, him enough! Planning a wedding can certainly be a stressful time, but Rev Elking made our entire day that much better! He was extremely professional, knowledgeable, and just all around awesome. If you are looking for an officiant, seriously talk with Rev Elking, you won't regret it!
Sark was absolutely amazing!!! Words cannot describe how special and memorable our ceremony was thanks to him! Not only is he such a nice person, but he really made sure our ceremony is special and unique to us... We are so grateful and thankful for having had Sark as our officiant! Thank you so much, Sark, for being part of our special day!
St. Louis wedding chapels- destination wedding quail ridge 10-30-16 - Hobbs wedding - officiant Sarky was super helpful during the ceremony. I was very nervous about how the whole thing was going to go!! We told him different things we wanted to include in the wedding he made sure everything went seemlessly !! he was awesome I would definitely recommend reverend Sarky :)!
Love this little chapel!
Rev Sark made our day extra special. From the moment we met we felt very at ease and in more than capable hands. It is so nice to have a professional guide you during this time. Neither my groom or myself knew what to expect and Rev Sark answered all our questions and gave us information that we hadn't thought of. He gave helpful suggestions for the entire process and offered to meet with us as much as we liked, in person or on the phone to answer any questions or help us with our vows. Having him at the rehearsal was key, by the time the wedding arrived it felt so natural because we knew exactly what to expect. If you are seeking a professional to guide you through a very important event in your life, this is the man for you!
Rev. Sark was absolutely incredible at our ceremony. We wanted a non-religious, short ceremony and he exceed our expectations. All the guests were raving about him, perfect mix of emotional and light-hearted. On top of that, he was very helpful the day of the ceremony getting us to sign everything and being professional and not stressing me out!!
Our wedding went Perfect. Thanks to St Louis Wedding Chapel. Our wedding Officiant was awesome and we couldn't of asked for anyone better. Everyone in my bridal party love him and thought that our ceremony was amazing. Thanks again
Rev Elking is the best. He is a great guy and fun to work with. He has a lot of great ideas and made planning our wedding easy. Our ceremony was very beautiful and is something will will always remember. We had lots of wonderful comments on our ceremony...
We used Sark as our officiant and he was beyond wonderful!!! He is ridiculously friendly and is really passionate when he is performing the ceremony. My husband and I used him for ceremony at the Jewel Box and everyone loved him. I definitely recommend him to anyone and everyone looking to have an officiant. He helped in making our day special. Thank you!
Great to work with. We couldn't have done it with you. We appreciate you taking your time with us and our ceremony was beautiful!
Sark created the perfect ceremony for our wedding day! From our first meeting Sark combined our very different backgrounds in a beautiful ceremony for not only us but for our family and friends too. We received a lot of compliments and couldn't of asked for a more perfect ceremony.
We had a destination wedding but needed to legally get married back home first. Our pastor we originally had booked was diagnosed with cancer one month prior to our ceremony, so we had to find someone quick. This pastor was amazing, very responsive, and personable. Our guests loved him. He made the ceremony exactly what we wanted. So glad we found him.w e are truly grateful!
We were married on 6/13/2015 at Carondelet Park.
I could not have asked for a better officiant. Rev. Sark made the day serious and fun without going overboard with either. He was great at not missing a beat if something was not ready. There were a couple of things missed in the ceremony but he just smoothed right over everything. We truly enjoyed working with him. Rev. Sark was the perfect addition to our awesome day.
Our officiant was Reverend Sark Elking and he did an amazing job!! I can't believe how inexpensive it was!! We met with him once to go over everything and neither of us are very decisive, but he helped us every step of the way. He had a lot of really good ideas. You can tell he has a lot of experience. He helped keep everyone in line at the rehearsal. We were all nervous, but he assured us he would walk us through everything the day of the wedding and everything went perfect!!
We had Reverend Hatfield at our wedding. He is very open minded by letting us add our own poems and vows which made it more personal.
He made our day special!
Reverend Elking was absolutely amazing! My husband and I are not religious, but we have members in our family that are. Reverend Elking did an absolutely beautiful job at blending the religious with non religious. He walked our family through what was going to be done, and it went off without a hitch (we didn't have a wedding party, so we didn't have a rehearsal). If you don't have an officiant for your wedding, I definitely recommend Reverend Elking!!!
My wife and I chose to use Reverend Elking from St. Louis Wedding Chapel as our officiant. He was able to walk us through all parts of the ceremony and even made recommendations for various things that we were unsure of. Reverend Elking was sick the day of our rehearsal (as was my best man), but still delivered an amazing ceremony the next night. I was pleased with our selection of the St. Louis Wedding Chapel's officiant.
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9620 S. Broadway, Saint Louis, MO | Metro St. Louis Area and its surrounding counties, & IL.
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Hi I am Rev Sark Elking and I love performing, Simple "I Do" to absolutely perfect Wedding Ceremonies - Our team of friendly, professional non-denominational ministers / officiants perform hundreds of religious and secular wedding ceremonies each year, and will perform a memorable, heartfelt experience for you and your wedding guests. St Louis Wedding Officiants are a local Ministry based right here in St Louis. And are part of the staff with St Louis Chapel.
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