About this vendor
Wedding Ceremonies with Rachel is a wedding officiant service located in Parkton, MD. The business was founded by Rachel Baikauskas, who was inspired by her passion for bringing people together. Rachel loves to take a personalized approach to create the wedding script, ensuring it highlights your unique romantic connection.
Rachel worked as a high school teacher for many years, before she followed her calling to become a wedding officiant. In 2019 she began her training and has conducted over 50 wedding services since then. She has been married for over a decade and has a deep understanding of the importance of love in life. Highly efficient and organized, Rachel can assist you in planning and perfecting all the details for your beautiful wedding ceremony.
While based in Parkton, Wedding Ceremonies with Rachel can also cater for wedding ceremonies throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania. Rachel can officiate for a diverse range of weddings, from large-scale celebrations to private elopements. Rachel can also be present at your wedding rehearsal, to make sure everything goes to plan, allowing you to look forward to the big occasion.
Details
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Wedding Activities
- Wedding
- Ceremony
Awards and Affiliations
2-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2022.2021.
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out of 5.019 reviews
Rachel made our ceremony so perfect! She sent us a template to help customize the ceremony and added in some personal details. She walks around to make sure she’s not in all of the...
pictures which also engages the guests. We received so many compliments from our guests about our ceremony and how great Rachel was. Thanks for making our day so special, Rachel!
Rachel was amazing. She sent us an incredibly detailed questionnaire to ensure we had everything we wanted and things we never even thought of. After we filled it all out, she allo...
wed us to go through the ceremony with her, adjusting wording, putting in extra personal anecdotes, and a little joke here and there. Our ceremony ended up being incredibly personal, while keeping within the time limits we were hoping for. We laughed, we cried, we felt like we could be in that moment with each other. Having an officiant who was so prepared with every last detail made a world of difference. Since our wedding I have been to three others... none have compared to the level of personalization and heart that went into our ceremony!
Rachael is so friendly and likable! She gave us a great template to customize our ceremony that made it very simple. We wanted a non religious, short and sweet ceremony and that’s ...
what we got!
So professional and wonderful to work with! We loved the entire ceremony!! Thank you again
My husband and I hired Rachel to officiate our elopement. She went above and beyond our expectations!! She let us personalize her script. She proof read our vows for grammatical ...
error, and even made us vow books. It doesn't stop there, we got married on a literal clift! We had to hike through the woods to get there and climb over rocks. Even though she was scared, she did it and rocked it. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!
Rachel was absolutely amazing! My now husband and I had been together for almost 7 years so we felt sort of awkward with our own vows. Rachel was amazing and made us so comfortable...
. She helped us personalize things and helped me (the bride) with my anxiety of public speaking. If you are looking for an amazing, beautiful, officiant, look no further! She is literally the best!!
We originally planned to have a large Catholic ceremony for our wedding but had to pivot our plans due to COVID-19. After deciding on an intimate outdoor wedding, we were a bit los...
t in thinking about what our ceremony would look like until we found Rachel. We were are so glad that we did because she truly helped us create the perfect ceremony that we will cherish forever.
Our experience working with Rachel was nothing short of wonderful! We engaged her services to officiate our micro wedding. Rachel worked with us to craft a very personal, very tou...
ching ceremony - allowing us to each of our immediate family members to take part. We appreciated her guidance and brilliant ideas to build a ceremony we will never forget.
Rachel was so great to work with! She was kind, funny, and easy to coordinate with. She was extremely organized and knew exactly how to personalize our ceremony so that it fit our ...
wants and desires. She also made sure to give our photographer many opportunities to take pictures of just us! I would 100% recommend her to anyone.
Rachel
We can’t thank you enough for all you did for us . You really went above and beyond! You really created our entire ceremony and prepared us for anything that might be unexpe...
cted. Thank you for helping us with our vows and making sure that we were happy and comfortable with the ceremony.
You are such a wonderful person and officiant. I would highly recommend you !
Thank you again !
Rachel was just incredible to work with! She was so kind, helpful, organized, and accommodating; especially considering the challenges surrounding the pandemic. After we had to p...
ostpone our wedding from May to October, Rachel met with us to legally marry us on our original date. She prepared a small, intimate ceremony with no guests present that was so special and memorable. Prior to our rescheduled date in October, Rachel helped us tremendously by giving us templates to write our vows. Her always positive, calm demeanor really eased the stress and uncertainty as our date got closer. On our wedding day, Rachel delivered a beautiful ceremony that was personalized to exactly what we wanted. We really enjoyed spending time and getting to know Rachel throughout this process and highly recommend her to anyone in search of an officiant.
I am so happy I found Rachel via my online search for an officiant! She was amazing to work with especially in the time of COVID. We went from a guest list of 170 people to about 3...
0, and she was so accomodating in all our changes. Rachel gave us a questionnaire to complete to get to know us and incorporated our answers into the ceremony which made it feel so personalized. She has a very calming personality as well which just made me feel less anxious on such a big day. Thank you Rachel!
We are so lucky we worked with Rachel for our wedding day! She made the day go so smoothly. We had to change a lot due to COVID-19 and Rachel was with us every step of the way. Our...
guests absolutely loved her. I had friends say they wanted to get married again just so she could officiate! We are so grateful for her presence, calmness, and natural ability to keep things moving during our ceremony.
In short, Rachel was amazing. We had a lot of problems working through international travel and COVID-19, and Rachel was on top of things better than we were. Not only that, she fo...
und someone to help with flowers and they did everything. We got married in our backyard, and by the time they were done, it looked like we were married in a wedding chapel. I can go on, but the other reviews will tell you how wonderful her process is. I will jut say that I can't imagine how anyone else could have done any better.
Rachel was amazing. We were instantly comfortable. She helped customize our ceremony to what we wanted and there for us with any questions. She really helped us at our rehearsal an...
d did a great job on our wedding day. Would definitely recommend Rachel.
Rachael was amazing to work with- even before we booked her. She was extremely easy to talk and connect with. Everyone enjoyed our ceremony! I highly recommend
Words cannot describe how amazing Rachel is! Rachel took my vision for a quick, small, ceremony and perfected it beyond my dreams. In less than three weeks during the Christmas ho...
liday season, Rachel agreed to officiant our ceremony with basically no real notice and did so with so much enthusiasm that I knew she was the perfect officiant. She made the process fun and easy and she made suggestions based on our situation that made the ceremony so special. On the day of the ceremony I was running late, but she was an angel, she pitched in to help with set up, she worked out details based on the venue, and I didn't have to worry about anything! I can truly say she went above and beyond and I would recommend her a million times! She told me that the ceremony would be perfect and she delivered! Thank you Rachel for making our day memorable and beautiful!
Rachel was an amazing officiant! We wanted someone that would listen and learn who we were before being a part of our wedding. Her process was in depth, yet simple. We enjoyed gett...
ing to know Rachel before our wedding and it was a huge relief to have someone so professional on our team for our wedding day. We were able to hand everything over to Rachel and trust that the wedding ceremony would be a success without any stress on the day of. We will recommend Rachel to anyone and everyone that we can!
Rachel was the perfect choice for our wedding! She was warm, funny, engaging and such a natural at officiating. We were her first wedding ceremony but she already had such grace an...
d composure that you would have thought she had been an officiant for ages!
Throughout the whole process she kept us involved and informed and we never felt out of the loop. She listens and is willing to incorporate anything you desire into the ceremony. We cannot recommend Rachel enough!
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