About this vendor
Dr. Lili offers personalized, meaningful, heartfelt ceremonies for your wedding day. For over 25 years she has touched brides and grooms with her warmth and lighthearted presence. Services include: interfaith, non-denominational, spiritual or secular marriage and commitment ceremonies. Marriage preparation counseling and workshops available.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Religious Affiliations
- Buddhist
- Christian
- Interfaith
- Jewish
- Secular
- Spiritual
Wedding Activities
- Wedding
Reviews
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4.7
out of 5.030 reviews
We enjoyed working with Lili and Greg during our non-religious wedding, and are happy to recommend them to others! During the process, we met Lili virtually a few times as she got ...
to know us to develop our ceremony script. Lili provided us with a lot of background and inspiration on the ceremony structure, and we collaborated closely with her during the writing process. We also met her husband Greg during the process, who officiated our wedding. Greg provided a warm and endearing ceremony, and took care of all things related to the marriage certificate afterwards.
Lili was a great officiant for our wedding. She took the time to get to know us throughout the wedding planning journey, and she worked with us to prepare a moving ceremony script ...
unique to us. She presided over the ceremony with such connection, familiarity, poise, and presence that our guests felt she was a family friend. We definitely recommend Lili to any couple looking for an excellent officiant!
We’ve had the pleasure of working with Lili for many years at our venue and cannot recommend her enough! Her ceremonies are always so lovely and sincere. She’s extremely professi...
onal, creative and committed to honoring each couple and her calm demeanor is such an asset for us and our couples, during a time that can sometimes be stressful! If you’re looking for an experienced officiant, she is an amazing choice!
Lili officiated our wedding recently, and did such a fantastic job. The whole process was seamless, and I could not recommend her more
She mispronounced my name through the whole service even though I told her how to pronounce it right before the ceremony and wrote it phonetically on her questionnaire and explaine...
d how important it was. Now every time I remember our ceremony and watch our wedding video I think of how it isn’t even my name. Through the whole thing. She also clearly didn’t read through the ceremony script even once as the timing and pace was terrible. She also cut our musician off and started “please stand for the bride” way too early it was so awkward.
Working with Lili was easy. We met virtually a couple of times to figure out what we were looking for. LIli sent over a draft document which my partner and I made edits to. We also...
decided to write our own vows and Lili sent us many examples to help us figure out what to say. Since we wanted them to be a surprise for one another, she even reviewed them to make sure they were the same length and tone, which was perfect.
On the wedding day, Lili had printed our vows on flash cards so that we didn’t have to remember them. She took care of everything relating to the marriage certificate so we wouldn’t have to worry about it. She even printed out a beautiful copy of the entire ceremony as a keepsake for us. Everything went smoothly and we want to thank Lili for making it such a beautiful day for us!
A dear friend recommended Lili after she officiated at her wedding 10 years ago, and I couldn't be happier that we hired Lili too.
We had our initial consultation with Lili in he...
r home where she took the time to ask us about ourselves and our relationship. No one has ever asked us such deep, personal questions about our love, but it was really wonderful to answer her. I even teared up a bit, in a good way!
Lili emailed us a ceremony script with alternate suggestions for each section, and we chose our fave wording for each, and that's how our ceremony came to be. It was great.
And the ceremony turned out perfectly! Her lovely words were true to us a couple, and all our guests loved our ceremony.
We had an AMAZING experience with Weddings of Heart. We worked with both Lili and Sindy and they make an amazing team. Sindy was our officiant for the day of and she was so profess...
ional. She is kind, warm and also organized and thoughtful in her approach to conducting wedding ceremonies. We were able to tailor our entire script with their guidance and it was more than we ever could have hoped for. This is the one vendor I didn't even realize I truly needed and I could not be more pleased with our decision to go with Weddings of Heart. I highly recommend them a thousand times over.
Choosing Lili was the best choice for our ceremony! We had a first meeting with her, had a great feeling about her, and once we decided on her, she sent us an outline for our cere...
mony really quickly. She provided a lot of knowledge around building the ceremony and gave us a lot of choices to add in/remove/pick what we wanted. We got so many compliments afterward about how wonderful Lili did as well as how special our ceremony was.
Working with Lili was such a wonderful experience. She was so caring and thoughtful through the entire process. She took time to get to know us and asked us so many thoughtful ques...
tions in order to write the perfect ceremony for us. We really enjoyed talking with her beforehand and collaborating on the ceremony. The ceremony was absolutely perfect. She is truly a pro! It was beautiful, meaningful, and had the aspects of traditional ceremonies we wanted and also had our own touch. Our guests were very impressed with the ceremony and how touching it was. We felt like we were in such good hands throughout the process because Lili really knows what she is doing and gave excellent advice and suggestions. She even asked us what we wanted her to wear to the ceremony. We couldn't have asked for more from an officiant. She took the stress out of planning our wedding ceremony and helped make it such a perfect experience.
Lili officiated our wedding at Yosemite NP and she did an amazing job! She was very respectful of our desire to keep the ceremony secular/non-religious, however I know she is flex...
ible to your wishes. She also took the time to gather information from both of us so that she could personalize the ceremony and we talked a few times over the phone prior to the wedding. She also worked with us in creating our personal vows and provided many examples and ideas. The ceremony itself was beautiful and tasteful. In short, I would highly recommend Lili!
Lili completely understands the meaning of CUSTOMIZE. Her ceremony speech was entirely built on our story, venue, personality, and value in life, rather filling a template. She ...
was devoted in giving a memorable wedding ceremony that anyone present can feel that she was reading the scripts with heart instead of mouth. Not only us loved her ceremony, but also a lot of our guests gave compliments that our wedding had the most beautiful ceremony speech they have ever heard!
Lili was the prefect fit for our last-minute intimate elopement, her presence with us helped us to feel calm and confident. She took my ideas and created a personalized ceremony an...
d vows that wowed our family. We will never forget the day!
Lili officiated our wedding and we could not have been happier with her! She was great! Helped us create a ceremony that was very personal and exactly what we wanted. She was amazi...
ngly kind, thoughtful and responsive during the whole planning process, and the ceremony went perfect. Many of our guests told us it was the most heartwarming and happy ceremony that had ever attended. Would highly recommend Lili!
Lili really made our ceremony special, and I'm so grateful to her for that. At first we were thinking about asking a friend to officiate our wedding but I'm so glad we ended up fin...
ding Lili, because she provided so much more than just the formalities on the day of. When we first got in touch, Lili set up a phone call so she could get to know us better and understand what we wanted the ceremony to look like. After that, she sent us pages and pages of options to choose from, for readings, vows, and the ceremony layout. She also gave us sections to write ourselves which she incorporated into the ceremony beautifully. We had a final meeting a few weeks out to nail down all the logistics, and Lili had every question figured out ahead of time. She's clearly very organized and has a lot of experience, but it also feels like she's there for you 100%.
She arrived early to our ceremony, checked in with us to see how we were doing, met our families, and brought copies of the readings and vows. She was an absolute pro - she even stepped away after the pronouncement so she wouldn't be in the background of the first kiss photos, something I wouldn't have even thought of until after. And we had a lot of family and friends who never cry with tears in their eyes after the ceremony, telling us how beautiful it was. I'm so grateful to Lili for helping us put together a really memorable ceremony.
Lili is amazing. We talked to her on Skype and met in person and had an instant connection. She is warm, personable, attentive, caring, and very detail oriented. She is extremel...
y organized with 1) her timeline - keeps you on track by checking in when deadlines are up 2) her work - offering many options for all types of ceremony styles and always responded promptly to emails.
She truly cares about her couples and it shows!
I booked Lili 1.5 months before or wedding, and I found her service to be exceptional despite the short time frame! We met her through a schedule FaceTime session, where she was ab...
le to learn about us, our relationship, our values. She sent us our rough draft right away, and I was blown away with how much it reflected us as a couple! Lili is responsive, timely, and very professional! Our guests still rave about how great the ceremony was! She was also very prompt with mailing in the marriage license, it was received and processed by the county clerk in 1 week! Thank you!
We hired Lili after my husband found her online (based on exceptional reviews from past couples!) We were getting married in San Francisco but live in Canada, so she instantly set ...
up a Skype meeting with us so we could chat and meet face to face. Lili was truly everything we could have hoped for, and more. From the first meeting with her to the ceremony, she was so kind, professional, reliable, and wonderful to work with - especially since we were planning our wedding remotely, it was a relief to know we were in good hands! The ceremony she created for us, based on our conversations with her, captured everything we had wanted. Lili tailor made our ceremony to include personal details about us as a couple (which we and our guests loved) . She was able to perfectly balance tradition with a modern twist. There were moments of heartfelt tears, joy and laughter. Hiring Lili was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding day. We will cherish the ceremony she gave us forever.
We worked with Lili on a destination wedding in Sonoma county and she was very friendly and responsive to emails. It is a breath of fresh air. She was very easy to get a hold of, a...
nswered all our questions, and created a very personal and touching ceremony for us. Even after the wedding she has been amazing to work with, following up with us to make sure the paperwork went well. I would highly recommend her. She has a very positive aura and is a very responsible officiant!
My husband found Lili through an internet search. When we met with her for the first time, we were immediately sold! She listened to us, guided us through the whole process, and he...
lped us create a beautiful ceremony. She was always responsive and easy to work with. On the wedding day, she had a neck injury and was in pain, but she made it to our wedding and was a real trouper! Our wedding wouldn't have been the same without her. We are so grateful we found her and truly appreciate her great services. If we ever renew our vows we will go to Lili. If you are looking for someone who will help you write a beautiful wedding with your vision in mind, do not hesitate to go to Lili!
We loved working with Lili and Greg and are so happy they played such a special role in our wedding. We met with Lili several times for "preparing for marriage" coaching sessions w...
hich were very helpful and positive. Lili was wonderful to work with during the ceremony writing process as well. Greg officiated our wedding beautifully - the ceremony was incredibly special and meaningful.
Lili was amazing and the perfect choice for our ceremony. We felt a great connection from the moment that we met her. She was respectful of the ideas that we had for our ceremony, ...
she gave us lots of great ideas for the ceremony that we hadn't even thought of. She was very quick and responsive with her emails. She sent us lots of great outlines of ceremonies, and readings ideas. She helped us create the ceremony that was right for us. My husband and I wrote our own vows, Lili offered us guidance and help throughout this process. On our wedding day Lili checked in with us and was really great throughout the whole ceremony, we are so happy that we hired her. Lili was a pleasure to work with from beginning to end. She was friendly, and professional. I would definitely recommend Lili to anyone that is looking for an officiant.
Words cannot begin to express my gratitude and joy for the ceremony officiated by Doctor Lili Goodman Freitas. From her first response to my inquiry about services and throughout ...
the entire process we felt supported and relieved. As most people know weddings can produce a great deal of stress and anxiety and finding the right officiant was probably the biggest one for me and my husband. We are coming from interfaith backgrounds, Jewish on my side and Presbyterian on his side and wanted to incorporate both our faiths, personalities and respect towards our families and friends. Lili took the time to send us questionnaires, met with us when we were in town, skyped with us ( since we were planning from cross country), sent samples of various service structures and responded to many, many emails and in the end tailored the perfect ceremony. All our friends and family were impressed by how personal and well suited the ceremony was to us. Thank you Lili for everything, my husband and I are so happy!
Lili seems have a special knack for working with couples who come from different cultures. My husband is Indian and I'm American, and we both had a desire to create a ceremony that...
would honor and help to blend both of our cultures. My husband and I are Baha'is, but he grew up in a Hindu family and I in a Christian family, and Lili helped us find ways to beautifully blend these different traditions into the wedding ceremony, for example including the seven steps (from the Hindu tradition) as part of our vows. Lili gave us lots of ideas for ways of incorporating some element of ritual. We knew we wanted to do something to include our parents in the ceremony in a meaningful way, and Lili was also really helpful in thinking that through. She also shared a variety of really helpful potential vows.
And, most importantly, on the day of the wedding we felt completely comfortable and confident with her loving, warm, professional demeanor and the way she helped to create just the right atmosphere on our special day. In another week it'll be three years since we got married, and people still tell us that ours was the most beautiful, heartfelt and loving ceremony they've been to, and LIli definitely played a big role in that. I couldn't recommend her more highly to anyone looking for an officiant.
I had to take a deep breath and some time before I wrote this review since I was pretty bitter after what happened at my wedding ceremony, but I felt like my story should be shared...
in case someone was trying to decide on an officiant.
I will start by saying that Lili was absolutely wonderful prior to the ceremony. She was very responsive to our emails, she set up times for us to chat about our needs for the ceremony, and I felt so happy to have chosen her to be the voice on my big day.
On the day of the ceremony when she arrived, she walked up to me and told me that she was kind of sick. I wasn't sure what she meant, and I figured that she was just letting me know that she had a little cold and that she didn't want to get me sick. I was mistaken.
Throughout the entire ceremony Lili was coughing (and I mean incredibly severe hacking coughs, not just the I'm clearing my throat kind). It completely ruined my ceremony. I'm not blaming Lili for being sick, I'm blaming her for not being professional enough to hire a replacement or let me know prior to an hour or so before the ceremony that she was ill. In our contract she said that she had a replacement in case something happened, and I was enraged that she wasn't professional enough to step back and let someone step in for her. It was a complete embarrassment, and in my memories my ceremony will never be remembered how I wanted it to be.
The only positive in this story is that she wrote me a letter after the ceremony saying that she felt she wasn't able to complete the ceremony to the best of her ability and she gave me a partial refund. However, the memories of my ceremony can never be fixed, so it is difficult for me to accept this and think that it makes everything okay.
I have confidence that in a situation where nothing goes wrong that Lili would be a great officiant, but I know for a fact that Lili tainted my wedding day in a way that can never be repaired. Her lack of professionalism and inability to step back and realize the implication of her coughing throughout my entire ceremony is inexcusable.
In the end, I would not recommend her to friends or family planning an event.
Lili was our officiant at our wedding on 9/29/12 and it was beautiful. She took the time to speak with us and got a feeling for who we were and for our feelings for each other. She...
took all of this and expertly wove it into a ceremony that seemed like it was written especially and just for us.
My guests commented that it felt like we had known her for a long time and that she did an excellent job. I don't know any weddings that I've been to where I remember the officiant, but I think that my guests will because they were so impressed.
She gave us many options to help make everything our own and worked with us through everything. I would definitely recommend Lili with Weddings of Heart if you are getting married. She's also very competitively priced.
Thanks Lili for making our ceremony beautiful.
Rev Lili created a beautiful and personal ceremony for us! It was perfect and she was great to work with!
To prepare for our ceremony, we met with Lili for an hour. She asked a lot of questions and really got to the heart of our relationship. We were looking for a simple ceremony wit...
h no religious overtones, and Lili got it right. She provided a draft ceremony with several options for each section, and made it very easy for us to customize. The end result captured the essence of our union with warmth and humor.
Lili was an excellent officiant. Choosing an officiant was a difficult decision for us, and we interviewed more candidates for this vendor role that we did any other. Lili impres...
sed us with her professionalism and her ability to help us capture the essence of what we wanted to convey in our ceremony and was open to our editing and feedback. She helped make the ceremony very personal. She was excellent and we received many compliments about our ceremony.
We could not have asked for a better officiant than Rev. Lili. She was a consummate professional and really made our day perfect. She worked with us from step "A to Z" and helped u...
s create a ceremony that reflected our values and beliefs. She was on warm, friendly, on-time and incredibly affordable. We had a number of comments from our guests on how great our officiant was and how she really made everyone feel very welcome. The absolute best!
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