4.5 out of 5 stars and 26 reviews
4.5
(26)All of So Cal (SD, OC, LA and IE) & destination weddings.
About this vendor
Your Wedding Belles is a wedding officiant collective that creates unique ceremonies that couples never forget. Owner and officiant Julia Satterlee, along with her associates, take great pride in delivering personalized wedding ceremonies for couples that are beautifully written, powerfully spoken, and personal to their love story. Your Wedding Belles take the time to get to know the couples they work with to learn more about how they met, what has kept them together and how they would like this reflected in their ceremony. Couples say this feels like having a friend officiate their wedding but with the benefits of seasoned professionals! Having conducted over 300 ceremonies in numerous venue types—including churches, beaches, hotels, wineries, and hockey games!—Julia and her associates are open to accommodating any of your requests. Honoring the unique personality of each couple, they strives to give their clients the ceremony of their dreams. This wedding officiant company would love the opportunity to help you start your marital journey.
Services Offered
Whether you are interested in a traditional wedding ceremony, vow renewal, an interfaith event or even something completely out of the box, Your Wedding Belles are there for you every step of the way. They offer a range of services to help make your officiant experience fully customizable. Wedding services offered include the following:
Consultation
Custom Wedding Ceremony
Assistance with Wedding Vows
Travel/destination weddings
Marriage license filing
Relationship and Life Coaching
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Religious Affiliations
- Buddhist
- Christian
- Interfaith
- Pagan
- Secular
- Spiritual
Wedding Activities
- After The Wedding
- Newlywed Life
- Getting Engaged
- Premarital Counseling
- Wedding
- Ceremony
Awards and Affiliations
2021 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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Skii brought pure calmness and light to our wedding ceremony! From our first phone call, we knew we were in the best hands. It is so apparent that Skii loves her job and cares imme...
nsely about her couples. Thank you for being your wonderful self and making our day so special! Highly recommend!
We had Julia as our wedding officiant and she was outstanding! Her kindness and helpfulness made the process so much easier. She provided us with templates and examples. She even p...
roof read my vows which put me at ease knowing I had the approval of a professional. She wrote us the most beautiful ceremony, that had all our guests in awe. I highly recommend Your Wedding Belles to anyone who is looking for professionalism and sincerity.
Julia at Your Wedding Belles made planning our ceremony a breeze. She sent over multiple ceremony scripts for us to review, and with our feedback helped us create a bespoke final v...
ersion that was unique to us and incorporated our interests and cultures. On the day of, she provided guidance and encouragement, and we were so happy to have her preside over our ceremony. We would absolutely recommend Your Wedding Belles to anyone, especially those looking for a non-denominational service.
We were really disappointed with the service we received from Your Wedding Belles. Let me start by saying that ultimately Julia contracted in Skii from Gumnut Gatherings who did ou...
r ceremony and did a beautiful job and the day went off without a hitch but everything else was very frustrating and unprofessional. (I highly recommend Gumnut Gatherings!)
Our initial phone consultation went well and we were excited to work with the team, but at about a month out, we had to request drafts of the ceremony to start reviewing. When we did receive drafts, one of them was an exact copy of another couples' ceremony complete with personal details, inside jokes and their dog's name. When I pointed this out and asked for another draft, Julia apologized, resent us the draft with the personal details removed and an additional version to choose from. The additional version was also not proofread and at the end it pronounced us "husband and husband" - in our case, it's husband and wife.
We independently rewrote our ceremony taking bits from the drafts Julia sent us and I emailed it back to her and heard nothing for another 2 weeks. I reached out again less than a week before the wedding asking if she received our draft, who would officiate for us and requested to touch base and heard nothing for another day or two, when my coordinator got involved and attempted to reach out to Julia.
Throughout the process, Julia always had an excuse for her lack of communication - she told us how she had a cold, or there was an emergency or she didn't have service or they were short officiants because of covid... it was a very frustrating and unprofessional process. Thankfully Skii came through (5 days before the wedding) and took over.
We are lucky to have had Julia on our special day! After two postponements due to COVID-19, we ended up losing our original officiant that we had planned due to retirement. He sugg...
ested someone else, but we didn’t quite feel like we fit, so the search continued. I ended up putting out a PSA on Facebook bridal page which is where I found Julia and Your Wedding Belles. She was quick to respond and we met up quickly to discuss our options. It was so great meeting her and felt like we connected immediately. She listened to our story, took notes, and felt genuinely interested in performing our wedding ceremony.
We hired her and loved our ceremony. She is quick to respond and took in all our considerations for the day. We wanted to make sure we had her and no one else after our meeting, we wanted to incorporate a group champagne toast at the beginning of the ceremony, and have hand-fasting ceremony (big Scottish Outlander fans here). She did it all and it was beautiful! She sent over 3 different outlines of ceremonies to gage which direction we wanted to go in and then she personalized it from there. It was fantastic!
The only downfall I would say is that I wish she went over both of our vows to see how they matched up in timing. My vows were much longer than my husbands which got us really behind schedule so that would have been helpful to stay on time. However, I guess I could have asked, but I didn’t think about it at the time.
At the end of the ceremony, everything was very organized in getting everyone to sign. Then, she took all the documents and sent them in herself and we didn’t have to worry about it. We are very pleased with our services and highly recommend Julia!
My husband and I enjoyed having Julia as our officiant. We did premarital coaching/counseling, which I highly recommend. She is so polite and kind. She is great with coming up wit...
h ideas and suggestions for your special day. She is adaptable and flexible. I would highly Julia/Your Wedding Belles.
I felt the least connection with Julia out of all my vendors and I had to admit I was somewhat disappointed. The communication was so poor that by the time we had our draft, it was...
like she didn’t even really remember our story or what we wanted. The ceremony was flawless without mistakes. Afterward she came off very business promoting like without the authenticity of connecting with us as a couple. Also, the marriage certificates were not placed back safely Into the folder they were in, and the folder was lost somehow, and thankfully the papers were not damaged. I loved her presentation I just wish she spent more time getting to know us to be able to laugh and joke and give us that fun ceremony we were hoping for!
Julia Satterlee of YOUR WEDDING BELLES. without a doubt the very best you could dream of for wedding planning and follow thru..she drove from San Diego to officiate our wedding in ...
Borrego Springs, brought our bouquets, cake and ceremony and all with gratitude and loving support..I appreciate all she did to make this our most memorable day..
We used a service called SoCal Vows and were paired with Julia at Your Wedding Belles for our elopement, and we’re so lucky we were! From the first conversation with Julia, I knew ...
we were in amazing hands. Although we were connecting over a phone call, she took the time to get to know me and my wife - and you could tell she was genuinely interested in knowing us and our story as a couple.
The day of the wedding was absolutely perfect. Julia was professional - on time and was ready to go! The way she officiated the wedding was absolutely beautiful, and the way she painted the picture of love was perfect. If we could get married 10 more times, we’d pick Julia to officiate each of our weddings! She made our day so much more special than we ever thought possible, and we were so pleased with how kind and warm she was.
If you’re looking for an officiant, we couldn’t recommend her or Your Wedding Belles more!
Also, she’s LGBTQ+ friendly, and made us feel very comfortable :)
Sadly this is not gonna be our great review. We decided to hire Julia because it seemed she knew a lot of the legal process and the price was great, she was very flexible with the ...
ceremony script.
BUT the day of came, and first she got LATE, I was streaming the ceremony and everybody was logged in and she wouldn't come, when she finally appeared, she first started to talk to the photographer to give out her card instead of marrying us.
THE WORST PART, is that she didn't take her job seriously, we didn't get our marriage certificate in the period of time she and the county told us, so my husband contacted her and I contacted the county, she said something to my husband and the county told me they didn't have my record. SHE NEVER SENT MY PAPERS, until 1 month after the wedding.
because of this, we met the deadline so my husband couldn't add me to his health insurance, and most importantly since i am going trough a greencard process, SHE MADE ME WASTE A MONTH, a month that I payed my lawyer for doing nothing.
Julia Satterlee of Your Wedding Belles was AMAZING! From our first contact via the internet until our wedding day she was well organized and a calming presence for our special day....
Me and my wife HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER.
Julia was amazing. Communicated well. Listened to our needs and wants. Helped us with making the ceremony our own with the perfect vows. Made the ceremony sound flawless. Would rec...
ommend to all my family and friends. Worth every penny.
Julia was great! She responded quickly and was very helpful. Our ceremony was simple and on the beach, she made it special and it was everything we had imagined!
Julia performed our ceremony on July 11, 2020. She was professional and extremely helpful. She went beyond her job to make our day perfect . when something needed attention, such ...
as some outfit adjustments for myself and my husband, she was more than happy to help out. But more importantly she spoke beautifully and everyone at my ceremony felt as though she was the perfect officiant. I found her through weddingwire and she was quick to respond to my inquiry and at a reasonable price. She is also very friendly and will help guide you through this process and I highly recommend her services.
Julia was amazing! We had a very simple, small wedding, but Julia made the ceremony memorable and magical. She worked with us to create and tailor the perfect processional, allow...
ing us to make it our very own. She was a delight to work with and made us feel so comfortable. She immediately felt like part of the family. We cannot recommend her highly enough!
Julia took the time to get to know my husband and I so she could personalize our ceremony. She gave me multiple options to choose from as a starting ground and I could edit from th...
ere. I didn’t need to though because one of the was perfect from the start! When I read it I cried. I also told her that I would like a few things added to our vows to personalize them and she added them beautifully.
We hired Julia for our April 25th wedding which happened on May 2nd. So it was, as everything else was postponed. She had met with us before, was thorough, on time and efficient....
She was very accommodating with changing our date and venue. She agreed to come to our house during the masked pandemic to perform our ceremony!!!!
Julia was so wonderful! She helped me all the way through the process of getting married and made sure I had everything I needed! Answered my endless questions. She performed an am...
azing beach ceremony for my husband and I! We appreciate her so much!
Julia was an absolute LIFESAVER for our wedding. We were a part of the corona-couple group whose wedding was postponed until the fall. We really had our heart set on the date so ...
decided to elope! I connected with a number of different officiants I could find online, and immediately felt a connection with Julia. Instead of just sending over a pre-made script she took the time to really hear our story, and understand what we were looking for in terms of our marriage. She is a wonderful communicator, and absolutely put me at ease throughout the entire process. She was professional, calm, radiated kindness... everything you want your officiant to encompass. Going above and beyond is an understatement, if you have the ability to work with her and have her be your officiant... you won't regret it. THANK YOU SO MUCH JULIA! You will forever be a cornerstone of our special day!
Julia was very kind and helpful during the process leading up to the wedding. We had a casual phone conversation initially to get to know one another, and we clicked right away! Sh...
e provided me a few different pieces to review (marriage vows) upon request that helped me figure out the direction and vibe I was feeling for our big day. I even provided her with my own feedback and recommendations that she was open to incorporating! She’s very communicative, respectful, and was expressively thankful for choosing her to be part of our special day. Definitely recommend her services for your wedding. Cheers!
Julia could not have been more accommodating, kind and professional, I am so so glad we chose her to be our officiant! We had a wonderful chat on the phone and she asked us a lot a...
bout how we met, our personalities, what keeps us together, what our likes and dislikes are and various other things to get to know us, and we immediately felt at ease with her. Closer to the wedding she sent us a variety of options for the wording of the ceremony and was very open to changes - she even let us send her our vows to approve! Even despite a family emergency and additional pressure on her on the wedding day, she was calm and professional throughout, gave a wonderful ceremony and beautiful words, she made our guests laugh and feel comfortable and talking to her felt like talking to a good friend even though we had only met in person once the day before the wedding. She was extremely efficient with the paperwork as well and helped us get our marriage certificate very quickly, which we were extremely grateful for! I can’t recommend Julia enough, the perfect officiant for the perfect day! ❤️
Very accomodating, very professional. Julia did a really nice job. I have no problem recommending her.
We had an informal wedding overlooking the beach. Reverend Julia was consistently professional, timely, pleasant and helped us celebrate our wonderful day. Very pleased with the ...
service and happy to recommend her.
Julia was very professional, helpful & did a beautiful job of performing our ceremony!
Very professional service. Very patient with some of our last minute planning and worked so well with us to personalize our wedding service.
Amiyah & Oscar G.
2/15/2020 was our wedding Ceremony On Coranado Island On Beach was the best ever Julia and her Sister Katie where awesome, very friendly and professional.
a nice...
calmness to themselves both.
I would definitely recommend 🤗
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