New York City’s Top 24 Wedding Officiants

Peter Boruchowitz has two decades of experience as an ordained minister, secular celebrant, and registered wedding officiant. He enjoys creating ceremonies that showcase who you are and your love for each other. Peter has a background in the theatre, which allows him to feel at ease in front of small or large groups. He’s experienced with all cultural backgrounds and is happy to perform the ceremony of your choice. Peter will be there for you throughout the planning process and on your wedding day to ensure you’re getting everything you hoped for. 

Officiant Style: Religious, Non-Religious, Cultural, Professional, and Ordained

Price: $750

Address: 300 West 23rd St, New York, NY

Phone:  (917) 523-1438

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Gerald Fierst is an exquisite choice if you’re searching for an officiant with experience in all types of ceremonies. Gerald is a Civil Celebrant and Interfaith Minister who’s officiated hundreds of weddings in New York and New Jersey. He will personalize your wedding ceremony to include traditions from your culture or religion and perform civil weddings without those aspects if you choose. Clients praise Gerald for his open-mindedness, creativeness, professionalism, and fun-loving nature. Gerald has a way with words and storytelling that allows your love story to shine.

Officiant Style: Religious, Civil, and Cultural

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: 259 Park Street, Upper Montclair, NJ

Phone:  (973) 746-4608

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Deborah Roth is a life coach and interfaith minister with twenty of experience in the industry. Deborah specializes in creating meaningful wedding ceremonies that incorporate faith traditions and spiritual services that showcase your love for one another. She schedules consultations to learn more about your wedding ceremony needs and devises a plan based on what you’re looking for. Deborah would be an excellent choice for couples from different faiths that want to include aspects from each in their ceremony.

Officiant Style: Religious, Non-Religious, and Spiritual

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: 270 Riverside Drive, 1C, New York, NY

Phone:  (212) 665-9660

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Judges for Love, Inc. was created as a means for couples to have a meaningful civil ceremony that showcases their commitment and love for each other. Your wedding ceremony will be performed by a warm and friendly, retired Supreme Court Justice who’s licensed to officiate. Judges for Love, Inc. has nine judges to choose from that are devoted to giving you an incredible wedding ceremony. This New York officiant has an award-winning business that’s often praised for its Justice’s with patience, guidance, caring natures, and exceptional service.

Officiant Style: Civil

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: New York, NY 10001 United States

Phone:  (917) 757-3105

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Honeybreak Officiants is an award-winning wedding service with eight years of experience in providing modern ceremonies filled with love. Each wedding ceremony is personalized to showcase your love for one another. This company fully supports marriages for everyone without exception. The women with Honeybreak Officiants are available for domestic and international weddings. They offer various wedding packages such as elopements, New York City weddings, international ceremonies, photography and officiant packages, and virtual ceremonies. This business would be an excellent choice for couples in search of a way to bundle services.

Officiant Style: Interfaith, Non-Religious, Cultural, and Civil

Price: Prices Start At $450

Address: West 68th Street, New York, NY

Phone:  (860) 478-6060

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Cantor Laura Stein is a wedding officiant and licensed social worker in the heart of New York City, specializing in Jewish and interfaith ceremonies. Laura prides herself on her ability to help you with every aspect of the ceremony planning while ensuring your faith is included. She provides all-inclusive services that include marriage counseling, rehearsals, and continuous communication throughout the planning process. Laura requires three to five counseling sessions before your wedding day that helps her get to know you and design a personalized wedding ceremony that showcases who you are as a couple.

Officiant Style: Civil, Religious, and Non-Religious

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: 400 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016

Phone:  (914) 772-8272

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The Vow Whisperer, Tanya Pushkine is a Julliard trained actress, public speaker, and wedding officiant with a knack for helping you write incredible vows. She realizes it may be difficult to express your feelings into words, especially in front of a large group of people. Tanya will coach you every step of the way to ensure your thoughts are expressed. She loves getting to know her clients to give them a customized experience from start to finish. The Vow Whisperer would be a spectacular choice for couples with difficulty for public speaking.

Officiant Style: Religious, Non-Religious, and Civil

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: 150 West 80th Street, Suite 5D, New York, NY 10024

Phone: (917) 806-6899

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Mark Giller and Norma Moutal from One Heart Personalized Ceremonies by Mark & Norma have 25 years of experience in the industry. They strive to provide ceremonies that reflect your love and commitment to each other. Your wedding will be designed to showcase your values and beliefs, as well. Mark and Norma are ordained and certified to perform ceremonies for couples of all faiths and cultural backgrounds. Clients provide rave reviews to Mark and Norma for their helpfulness, professionalism, flexibility, and organization.

Officiant Style: Religious, Non-Religious, Civil, and Cultural

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: 179 E 93rd Street, New York, NY 10128

Phone:  (212) 427-4864

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Illuminating Ceremonies by Christopher Shelley is an award-winning officiant and Life-Cycle Celebrant based in New York City. Chris has been creating incredible ceremonies since 2011 and receives excellent reviews from clients for his thoughtful and caring nature, professionalism, and ability to tell their love story correctly. He loves getting to know clients to help tell their stories and provide a unique and memorable wedding ceremony. Christopher will even help you write your vows, as it can often become stressful if you’re unable to express your feelings onto paper.

Officiant Style: Religious, Non-Religious, Interfaith, and Civil

Price: Contact For A Quote

Address: New York, NY

Phone:  (718) 222-0110

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Rev. Annie Lawrence, NYC Wedding Officiant, has extensive experience as a wedding officiant in New York City and worldwide. She has officiated 1,500 weddings since becoming ordained in 2003. Reverend Annie Lawrence strives to provide reliable, meaningful, and romantic ceremonies that showcase your commitment to one another. She has five wedding packages to choose from, with the “I Do” in NYC package being the most popular. This package includes a ceremony in Manhattan, your choice of readings, rituals, vows, unlimited revisions, coordination with every vendor, and wedding license filing.

Officiant Style: Religious, Non-Religious, and Civil

Price: $195 – $895

Address: Soho, New York, NY 10012

Phone:  (917) 620-6307

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Once Upon A Vow can tackle anything and everything ranging from gigantic wedding bashes for hundreds of guests to elopements and mini-ceremonies for intimate parties. Experiences booked with Once Upon A Vow include ceremonies at City Hall, personalized elopement ceremonies stuffed with culture, family, and any rites and rituals by request, and videography and photography services included with these packages for an easy booking and purchasing process. With tons of accolades and acknowledgments from many wedding publications and media outlets, Once Upon A Vow can deliver guaranteed quality service to couples planning their New York City-based wedding ceremonies.

Address: New York City, NY

Phone: (347) 927-8139

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Wedding Packages NYC offers a wide collection of convenient and customizable packages for wedding officiant services at marriage ceremonies based out of and around New York City. Packages include a secular-civil ceremony, spiritual non-denominational ceremony, and religious ceremony for Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant services. Additionally, Wedding Packages NYC has an option to let a friend of the happy couple officiate the ceremony. The recipient of a catalogue of awards and honors from a multitude of prestigious media outlets and wedding publications, Wedding Packages NYC is a safe bet when it comes to securing the services of a dedicated wedding officiant for upcoming nuptials.

Address: 345 W 58th St, New York City, NY 10019, United States

Phone: (917) 300-3034

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#1 NYC Elopement is a wedding officiant provider owned and operated by Goran Veljic. Offering affordable services that never sacrifice quality for price, #1 NYC Elopement offers a variety of easily bookable and customizable packages, which include such amenities as a photography session, professional styling, wedding flowers, violinist services, and special ideas for celebrations including a “horse-drawn carriage ride through Central Park or a wedding party in Little Italy,” or anything else that the happy couple in question could dream up. Services with #1 NYC Elopement can be booked with the simple click of a button, no questions asked, making this one of the most convenient and elegant wedding officiant providers in New York City.

Address: 447 Broadway, New York City, NY 10013, United States

Phone: (212) 792-0066

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Simply Eloped is a wedding celebrant outlet providing a wide collection of services for couples planning their wedding ceremonies in the greater New York City metropolitan area. Several packages are available for easy booking with Simply Eloped, including such services as officiation, elopement concierge guidance for licensing, venue, and vows, advice on locations for ceremony, and a variety of additional services such as photography, videography, hair & makeup, an onsite assistant, violinist, and much more. Combining multiple services all under one roof, Simply Eloped makes ceremony planning effortless and seamless for clients.

Address: New York City, NY

Phone: (929) 207-0008

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Common Ground Ceremonies is run by Reverend Samora, who has collected a bevy of awards and honors for her incredible work as a wedding officiant and interfaith doctor of ministry. With a vast array of experience over 10 years in the wedding industry and over 1,500 weddings and vow renewals under her belt, Reverend Samora is a natural singer and performer with a quick wit, a good sense for narrative, and a genuine desire to connect with the clients whose ceremony she performs. Whether clients are looking for an elopement ceremony, a customized ceremony, or an all inclusive package including coordination and logistical counseling through the wedding planning process, Reverend Samora can make it happen.

Address: New York City, NY

Phone: (646) 736-2510

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Lisa Traina Wedding Officiant is a New York City favorite when it comes to marriage celebrant services for local wedding ceremonies. Performing the duties of a wedding officiant since 2011, Lisa Traina uses her background in event planning, theatre, banquet catering, and administration to guide her role as an overseer, performer, and grand unifier of marriage ceremonies. Lisa gets to know the couples with whom she works quite intimately in order to assess any and all of their specific needs and requests for their wedding day,  no matter the religion, family, gender, tradition, and creed of the couple. 

Address: 405 E 56th St, New York City, NY 10022, United States

Phone: (917) 406-4031

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If the couple in question are fans of comedy, they’ll be thrilled to learn that Harris Bloom, the officiant in charge at Harris Bloom Weddings, is a stand-up comic. That means that he is an expert at weaving humor through his marriage ceremonies, though that does not mean the ceremonies won’t have genuine and emotional moments. Harris Bloom can perform interfaith and same-sex weddings as well as vow renewals, eloopements, and more. No matter how large the guest list or how demanding the services required, working with Harris Bloom Weddings is a guarantee that Harris will go above and beyond to serve the couple.

Address: New York City, NY

Phone: (646) 645-5975

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With over 40 years of experience as a Jewish cantor, wedding officiant, and spiritual caregiver, Cantor Daniel Pincus is a great choice of wedding officiant for Jewish, interfaith, same-sex, elopement, and secular wedding ceremonies of all shapes and sizes. Ceremonies facilitated by Cantor Daniel Pincus run between seven and 25 minutes, jam packed with an opening welcome, a prayer or reading, speech to the couple, ring exchange and vow delivery, marriage license signing, and concluding readings or prayers. For all of these excellent services and a flexibility to the approach and structure of a ceremony in accordance with client specifications, check out the services of Cantor Daniel Pincus.

Address: 4791 Broadway, New York City, NY 10034, United States

Phone: (917) 494-2724

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A More Perfect Union is a wedding officiant outlet owned and operated by Hope, who can plan and facilitate wedding ceremonies of all shapes and sizes, guiding couples through the process and taking a bit of stress out of the ins and outs along the way. Services offered in convenient packages assembled by Hope include a customized ceremony, two hours of photography, location choosing assistance, permit arrangements, and 80+ photos delivered in an online gallery. Additionally, Hope can help friends of the couple become wedding officiants so that they can officiate the ceremony themselves, with sessions easily bookable by contact through the website of A More Perfect Union.

Address: New York City, NY

Phone: (917) 504-4468

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Boda Civil New York offers bilingual Spanish wedding officiant services for couples planning their ceremonies in the greater New York City metropolitan area. Spanning Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island, Westchester, and New Jersey, Boda Civil New York has planned destination weddings across Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, and Times Square, among other such locations. With services for any and all budgets that do not skimp on the personalization or emotional appeal of traditional wedding ceremonies, Boda Civil New York can facilitate candle ceremonies, vows, ring exchanges, and family vows, among other such offerings.

Address: New York City, NY

Phone: (347) 460-5668

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Rabbi Gloria is the celebrant sitting at the helm of Wedding Rabbi, and she has been performing ceremonies for couples across New York City and beyond since she retired from her rabbinical duties in 2008. Rabbi Gloria performs interfaith weddings and destination weddings, working with couples who seek to represent their faiths and identities however they see fit. Rabbi Gloria works closely with the couples in order to attain a clear sense of who the couple is and what their priorities are, meaning that the ceremonies that Rabbi Gloria creates will be distinct and personalized to the individuals, informed by the “thoughts and dreams” of the couple.

Address: 555 W 59th St, New York City, NY 10022, United States

Phone: (646) 327-6307

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Eloping is Fun NYC is composed of four officiants who can each provide unique and distinctive services for wedding ceremonies in and around New York City. Previous ceremony locations with Eloping is Fun NYC include the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, Williamsburg waterfront, the Highline, and much more. Each ceremony performed by one of the celebrants with Eloping is Fun NYC is distinct to the client, informed by a questionnaire that clients fill up with funny stories and personal information; ceremonies typically last 15 minutes, and they can include any readings, cultural or spiritual rites, or anything else that a client could dream up.

Address: 38 Covert St., Brooklyn, NY 11207, United States

Phone: (646) 249-3855

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Maksim Kondratenko is the main officiant heading up the operations at Wedding Officiant New York. With over 500 weddings performed in his time in business, Maksim with Wedding Officiant New York covers all five boroughs, and he takes pride in delivering seamless service to all clients, such that the wedding planning process is no more complicated than it has to be.

Address: 540 40th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, United States

Phone: (646) 764-6408

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Fantasy Nyc Wedding Officiant is a Brooklyn-based wedding celebrant service, catering to all five boroughs and eastern Long Island for upcoming wedding ceremonies. Lenny is the celebrant in charge at Fantasy Nyc Wedding Officiant, and he has catered to ceremonies styled as “gothic, gay, rock and roll, Halloween, punk,” and a vast array of other styles. This means that Lenny is an expert at listening to his clients and honoring their requests, no matter how traditional or how out of left field. Spanish and bilingual services can be performed by Lenny, and ceremonies performed include civil, traditional, spiritual, non-religious, interfaith, LGBTQ, and commitment ceremonies among others.

Address: 400 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, United States

Phone: (646) 407-2026

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