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Sweet Pea Wedding Services - Wedding Officiating

We specialize in wedding officiating throughout the South Bay Area: San Jose, Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Hollister, San Juan Bautista, and Aptos. Our goal is to create unique and magical ceremonies by incorporating enhearten words and specialty ceremonies for all our couples.

We are non-denominational wedding officiants based in Gilroy, CA. We cater to be exceptional communicators who emphasize the importance of customer service. Personal connection between the Officiant and couples is essential. Our ceremonies focus on each couple's personal, emotional, and spiritual needs and will create a memorable wedding ceremony that captures the essence of each couple as they leap into a new dimension of their relationship.

We believe that the family contributes to a strong marriage foundation and we like to include family members (Mother's, Father's, children) in the ceremony by incorporating specialty ceremonies such as the "sand, wine or candle" ceremony. We are also very familiar with religious traditions like the coin and veil, cord and veil, unity candle and breaking the glass as well as personal ceremonies like the love letter or rose exchange.

Please contact us to arrange a free one hour in-person or phone consultation.

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Frequently asked questions

Does starting price include the ceremony rehearsal?

No

What is the starting price for ceremony rehearsals?

$150

What types of weddings and events do you provide services for?

Non-religious
Interfaith
Ceremony Rehearsal
Vow Renewal
Civil Union

What religious affiliations do you serve?

Agnostic
Baptist
Catholic
Methodist
No Denomination
Presbyterian

On average, how long are wedding ceremonies you officiate?

Less than 30 mins.

In which states are you licensed?

CA
CO
HI
WA

What languages do you speak?

English

Reviews of Sweet Pea Wedding Officiating

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Jesse Sent on 12/21/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing Service

Steven was a phenomenal officiant that was extremely professional from start to finish. He made our ceremony feel so special and wonderful and I couldn't have asked for a better officiant. He catered to any request we had and everything went off without a hitch.
Amanda
Amanda Sent on 04/29/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Hire him now!

Steve was so freaking amazing!!! Made sure we didn’t have to worry about anything up there just look into each other’s eyes.
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Liz Sent on 10/06/2018
5 out of 5 rating
Revend Steve Beck officiated our wedding last month. After our first meeting with him, my now husband commented how amazingly personable Steve is.
Our ceremony was beautiful. He incorporated our family into the ceremony and even had our moms and kids involved in the sand ceremony. So many compliments on the ceremony. Rev. Beck is an amazing officiant and incredible human.
Amanda
Amanda Sent on 10/12/2016
5 out of 5 rating
Our first consultation with Sweet Pea happened by accident. We went to a consultation with the florist to find out that Sonya was the wife of the gentleman that was to be our officiant as part of our package with Wedgewood. We were very excited to be able to have a dual consultation! Sonya gave us a list of ideas to think about during our ceremony: religious or non-religious ceremony, sand ceremony, unity candle, memorial candle. When the time for our consultation with Steve arrived we very surprised to learn how perfect he would be for our officiant. We decided to do a non-religious ceremony with a memorial candle for all of our departed loved ones and a sand ceremony to honor our moms during the wedding ceremony. Steve helped with all of this by providing the candle, sand, and bottle. Typically, the sand ceremony is an additional cost, but he was slightly late to our meeting and gave it to us for free. We were very surprised and happy with that and our decision to have him as our officiant. He made sure to move the sand ceremony down to where my mom would easily be able to reach it, took my bouquet during the ceremony (we did not of attendants), and gave us the rings when the time came. He made us and everyone else laugh, cry, and generally be happy during the short and simple ceremony.
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User2166777 Sent on 06/07/2015
5 out of 5 rating
Steve from Sweet Pea Wedding was great officiant. He went through the entire process beforehand and made sure we were comfortable with the things he was going to say during the ceremony. We were able to make any changes and add whatever we wanted. He even helped us plan out the details for the ceremony entrance and exit steps prior to the rehearsal. He was very amiable and was able to direct us on the spot for special procedures such as the lighting of candles and a sand pouring ceremony. He even mailed the paperwork after the ceremony was over. We are very happy with his service and would recommend him to anyone looking for an officiant.
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Sherilyn Sent on 07/08/2014
5 out of 5 rating
Wow, our ceremony was the most beautiful thing I have ever witnessed. His vows were elegant and simply put. It was so easy to meet with him before the ceremony and discuss final arrangements. He also turned in our wedding license the next day so that it would be available for us to pick up when we got back from our honeymoon!
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Jennifer Sent on 10/19/2013
5 out of 5 rating
Sonya was great in every aspect of the planning. I had a large wedding party and she handled all the flowers exceptionally well and understood exactly what I wanted. She made my vision a reality!
Roxanne
Roxanne Sent on 10/17/2011
5 out of 5 rating
Sonya is a miracle worker. She's the kind of person that totally "gets" your vision once you've shown her a couple of pictures. My first meeting with Sonya was great. She brought magazines, ton of sample pictures and her iPad with tons more photos. I had already created a halfway vision in my head of what I wanted for centerpieces and bouquets, so I pulled out my photos and we went from there. It took her literally 2 seconds to completely understand the look and feel that I was going for. She also made some incredible suggestions for some of the aspects I hadn't though about yet, like boutonnieres. She suggested using a rose for my husband's bout. bc he always buys me roses. She suggested using an orchid for my dad's bout. and my mom's corsage bc it would match my bouquet.

My bouquet was very special to me and I wanted lots of sentimental details. I asked her to wrap it with fabric from my mom's wedding dress, I added two bumble bee pins to represent my grandmother who had passed away, and I wanted a charm with photos of my parents and grandparents on their wedding days. Not one detail was missing when I saw my beautiful bouquet on my wedding day. It was probably the most important thing to me (besides getting married) and it was the most perfect match to my vision out of everything we had at our wedding.

Our centerpieces were also gorgeous. I asked for tall square vases on half of the tables and the other half of the tables had a cluster of 3 square vases of various sizes. I was much less picky about these. I told Sonya the few main things I wanted and told her to just make them pretty. And you know what? She did. I was blown away when I walked into our reception room.

I would recommend Sweet Pea to everyone I know. She was wonderful to work with, followed through on all of her promises and worked with my budget as best she could. Thank you Sonya!
Aaron
Aaron Sent on 10/09/2011
5 out of 5 rating
Let me start out by saying that Sonya did a perfectly amazing job with the flowers for the wedding. They were beautiful, and above and beyond what we had dreamed they would/could be. We spoke and emailed with Sonya a few times, trying to get things set up and postponed (on our end), she was very accommodating and friendly. When we arrived and finally met her we were very happy – she had her iPad full of photos and displays from her other weddings, and luckily my wife (fiancee at the time) had her phone with a ton of pictures of what she was hoping/looking for – and the two of them fell into floral heaven talking about flower types, colors, when the year was best for what. It was fun to watch! Sonya has a great checklist she sends a little bit later for you to go over, review and make any changes to – and really, it seemed like you could make changes until about two weeks or so before.

She was there on time, setting up the table center pieces, dropping off all of the boutonnieres, the bouquets, the gazebo flower sets and we even had the flowers from our wedding decorate our wedding cake. Not only were the flowers beautiful, but they lasted, they were complimented on what seems like a thousand times, and they were exactly what we wanted. Sonya did such a fantastic job!
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Dayna Sent on 06/15/2011
5 out of 5 rating
Sonya (florist) and Steve (officiant) are incredible! They were hugely involved in making my wedding perfect :)
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Awards

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WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2012 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2011 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2010 Winner
WeddingWire Couples' Choice Awards 2009 Winner

Professional Network & Endorsements

2 Endorsements
Bliss'd Wedding & Event Planning Bliss'd Wedding & Event Planning Wedding Planners

Sonya And Steve as two of the sweetest people I've met in the wedding industry. You'll find that they truly care about your wedding and are willing to listen. I've seen many wedding officiants, and have yet to find one that compares with Steve's calmness, delivery and poise.

Annie K. Rowland Photography Annie K. Rowland Photography Wedding Photographers

Great Vender to work with! Sonya's flowers are always stunning and creative, some of the best floral eye candyI have seen. Steve Beck is one of the best officients out there, very professional and easy to work with. I say that as a vendor and as a bride who choose Steve to officiate my own wedding.

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