We connected with Annie within moments of our first meeting. She is super calm, gentle, and just lovely to work with. She also has a *beautiful* voice and way of reading that is just amazing and perfect for ceremonies. On the professional front Annie was responsive, clear, and helpful. We couldn't have asked for a better experience. Highly recommend Annie!!

Rev. Annie stood in for our original celebrant and was really helpful from the start. She was really attentive, accommodating and organised. She set up a skype conference (as we live overseas), listened to our plans and provided us with lots of advice and suggestions. On the day of our wedding, Rev. Annie was prompt and didn't even mind that we were running late. She even helped us carry things so that we could get our pictures taken unencumbered. We will always be thankful to Rev. Annie for ensuring that our wedding day was filled with wonderful memories.

Rev. Annie did a superb job officiating our marriage! She is fun, upbeat, heartfelt, and extremely professional. Rev. Annie really made our wedding special and memorable. We highly recommend Rev. Annie -- she is a delight to work with and I cannot imagine having had any other officient perform our ceremony.

We had a wonderful experience with Annie! She was calm and professional and really made our whole day more relaxed and enjoyable. We were nervous to find an officiant who would be able to navigate families with different religious backgrounds, but Annie made it easy. We really appreciated all of her expertise and caring.
-Hannah

We simply cannot recommend Rev Annie highly enough.
We had stated from the initial contact that our wish was for a simple ,personal ceremony and to this end we provided Annie with our preference for vows ,a simple reading Apache Marriage Blessing and our desire to have a Truce Bell ceremony .From the moment we arrived at Central park we were immediately at our ease with this lady.
Prior to the wedding i had never anticipated wanting to do it all again but theres a huge part of me which would love to do the ceremony all over again . It was immensely personal which we feel was down to having the right officiant.
Thanks so much Annie
Love Mary and Aoife

Rev. Annie was AMAZING! She performed the ceremony for us and another couple in a double ceremony in Central Park.

Each couple wanted something a little different in their ceremony. Rev. Annie was able to give everyone what they wanted and make the whole thing one ceremony which flowed seamlessly.

Neither couple lives in the NYC area, so all of the commmunications and planning took place over the phone and via e-mail. She is incredibly responsive and helpful, making suggestions for special locations, getting the licences, and any other questions we had.

She was right on time and at the designated location, making it very easy to find her. The ceremony was even better than we hoped. Although there was a crowd of people near the Ladies' Pavillion, she made us feel like we were the only people there. It was an intimate, moving ceremony. Rev. Annie is so loving and kind, she made each couple feel special and blessed.

I highly recommend Rev. Annie to anyone who is looking for an officiant. She was incredible! The wedding photographer even commented that she was one of the best he had seen!

You can't go wrong with Rev. Annie!

We had Annie do our ceremony and she was great! She was eager to tailor the ceremony to our history and personalize it for our friends and family. She was very communicative and prompt in her responses and had great suggestions for flow and readings as we worked on our drafts.

Her amazing personality really shined through our wedding and all of our guests talked about how fun and personal our ceremony ended up being, which is mostly because of Annie. We absolutely recommend her for anyone looking into Officiants.

After carefully researching officiants in New York, my (now) husband and I decided that the Rev Annie Lawrence seemed perfect on paper; the numerous flawless reviews coupled with the promising content of her website and blog hinted that she could be the ideal woman for us. We accordingly emailed her and were promptly replied to. As we are based in the UK, we were able to schedule a coffee date to have a chat and see how we got on.

Annie was very accommodating and the meeting was a resounding success. She quickly made us feel like friends and was more than happy to discuss every tiny detail of the ceremony to ensure that it was exactly what we wanted. Without any doubt or hesitation, we then booked Annie for our August 12th ceremony.

In the interim, Annie constantly emailed us versions of the ceremony, made suggestions and incorporated everything we asked for. She was constantly upbeat, happy and a true pleasure to work with. We opted for a hybrid-type ceremony; whilst we wanted the vows to remain traditional, we coupled those with modern, quirky readings. Annie completely understood what we wanted and incorporated our wishes into the rest of the ceremony. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding that was this personalised before!

On the big day, Annie was flawless. We are both over the moon with how she conducted the ceremony, dealt with a very emotional bride and enthralled the guests with her lyrical presentation. She kindly accepted an invitation to join us for the reception and everyone who was fortunate enough to spend time with her commented about her kind nature and her genuine love for people.

In short, I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Annie as your officiant. If you are looking for someone who will really take the time to get to know you, understand you as a couple and do everything they can to make your ceremony perfect, then look no further.

After carefully researching officiants in New York, my (now) husband and I decided that the Rev Annie Lawrence seemed perfect on paper. The numerous flawless reviews coupled with the promising content of her website and blog hinted that she could be the ideal woman for us. We accordingly emailed her and were promptly replied to. As we are based in the UK, we were able to schedule a coffee date to have a chat and see how we got on. \r\n\r\nAnnie was very accommodating and the meeting was a resounding success. She quickly made us feel like friends and was more than happy to discuss every tiny detail of the ceremony to ensure that it was exactly what we wanted. Without any doubt or hesitation, we then booked Annie for our August 12th ceremony.\r\n\r\nIn the interim, Annie constantly emailed us versions of the ceremony, made suggestions and incorporated everything we asked for. She was constantly upbeat, happy and a true pleasure to work with. We opted for a hybrid-type ceremony; whilst we wanted the vows to remain traditional, we coupled those with modern, quirky readings. Annie completely understood what we wanted and incorporated our wishes into the rest of the ceremony. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding that was this personalised before!\r\n\r\nOn the big day, Annie was flawless. We are both over the moon with how she conducted the ceremony, dealt with a very emotional bride and enthralled the guests with her lyrical presentation. She kindly accepted an invitation to join us for the reception and everyone who was fortunate enough to spend time with her commented about her kind nature and her genuine love for people.\r\n\r\nIn short, I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Annie as your officiant. If you are looking for someone who will really take the time to get to know you, understand you as a couple and do everything they can to make your ceremony perfect, then look no further.

My (now) husband and I came across Rev. Annie on Twitter @RevAnnieNYC, of all places. We were originally coming to New York for vacation…and drop by City Hall to get married. Since I changed my mind and wanted to be legally married on our 23rd anniversary, which fell on a Sunday this year, we reached out to Rev. Annie to see what she was all about. She immediately replied to our email and we immediately fell in love with her. We figured it might be hard to connect with someone so far away, as we are in Asheville, NC getting married in NYC. She quickly defused those concerns as she was like talking with and working with your best friend next door.

She held our hands through everything from calming our nerves over 1,000 miles away, to giving us wonderful ideas for our ceremony. She listened to everything we said and she acted on it. We had no clue what we wanted or how to say it and she had the perfect personality and experience to pull it out of us. She created and preformed our ceremony in such a spectacular fashion, we and our guests could not have asked for anything more. She was touching, sincere, passionate and expressed herself in such a way that brought joy and love to me, my husband, as well as every guest that attended…even my mother, who was on speaker phone, not being able to attend because of medical reasons.

A week later, I am still getting emails and text messages telling my husband and me how touched they were by Rev. Annie and the ceremony she preformed. We could not be more please with her and now, we now have a dear friend for life. If you are seeking a professional, sincere and compassionate wedding Officiant, my husband, myself and every one of our guests would highly recommend Rev. Annie Lawrence, as she made our wedding the amazingly beautiful event that it was.

Rev. Annie, if you read this, thank you for believing in marriage equality and thank you for being such the special soul that you are! Cheers from Asheville, NC!

What can you say about Rev. Annie that hasn't already been said before?

I'll try: she's perfect.

From the moment we booked her, Rev. Annie was wonderful. Prompt with her e-mails, listened to everything we said and incorporated all that we wanted, although there was very little to change from the first draft - her words were beautiful.

On the day, she was early, communicative and smartly attired. She was caring, patient and made us feel like we were the only two people in the world. I hope she doesn't mind me saying so, but Rev. Annie gives off an Earth Mother vibe that I feel is entirely appropriate for her role. She's just gorgeous!

The ceremony was not informal but Rev Annie encouraged you to show what you're feeling and so we just smiled nervously and giggled throughout and Rev. Annie didn't seem to mind one bit! It was short and sweet - too short! - but we loved her and we're glad that Rev. Annie was part of our special day!

Annie’s performance was magical. We are both French and decided to have our destination wedding in New York with our close family. My husband’s parents and mine are not fluent in English but Annie spoke so well, distinctly and with so much emotion that she brought tears to their eyes. She made the whole audience feel part of this unique moment by looking at each of them, smiling and communicating her passion, her emotions.
My husband and I had read the ceremony a countless number of times before the wedding and we never expected that that actual “live” performance would be so intense and magical and this was thanks to the talent of Annie.
We were so happy and so lucky to have her as our officiant and would warmly recommend her!

After deciding that we wanted to travel to NYC to get married rather than doing so in the UK, we contacted Rev. Annie to see if she would be available to perform our ceremony.

We arranged to Skype with her one evening and couldn't have been happier with all the information and help she provided. Not only did she make sure we'd contacted the correct people regarding licenses and permits for our Central Park wedding, but she also suggested photographers and locations which was all very helpful.

Rev Annie totally put us at ease throughout the process of planning our wedding, even down to the exact wording of the ceremony.

On the day, she met our families in the park and made sure everyone was in place for our arrival. Once the main event was over, she stayed with us throughout a mega rain storm until every last guest had found transportation.

We would recommend Rev Annie to anyone looking to get married in NYC, she simply makes it perfect!

We are from the UK and recently got married in NYC with Rev Annie as our officiant. We chose Rev Annie from the many NYC officiants on line and are so pleased that we did. From the first contact with Annie via email she was friendly and professional and filled us with confidence. Despite the distance it was easy to build a rapport with her and this was reflected in the lovely ceremony that she wrote especially for our wedding day. When we arrived at the chapel Rev Annie was there waiting for us dressed in her ceremonial robes and conducted a beautiful, heartfelt ceremony. So many of our guests commented on how wonderful the ceremony was and how perfect it was for us. We would not hesitate to recommend Rev Annie to anyone else getting married in New York - you will not be disappointed!

My husband, to be, and I had initially thought we would get married at City Hall. But luckily he found Annie and our wedding was more than we thought it could be. Annie was great! She helped us with location suggestions (we decided on Central Park) and helped us get organized. Nearly eveyone, including us, came from out of state so her advice and experience was very much needed.

Annie Skyped with us a few times to make sure the tone and scope of the wedding ceremony was just what we wanted. She also connected with our friends and family who were providing readings and made sure everything went smoothly.

During the ceremony, Annie helped connect us all with her words and actions. It was a perfect day. We are forever grateful.

We booked our wedding through the Get Married in New York website about 3 months before the event itself - recommend them very highly, not least because they sent us detailed instructions as to what we would have to do get married in the US, but mainly because they introduced us to Rev. Annie who performed the ceremony for us on the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park's Strawberry Fields. The day couldn't have gone any better, we met Annie by the Dakota Building, and walked down to the Terrace in the unseasonal warm sunshine. She was warm, friendly, guided us through the ceremony, took photos, found witnesses for us (we left our family behind in Britain for the wedding) and even introduced us to the world as Mr and Mrs! Thank you again Annie, for making it a wonderful day. Michael & Alexandra (Liverpool)