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Susan Stone, Celebrant

Susan Stone, Celebrant

Sacramento, CA
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    Amazing, moving, personal ceremony - thanks to Susan!

    We had a fantastic experience with Susan! We didn't know exactly what we wanted when we started, but she was so helpful and worked closely with us to create the perfect ceremony celebrating our relationship. At our wedding, many guests were moved to tears and commented that it was the most moving, personal ceremony they had ever heard. We couldn't have done it without Susan!
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    Lindsay C. Sent on 10/15/2023
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    Susan is warm, thoughtful, and delightfully easy to work with!

    We absolutely loved working with Susan! When we began the wedding planning process, we knew that we wanted our ceremony to feel intimate and personal, but had no idea where to start. Our wedding planner recommended Susan to us, and after our first conversation with her, we knew that her energy and communication style were exactly what we were looking for.

    Susan is warm, thoughtful, and delightfully easy to work with. She had a collaborative process of getting to know us both individually and as a couple, and then using those insights, she created our ceremony outline. We were blown away by the first draft—she had nailed the style and tone we wanted. From there, we went back and forth a few times on small-scale revisions via email.

    On the day of our wedding, we received so many compliments on our ceremony and Susan as a celebrant. Our friends and family shared that the ceremony felt unique and personal and that Susan perfectly balanced the gravitas of the occasion with a bit of humor and levity. We couldn’t agree more! Susan is wonderful and we absolutely recommend working with her!
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    Cheryl P. Sent on 07/27/2023
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    Highly Recommend!

    Our original officiant was not able to perform our ceremony, so Susan graciously stepped in. Susan did an exceptional job and we couldn't be happier with how our ceremony went. It was the perfect length, genuine, and thoughtfully crafted. She was responsive and professional, ultimately very easy to work with. I would highly recommend her.
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    Armen D. Sent on 12/06/2022
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    Susan Stone Oct. 29th 22022 wedding.

    Susan was great to work with, we both input some stories, values, and experiences we had that brought us together and Susan turned these into a wonderful service for our wedding. It was genuine, humorous, and thoughtful. Susan really listened to what we wanted out of our ceremony and made that come to light. I would high recommend Susan to my friends family for future events
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    Camille A. Sent on 10/27/2022
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    Susan is an amazing celebrant!

    To say Susan was a great celebrant for our wedding would be a huge understatement - she was phenomenal!
    Our initial call and Zoom visit with her quickly conveyed the care, expertise, and personalization she brings to her profession.
    Leading up to the big day, she gave us an overview of the order and timing of our ceremony. She also provided us with a questionnaire that delved into the layers of our relationship. She then utilized our questionnaire responses to craft our ceremony. Susan integrated our stories, humorous anecdotes, and meaningful writings and brought them together deftly to create a ceremony that was customized to us and garnered dozens of complements from attendees.
    During our rehearsal, Susan patiently led us through the ceremony so that each person could practice their timing and placement. She answered our questions and let us practice several times until we were comfortable and confident.
    We feel so lucky that we found Susan to lead us in this important moment and we are so grateful for her thorough, gracious and thoughtful approach.
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    April W. Sent on 12/30/2022
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    Susan is spectacular!

    Susan is truly the best! She has such a knack for officiating, she made us feel so comfortable and made the entire process easy. From the first inquiry, Susan was extremely responsive. We traded many back-and-forth emails editing the ceremony script until it perfectly reflected our vision. We expressed to Susan that we both have a fear of public speaking and didn’t want to do our own vows. Susan worked out all the details with us to make sure the ceremony was just as we hoped for. She wrote a script that told our story exactly as we’d like and any worries we might have had melted away! One of the best things about Susan was that she was not afraid to push back on the script and offer ideas. Out of nerves, we had deleted a lot of our love story. Susan encouraged us to keep it in, she let us know it’s what our guests wanted to hear, and we are so grateful she was willing to push us to keep those parts in the ceremony. It ended up being the perfect length, had a romantic and lighthearted tone, and many of our guests commented on how wonderful our ceremony was. Susan has such a welcoming presence, she always made us feel comfortable sharing our ideas, and she made our ceremony truly incredible. She speaks beautifully and with just the right tone and cadence. We cannot recommend Susan enough!!
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    Gracie W. Sent on 12/30/2022
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    Beautiful Ceremony!

    Susan was our officiant for our wedding she went above and beyond continuously! She helped us achieve our goals in crafting a personalized ceremony with our values front and center. I would highly recommend her!
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    Lea B. Sent on 07/17/2022
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    So happy that we hired Susan !!!

    Susan married us on 7/9/22 and we couldn’t be happy her that we hired her as our officiant.

    Susan was very professional, efficient, personable and responsive in all communications. What we really love about Susan is that she drafted our ceremony and speeches to one another to flow easily and it was very personable. Our wedding ceremony flowed freely and told a story from how we met and everything in between up until our wedding day.

    We had so many compliments from our guests and they were so impressed with her that they had asked for her contact information.

    She also performed the wedding rehearsal ceremony so well and the actual wedding ceremony was perfect!!

    Thank you Susan for being our officiant at our wedding and making our day so special!! I cannot say enough good things about her and highly recommended her!!!

    We will definitely hire her again when we renew our wedding vows!!!
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    Amanda M. Sent on 10/01/2022
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    Well Attuned to All Aspects of Ceremony

    Susan was an asset to our wedding ceremony from the beginning of our search for an officiant. Throughout our communications, she provided timely responses in a clear and attuned manner. We were able to first meet her in person over coffee to learn more about each other. During the process of developing our ceremony, Susan collaborated with us and guided us through different prompts in support of making the ceremony our own. She took the time to listen to our story and carefully weave it into her script. She also helped us through personalizing our vows. Susan is a lively speaker who left a wonderful impression on our family and friends who attended our ceremony. Her services definitely played an essential role in our big day and we are incredibly grateful to have worked with her.
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    Kate Sent on 11/16/2021
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    Absolutely amazing!

    Susan is so kind and attentive. She crafted such an amazing ceremony for our wedding and was so helpful with deciding what to include and how to make it extremely special. She was really easy to work with and very professional. We loved working with her and received so many amazing reviews from guests at our wedding about her!
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    Matthew J. Sent on 11/20/2021
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    Very Memorable

    Susan blew our minds in a way that we will never forget. The breakdown was beautiful and A LOT of people who attended our wedding remembers the ceremony and said Susan was amazing and people are asking my wife for our officiant information so when they get married to have her. Really recommend her services. Thank you again Susan!!
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    Rob M. Sent on 10/29/2021
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    A Wonderful Experience!

    My wife and I had an amazing experience working with Susan on our wedding ceremony. When we first met up with Susan, we knew immediately that we wanted to work with her. She was very professional, personable, and easy to talk to. After filling out a very in-depth questionnaire, Susan crafted an amazing ceremony that was so personal and suited us well. We had the opportunity to make changes, but there was little that needed changing. On the day of the wedding, Susan performed our ceremony flawlessly and we had many attendees comment on the quality and how personal it was. If we were to go back and do it again, we would absolutely choose to work with Susan again.
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    Sami W. Sent on 05/22/2021
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    Ah-mazing!

    Susan is absolutely a gem. My (now) husband can be quiet and shy and she brought out the best in both of us! So grateful to have her apart of our day. She nailed the ceremony and our love story! 10/10 recommend!
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    Jennifer H. Sent on 02/24/2020
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    Susan’s the best!

    We were so happy to have Susan officiate our wedding! She wrote a beautiful and unique ceremony for us. We loved her attention to detail and suggestions for our ceremony. We couldn’t be happier and highly recommend her!
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    Samantha C. Sent on 10/28/2020
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    Susan is fantastic!

    My husband and I absolutely loved having Susan as our officiant for our wedding in January 2020. She was the first person we met with, and as soon as we met her we realized the search for an officiant was off! She made planning our wedding ceremony so easy and fun. She made sure that everything was catered to what my husband and I wanted for our day, and if we ever had questions, she got back to us with a thoughtful response very quickly. Our guests told us and our families that they found the ceremony so personal and funny (which is what we wanted!) and she really worked hard to tell our story. We got nothing but compliments on how much our guests felt like they knew who we are as a couple based on Susan's storytelling and ability to capture us as a couple. We would recommend her to anyone. Susan made our wedding an incredible experience.
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    Gabrielle Sent on 11/07/2019
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    Amazing ceremony!

    Susan was so lovely to work with! She was professional, helpful, and very flexible! Our wedding details changed multiple times and she met us with understanding and smiles the whole time. Our ceremony was beautifully written, many people cried! She even provided us our vows on nice card stock last minute and allowed us to hold the ceremony rehearsal in her garden. The day of, when everything was an hour behind and everyone was frazzled, Susan helped organize the ceremony and the DJ for us without us even asking. We loved having her officiate for us!
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    Spencer A. Sent on 11/03/2019
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    Exceptional celebrant!

    We recently married in October, and we can't say enough about how wonderful our ceremony was! Susan took the time to create a very beautiful, personal ceremony that was heartfelt and truly conveyed the love we feel for each other. I highly recommend Susan for your wedding!!!
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    Lindsey R. Sent on 07/29/2019
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    A great ceremony

    We were married in June of 2019 and had a fabulous experience with Susan! She makes a very personal, memorable ceremony. Would highly recommend.
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    Susan T. Sent on 06/24/2019
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    Susan and Dennis - Best Event of our lifes, and we have lived a while!! LOL

    Susan was the highlight of our wedding. Life is so busy these days, her follow-up and follow through made our wedding. The ceremony was absolutely wonderful!! She created such a witty and warm atmosphere, loving and funny too!! It was the wedding I always dreamed of!! Thanks so much for making this the best possible day for us !! Susan provides questions - make sure you BOTH take the time to answer them all.... trust us - it makes the best event.
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    Kathryn R. Sent on 05/27/2019
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    A Celebrant to Celebrate!

    Susan made our day! Before our ceremony, she was wonderful to work with. She started by really getting to know our story with in-depth questionnaire, and then spent so much care on putting our ceremony together. We trusted her input every step of the way, but she gave us room to customize so that everything felt comfortable and just like us. Susan was there the day before for our rehearsal and worked easily with our event coordinator. The day of, our ceremony was perfection. All of our guests kept commenting on how personal the ceremony was, and how lovely it was to have a dedicated voice to tell our story. We are so thrilled she was there for our day!
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    Forrest M. Sent on 10/13/2019
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    Susan was attentive, caring, thorough, and truly lovely to work with!

    My wife and I can't say enough good things about Susan. She took so much time and effort to get to know us. She probably knows us better than most of our close friends at this point! She made every step of our ceremony planning process not just stress free, but fun, personal, and very personal! We also had a somewhat challenging wedding in that ours was themed for the first video game that my wife and I bonded over together. She went the extra thousand miles to ask us questions about the game world, and incorporate that into our ceremony. We had so many people come up to us afterwords saying that they loved hearing our story through Susans written ceremony, and how engaging the dialogue was. I had a lot of people come up and ask how she was related to us, because she made it so personal that people just assumed that shed known at least one of us our whole lives. She even dressed up to fit the theme! After the wedding she also sent us a beautiful package with the ceremony script and our vows. We absolutely loved her, and I can only hope she's still doing this in ten years when we renew our vows!
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    Rosabelle J. Sent on 04/01/2019
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    10/10 Would Recommend!

    My now-wife and I interviewed six officiants before we decided on Susan, and we are really happy with that choice. She sent us a detailed questionnaire about ourselves and our relationship, which we answered separately. She then crafted a beautiful ceremony using elements of our own words about each other and our feelings about our upcoming marriage.

    The nice thing about engaging Susan’s services is that she is very flexible. There were some things I wrote on the questionnaire that ended up feeling too personal to include in the ceremony, and she made it very easy for us to edit the ceremony as we liked. She was also very easy to reach and proactively connected with our venue coordinator, DJ, photographer, and videographer so that everyone would be on the same page for the ceremony. That took a lot of work and stress off of us.

    Many of our wedding guests complimented our ceremony and specifically called out Susan’s warmth and speaking style. A guest who is in her mid-60’s even said “That was the best ceremony I’ve ever heard in my life, and I’ve been to a lot of weddings!” We are super grateful for all of Susan’s hard work and we’ve recommended her to all of our engaged friends!
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    A perfect fit!

    Susan was an absolute dream to work with. She takes what she does very seriously and puts in a tremendous amount of work to make sure that the ceremony reflects the couple perfectly. My husband and I met with Susan almost a year before our wedding, and after just a short meeting with her, we knew she was the celebrant we wanted. Susan sent both my husband and myself an extensive survey with in depth questions, so she could really get a feel for us individually and our relationship together. Once we submitted the survey to her, she drafted a ceremony for us and sent it over for us to add to/edit. She was so thoughtful in how she told our story, it was both touching and humorous, which is exactly what we wanted. She did such a great job making the meaningful moments stand out and still giving the ceremony some levity so it wasn't too serious. Everything flowed so well, and it really reflected the bond my husband and I share.
    Susan doesn't offer up some cookie cutter ceremony that she performs for every client, she weaves a story just for you and your partner that fits who you are and the tone you want to convey during your wedding. Not to mention, Susan has a very pleasant voice and a wonderful cadence to the way she speaks; she is a natural story teller, plus she is just a really nice person.
    Having Susan marry us, was easily one of the best choices we made for our big day, and we would do it again in a heart beat. If you and your partner put in the work and answer her survey open and honestly, she will put together something beautiful for you. You will not be disappointed. Susan is truly fantastic!
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    Susan worked closely with us to get to the heart of what was important to us. She has great ideas, but only offers them as suggestions because her goal was to merely guide and inspire us in creating our ceremony. She is full of heart and compassion, and worked along side us as we edited and revised our drafts. Her professionalism and passion for what she does shine brightly. Because of her talent and experience, our ceremony was distinctly about us, and we loved it.
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    Susan did an exceptional job officiating my wedding ceremony! She personalized every aspect, sharing the couple's unique story with the guests. Susan was organized, detailed, and professional and made the process seamless. I highly recommend Susan!
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