A Sweet Start Reviews
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Elizabeth L. Sent on 07/28/2024A beautiful and personalize wedding ceremony
Maria was such a pleasure to work with on our wedding ceremony! She helps you every step along the way and gets your ceremony just the way you want it - it was so beautiful and personal. She is so kind and professional and warm and welcoming. Our wedding ceremony was perfect thanks to Maria! -
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Lori A. Sent on 07/02/2024Wonderful Experience
Lindsay from A Sweet Start did an excellent job and we highly recommend her. She was professional, thorough and engaging. Many of our guests specifically commented on what a wonderful job she did. She took the time to know us as well as understand of our relationship and family dynamics. With their selection of wedding programs, she worked with us to customize a program that reflected our uniqueness so it was not cookie-cutter. Her dialog and communication was sincere and engaging with us and our guests. She also handled all the legal requirements quickly and efficiently. You can't go wrong choosing A Sweet Start for your wedding ceremony. -
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Caroline Sent on 11/24/2023Simply the best officiant we could have hoped for!
Lindsay Gannon officiated our wedding this August and she blew us away with her professionalism, beautifully-written and deeply personal ceremony, and support as our wedding drew nearer and we were working on our vows. She really took the time to get to know us as a couple and was very sensitive to and provided great advice on dealing with our unique family situation, such that our ceremony felt really personal and both families felt included. From helping us make sure our vows matched in tone and length to running a seamless rehearsal to making our ceremony really special and filing all of our paperwork for us, we can’t imagine having worked with any other officiant. -
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Mary A. Sent on 11/07/2022The best experience and most perfect ceremony!
Maria put together the most beautiful wedding ceremony of our dreams! She was a pleasure to work with, sent us everything we needed in nicely bundled up emails, and was incredibly organized and supportive throughout the entire planning process. She truly handled everything from soup to nuts with our ceremony, and worked with all of our vendors to make sure they had the details of the ceremony timing.
Most importantly, she put together the most beautiful, special, thoughtful, and heartfelt ceremony. We've heard so many wonderful compliments from our guests that it was the most beautiful wedding ceremony they've ever attended. She really made our ceremony dreams come true, and it was exactly what we wanted -- special, secular, and under 30 minutes :)
You won't regret hiring Maria for your wedding day!
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Rachele B. Sent on 10/28/2022Incredibly Magical
Lindsay from A Sweet Start was absolutely incredible to work with. She is calm, patient, caring, thoughtful and tasteful. All of our guests have commented on how much they loved the ceremony and loved the officiant. Our wedding would not have been the same without her and we are forever grateful. -
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Nicole C. Sent on 07/23/2022Amazing!
Maria was absolutely wonderful!!! We had some issues with a bridesmaids dress and she stepped into action and found the solution. Maria made sure EVERYTHING went perfectly and I can’t say enough on how much we truly loved our ceremony!!!♥️♥️ THANK YOU AGIAN! We love you!!! -
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Mary D. Sent on 08/23/2022Best wedding decision we made
My husband and I were on the fence about having a professional officiant for our wedding ceremony - we figured we could just have a friend do it. However, we decided to just chat with Maria to take a look at all of our options. Long story short, we immediately decided to hire her and we have no regrets about it.
Maria really took the time to get to know both me and my partner, and she captured our life together in such a meaningful way. She also customized the ceremony based on our personal preferences, weaving in different traditions that were important to us. It resonated with the people at the wedding who were our closest friends, and also resonated with people we weren't really that close with (family friends, distant cousins, etc). One of our not-so-close guests came up to us afterwards and said that after the ceremony he felt like he really knew us. And several other guests told us that the ceremony was the best they had ever attended.
If that wasn't great enough, I feel like what I appreciated the most was that Maria completely eliminated any stress that we had around the ceremony. She guided us through the entire process, from putting together the ceremony, to running the rehearsal, to making sure everyone knew where they needed to be on our wedding day. Planning a wedding can be stressful - and Maria made this part of it SO easy. I cannot recommend her services highly enough! -
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Alli B. Sent on 06/22/2022A Sweet Start
Do yourself a favor and book Maria ASAP! One of the best, and easiest, decisions we made for our wedding was deciding to have Maria officiate our wedding. She was the first and only officiant we met with, but from the first Zoom meeting she made us feel comfortable and as though we had known her for some time. We has a feeling this would translate to our ceremony and we have never been more right about anything!
Maria kept everything on track and organized throughout the entire process. You know exactly what to expect from her and when to expect it. This is an extremely comforting feeling during a day that has so many moving parts.
During the rehearsal and ceremony, Maria has an intentional and natural way to make you and your guests feel grounded and savor every moment. I cannot tell you how many family members and guests asked us how we found Maria, or how long we had known her. You can imagine their surprise when we had only met in person for the first time the day before! I could go on and on with wonderful words about Maria - but just know that she will make your wedding ceremony everything you want it to be and more! -
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Erin L. Sent on 05/31/2022Best ceremony ever! Thank you maria!
BEST CEREMONY EVER!!! THANK YOU MARIA!!
Maria was a godsend, my now husband and I were not sure what we were going to do for our ceremony until our planner Samara recommended Maria with A Sweet Start. We are so unbelievably lucky she did. From our first call with Maria, we were so at ease and excited about the ceremony which was a point of stress for us coming from two families that expected a religious ceremony. Once it came time to plan she provided us with many great resources and was so understanding when we changed our minds last minute about writing our vows. We are now almost 2 weeks past our big day and we are still receiving comments on how beautiful and so "us" the ceremony was to our guests. I highly recommend Maria with A Sweet Start to any couple getting married! Thanks, a million times over Maria! XOXO - The LaMarche's -
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Zack W. Sent on 10/05/2021
The best choice!
Maria was awesome to work with, she put in time to get to know us to customize our ceremony. She offered great tips and suggestions to us as we asked and she made us feel very comfortable not knowing the answers. Maria was always on time to our meetings and made our wedding day great! She was very detail oriented in our rehearsal and made the entire ceremony so much fun! Maria was a great choice and we would not change a thing about the ceremony she designed for us! -
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Vicky Sent on 09/29/2021Incredible!
If you're trying to decide on a wedding officiant then look no further than Maria. We clicked with her from our first Zoom meeting and are so happy we got to work with her. Wedding planning is daunting to say the least. Because of her, the entire process of creating our perfect ceremony and obtaining our marriage license was a breeze. We appreciate that she took her time to get to know us and our love sorry and the outcome was a ceremony that was so personal and special. In short, she is amazing! -
Erica W. Sent on 08/15/2021
What dreams are made of!
Maria was more than we could ever have dreamed of for our officiant! She was a calming presence throughout the whole planning process and really broke everything down into simple to follow steps for us—making even stressful decisions feel like a breeze! We couldn’t have asked for a better, more personal ceremony. She provided us with copious samples, drafts and really worked to perfect it to exactly what we had envisioned. She took our thoughts/ words and put them together in a way that captured our essence to write the sweetest, most custom ceremony ever. 12/10 would recommend Maria! She even helped us plan our amazing honeymoon! -
