My wife and I recently got married in Alexandria and as many of you are likely experiencing, planning a wedding can be a little stressful with lots of tricky decisions; but let me assure you, choosing Joan is not one of them.


We found Joan through an online search for DMV officiants and on reaching out to her, we were immediately impressed and at ease with her knowledge, demeanor and helpful nature. She met with us a couple of times over video call in the build up to the ceremony to ensure we got exactly what we were after. Understanding our particular needs she tailored a ceremony that was definitely us. She also provided useful information about the marriage process and what to expect in relation to the legal side of it. In addition she was great value for money.


On our wedding day Joan delivered a wonderfully special ceremony. It had a good mixture of humor, poignancy and was praised by our family and friends in attendance. I would absolutely recommend Joan for any would-be couple.

Joan was so amazing to work with, my husband and I could not have been happier with choosing Joan as our officiant. My husband and I come from different religious backgrounds and Joan helped us in choosing the perfect non religious ceremony that felt the most right to us and also helped guide on different ways to have our ceremony. Joan is the absolute sweetest and best to work with!

My husband and I couldn't have been happier with our decision to hire Joan as our officiant. From the beginning she was super responsive and we felt like she took the time to really get to know us. She welcomed our decision to have a short but meaningful ceremony and helped us put something together that really felt right and represented who we are as a couple. On the day of everrything went smoothly and we had such a good expierence with here. We would recommend her to any couple!

My husband and I couldn't have been happier with Joan as our officiant! She was very responsive to what we wanted from our ceremony and made sure it reflected who we are as a couple. We were also so pleased with how she incorporated our chosen readings into the ceremony. I highly recommend booking Joan for your ceremony!

Our Officiant was Joan Strasnick from Entwined Vows, she was very kind and respectful of our wishes for a completely non-denominational wedding. She created a beautiful ceremony and everything went smoothly and we had such a good experience with her. Thank you Joan for officiating our wedding!

Joan was amazing to work with and was willing to make changes for us when we had to downsize and move our ceremony location due to COVID. Joan made the 3 hour trip from where we were originally supposed to get married to our new venue and we couldn't thank her enough for doing that for us. Joan will go above and beyond for her couples and is super helpful in the process of creating your ceremony script! I'm so thankful for Joan and would recommend her to any couple!

Joan is such a wonderful and lovely person! She was very patient and understanding throughout the whole process: from our first consultant with her until the wedding day. Her professionalism and kindness really shined through when we had many hiccups on our wedding day, and really made us feel ready when we stood under the altar to get married by her.
Bonus: our puppy LOVES Joan, and he never likes to be close or asks for petting by anyone other than family! Joan sure has her magic in keeping everyone around her calm and collected, puppy included. :)

My husband and I got married on Nov 7, 2020. We didn't really know much about wedding planning or the ceremony details, Joan made us feel much more at ease with putting everything together. Even though we planned everything virtually, she answered all of our questions, hopped on calls with us, and shared a lot of material with us so that we could get a better idea of what we wanted, the flow of the ceremony, and what worked for us. She also helped us write our vows and made sure the vows captured what we wanted to convey. She coordinated with our wedding planner as well to help us pull the day off, to include printing out our vows on beautiful paper which we'll definitely be keeping as memories of the day, and helping us move things along for the marriage license.

Joan was such a pleasure to work with! After our phone consult she was able to get an idea of who we are as a couple, and built our ceremony script from that. My husband loved the suggestion of having a reading of ‘If I Fall Behind’ by Bruce Springsteen since he’s a big fan, and we never would’ve thought to do so ourselves! The ceremony ran so smoothly, and we couldn’t have asked for anything better.

Joan officiated our legal wedding, and will be our officiant for our actual wedding post-pandemic. She made our 4 minute long legal ceremony feel as important as I would expect our full wedding ceremony to be. We'd recommend Joan, especially for couples looking to make adjustments due to COVID-19!