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What better reason do we have to celebrate than LOVE?
You know you want to spend the rest of your lives together, and you want your friends and family to celebrate with you. You also know you would like a wedding experience that reflects you and your partner, that honors your guests, and that EVERYONE will remember.

You are unique and genuine, & so is your Love for each other. We will meet (in person or via skype) multiple times so that I can get a better understanding of you as a couple, of what is important in your relationship, and what you want in a wedding ceremony.

You want an avant garde ceremony, but your family is more, um, traditional. This is the fun of helping to create your own ceremony. You have the option of honoring or reframing family, cultural, spiritual, and religious traditions, while creating new ones of your own. We will talk about how to strike that delicate balance and still keep Grandma happy.

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  • Woman-owned
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Frequently asked questions

Which of the following are included in the price of your wedding officiant services?

Ceremony Rehearsal
Premarital Counseling

Does starting price include the ceremony rehearsal?

No

What is the starting price for ceremony rehearsals?

$75

What is the starting price for pre-marital counseling (per session)?

$75

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

Non-religious
Interfaith
Ceremony Rehearsal
Vow Renewal
Civil Union

What services do you provide?

Premarital Counseling

What religious affiliations do you serve?

Agnostic
Anglican
Baha'i Faith
Baptist
Buddhist
Catholic
Earth-Based
Episcopalian
Evangelical
Hindu
Islam
Jainism
Jewish
Lutheran
Methodist
Mormon
No Denomination
Orthodox Christian
Pagan
Presbyterian
Quaker
Shinto
Sikhism
Taoist
Unitarian

On average, how long are wedding ceremonies you officiate?

Less than 30 mins.

In which states are you licensed?

NY

Reviews of Great Gorgeous Celebrations

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Quinn Sent on 03/17/2026
5 out of 5 rating

10 out of 10, highly recommend

Perfect. Amazing. There isn’t anyone who could’ve spoke about us the way Angelina was able to. Our ceremony was very private and very intimate & she was the beyond accommodating. I can’t wait to renew so that she can come back and officiate that as well
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Niki Sent on 12/05/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Pure Magic

If you want your celebration to be as special and unique as your love, Angelina is the woman for you.

Angelina sat down with us a couple of times and talked with us about everything from our core values around the concept marriage to what life looks like in the day-to-day. She wove all of those stories together and created a ceremony that was just perfect for us.

Additionally, we had weather and last-minute changes, and Angelina was able to adjust and conduct the ceremony without missing a beat.

Finally, she is just an extraordinary, delightful, and magical person that you'll be glad to spend time with. I can't recommend her enough.
Judy
Judy Sent on 10/07/2022
5 out of 5 rating

The best…ever

When my previous marriage dissolved, some part of the blame must be placed on the lackluster, formulaically religious wedding ceremony we had. Think about it: two non-Catholics in clothes any thousand other people could have been wearing, in a 1000-person-town’s Catholic Church where they never had and never would attend services. Eight guests, including parents and witnesses. I was not wife enough to get us past all that. I take the blame.

In the intervening years, I was awakened spiritually and was lead as if by magic to my life-mate. Oh happy day! We wanted to consummate and signify and celebrate our union. I knew, we knew, that we would need professional help to do it right this time! And one of our friends said, you need to talk to Angelina!

Angelina!!!! Without her, could we have schmoozed our way into a naked, innocent, authentic, burning man wedding with 100 friends on a hilltop by a pond, with our poetry and hula hoops, dancing under the warm sun? No! That was all Angelina! She looked deep into our souls and pulled out our truth, and then armed with our truth, she said, we would be married, and she would bless us. And now we live in bliss. I even sometimes style myself the Apostle of Marriage, but really I should pull my hubris down. That’s Angelina, all the way.

I am a married woman in love, though, whose every day is part of a never-ending honeymoon. Thank you, Angelina.
Hannah
Hannah Sent on 09/26/2022
5 out of 5 rating

If I would give her more stars, I would!

I don't have a single regret from hiring Great Gorgeous Celebrations, Angelina was a fantastic celebrant/officiant! She tailored the ceremony specifically towards my husband and I, our ceremony was unique, heart felt, fun, and fantastic! I'm SO glad we hired her, she helped make our special day uniquely special and memorable.
Kristen
Kristen Sent on 09/25/2022
5 out of 5 rating

I'm so glad we had her as our officiant for our day and highly recommend her.

Angelina was wonderful. She spent time a head of the ceremony to get to know us and help us plan our ceremony in a way that fit our needs and felt genuine to us as a couple. She had us laughing and crying.
Drew
Drew Sent on 05/17/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Wonderful!

Angelina made our day perfect! Our vows were tailored to us and our lives as not just a couple but a family. She incorporated our daughter in the vows and that made it even better. Would highly recommend her to make your special day unique.
Drew
Drew Sent on 05/17/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Wonderful!

Everything was perfect, our vows were ours. Tailored to us and our lives together. She incorporated our daughter too, such an important thing for us. She made our day perfect!
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Melody Sent on 05/17/2021
5 out of 5 rating

Nothing short of AMAZING!

We LOVE Angelina and would hire her again in a heartbeat! She makes everything personalized specifically to you and your partner. She treats you like the royalty you are on your day! All of our guests also have nothing but great things to say about her. She left our wedding with some new future customers 💕
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Julia Sent on 10/16/2018
5 out of 5 rating

Beyond our already ridiculously high expectations

We cannot recommend Angelina as a wedding celebrant highly enough. We knew both before and after our ceremony that there was no one we would rather have marry us than her. While friends expressed surprise that, not only were we not writing our own vows but letting our celebrant create our entire ceremony, we always had full trust in her to make the day just what we wanted—even when we weren’t sure exactly what that was. Even with that, she exceeded our expectations, creating for us a gorgeous ceremony and set of vows that were joyful, personal, moving, funny, and truer to us and our relationship than we imagined possible for someone not actually in the relationship with us. Along the way, she spent the time to help our completely lost selves to understand and approach the practical considerations of putting together a ceremony and surrounding family gathering. Most importantly, she did so with a confidence, patience, and reassuring nature that helped us to just focus on the joy we were feeling. We will forever be grateful!
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Jason Sent on 06/29/2018
5 out of 5 rating
Angelina was awesome. She was very helpful in getting our ceremony just the way we wanted, and wrote a perfect ceremony for us. After just a few meetings, she was able to figure out who my wife and I are as individuals and as a couple, which all showed through beautifully in the ceremony.
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