We won the lottery with Kayla! You will instantly feel the warmth and connection that radiates from her beautiful soul. We would highly recommend doing the premarital counseling. She reaffirms your compatibilities and emphasizes the steps to take to create a happy, lifelong marriage. She got to know us well and was able to personalize the speech to us. The rehearsal was efficient and smooth under her direction. She provided a great template to personalize the ceremony speech with beautiful excerpts and suggestions that made it easy for us to have the most perfect day. We are so honored and happy to have her in our memories when we reflect on our wedding day. She will go above and beyond to make your day special!

Kayla coordinated our wedding ceremony to help make the vision we had a reality. We are so very pleased with how she guided us through the process and we highly recommend her.

If you’re looking for a wedding officiant in the Charlottesville area, we could not recommend Kayla more highly.

From our very first premarital counseling session, Kayla had an incredible ability to get to know us in such a relatively short period of time. Through her thoughtful process, she understood our relationship so well that, after our ceremony, multiple guests asked how long we had known her (or even whether she was family)! That’s how personal and authentic the ceremony felt.

Kayla was so fun and collaborative throughout the planning process. She helped us build a ceremony that blended our faith with personal stories and moments in a way that felt completely true to who we are. She struck the balance perfectly.

Beyond that, Kayla has a great sense of humor and a calming presence. She kept us grounded and reminded us to enjoy the process, even during the stress that comes with wedding planning.

Looking back, we are especially grateful that we chose to do premarital counseling with her. She give us practical marriage / relationship tools, but also wove the themes and lessons from those conversations into our ceremony, making it even more personal and unique.

Thank you again for everything, Kayla!

Kayla was incredible. We found the pre-marriage counseling with her very valuable, and it helped make the whole day more special. During our reception, we had so many people come up to us and say "we loved your officiant, she was really good!" We can't say enough good things about her.

Kayla is wonderful! We had a friend officiate the ceremony and Kayla was there to do the official license, but she still went out of her way to get to know us and our story. She is warm, friendly, and efficient, giving us a stress free experience and getting us to our reception quickly! I would recommend her to anyone! Thanks Kayla!

Kayla Allen was the perfect choice to perform our small elopement ceremony. We met with her to discuss the details of the ceremony and she had so many great ideas about how we could include our children in the ceremony to make them feel special, while keeping it intimate and personalized to my husband and I. On the day of our ceremony she spoke with family members and our children and made them all feel so comfortable and eased their nerves right before we got started. She added in so many little details that were special to us as a couple and we loved all of the special touches! She is flexible and communicative and willing to work with you to provide you with a perfect day!

Kayla was so helpful with writing our ceremony script and coaching our friend who was our honorary officiant! She had materials prepared to help us choose what we did and didn't want in our script while also customizing our ceremony to reflect us as a couple. She was prompt and on top of things both in planning and day-of!

Her professionalism, calming presence, and beautifully written ceremony set the perfect tone for our day. She guided us through the whole process with clarity and care, and the result was a ceremony that felt uniquely “us.” We weren’t local to her area, so we had all of our meetings leading up to the wedding via zoom. She still was able to get to know us and craft a beautiful ceremony. 

I also highly suggest some of her pre-marriage counseling sessions.  We’re so thankful for her role in making our wedding unforgettable.

Picking Kayla as our officiant was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding. As a non-religious couple, we were initially nervous about finding the right officiant—especially someone we didn’t already know. We wanted our ceremony to truly reflect our love, our values, and our commitment to each other, and Kayla did exactly that and more.

From the very first meeting, Kayla radiated such warmth, joy, and genuine care that we instantly felt comfortable. She has this incredible ability to make you feel like you’ve known her for years. Many of our guests were shocked to learn that we hadn’t, because the connection she creates is that natural and heartfelt.

Kayla’s ceremony workbook was such a thoughtful tool that helped us craft a ceremony that felt so authentically “us.” She guided us every step of the way, offering insightful advice both leading up to the big day and on the day itself. On our wedding day, she was not only our officiant but also a calming, supportive presence—checking in, offering a hug, or simply being that friendly face who grounded us in the moment.

She is professional, punctual, organized, and truly knows what she’s doing—but what sets her apart is her heart.

I cannot recommend Kayla enough. If you want a ceremony that feels deeply personal, filled with love, and led by someone who genuinely cares about making your day perfect, Kayla is the one. I would recommend her to absolutely everyone—religious, non-religious, traditional, or modern—because she has a remarkable gift for making every couple’s love story shine!

We had the pleasure of working with Kayla as our wedding officiant, and it was an incredibly smooth experience. From start to finish, she was warm, professional, and exceptionally flexible—exactly what we needed during such a special (and hectic!) time.

We did our premarital counseling-martial counseling with Kayla as well and loved that we got to know her well through our sessions before the wedding day. On the big day she was such a lovely presence—we highly recommend working with her for your big day!