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The Central Coast's Premier Officiant, Paul draws from nearly 1,000 weddings and conversations with marrying couples as well as decades of study and insight into relational dynamics.
In crafting these wedding ceremonies, Paul has developed a profound skill to uncover the core of your love, what unites you and forms your bond. He listens closely to how you describe each other and your relationship and he seamlessly integrates the foundation of your love into your wedding ceremony.
For your best guest experience, Paul is a seasoned Master of Ceremonies and Public Speaker, skillfully including every critical detail of a wedding ceremony, especially the important parts that are missed by those less experienced.
And with inspiration from a rich history of past weddings he's conducted, Paul offers you a wealth of unique options and fresh spins on any wedding tradition.
The Focus is you and your love:
Paul creates your entire ceremony in the context of your relationship, love and what's behind your marriage.
Vows:
Paul arranges a variety of personalized choices and versions of how you can say "I do" to one another.
Love Letters:
If you are considering writing your own vows (Love Letters), Paul will provide you with detailed guidance to help you best express your deepest sentiments.
Special Ceremonies and Traditions:
Paul can incorporate or reframe traditions so that they are even more meaningful to you or present new ideas you've never seen before.
Readings:
Paul can provide you with a unique selection of marriage and love related readings and will suggest creative ways to blend them into your ceremony.
The Marriage License
Paul will give you precise, easy instructions on how to obtain your license anywhere in California. He carefully supervises the witness requirements and process your license with the appropriate County Clerk/Recorder office.
Rehearsal coordination
If you need a rehearsal, Paul is very skilled at organizing and directing everyone so that your ceremony unfolds smoothly and I work with all planners.
Vendor partners
Paul has worked with countless other wedding services professionals and is happy to give you any referrals.
Contact Paul right now, as his calendar books up early!
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Review summary
Reviewers highly praise the officiant for being responsive, professional, and deeply personal, taking time to learn each couple’s story and craft heartfelt, meaningful ceremonies. He guided vows, handled marriage-license filings, and brought a calming presence on the day. Many recommend booking him, even on short notice.
An Amazing Wedding Officiant
Paul was an amazing officiant. He worked with us for months before the wedding date getting to know us as individuals and as a couple to perfect our vows and when the bid day came, Paul made those vows even more meaningful than we could have expected. Paul was simply incredible and made the ceremony that much better by speaking from his heart as to who we both are as individuals and who we are as a couple, and now a married couple. Paul is the absolute best choice for a wedding officiant.
Thank you, Paul, for making our special day that much more remarkable and memorable as a result of your ability to get to know both the people and the couple for whom you serve as the wedding officiant.
Additionally, Paul ensured that the marriage license was completed and mailed timely to memorialize our new life as husband and wife.
Paul was fantastic!
Paul put together such a perfect ceremony for us. It really reflected who were are and what our relationship is all about.
If Paul is available for your wedding date - BOOK HIM!
What we liked best about Paul was that he wanted to meet us in person before the wedding for an interview that would help him create the perfect ceremony for us. This gave us the chance to get to know him very well and for him to see us physically and emotionally connected to each other as we talked about our love for each other. He made observations about us that we weren’t aware of and was able to create such a beautiful ceremony from that amazing interview. And he is so systematic, where before we met, he provided homework - reflection time in which he wanted us to go back in time in our relationship and really uncover what we loved and were thankful for. It also helped us with our vows and love letters to each other that made everyone cry during the ceremony.
He even suggested and sent readings over that he felt spoke to our relationship and we found that so thoughtful! Not to mention he really knew his stuff when he walked us through the marriage license process which was a lot more confusing than we anticipated!
Paul was also just so helpful during the entire process and was completely dedicated to making changes and helping us have the best ceremony of our lives. We can’t thank him enough. If Paul is available for your wedding date - BOOK HIM! You will not regret it! I don’t think any other officiant is able to pull off even half the magic that he did!
Paul is the best officiant!
Day of the wedding Paul's calming presence and experience with weddings really shone. Any hiccups before or the ceremony didn't concern him at all which brought a very calming presence to us and our guests. His ceremony was fantastic and his reading of the Elements of Love was very thoughtful and suited us well from his recommendation.
I would highly recommend Paul Howell as your officiant he will make sure to make your day feel as special as it deserves to be!
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I finally had the pleasure of working with Paul on a recent wedding and was so impressed. We have very similar philosophies about how a wedding day should go. Smooth, easy, not rushed. He took a page right out of my book, reminding the couple to breathe and take it all in. His calm, cool demeanor was appreciated. Paul just has an amazing energy about him. I would definitely recommend him to future clients, and hope to work with him again very soon! Update 9/10/18: I had the pleasure of working with Paul again this past weekend and it was absolutely flawless. He has such an ease about him, which is not only appreciated by me and my staff, but the couple and their guests, as well. I had several guests approach me and tell me what a great job he did. He just simply knocks it out of the park every time. :)
I have had the pleasure of working with Paul many different times and it is always a great experience. He is one of the nicest people that I have met and is extremely professional. He is always at the rehearsal the day before the wedding to make sure that everything goes flawless for the big day. You can tell that he is extremely passionate about what he does and you can assure that your ceremony will go smoothly and be full of passion and love with Paul leading the way. I would highly recommend him for anyone that is searching for an officiant, you will not be disappointed!
Paul was GREAT to work with! He was friendly, professional and has a great sense of humor. We loved working with him and highly recommend him.