We first found Simone when we were searching for an officiant for our destination wedding. We wanted something that would be customized and personal to us, not just a cookie cutter script. We had an initial phone call with her, where we asked her some questions and she asked us some questions, including our love story that brought us to our wedding. After the initial phone call, Simone wrote a draft of our ceremony and sent it to us to look over, and she nailed it! She picked up on core moments in our love story that were meaningful to us and integrated them into our ceremony. As I was looking into services she offered, I discovered that she also offered premarital counseling. This was something that was very important to me to have before marriage. I inquired and Simone gave an overview of the areas she covers during premarital counseling. She also offers this great service at a reasonable rate. We started counseling with Simone and went through a couple of the topics she covers in her program, but even more importantly, she was very open to helping us on current topics we wanted guidance on. We started our search in hopes of finding an officiant who would be open to customizing a ceremony that was personal to us and through the course of our counseling, we developed a friendship with Simone. The ceremony was absolutely perfect and we definitely felt like we were there with a friend!

Rev. Simone Shepard was awesome! We were able to FaceTime for our meetings with her which made it super convenient for our busy schedules (and being a couple+ hrs away from her). She was available for our Thursday evening wedding which was also a plus. She wrote a beautiful ceremony for us and went into great detail getting to know us in order to make sure it fit us perfectly. She was always professional and very responsive to the many emails we exchanged. She arrived the day of the wedding and immediately started coordinating with other vendors to make sure everyone was on the same page. We are so thankful we came across her and couldn't have been happier with how our ceremony went!

I can't say enough about Simone Shepard , she is the BEST ever ! My husband & I are so blessed to have met her , and share our special day with such a beautiful person. Our wedding day was wonderful not only because of our Love , but because of the true compassionate person Simone was that day and the entire time working with her. We both feel very lucky to had had her apart of our special day and friendship . We Love you Simone ! Shane & Lori Spencer

Simone was a truly wonderful minister and she made our wedding ceremony perfect! She was so kind and caring, and adapted our ceremony to suit us perfectly. She communicated with us very clearly and efficiently, and answered any question we had along the way. She also coordinated our wedding rehearsal, and the ceremony the day of. My husband and I are so very proud to have had her marry us, and I would recommend her to any loving couple looking for a terrific minister!

Simone was great! I planned my wedding from out of state, so we did everything through Skype. She wrote a beautiful sermon for us after talking with us and truly made it personal. I never felt like she was trying to plug our details into a template. She helped us include everyone in our wedding and even made a few suggestions based off of what she had seen work well in the past. She showed up looking professional and her garments matched well with the wedding party. She travelled from out of town to be there the night before and attend our wedding rehearsal. She showed up to the rehearsal and helped to get everyone into place and organized the rehearsal for us. She was even thoughtful enough to move to the side so our photographer could get a first kiss photo of just my husband and I! I couldn't have been more pleased with our selection in Simone and I got many compliments on how well the ceremony went.

Simone was better than any officiant we could have imagined! We planned our wedding long distance from Arizona and went with our gut feeling to choose Simone rather than other options we saw on Wedding Wire. She video chatted us at least 4 times before the wedding to really get to know us and be able to describe our relationship so accurately at our wedding. After the first call, my husband and I discussed how much we adored Simone and how it was almost weird that she felt like family to us right away. My husband and I don't attend a church regularly and both come from different religious backgrounds. Simone took this information and found a way to make everyone's faith welcome at our ceremony. Choosing Simone was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding!

I found Rev. Simone on wedding wire and arranged a meeting with her shortly after. Within the first ten minutes, we knew we'd found the perfect person to marry us. Not only is Rev. Simone a funny & sincere person, but she really wants to get to know you and how she can create a ceremony that is perfect for that specific couple. I admit, I was unsure what I wanted in our ceremony, but after meeting with Rev. Simone we were so excited! She nailed it!

Reverend Simone did an amazing job on our ceremony. We met and had about 5 skype sessions throughout the year as we were planning our wedding. Rev. Simone was very accommodating and responsive via email. We had some special requests for our ceremony, we wanted to use some audio from my husband's grandfather in the ceremony ( he was a baptist minister). We sent Reverend Simone hours of audio and she listened to all of it to determine the best clip. She wrote such a beautiful address for us. We trusted her so much that we did not even want to hear the address before the wedding. The entire ceremony was so moving and I have had so many people tell me that it was the best wedding ceremony they had ever been to. Reverend Simone was so kind, sweet, and caring. We honestly could not have asked for a better person to marry us. She was wonderful!

Rev. Simone was so wonderful. She took the time to get to know us, and our ceremony felt like a good friend who had known us for years. I do not have a single bad thing to say about Simone and would recommend her to anyone!

Simone is absolutely phenomenal! She is an amazing, down to earth person to work with. She is very open to any suggestions and changes, as well as open to many different religions and views. My husband and I were very happy to find her and work with her for our ceremony. The ceremony was heartfelt and not stuffy as we liked. We can not speak highly enough about her, and we were amazed with her work!!!! We will recommend anyone we know for her services.