Joanne was very friendly and helpful in conversation, but unfortunately the execution of the actual wedding ceremony and license submittal fell very flat.

In the middle of our ceremony, her iPad randomly rebooted and she did not have a backup hard copy of the ceremony flow, so we had to awkwardly wait for it to come back up before we could continue. A simple hard copy backup or having the ceremony readily available on her phone would have made this a non-issue and taken almost no extra effort.

Additionally, Joanne showed up sick even though when planning with her we specifically made sure she had a backup in case of anything like that. Because of her cold, she paused and coughed a lot throughout the ceremony (which is TOTALLY OK AND UNDERSTANDABLE), but she unprofessionally made light of it every time by giggling at it or trying to laugh it off kindly -- unfortunately in a serious ceremony, this completely reset the mood/tone for us every time due to the giggle/nervous laugh. We were thankful we opted to do vows privately afterward to at least get that serious moment to ourselves and get fully into the emotion.

To top it all off, on our wedding license which she submits as part of her services, Joanne entered the wrong year for our wedding date and we found out a day after the wedding when she sent us a photo copy of it and caught it ourselves. Thankfully she did take the action to contact our county court clerk and sort it out, so it ended up not being a big deal but stressed us out a little at first.

Overall, Joanne was super nice up front and flexible, but execution overall lacked quality and professionalism and killed the ceremony for us and our guests. Of our entire wedding day, the ceremony was the one thing people giving honest feedback brought up negatively. It pains me to leave a bad review, but my new husband and I would have wanted to know if we were in your shoes as an engaged couple browsing for an officiant.

We had a great experience planning our wedding ceremony with Joanne! We met a couple months before the wedding to chat and get to know each other a bit. This was helpful for Joanne to create a story and vows for us. Joanne sent us a draft to review and was completely open to our minor edits.

On the day of the ceremony, Joanne provided us with a beautiful print out of our entire ceremony - complete with our personal vows that each of us sent to her.

Joanne provided a lovely ceremony - exactly the length of time she estimated. Thank you Joanne!

Gus and Jen

We traveled from Wisconsin to Florida for our wedding. We were a little nervous hiring someone online but Joanne made everything completely easy for us ! She did a wonderful job and we are so thankful for her.