Winner Weddings by Roya

Roya was an amazing officiant. We worked together on the script and I was very involved in the edits, so it felt very much tailored to our story and very "us". She's great at balancing to make sure that different cultures are recognized, not just persian. We had sound issues during the ceremony but she dealt with it like a true professional and it felt seamless. We highly recommend Roya!

The most incredible Sofreh Aghd officiant — truly the highlight of our wedding! ❤️

I genuinely cannot put into words how grateful we are to have had Roya Soleimani officiate our Sofreh Aghd ceremony. She was, without a doubt, one of the biggest reasons our wedding day was so magical, meaningful, and unforgettable. If you are considering Roya for your wedding, I cannot recommend her enough. She is truly one of a kind!

Our Sofreh Aghd was my absolute favorite part of our wedding day, and it exceeded every expectation I had. Roya somehow managed to make the ceremony deeply emotional, incredibly beautiful, personal, and SO much fun all at once. As a Persian bride marrying into a non-Persian family, it was especially important to me that both of our families felt connected to the ceremony. Roya showcased our Persian culture in the most beautiful and accessible way, seamlessly blending tradition, humor, storytelling, and heartfelt moments. My husband’s family could not stop raving about how much they loved it!

What makes Roya so extraordinary is how deeply she cares about the couples and families she works with. She took the time to really get to know us, our story, and our family dynamics, incorporating personal touches that made the ceremony uniquely ours. I’ll never forget the look on my parents’ faces when I said “Baleh,” or watching my dad tear up as Roya thoughtfully incorporated references to our loved ones. These are moments I will cherish for the rest of my life.

And her impact went so far beyond the Sofreh ceremony itself. Behind the scenes, Roya helped my husband surprise me by speaking Farsi during our first wedding ceremony. It completely took my breath away and remains one of the most special moments of my life. She also supported me throughout the wedding planning process, helping me navigate family dynamics, emotions, and the meaningful transition into marriage. Her warmth, wisdom, and genuine investment in our happiness made her so much more than an officiant.

Roya has an incredible gift for bringing people together and making everyone feel included, regardless of cultural background. She helped us begin our marriage with such a beautiful celebration of both our families and cultures, and we couldn’t have imagined a more meaningful foundation for our future together.

We also had the pleasure of getting to know her wonderful husband, Andy, and truly feel like we’ve gained family through this experience.

If you are looking for someone who will make your Sofreh Aghd unforgettable, look no further. Roya brings so much heart, authenticity, joy, and love to everything she does. She doesn’t just officiate a ceremony — she creates an experience that you and your guests will remember forever.

We loved working with Roya as our officiant - she did an amazing job on our intercultural ceremony and wove so much meaning into the script from both her own research and our own stories. We especially loved that she took the time to get our answers from a questionnaire to really customize her script and make it feel personal to us. Roya is warm, kind, and extremely professional - we highly recommend working with her!

We’re so happy we chose Roya to be our wedding officiant! She did such a beautiful job creating a personal script for us that really felt like “us.” She made the ceremony so special, while also keeping our guests entertained and engaged.

She also made the whole vow process so easy and stress-free for us, which we really appreciated. She was warm, professional, and made us feel completely comfortable throughout the ceremony. We couldn’t have asked for a better officiant and would definitely recommend her to anyone getting married! ❤️

Roya is intelligent, sophisticate, knowledgeable and articulate. She made our ceremony a very special and memorable one. She had excellent communication skills, connected with the audience, enhanced and explained the experience of a Persian Ceremony in the best I have ever witnessed.
She diligently communicated with us, took the time to understand our history and wishes and executed them beautifully.
Our guests have raved about you!
We appreciate your attention to all the details and can’t thank you enough!

Roya was an absolute joy to work with, from start to finish. She did an amazing job officiating our Persian and Chinese-American wedding. (FYI Groom is Iranian, Bride is Chinese, both born and raised in Bay Area.) Roya ensured to get to know us as people with a few calls and a beautifully simple questionnaire so she could draft a script that felt unique to us and shared our love story.

Our favorite part about working with Roya is that she let us pick and choose which parts of the traditional Persian and Western ceremony we wanted to keep and which ones we felt like we could leave behind. I also love that she gave us a chance to directly leave feedback on the script so we could tailor it for length, accuracy, and ensure pronunciations of names were spelled out correct.

Another bonus was that she is bilingual and for some of our guests who do not know as much English she made sure to balance what she was translating to Farsi and what she would say in English.

But perhaps a critical skill she possessed that we didn’t know of till we were literally in the ceremony is her ability to smooth over any hiccups without anyone knowing or making it awkward. My husband, the groom said “I do” a bit too early and she made it into such a heartwarming moment, which ended up being my favorite part of the whole weekend.

We would recommend Roya to anyone who wants to get married, period. It doesn’t matter if you are planning a Persian wedding. She is a beautiful speaker and there was no one better to be part of our special day.

P.S. Have her run your rehearsal, it’s worth it!!! We would’ve been a mess without it!

Roya was an absolutely PHENOMENAL officiant!!!! Immediately after the ceremony and for the days following, many guests RAVED about how warm she was, and how personal she made our ceremony. She took the time to meet with my husband and I via zoom a few times before the wedding, to ask us questions about ourselves and our story, and what our vision for the day was. She taught us about the Persian sofreh aghd customs, and how we could adjust it to make it more personal for our lives and relationship. She gave my husband and I questionaires to fill out about each other, and they were thought-provoking questions that were so helpful when we got to writing our vows. She included personal details and stories in her script, which she emailed to us almost a month before the wedding for approval. I cried the day I read the draft, and again when I listed back to videos of our actual ceremony. She made our guests laugh, cry, and learn so much more about us and our relationship, whether they were meeting us for the first time or knew us for years.

Roya is an expert at what she does, a masterful speaker, and is the #1 person I would recommend over and over as a wedding officiant. We are persian-american, and the ceremony was the perfect amount of farsi and english for all our guests to understand. We're based in Socal and flew her down, and I would recommend her to anyone no matter the distance. THANK YOU for everything Roya joon, we had the most wonderful time working with you!

I knew I wanted an officiant who spoke both Farsi and English fluently and who understood Persian wedding traditions. Roya exceeded all of my expectations. Not only is she an absolute joy to speak with, she treated our wedding with so much love and reverence and made us feel truly so special. Her speech was beautiful, moving, and captured us perfectly. She clearly knew the traditions and their origins, but also listened to us and helped us make our own perfect ceremony. We felt very heard by her and that she valued creating a beautiful experience for us. Her communication was always timely and extremely respectful. She arrived without any problems, looked spectacular, and was a favorite among any guests who had the opportunity to speak with her. During the ceremony, she spoke with so much grace and love and made our beautiful traditions come to life. She was one of our favorite people who we had a chance to work with throughout our whole wedding and I would recommend her a thousand times over.

Roya is charisma, warmth, and gentleness - personified. We had a 400+ person wedding where she was the orchestrator and emcee of our Persian "sofreh aghd". She spent months preparing for the moment - working with my fiancee and I to diligently and systematically gather details of our love story and architect the perfect marriage ceremony. Her delivery was perfect and her presence and her presence was palpable.

What she could not have prepared for, was for the audio system to stop working halfway through the ceremony. She did not miss a beat. Roya stepped into the middle of the aisle surrounded by 400 people and continued beautifully without a microphone and speakers


She truly cares and was born for this work. We would not have it any other way and recommend her wholeheartedly.

While planning our wedding, we initially thought we’d simply go with the officiant offered through our venue. But because my husband is Persian and I’m American, we realized shortly before the wedding that we wanted someone experienced in both Persian and Western ceremonies who could thoughtfully blend the two traditions together.

Despite the very short timeline, Roya made time to meet with us right away and created a ceremony that felt deeply personal, meaningful, and completely “us.” She was kind, attentive, and incredibly thoughtful throughout the entire process, giving us the flexibility to customize every detail while also guiding us with her expertise.

Roya beautifully incorporated the Persian traditions that were important to us while still creating a ceremony that resonated with all of our guests, Persian and non-Persian alike. So many people told us afterward how special, emotional, and unique the ceremony felt.

We still keep thinking back to our ceremony and genuinely feel it was a dream come true. We couldn’t recommend Roya more highly.