Intertwined Moments
Wedding officiant · Funeral celebrant
Personal, inclusive ceremonies created around your people, your story, and what you genuinely believe. No copy-and-paste scripts. No pressure to perform someone else's traditions.
Serving El Dorado County, Placer County, and the Greater Sacramento Valley
Ceremony should feel like you
Some moments call for joyful promises. Others call for tenderness, remembrance, and the courage to say goodbye. Intertwined Moments creates ceremonies that make room for the full truth of the moment, with warmth, respect, and language that sounds like an actual human being wrote it.
Ceremonies and services
Every ceremony can be secular, spiritual, religious, interfaith, culturally informed, traditional, unconventional, or thoughtfully blended.
Personalized ceremonies ranging from intimate and simple to fully written celebrations that weave together your story, values, traditions, and chosen readings or rituals.
A chance to honor what you have built, name what you have survived, and choose one another again. Sweet, funny, deeply personal, or all three.
Funeral, graveside, memorial, and celebration-of-life ceremonies written with care, accuracy, and space for the complicated truth of a whole life.
Short, sincere ceremonies for couples who want the legal essentials handled properly without turning the moment into a production.
Important: Couples obtain and pay for their own public or confidential marriage license before the ceremony. Intertwined Moments performs the ceremony, completes the officiant portion, and returns the completed license to the issuing county for filing.
Inclusive by practice, not just by slogan
You will never be asked to squeeze your relationship, your family, or your grief into a generic script. Intertwined Moments welcomes LGBTQIA+ couples, blended families, people of many faiths, people between faiths, and people who want no religion involved at all.
If a ceremony includes a tradition I can respectfully and appropriately practice, I will do the work to understand its history, meaning, and correct use. When a tradition should be led by a member of a specific community or clergy, I will say so honestly and help make room for the right person.
What working together looks like
Tell me what you are planning, who is involved, and what matters most.
Through conversation and thoughtful questions, I build a ceremony that sounds and feels like you.
You review the plan or script where appropriate, and we make sure the details are right.
I arrive prepared, guide the ceremony, and handle the responsibilities we agreed upon.
Investment
Your final quote reflects the writing, planning, travel, coordination, rehearsal needs, and ceremony complexity involved.
Just the Essentials
$175 starting at
A short legal ceremony with light personalization, officiating, completion of the officiant portion, and return of the completed license to the issuing county for filing.
Ask about your dateMost popular
Meaningfully Yours
$375 starting at
A personalized wedding, elopement, confidential ceremony, or vow renewal with consultation, original ceremony writing, and revisions.
Plan your ceremonyA Life Remembered
$350 starting at
A funeral, memorial, graveside service, or celebration of life created through family consultation and thoughtful tribute writing.
Begin gentlyCommon additions: rehearsal attendance from $125 · additional travel outside the standard service area quoted in advance · expedited custom writing from $100.
Couples obtain their own marriage license. License fees and certified-copy fees are paid separately to the issuing county and are not included in ceremony pricing.
“The ceremony is not filler between the entrance and the photographs. It is the reason everyone gathered.”
Meet your officiant and celebrant
I believe people deserve ceremonies grounded in who they actually are, not who tradition assumes they should be. My role is part writer, part steady guide, and part keeper of the details when emotions are high and everyone else has twelve things happening at once.
Whether you are promising a life together or gathering to honor a life that has ended, I will meet the moment with preparation, candor, compassion, and respect.
Tell me what you're planning →Questions, answered
Absolutely. Your relationship will be treated with the same care, dignity, and joy as every relationship should be. Inclusive service is not an add-on.
Yes. Ceremonies may be religious, spiritual, secular, interfaith, or blended. We will discuss what each element means to you and whether I am the appropriate person to perform it.
In California, a confidential marriage license is not available for public inspection and generally does not require a witness. You obtain and pay for the license directly through the county and meet its eligibility requirements. I perform the ceremony, complete the officiant portion, and return the completed license to the issuing county for filing. I do not issue marriage licenses.
Yes. Standard service covers El Dorado County, Placer County, and the Greater Sacramento Valley. Longer-distance travel may be available with a quote agreed upon in advance.
Availability depends on the date and the amount of customization. Simple legal ceremonies can often be arranged faster. Fully custom writing benefits from more time, but expedited service may be available.
Let's create something honest
You do not need to have every detail figured out. Start with the date, the location if you know it, and what kind of ceremony you need.