About
I love weddings, and I love giving my couples a wedding experience they will treasure for the rest of their lives. Your wedding should be as wonderful and unique as you are. It should celebrate your love with cherished family and friends, and fill you with happy memories when you think back on how you began your journey together as one. Each of you bring something special to your union, and as your paths unite and you take those first steps as a married couple, the ceremony you just had should fill you with joy. The ceremonies I write celebrate love, marriage, partnership, and connection.
I am currently licensed to perform marriage ceremonies in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and Maryland. I am also very happy to marry any loving couple who wants to tie the knot.
You've probably been to at least one wedding where the minister was mumbling, boring, and/or utterly milquetoast. That's not me. I'm engaging and energetic, light-hearted and elegant, and my voice is somehow both powerful and soothing at the same time. Decades of singing opera, narrating audiobooks, and being a public orator has given me the perfect combination of presence and voice to deliver an unforgettable wedding ceremony. I would love to share those gifts with you on your wedding day.
I have team members available to officiate your wedding who are fluent in Spanish, and thanks to thirty years of singing opera I can properly pronounce ceremonies in Italian, French, or German. I have even performed portions of wedding ceremonies in Czech and Russian.
If you want a charismatic, outgoing, engaging minister to perform your ceremony or elopement, I would love to have the honor of giving you a ceremony you'll treasure forever!
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Melanie and Mike
There were plenty of things to stress out about over rainy weather for our garden wedding, but Michael was not one of them. He was amazing. From the beginning, Michael was kind, responsive, and communicative. He was clearly very experienced with weddings because he also offered some excellent advice about planning as well. He sent over the initial draft and it was perfect on the first try. We didn't change a thing! He incorporated our cultural traditions seamlessly and even put a few LOTR references at our request. Due to scheduling issues, we didn't do a rehearsal, but Michael didn't need one! During our actual ceremony, he was insightful, funny, and eloquent. We had so many people coming up to us saying how beautiful our ceremony was. Thank you Michael for make it easy for us! We would recommend Michael to anyone looking for an officiant!
Katey and Derek
My ceremony was my favorite part of my entire wedding day and it is all thanks to Michael Chadwick! I wish that I had a reason to use him again because he was so charismatic, caring, and fun to talk to and he is great at what he does. I will ABSOLUTELY be recommending him to anyone I can. My ceremony in my husband and my eyes could not have been anymore perfect. When he emailed us the ceremony script he wrote we didn’t change a thing, he nailed it the first time around. We sent him bullet points of tv shows we liked, movies we liked, details about our relationship and I was amazed at how beautifully he incorporated everything. He really got to know us as a couple and our ceremony was a perfect representation of us and our love. Thank you Michael for making our wedding day so special and truly a day I will never forget. 10/10 would recommend!!!
Cheyenne and Logan
He is an amazing help to the process of everything! Has so much knowledge and even helped incorporate some favorite movie lines into the wedding!! Could not have asked for better results.