Weddings of New York
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New York Wedding Officiants. Simple, meaningful civil marriage ceremonies in traditional, modern or multicultural styles. Your wedding, your way, at locations of your choice. |
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Thinking about getting married in New York? Congratulations!
The friendly marriage
officiants at Weddings of New York provide customized legal civil wedding ceremonies
for elopements, private wedding ceremonies, family weddings or traditional weddings,
anywhere in New York City
 (A little press: We had a nice notice in
the New York Times about the growing trend in elopements: Like Romeo and
Juliet - with a Happier Ever After.
Here is another NYTimes story on
an interesting weddings. At left is a British photoshoot of a super wedding at Rockefeller Center.
You can read about it on our wedding blog, ElopeNewYork.
We were also currently profiled in the VOANews, and
in the New York Daily News.
We've been interviewed this year by Japanese Television and Canal+ from Paris. And we're marrying the couples
in the Martha Stewart Pop-Up Wedding Chapel
in Brooklyn in June! ABC covered the wedding in a live broadcast. Fun!)
Mary Beaty and Beth Lamont, are Civil Marriage Officiants, licensed by theCityclerknyc.com, Bureau of Marriages, to perform weddings in New York City and the State of New York. We specialize in romantic elopements, informal ceremonies, and family weddings. Our civil wedding services are legally equivalent to a Justice of the Peace or Judge, with the opportunity to design your ceremony to suit your own personal style, traditions and wishes. We have married hundreds of couples looking for a simple, unique, civil ceremony that is more personalized than a City Hall wedding. We will perform the ceremony at a location of your choice, including your home or hotel, a park, restaurant, loft or event space, or at the site of your reception. We also marry couples in unusual venues such as the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall Park, the top of Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station, Central Park, or even Times Square. What kind of Marriage Ceremonies do you offer? We provide traditional or modern civil marriage ceremonies, both formal and informal. Our goal is meaningful simplicity. The most important principle is to design a wedding which is meaningful and memorable to the wedding couple, and follows their wishes.
 We provide sample ceremonies for you to choose, and help adapt ceremonies to your needs. Our services range from a 'bare bones' elopement ceremony, to modern versions of marriage vows and blessings. Your wedding ceremony might be very traditional, including rings, music, readings, candle-lighting, or may be more informal and modern, or even completely original. We listen to your wishes, including family traditions, and can make suggestions to include families, guests and children in the ceremony. We offer contemporary and even historical marriage services, including a Medieval wedding ceremony. You may write your own vows. You may also request additional ceremonies such as a Celtic Handfasting or other cultural wedding traditions such as a wine blessing, sand ceremony, fire ceremony, seven steps, seven blessings, etc.We have included some sample marriage ceremonies and readings as examples planned by other couples, and will be pleased to send you other examples to suit your needs.
Cultural Traditions  Though our ceremonies are generally civil, not religious, we are respectful of cultural traditions. We often marry international couples and those from diverse backgrounds, and will design ceremonies incorporating cultural and symbolic references as requested. We have included Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Spanish, German, Italian, Irish, Scottish, Celtic, Native American, East Indian, Lebanese, Pakistani, Iranian, Turkish, Albanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Danish, Dutch, French, Swiss, Swedish and many other cultural & linguistic elements, as well references to Quaker, Jewish, Catholic, Islamic, Mormon, Protestant, Unitarian, Neo-Pagan, Humanist, Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu, Vedic, and other traditions. We correspond with couples to discuss your ideas, wishes and plans, and then design a personal ceremony that meets your needs.
You can find more information about how to plan a New York wedding and other wedding hints on our wedding blogs: ElopeNewYork, wedding2point0, agreenbride, and ethicalceremonies Clergy Certification We are certified as clergy by the Humanist Society the national Ethical Society founded in 1939 by Progressive Quakers, and the American Humanist Association (AHA), the oldest and largest Humanist Association in the U.S. Mary and Beth are also the official representatives of the AHA at the United Nations, where we support Human Rights, Civil Rights, Ethical and Environmental issues, and we are members of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. Mary is also licensed in Canada by All Seasons Church to provide traditional marriages and legal same sex weddings. (Note: You do not need to be a Humanist to be married by our services. We provide simple civil weddings for all couples. If you are interested, you may read more here about the history of Humanism as a philosophy). |
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