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Your wedding ceremony and celebrating your love can be the BEST part of your day! Your guests will be talking about it for days...in a good way! Officiant Heidi from Love Story Vows creates Personal and Unforgettable Ceremonies for All! Heidi can help you do that! She'll help you create a romantic, fun, and meaningful ceremony and will write your personal Love Story.

Heidi will feel like your “cool” aunt, who will answer every wedding question, help keep you calm and be there to make sure your wedding ceremony is awesome, easy, and the starting point of your celebration! She creates customized, fun (not cheesy) and personal ceremonies for couples all over Southern California, including San Diego, Laguna, Big Bear Lake, Oceanside, Julian, Coronado, Oak Glen, Corona, Lake Arrowhead, Temecula, Palm Springs, and Idyllwild. She also goes to destination locations like Santa Barbara, Big Sur, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Tahoe, and Sequoia.

Services Offered
Her ceremonies are always inclusive and LGBTQIA+ friendly! Your ceremony can be as unique as the two of you. She will do wedding ceremonies with no mention of god or a little "shout out" to God for Grandma, Heidi also does vow renewals, and elopements. She officiates spiritual, non-religious, non-denominational, Pagan, Agnostic, Buddhist, Earth-based, and Unitarian events. She's "married" over 1100 people since 2016! Whether you want fun, simple, elegant, spiritual, intimate, or even a stunning outdoor adventure ceremony, it's created for the two of you! She's a professional, ordained non-denominational officiant through the Universal Life Church and The Church of Spiritual Humanism.

Experience
As a former wedding planner, she will make this journey simple and fun! With her years of experience in theatre, doing voice-overs for radio, and TV, her ASMR voice, and her love of writing, she has unique qualifications to make this an easy and fun experience for you! Your ceremony should reflect both of you. It should also tell your personal story. She refuses to do long and boring ceremonies, she loves doing awesome ceremonies! She loves what she does!

Her world's filled with love and laughter! She loves going on adventures, sharing weekly "date days" with her husband, and spending an amazing day with her couples! Sometimes she gets to do both, Alan's an experienced, professional and romantic, brilliant, award-winning wedding photographer! They do elopements too, Google Alan and Heidi Elopements for more info.

Heidi and her husband are still madly in love and best friends after almost 25 years together! They share their lives with too many adorable "furkids". They love hiking in the mountains with their Samoyed dog, Gypsy and walking on the beach, watching Marvel, DC Superheroes, Star Trek, and Star Wars movies (they don't choose sides)!

It's your ceremony not mine, so let's create the ceremony you never dreamed could happen!

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Frequently asked questions

What is the typical price for your wedding services?

$695

What is the starting price for your wedding services?

$695

Does starting price include the ceremony rehearsal?

No

What is the starting price for ceremony rehearsals?

$185

What is the starting price for pre-marital counseling (per session)?

$300

What types of weddings and events do you provide services for?

Non-religious
Interfaith
Ceremony Rehearsal
Vow Renewal
Civil Union

What religious affiliations do you serve?

Agnostic
Buddhist
Earth-Based
No Denomination
Pagan
Unitarian

On average, how long are wedding ceremonies you officiate?

Less than 30 mins.

In which states are you licensed?

AK
AZ
AR
CA
CO
CT
DE
HI
MA
MT
NM
NC
OH
OR
PA
RI
UT
WA
WY

What languages do you speak?

English
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Heidi from Love Story Vows is highly recommended as a wedding officiant. She is described as professional, supportive, and knowledgeable throughout the planning process. Reviewers appreciate her personalized and heartfelt ceremonies that captured the essence of their love stories. Heidi is commended for her attention to detail, flexibility, and prompt communication. Many guests at weddings officiated by Heidi were deeply moved by the beautiful and personalized ceremonies she delivered.

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Heidi from Love Story Vows is highly recommended as a wedding officiant. She is described as professional, supportive, and knowledgeable throughout the planning process. Reviewers appreciate her personalized and heartfelt ceremonies that captured the essence of their love stories. Heidi is commended for her attention to detail, flexibility, and prompt communication. Many guests at weddings officiated by Heidi were deeply moved by the beautiful and personalized ceremonies she delivered.

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Monica F. Sent on 11/09/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Our Favorite Person!!!

Book Heidi ASAP!!! It’s hard to think that there could be any better person to officiate a wedding than her. She was such a bright presence on our wedding day, the days leading up to it, and still now, weeks later. She’s prompt and very detail oriented, making sure to get all you & your partners personality into the ceremony. She’s also so very kind and supportive, all our nerves were gone and there was only excitement because of all her advice and encouragement. All our vendors adored her as well as she is an absolute PRO and is literally just the sweetest and most authentic person I’ve met! Truly, I could go on and on about why she’s the best for this job, but long story short- she is love - and that’s what you need in your wedding day. Our ceremony is still my favorite part of our wedding and I cannot wait for the video & photos, she made our dreams come true! 🩵
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Annie D. Sent on 12/26/2023
5 out of 5 rating

The Perfect Love Story!

I can’t say enough good things about Heidi from Love Story Vows! In my search for an officiant, I was overwhelmed with all of the choices and didn’t know who to choose. I ended up asking my friend who had been her sister’s officiant and she pointed me to Heidi—and I am so glad she did! Heidi worked with us every step of the way to create a personalized ceremony that was everything we wanted: short, non-religious, funny, and sweet. She had our guests raving about it being one of the best ceremonies they had ever seen, and several guests asked if she was a friend of the family because it felt so personal! Heidi also has great ideas for unity ceremonies—the “tying the knot” ceremony was a big hit at our wedding. Cannot recommend her highly enough!
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Cassandra Sent on 12/30/2023
5 out of 5 rating

October 2023

Heidi came highly recommended by another vendor we had reached out to. All her reviews everywhere we looked were stellar. She was great in helping us put together the wedding ceremony that we wanted, offered a ton of good advice, and answered any questions my husband and I had. I have nothing to say about her other than she was the perfect officiant for us.
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Heidi Merrigan
Heidi Merrigan
Owner and Professional and Ordained Wedding Officiant/Celebrant

Hey, it’s Heidi…my world is filled with love and laughter! I have been an ordained professional wedding officiant since 2016 and have "married" almost a 1000 people in weddings and elopements in California and other states too! Before being an officiant, I was a wedding planner for many years. Making sure you have fun and love your ceremony is always the most important part of what I do.

I am very passionate about enjoying life, going on adventures, and sharing a magical day with my couples. I treasure all of my couples and will create an environment where everyone safe and accepted for who they are.

Yes, I am very LGBTQ friendly!

I am going to make this easy and fun for everyone. I’ve been married to the love of my life since June 23, 2000, Alan is an award-winning wedding photographer and is one of the most romantic men I know. We share our lives with two semi-wonderful sons and too many pets. We go hiking, cycling, love reading, watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Mandelorian, Star Trek, Star Wars and Superhero movies and we enjoy hanging out at the beach or the mountains on our day off. Fun fact – I have never met an animal I didn’t instantly love! I have been in theatre since I was 14 and I have done voiceovers for radio and TV, I have an ASMR voice to help keep you calm, in addition to being a professional writer.

Because of the experiences and passions in my life, I can help you have an awesome ceremony that fits your style, your theme, your family, and both of you.

My wedding ceremonies range from romantic, spiritual, interfaith ceremonies, non-religious to mildly religious, vow renewals, and more. You can see more about me at LoveStoryVows.com. I refuse to do a long and boring ceremony, I want to create a ceremony, you both love!

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Simply put, I really enjoy working with Heidi! I've worked with her since 2006 and have always found her to be upbeat and positive, which really helps with weddings as there can be a certain amount of pressure to make sure everything is as close to perfect as you can get. And that's where Heidi shines: she's calm and even-keeled and she listens to your thoughts, concerns, questions, and addresses them in a manner that helps you to feel calm and less stressed about not only the ceremony, but the whole wedding planning process. Just one call to her and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. She's one of the best!

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Heidi from Love Story Vows is an exceptional person, colleague, and professional! I have known Heidi for over 20 years! And it wasn't difficult to choose my wedding officiant for myself and my husband. Heidi was our first choice! And what an amazing ceremony it was! She helped us incorporate our kids, make it unique, and certainly brought laughter and tears to everyone! She helped me stay calm during the planning process. She stayed in touch daily. And she even stayed with us all night to celebrate! Thank you Heidi....so so much!

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I have worked with many officiants throughout my time as an event coordinator. Heidi with Love Story Vows has been my favorite. She makes it a priority to cater to the couples every need. She is attentive, kind and professional. You can see how passionate she is about what she does from the first conversation. I would highly recommend Heidi to anyone looking for her services. She and her husband are both very involved in this industry and definitely know what they are doing.

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