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Steve Finley of Wine Country Rabbi is an ordained rabbi living in the town of Sonoma, California. While serving a Jewish community of Sonoma, he also is available to work with couples to create and officiate their Jewish, non-denominational or interfaith weddings. He invests time getting to know each couple as they work together to create the ideal wedding ceremony. This ordained rabbi offers a traditional wedding style, but can also adapt to reflect the couple’s ceremony preferences.

Experience
Rabbi Steve Finley has been serving as rabbi of Congregation Shir Shalom since 2014. His prior experience extends to Israel, and Mexico. He holds as master’s degree in education from the American Jewish University and became an ordained rabbi through the Academy for Jewish Religion.

Services Offered
Rabbi Steve can officiate weddings, vows renewal, interfaith, non-religious or single religion ceremony. The rabbi’s language ability spans English, Hebrew and algunas palabras en espanol tambien for those needing bilingual services.

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Ilana Sent on 10/16/2023
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Rabbi Steve was wonderful!

Rabbi Steve took the time to get to meet with us via zoom - we live across the country - and in person leading up to our wedding. We felt like we got to know him and he got to know us during our months of preparation. Rabbi Steve educated us on our options for what we could include in our ceremony and provided us with many choices ranging from non-religious to religious and we got to create a wedding ceremony that was uniquely ours. We are so thrilled we found Rabbi Steve and our friends and family loved the ceremony and really enjoyed his officiating.
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Michelle P. Sent on 11/26/2023
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Amazing ceremony!

Rabbi Steve made our ceremony very special. He took the time to get to know us and craft a ceremony that would match our wants and needs. Lots of folks told us they loved the ceremony, and we felt like it was a great mix of older traditions and modern customs. Would recommend!
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Thao P. Sent on 09/28/2023
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Rewarding Experience with Lifelong Memories

Where do we even begin? We found Rabbi Finley via an online search for rabbis in the Napa area. As a mixed faith couple (Jewish and Catholic), we wanted a rabbi that would be understanding and respectful of both religious backgrounds, but also able to maintain the traditions of a Jewish ceremony. After our initial meeting with Rabbi we could tell he was very patient, honest, forthcoming, and warm and respectful of all cultural and spiritual backgrounds. He will limit his services based on what you desire out of the relationship, from very traditional to more liberal / progressive. In our case, we wanted a more hands-on experience with monthly meetings and counseling as we wanted our ceremony to be more traditional and intimate. We discussed various options on how we wanted our ceremony to proceed, Rabbi Finley would provide suggestions on what the more traditional ceremony steps were, and educated us on Jewish rituals and ceremonial traditions and their significance. We had multiple meetings with him leading up to our ceremony and were even invited to some of his congregation's events, which we appreciate and happily attended. We were welcomed with open arms by his congregation in Sonoma, and appreciated building a relationship with the Rabbi and his congregation that we want to continue beyond our ceremony, but note this is not a requirement, we just like him and his congregation that much.

On our wedding day, he led our ceremony seamlessly and confidently. We received so many compliments from our guests on how well he officiated our wedding. Everyone from both sides of our families and friends loved how well Rabbi Finley made the ceremony feel traditional, intimate, reverent, and also warm and welcoming to all backgrounds with the perfect amount of humor and mirth. The groom's side is the Jewish side in our case, and all of his relatives agreed it was the best Jewish ceremony they've attended.
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