Milestones and Memories

I will start off by saying that finding an officiant for our wedding was THE hardest part in the planning! My husband comes from a very religious family and mine not so much. So of course we needed to please his family but at the same time make it about the two of us!
With that said not only did we accomplish that! Most of our compliments from our wedding were about the ceremony. I had one co-​worker who has been married for 10+ years tell me that her and her husband drove home holding hands after our ceremony. I had another guest tell me that he has attended a lot of weddings in his day and that was by far the best ceremony he has ever been too!
The thing is we felt it to, our ceremony was truly magical! Thank you Irv for all the love you put into making our ceremony so special, unique and memorable. We appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts!

Sorry dor the late review, Irv! I just want to say Thank You so much for taking the time to have our ceremony Unforgettable. The wedding came out gorgeous and the mixed feeling of happiness within my families eyes is something unreplaceable, this will not be as gorgeous as it can be without you as well. Thank you for having the chance to be part of our wedding.

Irv officiated our wedding in Napa about a month ago. He was highly recommended and was willing to work with us in the little amount of time we had left before our Wedding day. He guided us through the whole process, offered advice and was very organized every step of the way. His ability to pull together the most heartfelt and entertaining ceremony in such a short amount of time is truly amazing. Everyone, including my husband and I just loved the ceremony. We received compliments all day and still continue to. He was able to make people laugh and cry just at the moments he told us they would. Thank you Irv, for contributing your true talent to help make our special day just absolutely perfect!

After reading so many positive reviews on Unilocal, I contacted Irv close to my wedding date and I was so happy to hear that he was available. We had the opportunity to meet with Irv prior to our wedding which I thought was very helpful in getting to know one another. I appreciated the time he gave us throughout the entire process. Irv has good intentions in life! He made our wedding magical and unforgettable. Thank you Irv for such a beautiful ceremony.

Having Irv as our officiant was the best decision me and my wife made when we’re planning our wedding. Such a good speaker, he made our guest cry, laugh, [insert any other verb]. Working with him was almost too easy. If your looking for a quick and efficient officiant that knows how to speak multiple languages and a has a great sense of humor, Irv is you’re guy!

Irv officiated our wedding in Palo Alto a few weeks ago and did such a great job. He created such a personal ceremony for us, and we are so thankful for Irv for taking time to meet with us and guide us through our wedding ceremony planning. We went through a few iterations of our ceremony script with Irv, and in the end the ceremony turned out exactly the way we were dreaming. You do have to do some homework to help prepare, but it is totally worth it. We heard from many of our guests that our ceremony was really touching and special, funny, but serious and just overall perfect. And when I couldn’t quite get through my vows without tearing up, Irv was ready with a handkerchief.
You can really tell that Irv has a lot of experience. He is a calming presence and really has all the details well thought out.

This wedding was literally the wedding of a lifetime– No one but Irv had the ability to bring such careful attention and attentive caring to our ceremony. From the design, to logistics, through our vows, Irv brought laughter, tears, and love all together for us and our guests.

Irv was spectacular. He’d officiated a wedding of friends of ours and when the time came there was only one person we considered for ours. I photographed weddings for a few years, so I’m not without a frame of reference.
Irv is sensitive, funny, unfailingly considerate and inventive. He has a thorough program for the event but is entirely open to a couple’s preferences. His suggestions inspired my bride and I to develop a set of vows that were entirely personal and perfect for each other.

I wish I could Irv more than 5 stars!!! He was absolutely fantastic!!! He spent time getting to know and making our ceremony all about us. People still tell us what a truly special ceremony we had. I just can’t recommend him high enough. If you want a wonderful, special, memorable, wedding then Irv is just the person to make sure that happens. He will always be special to our family.

Irv was professional and humorous at the same time. We had a wonderful ceremony. His experience helped us write a ceremony that was both heartfelt and lighthearted. He finds a way to bring everyone into our lives as the ceremony is taking place. Too bad we will only get married once because we would use him again and again.

Irv is simply the best. My wife and I got recommended to Irv through our wedding planner. He was the first (and last) officiant we talked to, to do our wedding. He sits down and gets to know you and the story of your love. He puts the perfect balance of funny and seriousness into the ceremony. All of our guests loved him and my wife and I could not have been happier. He helped make our day very special and we can not thank him enough. He was able to adapt to our style and theme.

My husband and I got married last October 5 in Berkeley, CA and we had chosen Irv to be our Officiant after we met with him a month before the wedding.
First of all, we are from the Central Valley and when we were going to come up to San Francisco for a weekend, he invited us over to his home to meet him before hiring him. He made time for us and we met and chatted and discussed how the flow of the wedding can be like. My fiancé and I were very impressed about how knowledgeable Irv was about weddings and celebrations and we were happy to hire him immediately after meeting him.
We worked on our vows with Irv separately and he was able to help us work through them to make them meaningful and solemn and funny and poignant all at the same time.
Irv had a great desire to make our dream wedding come true and we trusted him throughout the process. He is also very, very respectful of our beliefs and ideas and did his best to help our wedding be what we would like for it to be.
The day of the wedding came and all our guests loved the ceremony. They also loved Irv with his joyful nature. Before the ceremony, my fiancé and I had already told the hotel that we had wanted to invite Irv over for dinner as he felt like a part of the family at that point. Keep in mind that our wedding consisted of just immediate family – only 13 guests, the 14^th of which was Irv.

My now-​husband and I were very anxious to book an officiate for our wedding. I had said since the engagement I wanted to make sure we made our wedding, ours. Neither of us is very religious and didn’t have any idea where to start to find an officiate. We researched many officiates and nothing stuck out for us. We knew we wanted something personal and very fun. After reading Irv’s reviews on Unilocal,we decided to schedule a meeting.
We met with Irv and within 20 minutes, I knew he was the one. He had me laughing and tearing up right away. He really has a great personality that engaged us and made us feel comfortable. I loved how he wanted to her our own opinions of our relationship and what brought us to this day. He had us email him our own versions of our story. We also got to write our own gifts or vows to each other. It was an interesting take on the old way of doing vows. It made it real and personal.
I had an emotional roller coaster writing our story and gifts to one another. Remembering back to the beginning and all we’ve been through as a couple made me laugh and cry. It made me love my husband even more. Irv read our separate stories and combined them. During the ceremony, it was very special to see and hear our guests react to those stories because they each played a part in those them.
Irv really does take you and your guests on «feast» of emotions. Everyone was laughing and crying! I heard all night and for days to come how our ceremony was the «most exciting and creative» ceremony and «a ceremony I actually could pay attention too». I could never thank Irv enough for getting to know us and giving us one of the best days of our life!

Irv is pure magic. A gift. I can’t tell you how happy my husband and I are that we chose Irv to officiate our wedding. From the moment we spoke with him on the phone, we knew he was the one. So friendly and welcoming and warm, so excited for us, and so interested in getting to know us. He honestly feels like family. And I know that may sound so weird, but I don’t know how else to say it! He’s such a genuine person and did everything he could to make our wedding ceremony special, personal, and exactly what we wanted. We continue to get compliments from family and friends who can’t believe we found him on the internet! Choose Irv. Seriously. It’ll be one of the best wedding decisions you make.

Irv is an amazing wedding officiant! I contacted him a week before our wedding and he was able to meet with us in person the next day. The preparations for our personalized ceremony were very easy because he gave us detailed tasks. The ceremony was flawless and several of our guests want to book him for their weddings. Irv is more than just a wedding officiant. He has many practical advices for the marriage. Also, Irv is extremely easy going and fun to be around. We will definitely stay in touch with him and attend his monthly networking events!

I met Irv through my husband a couple of weeks before our wedding, and when he talked to us, he made my husband and I, feel like we were all one family with him. He took the time to get to know us and he prepared this amazing ceremony where everybody was blown away by how lovely and touching it was.
Not only tears were shared during the ceremony but Laughter were also heard at all times. What a Joyful time.
Our wedding day was a day to never forget!
Thanks Irv!

Irv was recommended to us by wedding photographer, Gene Kosoy (
) and we are so happy that he did! During our initial visit via Skype, Irv walked us back to memory lane. We giggled and laughed — and cried-​as we reminisced back to our first date and the courtship days that followed. He has that unique way of taking you back and making you fall in love all over again :)
We are goofy and love to laugh and he most certainly made sure we did during the ceremony! All our family and friends were laughing and crying and each one had nothing but compliments.
Irv knows how important our mothers are to us and how important our wedding is to them. So he made sure that they they felt very much part of the wedding and not just honored guests.
Irv tailors the ceremony to the uniqueness of each couple, bringing out their individuality as well as the bond they share.
Thank you, Irv for making our day truly a special day!

I had the pleasure of working with Irv on a recent wedding around SF City Hall. The couple, flying in from Texas, seemed so comfortable with him before and during the Ceremony you wouldn’t think he was a hired vendor like myself (photography) but rather a close friend they’ve known for years.
His charm, humor, and grace in his delivery showed delightfully in the photos in the reactions of the couple, as well as himself. Photos of him tearing up as the couple finished their vows shows exactly what he is about — getting to know the Clients as friends and emotionally connecting to them with a pure heart in their most cherished moments.

When we first met Irv, he talked to us for more than an hour, learning about us, our families, and how we met. We both loved his gregarious personality and humor and his many ideas about fun, quirky things to incorporate into our wedding ceremony.
Since he was the first officiant we interviewed, we continued our interviews and those merely confirmed that Irv was the right choice for us. A month before the wedding, he had a draft text of the ceremony ready and with only minor revisions, that is the document we went with.
During the ceremony, the words in the document became alive with Irv’s great combination of humor, wit, and tenderness. Afterwards, multiple friends and family raved about Irv and said our ceremony was the best they had attended. Everyone really liked that he told the story of how we met and that, instead of vows, we each read a «gift» to one another during the ceremony. Irv had us write the gifts individually and he kept them secret so each was a wedding day surprise. It was a very meaningful and emotional touch.
Irv was also very helpful before the ceremony by instructing us on how the logistics should work (walk slowly, kiss long enough for the photographer to get several shots, etc.). He made a wonderful day even better!

We met Irv while looking at wedding venues, and were immediately taken in by him — he’s warm, caring, funny, and just simply an incredible man.
It was perfect timing, as we had not yet selected an officiant. After touring the venue, we asked further about Irv, which began our journey. He interviewed us to find out why we were getting married and what made us special to each other. He helped each of us write our vows, and made us promise not to share them with each other before the wedding.
The night of the wedding, Irv calmed our nerves and got us ready for the big event. We had an inspirational idea to begin the wedding by taking iPhone pictures of the guests — Irv thought it was a great idea. He also helped us incorporate a blessing from my cousin and it went beautifully.
Irv is very special… you’ll find he’s an incredibly warm person, and knows how to interact with all elements of the attendees.
We highly encourage you, should you be at that place in your relationship, to seek out Irv and see for yourselves. You’ll find he’s not only going to be the perfect officiant for you, but will be a wonderful friend as well.