
Heather and Susan’s Central Park Elopement
Heather and Susan were married on a perfect spring day on May 23rd, 2023 at the iconic Ladies Pavilion in Central Park with just a couple of their closest loved ones. They chose to celebrate their journey with our fully-personalized Intimate Love wedding ceremony experience, which highlighted their out-of-this-world Trekkie connection across the world wide web. While they were 4,291 miles apart, their love knew no bounds and their ceremony reflected the beauty of “reuniting with a long lost love from a past life.”

Crafting Heartfelt Wedding Vows Together
Writing vows can be all kinds of stressful. More so, if you’re not used to expressing your thoughts and feelings. So in order to ease those nerves and help you craft those love-filled vows, make it date night activity.
Have an honest conversation with your partner and get to the heart of what matters most in your relationship. This can be very therapeutic and lots of fun! The whole point is to get a real sense of the big and small things you each bring into your relationship.

Angela and Meghan’s Hudson Valley Winter Wedding
Angela and Meghan were married on a brisk winter day on January 21st, 2023 in The Garrison, a gorgeous estate nestled in the Hudson Valley. It was important to them to share their story in a fun and authentic way that celebrated their multicultural union, their love of family, their deep bonds to their community, and their winding journey to one another. Our fully personalized All In Love wedding ceremony experience was the best fit for them!

Four Reasons To Include Unity Rituals
Unity rituals are a symbolic representation of two individuals uniting as one team and one family. There are many popular unity rituals that each have specific meanings, history, and cultural roots that can amplify the message you’d like to convey on your wedding day.

Max and Maya’s Bear Mountain Wedding
Max and Maya waited a long time to get married since their original wedding date was impacted by COVID. Just like all good things though, their wedding day was absolutely worth the wait! They got married on one of those quintessentially perfect Fall days in Bear Mountain alongside their family and friends who were so incredibly excited to celebrate them at last.

Bri + Shel’s Williamsburg Wedding
New York City models, Bri and Shel, got married on June 2nd, 2023 at Rule of Thirds, a well known Japanese restaurant with the most delicious fluffy pancakes. While NYC may seem like an accessible city, many venues are inaccessible AF so it was a priority for Bri and Shel to choose a venue with intentional accessibility for wheelchair users.

3 Tips To Create A Meaningful Ceremony
Wedding ceremonies are an opportunity to create a joyful space that grounds you, fosters connection among your loved ones, and sets the tone for your love party. The most powerful wedding ceremonies are personal, engaging, and emotive. When wedding ceremonies reflect your personalities, values, and relationship, it becomes a core memory you’ll lovingly look back on for years to come.
Amy + Anthony’s Jane’s Carousel Wedding
Amy and Anthony celebrated their 13th anniversary on their wedding day surrounded by family and chosen family who flew in from all over the world to celebrate this milestone moment at the iconic Jane’s Carousel in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Theirs is a story about two scientists who fell for one another at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where they worked together in a lab to discover how to mend broken hearts.

For the Love of Cannabis: Alex + Asher’s 420 Brooklyn Elopement
Two years ago, Alex and Asher chose to elope in Prospect Park, Brooklyn - it holds significance to them and it’s a great local spot for elopements, in general. I fell in love with them upon seeing them walk towards me on September 1st, 2021. I was already crushing on them upon reading about how they came to be A-squared - the boss beautiful duo they are!!

Michelle + Geoffrey’s Brooklyn Weddings
While the pandemic kept us socially distant, masked, and generally feeling hopeless, love persevered again and again! Michelle and Geoffrey eloped the morning of December 20th, 2020 with a few of their closest loved ones in Dumbo, near Jane’s Carousel overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and renewed their vows the following year on November 28th, 2021.

Leanne + Miriam’s Brooklyn Elopement
Leanne and Miriam had an elopement ceremony on June 12th, 2022 during our 3rd annual Pride Grows in Brooklyn event at Brooklyn Grange. This event is a pro-bono experience for LGBTQ+ couples in partnership with inclusive wedding vendors who are either part of the LGBTQ+ community or LGBTQ+ loving allies.

Angelica + Maya’s Brooklyn Elopement

Get Your Marriage License with NYC’s Project Cupid
Since the pandemic, the marriage license process has changed drastically. Walk-ins are no longer permitted so the NYC Clerk’s Office created an online platform known as Project Cupid to schedule in-person appointments with the City Clerk in all five boroughs or virtual appointments. YES, there are still virtual appointments to obtain your marriage license.

THE IMPACT OF INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE AT WEDDING CEREMONIES
It's time to go beyond the binary of bride and groom. Some may think that inclusive language is just for LGBTQIA+ weddings but the reality is that there are likely LGBTQIA+ loved ones attending cis-het weddings as well. For attendees of the Nearlywed Summit and for everyone who wants to be inclusive on their wedding day, you'll find links to deep-dive resources and an incomplete glossary.

How to Obtain Your Extended and/or Apostilled Marriage Certificate
If you’re traveling to New York City for your destination wedding and trying to figure out how to legally get your extended and/or apostilled marriage certificate, you’re in the right place. You’ll find step-by step guidance in retrieving your extended marriage certificate and your apostilled marriage certificate either in person or via mail. Learn more here.

WHAT ARE WEDDING VOWS?
What are Wedding Vows? Wedding vows are essentially a reaffirmation of your commitment to one another and a solemn promise to be there for each other through the madness of this world. This blog addresses is a starting point to understanding wedding vows.

5 QUESTIONS TO GET YOUR VOW WRITING JUICES FLOWING
5 Questions to Get Your Vow Writing Juices Flowing. These five fun and introspective questions help you reflect on your relationship and marriage so you can have a starting off point to write your wedding vows.

6 REASONS WE’RE NOT THE RIGHT WEDDING OFFICIANTS FOR YOU
Six Reasons we’re not the right officiants for you and why we shouldn’t swipe right. TLDR: the ceremony isn’t important to you, you’re looking for a religious and/or traditional ceremony, don’t want your ceremony to be personalized, and so much more. If ya vibe with us, we gotchu!
Keshal + Jessica’s Central Park Elopement
Jessica and Keshal got married in Central Park’s Ladies Pavilion on June 11th, 2021 while everyone was still adjusting to life in the age of COVID caution. It was a time where we were not quite post-COVID and not quite in the thick of the pandemic fear. While an intimate elopement wasn’t in their original wedding plans, these college sweethearts decided to just go for it and get married alongside their immediate family in the city they only recently called home.