Lehigh Valley Celebrants, Bethlehem PA

Donna with Lehigh Valley Celebrants did an excellent job with our ceremony! Leading up to the big day she explained the process, ceremony structure, and license process clearly. She pivoted and listed to our wants clearly and was very accommodating! We absolutely love how our ceremony went and how personal we made it, it was perfect for us! Our guests had wonderful things to say about Donna as well and how much love they felt during our ceremony! We absolutely loved working with Donna!

Laura did an amazing job on our special day. We were recommended Laura through Lehigh Valley Celebrants and she definitely did not disappoint. Within two minutes of ending our initial meeting, my husband and I knew Laura was the officiant for us. We connected very well. She then took all the little details and created a personalized ceremony just for us. She took the time to get to know us and our relationship, and also gave us flexibility in what we wanted or didn’t want in the ceremony. She made us feel comfortable at the altar on the day of the wedding, and prepared us beforehand for what we could expect. From a complete stranger to someone who was able to beautifully portray us as a couple, our guests kept asking us if we had known her a long time. Anyone who is looking for a great celebrant for their big day, Laura is the woman for you!

Irene was great throughout the whole process from our initial meeting at her home with my wife, myself and my Mother-in-Law to our wedding day! She listened intently and took notes as she personalized our ceremony instead of just using a pre-written script. This is very helpful because we were able to add things in to the ceremony such as the wring warming and the sand to symbolize our love and she walked us through the whole process. Irene did our entire ceremony in English and Spanish which was exactly what we were looking for and many of our guests the hours, days and weeks after the wedding commented on how great it was and well planned out! Irene will interview both of you as couples and get your honest thoughts of what you want in the ceremony and having us fill out the questionnaire was very helpful use a an outline. We would highly recommend Irene for anyone looking for a Celebrant or Officiant but especially if you are bilingual she is very thorough and attentive and will make sure things are exactly how you want it before the big day!

Laura Eppler from the Lehigh Valley Celebrants was our officiant for our wedding. We wanted a non-religious ceremony bespoke to our personalities and interests since both of us are Atheists and from different cultures. We interviewed a few people before deciding on Laura because she seemed easy to talk to and not at all pushy.and also explained to us what a celebrant was (not being religious - you wonder if you just grab a friend to do a speech or if there are people who actually officiant these sorts of things). She wrote something that captured important details from our relationship. Laura gave us a lot of creative control over different aspects of the ceremony and even went along with some quirkier requests to incorporate Dax and Worf’s wedding ceremony from Star Trek into our own. Additionally, my husband is Chinese so we wanted to include a kowtow ceremony to respect his heritage. Laura seamlessly threaded everything together so all the different parts fit without awkwardness. For our personal vows, she provided feedback throughout and helped us write something meaningful for each other. We opted to not have her at the rehearsal so I was nervous about the ceremony, having not met her in person but she was just as kind and wonderful in person as she was in our zoom chats. Our ceremony had a technical malfunction where the microphone died but Laura simply proceeded and spoke louder. Everyone was still able to hear her, despite having to continue without amplification outdoors.
Afterwards, my guests told me they found her warm and welcoming. One guest specifically said he falls asleep during ceremonies but stayed awake for ours because found Laura captivating and easy to follow.

Irene is ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL! From the first interaction we had with Irene, she was such a gem. She walked us through the entire ceremony process and made us feel like we were in such good hands with her. We got 1 million compliments after our ceremony about how incredible Irene did in telling our love story to our guests. I even had a guest approach her after the ceremony to ask if she could do their daughter's wedding! Irene sent multiple drafts of her ceremony ideas and was so open to feedback and ideas. She really makes you feel like a part of the writing process. I would recommend her to anyone!

We absolutely loved working with Irene from LVC- from our initial meeting to our wedding day Irene was there offering advice and being one of our biggest cheerleaders. She put together a beautiful ceremony based on our questionnaires, which felt more a conversation Irene always wanted to know more and that made it so comfortable and enjoyable.
She listened to what we wanted and incorporated our wants into the ceremony. Our day wouldn’t have been as special without Irene.

From the first conversation through to the memorial itself, we felt absolutely certain that we were in good hands. Kiera’s service needed to handle a lot of points of view, and she did so with absolute grace. Too often, memorials can feel either inauthentic or impersonal – but Kiera created a celebration that truly honored a complicated person, deeply, honestly, lovingly. I never imagined that a memorial service could be as meaningful as this one was for everyone there. I’ll be forever grateful.

We are so incredibly happy that we were paired with Kiera to write and officiate our wedding ceremony. From the minute we met Kiera, we felt welcomed, comfortable and truly seen. Kiera was organized and explained each step of the process with us. We had a few elements to the ceremony we knew we wanted to include and Kiera incorporated them seamlessly to create what we can only describe as a dream ceremony script. We were then blown away a second time on our wedding day when Kiera delivered the ceremony - she was articulate, adaptable, so welcoming, and a comforting presence for us and our guests.
We had countless guests approach us to let us know how much they loved our ceremony - both the words spoken and Kiera’s genuine delivery. Several guests mentioned they were engaged the entire ceremony thanks to Kiera.
We sincerely cannot thank Kiera and Lehigh Valley Celebrants enough for providing us with the best experience and can’t recommend them enough!

Kiera Wilhelm from Lehigh Valley Celebrants is exceptional! Her process is seamless in getting to know the couple, learning their love story and portraying their story so beautifully through her writing. We connected instantly with Kiera as she is personable and incredibly organized! She is such an eloquent speaker and truly made our wedding day so special. The ceremony was so memorable to us and our guests as they were actively engaged in Kiera's words. We cannot recommend Kiera and Lehigh Valley Celebrants enough! Amazing service!

My husband and I had the pleasure of working with Irene to create a wedding ceremony of our dreams. After having an unfortunate cancellation with our original officiant, Irene and the team of celebrants were easy to get in contact with, quick to respond, extremely flexible, and did everything to ensure that we had a ceremony that was curated to our lives and our love story specifically. The ceremony was a purposeful and detailed reflection of my husband and I as we entered into marriage and left not a dry eye in the house.

Laura did an absolutely fantastic job with our ceremony! From the very beginning she was so interested in getting to know us and make our ceremony personalized to us. Every time we met with her she was always incredibly helpful and even asked questions that I would never have thought of. Our ceremony was incredible and a perfect representation of my husband and I. All of my guests raved about how fantastic and beautiful the ceremony was, there was not a dry eye in the crowd. I can't recommend Laura enough! If you are looking for a perfect ceremony, she's the one for you.

We had the honor of having Laura Eppler perform our ceremony. When we first met Laura we expected about a 30 minute zoom call that turned out to be around 2 hours because we clicked so well. She is extremely funny, smart & has the gift of commanding a room. All of our guest could not stop talking about how intimate & personal our ceremony was - It felt like Laura knew us for years. I would truly recommend her in a heartbeat. The ceremony sets the tone of the rest of the day & It's their words you will hear in your wedding video for years to come. Laura is amazing at what she does!

Lehigh Valley Celebrants are absolutely amazing when it comes to officiating weddings. Laura was our perfect match and made our wedding feel special from the very first meeting with her. She communicated with us many times leading up to our wedding and was a very hands on officiant with wanting as much info about my husband and I as a couple and as individuals. Laura wrote the most perfect, beautiful and personalized ceremony that we could have asked for and made our wedding feel so special with ever word that she wrote. Thank you Laura for making our day so special!

Kiera was amazing! My husband and I wanted a personalized, non-religious ceremony from someone that took the time to learn our story and share it on our wedding day.
We began meeting with Kiera a few months before our wedding, with COVID, we met over zoom but we still felt comfortable and very happy with her. She took the time to get to know the both of us and explain the process. She explained that we would get 2 questionnaires to help her write our ceremony. One was for us to fill out together and the other was for us to fill out separately and privately. There was also a listen of different vows and sayings to include in our ceremony.
Kiera continued to be at service through our wedding planning process, offering support and advice helping us through the stress.
A few weeks before our day, she sent a complete draft of our ceremony. It was perfect, she included so much for the questionnaires we filled out about each other and it was so meaningful to see what we both said about each other.
We had so many people complimenting our ceremony at our wedding. We truly had control over what we wanted to include and what we didn't want to do, for instance we did a unity shot of Crown Royal whiskey in our ceremony.
Last amazing thing! Kiera filed our marriage license for us, so that we didn't have to worry about that after our wedding!

Lehigh Valley Celebrants provided us with a great experience. Kiera worked with us to make our special day just as we wanted it to be. My new husband and I highly recommend them.

Kiera Wilhelm officiated our wedding and we adored her. The whole process was very fluid. There were many options for different styles given to us that we could add to our ceremony. We met several times and communicated through email to fine tweak rough drafts to everybody’s comfort and liking. Ultimately it was the creative editing and overall presentation that we not only loved but that our guests specifically came up to us and commented on.

-Louis

Laura Eppler officiated our wedding this past March and did the most amazing job that we ever could have asked for. During our Zoom meetings, she asked very inciteful questions that had us both opening up about our relationship more than we had anyone else, including our family! She really got a full picture of who we were as a couple and that translated into our ceremony and everyone felt the love throughout. She was invested in us and wanted to make sure that we had the most special ceremony that was specific to who we were. We challenged her with a unique unity ceremony and she did a lot of research on it to translate the meaning behind it. She was amazing!