All that's legally required to solemnize a marriage in Massachusetts is for two persons to appear before an appropriately qualified officiant with the proper license and to be declared married according to the laws of the Commonwealth.

However, you want to make your wedding day - one of the most important days in your lives - memorable and spiritually rewarding. To yourselves. To your families. To your friends.

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about Wedding Ceremonies

Since first appointed a Justice of the Peace by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1991, I've been working together with couples to do just that, creating beautiful and sensitive wedding ceremonies that include materials most meaningful to each of you and to both your families. This becomes even more important in multifaith marriages, where the families may be of different religious backgrounds; in same-sex marriages; and in situations where you may wish to honor children of prior marriages within the ceremony. The tradition underlying each beautiful element of your ceremony is fully explained so your guests won't feel 'lost.'

We'll look at your wedding ceremony as a short play (20 - 30 minutes) in four acts:

Convocation:
the gathering of the participants and your guests.

Invocation:
opening remarks, readings and prayers.

Consecration:
your exchange of vows and rings, and other symbolic elements

Benediction:
the closing.

What is said…what is done…what you desire…within each of those 'acts' is what makes your ceremony different…beautiful…and so distinctly yours!

As a Justice of the Peace in Massachusetts I can officiate at ceremonies anywhere in the Commonwealth. I can also officiate as a Justice of the Peace in other states which have reciprocal agreements with Massachusetts; if there is no reciprocal agreement, I am ordained as a Minister of the Universal Life Church and can officiate at marriages in that capacity.