Royal Weddings Ottawa

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About

Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Royal Weddings Ottawa specializes in creating timeless memories through personalized wedding ceremonies that will capture the essence of the love shared between brides and grooms. Since 2014, founder and minister Carol Willems-Martin has been helping couples create a unique experience for their big day. Royal Weddings also offers services for elopements.

Services offered

Carol can provide affordable services for many types of weddings, including religious, interfaith ceremonies, non-religious, vow renewals and ceremony rehearsals. The ceremony can be organized at your chosen location or Royal Weddings will provide an intimate setting to exchange your vows.

Carol always encourages the couple to write their own vows, in order to create a more unique and bespoke ceremony that reflects their values, beliefs and perspectives. She offers four ceremony packages and the most popular package is The Simple Romantic Ceremony. Its services include:

One complimentary consultation
Christian/Non-religious ceremonial selection
Matrimonial services at the venue of your choice

Highlights

Wedding Types

Single religion, interfaith ceremony, non-religious, vow renewal, ceremony rehearsal

Officiant Services

Licensed, allow couple' own vows

Religious Affiliations

No denomination

Wedding Services Starting Price

$375

More information

On average, how long are wedding ceremonies you officiate?

Less than 30 mins.

Does starting price include the ceremony rehearsal?

What is the starting price for ceremony rehearsals?

$150

If you offer pre-marital counseling, what is the starting price for (per session)?

$44

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Lauren R. Married on 17/09/2022

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Amazing Officiant

We had Carol as our officiant on Sept 17/22. She was wonderful to work with and so personable. Thank you Carol!
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Zoe E. Married on 04/06/2022

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Perfect day!

Thank you Carol for making our day perfect! We are very easy going people, and you made it just that. Easy!
Sent on 21/06/2022
Krista F. Married on 26/09/2021

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Incredible!!!

Carol was absolutely amazing and brought our wedding up a notch! Our daughter (3.5y.o.) was reaching for the microphone, crying. laughing, wanting to be picked up in the middle of the ceremony, basically whatever you can imagine a toddler that age wanting to do to be included:-) Carol went along with things and make sure she felt included, she let her speak into the mic occasionally, asked her questions, etc. and the ceremony was perfect as a result. So many people commented afterwards on what a great job she did and how exceptionally well things went. Carol was also very flexible with us having to change to date, twice. Thank you so much Carol for helping make this day perfect:-)
Sent on 15/10/2021

Royal Weddings Ottawa's reply:

Your wedding was so much fun with little Gabby helping out! Thank you for having fun with all of the ceremony!

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Kayla L. Married on 23/07/2021

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The best officiant we could have asked for 🤍

We worked with Carol from 2020 until our wedding last week in 2022. She was an absolute pleasure to work with from the start! She helped us with every step along the way, and was beyond flexible when we had to postpone our original wedding day due to the pandemic.

When we met Carol for our signing, which we chose to do privately with witnesses, we knew we had made the right choice in choosing Carol immediately. She was energetic, welcoming and kind.

At our ceremony, she helped calm our nerves and delivered exactly what we were looking for, a fun easy going ceremony.

We are very grateful that we’ve crossed paths with Carol, she is amazing!!!
Sent on 06/08/2022
Morgan O. Married on 10/10/2020

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Highlight of our wedding day

We don't even know how to begin to describe how lucky we were to have Carol perform our wedding ceremony. We hadn't given much thought to the ceremony details before our last minute, mini wedding was thrown together this year instead of waiting for our postponed date. Carol helped us create a vision of what we wanted and then executed it flawlessly, it was so personalized and perfectly "us". She helped us realize that this was really the most important part of the day and made us SO excited to be getting married in 2020 anyways! We only had 16 guests and we had at least 10 people comment on how amazing the ceremony was - and Carol herself is an absolute pleasure to be around! We honestly can't thank her enough - she's the best decision we could have made for our wedding day!
Sent on 19/10/2020

Royal Weddings Ottawa's reply:

Hi Morgan!
Thank you for your endorsement of my services and wouldn’t have missed being part of your big day!
Cassandra S. Married on 19/09/2020

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Highly recommended

Carol was a truly fantastic officiant. She was super accommodating when we had multiple schedule changes thanks to COVID and very responsive to our requests. The ceremony was amazing. She was able to inject some humor into it, which was exactly what we had hoped. We had lots of compliments from our guests about how wonderful she was, and a few or our engaged friends grabbed her business cards.
Would highly recommend to anyone.
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Sara H. Married on 26/01/2019

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Phenonmenal Officiant!

Aaron and Sara married on January 26th, 2019

Carol was our officiant for our small and intimate wedding ceremony last weekend and she was amazing! Friends and family alike commented on how nice and friendly she was and how heartfelt her words were. The laughter throughout the ceremony was non-stop and she made Aaron and I feel comfortable and calm. She was very flexible and accommodating with us and was very professional. Pricing was very reasonable as well. Choosing Carol to marry us was the best decision we made and we would without a doubt recommend her.
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Susan Married on 08/09/2018

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Wonderful ceremony!

Carol officiated our wedding and she was perfect! My mother even commented, saying what a wonderful job she did, and how she set the tone for the rest of the wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony, complimented by our very personable officiant!
Sent on 26/09/2018
Stephanie Married on 31/10/2016

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We were extremely impressed with the service provided. Our ceremony was very simple, at our request, and the quick response time was very comforting, being that most our planning was somewhat last minute. Our officiant from Royal Weddings was exceptionally patient, and accommodating, and our guests had only pleasant things to say, at the end of our day.
Sent on 19/04/2017

Royal Weddings Ottawa's reply:

Thanks Stephanie for your kind words of endorsement. I appreciate it very much and must say your day was really special with all the fall colours and costumes to share!
Many thanks for the fun photos too!
Carol
Wanying Z. Married on 07/08/2022

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Excellent officiator!!

Carol is our ideal officiator and was everything we could have asked for! From the first meeting we had with her virtually, she was very enthusiastic and curious to learn about our story. She patiently walked us through the process and was very responsive to answer all our questions, putting us at ease. She sent us a script for our approval in a timely manner and she creatively wove our story together very well and we enjoyed her sense of humour. I’m so grateful for her amazing service and sharing our special day with us. She was very punctual, professional and her speaking was very clear and entertaining. We truly enjoyed every moment of the ceremony and the guests enjoyed it very much as well!
Sent on 12/08/2022