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Last update: April 2023

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

Frequently asked questions

What types of weddings and events do you provide services for?

Single religion
Interfaith ceremony
Non-religious
Vow renewal
Ceremony rehearsal

What services do you provide?

Licensed
Allow couple' own vows

What religious affiliations do you serve?

No denomination

On average, how long are wedding ceremonies you officiate?

Less than 30 mins.

What is the starting price for your wedding services?

$375

Does starting price include the ceremony rehearsal?

No

What is the starting price for ceremony rehearsals?

$200

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

$100
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100% Recommended by couples
Kathryn
Kathryn L. Sent on 02/04/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Such a wonderful experience

Carol was terrific. Her intro/ our story was perfect. The service ran smoothly and had more than a few of us with tears in our eyes. Would recommend 100%
Lauren
Lauren R. Sent on 19/09/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Amazing Officiant

We had Carol as our officiant on Sept 17/22. She was wonderful to work with and so personable. Thank you Carol!
Zoe
Zoe E. Sent on 21/06/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Perfect day!

Thank you Carol for making our day perfect! We are very easy going people, and you made it just that. Easy!
Krista
Krista F. Sent on 15/10/2021
5 out of 5 rating

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:-)

Kayla
Kayla L. Sent on 06/08/2022
5 out of 5 rating

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!!!
Morgan
Morgan O. Sent on 19/10/2020
5 out of 5 rating

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!
Cassandra
Cassandra S. Sent on 12/10/2020
5 out of 5 rating

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.
Sara
Sara H. Sent on 02/02/2019
5 out of 5 rating

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.
Susan
Susan Sent on 26/09/2018
5 out of 5 rating

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!
Stephanie
Stephanie Sent on 19/04/2017
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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.
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