The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Officiant Eric Schwartz was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Officiant Eric Schwartz is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Officiant Eric Schwartz for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Officiant Eric Schwartz is one of the very best Officiants within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/officiant-eric-schwartz-agoura-hills/703d8e2734c69eb5.html.

To learn more about the Bride’s Choice Awards™, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

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It is always special to watch the groom and bride look into each others’ eyes when they first see each other on their wedding day.  The emotions are raw, true and capture the moment.  I wish Cara and Daniel all the best!

It was a beautiful day at the Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge. A perfect setting at the Brody House, where Michelle and Hunter were married. Little bunnies roamed freely throughout the garden setting.

A quartet played in the background while I, Hunter (the groom) and the Groomsmen walked to the arch.

Just before Michelle (the bride) came out with her father, everyone turned and waited in excitement to catch a first glimpse of the bride. She was beautiful!

The ceremony went off without a hitch and wouldn’t have been flawless, without the help of Lauren Godsil from Lauren Godsil Event Planning.

Photography by Charise.

Photography by John Li.

May these rings remind you that your love, like the sun, warms all that it touches, like the moon, brightens up the night, like the eye, is a gateway to your innermost soul.  And your love, like the arms that embrace you, makes everything right with the world.

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May the vows and promises you have made today be as ever-present in your hearts as these rings are on your fingers.

Blessing of the Rings 3

May these wedding rings be a reminder to BRIDE and GROOM of the commitment they have made today and be as a testimony to all the world of their devotion in marriage.

Blessing of the Rings 4

Wear these rings as the enclosing bond of reverence and trust. Fulfill the circle of love that now makes you one.

Blessing of the Ring 5

May these rings henceforth be the chaste and changeless symbol of your evermore pure and unending affection.

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May these rings be blessed as the symbol of this affectionate unity. These two lives are now joined in one unbroken circle. Wherever they go, may they always return to one another in their togetherness. May these two find in each other the love for which all men and women yearn. May they grow in understanding and in compassion. May the home, which they establish together, be such a place of sanctuary that many will find there a friend. May these rings, on their fingers, symbolize the touch of the spirit of love in the heart.

Who gives this woman to be married to this man?

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Who gives this man and woman to be married to each other?

Parent’s Consent 3

Our Lord Jesus Christ instructed us about marriage when he said in the Book of Mark, Chapter 10, “For from the very first He made man and woman to be joined together permanently in marriage; therefore a man is to leave his father and mother, and he and his wife are united so that they are no longer two, but one.” Within the spirit of this scripture, ___ and ___ would like to receive the blessing of their parents on this holy union.

Parents please rise. Do you give your blessing to this man and woman to be married to each other?
Parents say, “We do.”

Parent’s Consent 4

Being assured that your love and your choice of each other as lifelong companions is in God’s will and that you have your families’ blessings, I now ask: Who gives this woman to be married to this man?

Parent’s Consent 5

This wedding is also a celebration of family. It is the blending of two families that have been separate up to this moment, but united from this day forward – blending their different traditions, strengthening the family tree. To honor this uniting of the families, (Groom and Bride) wish to ask their parent’s blessing.

(To Bride’s Mom and Dad)
_______ and ______ do you offer this couple your goodwill? Do you welcome (groom) as a member of your family and give him your love and affection? PARENTS SAY: We do.

(To Groom’s Mom and Dad)
______ and ______, do you offer this couple your goodwill? Do you welcome (bride) as a member of your family and give her your love and affection? PARENTS SAY: We do.

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I’ve never met a father who was willing to give up his daughter, so instead I ask, do I have your blessing for this marriage?

Parent’s Consent 7

The relationship between children and their parents is one that’s often understated, yet very deep. And one of the rare occasions when it can be publicly acknowledged is at a wedding ceremony.

On this occasion, (parents) proudly stand here beside their daughter representing her family. And (groom’s parents) proudly stands beside their son representing his family. They are displaying, for all of us to see, their individual and combined love for BRIDE and GROOM.

Who brings this man and woman to be married to each other?

“We do.”

And are you all willing to sustain and strengthen this marriage by giving BRIDE and GROOM the public commitment of your love and support through all the ups and downs ahead of them?

“We are.”

Parent’s Consent 8

The marriage of BRIDE and GROOM brings together two different families; two unique story lines, so a new chapter in their lives can begin to unfold.

Though this relationship was formed out of the love these two have found in each other, their marriage will ultimately be blessed by the support of their families.

Who stands with this woman to symbolize her family’s support of this union?

“I do”—–”We do”—or —”Her mother and I do”

Who stands with this man to symbolize his family’s support of this union?

“I do”—-”We do”—or—”His mother and I do”

Parent’s Consent 9

The marriage of BRIDE and GROOM is more than just the union of two people in love.  It’s also the joining of two families, of two sets of friends and of two patterns of life.

Who stands with this woman in support and blessing of this marriage?

“I do” or “Her Mother and I do”

Who stands with this man in support and blessing of this marriage?

“I do” or “His Mother and I do”

As these two people join together in marriage, they ask for the support and love of not only their families, but of their friends as well.

On this day, they ask that you be more than only friends of BRIDE or only friends of GROOM.  They ask that you recognize their special union and welcome them both as your friends in your lives.

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A successful marriage is made up of two people, each putting the other before themselves and giving to that person 100% first, last, and always.

However, as BRIDE and GROOM’s journey unfolds there will be opportunities and challenges that will strain, and perhaps even weaken, them. They may move back and forth between the seasons of their love, sometimes strong as the autumn harvest time, and sometimes tender, tentative, and fragile as the springtime shoots that brave the frost. In those times they will need the support and caring of all of you who have come to celebrate this joyous union.

So in the joining of these two families, I ask all of you to take a vow in their presence and in the presence of each other.

Do you pledge to honor and support their marriage? Do you pledge to be neutral and support them equally?  And will you always be there for them and embrace them with the love of family and the joy of sharing your lives with them?

“We will.”

Most importantly, have given them not only the capacity to love, but to understand it and the desire to return it.

Because of that they are able to stand now across from each other – to take the limitless wealth that you have all given them in spirit, in time, in love – and return it.

Not just to themselves. not just to you.

But to the memory of those passed.

And to the hope for those yet to be.

Without everyone here today, no one is here today.

And for that, Bride and Groom both knowing that language often fails emotion, say, simply, “thank you.”