Los Angeles/SoCal-based Wedding and Life Cycle Officiant
You want your wedding ceremony to feel as personable as possible, and you expect that it will be done with professionalism and flair. When you want a professionally trained, certified Wedding Officiant that feels like your favorite Aunt or BFF, I’m the person for you!
With my training, skill, expertise, and experience, I know how to ask you all the right questions so that your wedding ceremony is designed specifically for YOUR relationship, and the kind of marriage ceremony that YOU want.
How can I help you?
As an experienced wedding and life cycle officiant, I’m here for you, no matter what stage of life you’re in.
I’m looking for a wedding officiant
Let’s pull together a ceremony that feels uniquely you.
I’m looking for a life cycle officiant
From naming your baby to end-of-life assistance, you’ll get customized, compassionate support.
“We do owe a debt to our wonderfully humorous and kind Chaplain Mitzi Schwarz, who superbly and sublimely officiated our wedding at The Ambrose Hotel in Santa Monica.
In a pre-planned almost to the second 40 minute ceremony, Mitzi delivered a hybrid Christian-Jewish-Yoruba blessing in front of our nearest and dearest as her bon mots danced brilliantly into the ether of a spectacular, sunlit mid morning to late afternoon day. Mitzi then wove a touching wedding ceremony script around “The Bard and Milady” that will live long in the memory.”
– Olu and Lenore
Hello! I’m Mitzi!
Interfaith and Multicultural weddings are more and more common, as more and more of us understand that we are one big human family. I love serving Interfaith and Multicultural couples! How many times has an engaged couple asked me, is it possible for us to have an Interfaith marriage ceremony that honors the traditions and cultures of both of us? Can we speak to two (or more!) very different religious sensibilities within the same wedding ceremony? Can we create our own rituals, that perhaps no one has done before? My answer to all these questions is yes, yes, and yes!! Because when you hire me to perform your wedding ceremony, you’re getting a very creative, very open-minded, and very well-trained and Certified Wedding Officiant who’s also a Certified Chaplain. It’s my job and my joy to affirm you both!
Something fascinating I’ve learned in my training is this: as it turns out, wedding ceremonies across cultures share many similarities – just like people! For instance, Jews and Christians bless wine, and Asian cultures have tea ceremonies; these are both what we call “libation ceremonies”. You can have a wine blessing and a tea blessing, all within the same ceremony! Muslim and Indian cultures include blessings for parents, as do Jewish weddings. And imagine this: the Jewish tradition of breaking the glass can be combined with the African/Black tradition of Jumping the Broom. This is because, on a fundamentally psychological level, both rituals symbolize moving from one state of being into another. And that’s precisely what marriage is: moving from a state of singlehood into a state of deep union with another.
Today, we live in a time when we must affirm who we are and embrace all parts of our identities. This Wedding Officiant encourages creativity and self-expression.
Because what the world needs now more than ever is Love, Sweet Love.
Let’s talk about your wedding day!