Michael Kersh (Wedding Officiant)
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I love officiating at weddings! My goal is to help you create the perfect and unique ceremony that will make your day special and memorable. Here are some of the services that I offer:
An extensive database of services, readings, prayers, vows, and blessings from a wide variety of religious traditions as well as non-religious services and readings. You can use one of these services as is, or use all of these resources to develop your own unique wedding ceremony.
Assistance in developing a wedding ceremony that is tailored to your beliefs and personal preferences. I have performed over 150 wedding ceremonies from a variety of religious traditions as well as a variety of non-religious ceremonies.
Same-sex and second marriages are welcome
Preparing all legal documents required by the state of Ohio
Directing the wedding rehearsal
Performing the wedding ceremony within the greater Miami Valley area
Up to two meetings (excluding the rehearsal and wedding) and as many phone calls, emails and texts as necessary to plan the perfect ceremony for you!
My charge for all of this is $150. I look forward to hearing from and working with you!
I love helping to make each couple's wedding day very, very special. I enjoy getting to know them and seeing their excitement as they create their own ceremony. I enjoy the relief that they experience when they know someone is there to help them. I am always touched when I see their happiness on their wedding day, and the satisfaction they experience as they see the ceremony that they created unfold before them.
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2018
2017
Services offered
Type of ceremony
Wedding
Commitment ceremony
Vow renewal
Service type (affiliation)
Christian
Catholic
Jewish
Buddhist
Need help writing vows?
I can work with couples who need help writing vows
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Amber L.
Jun 5, 2016
Hired on Thumbtack
Mike was truly amazing, I could not imagine a better officiant for our wedding. He is very sweet and professional and I highly recommend him. He made our day very special!
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Stanley T.
Jan 11, 2017
Hired on Thumbtack
The service was perfect. He was a great official for my wedding. Everyone loved him and the experience he gave us on our Jamaican themed wedding.
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Sarah H.
Jan 12, 2016
Mike Kersh was highly recommended by our wedding venue after we lost our officient unexpectedly. He was amazing to work with and extremely professional. He helped us map out our ceremony and made suggestions along the way to help us. He was easy to get in contact with if we every had a question. Our ceremony was perfect and we were so glad to have Mike apart of it!
Stephanie H.
Nov 15, 2016
Hired on Thumbtack
Mr. Kersh got in touch with us right away, met us for coffee, and we just had a CHARMING time laughing and talking with him, getting to know him. He asked us a lot about ourselves, about what is important to us, what kind of wedding we wanted, what would be most meaningful to us. It was wonderfully clear that he would personalize the ceremony in whatever way he could to make it unique to our relationship, unique to our situation in life, and unique in respect of our religious beliefs.
After meeting Mr. Kersh and being so comfortable with him, we hired him immediately. There was just no question in our minds. And we are SO GLAD we did!
He promptly sent us sample readings, blessings, and wordings, both scriptural and secular, that he thought we might like. With his ideas and a few of our own, the three of us were able to prepare a love-filled, joyous, fun, meaningful and sacred service for our wedding.
Mr. Kersh is a no-fuss man and a fabulous communicator; bless him, he was absolutely unflappable (even when we were nervous and excited), he laughed and chatted with us and generally just made us feel we were old friends.
And it was very important to us - we are still talking about this - that he clearly SHARED OUR JOY! He made it beautifully plain that he was thrilled to be there with us, to witness our vows and our love as we sealed ourselves in marriage. Hire this gentleman.
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Melissa S.
Jan 13, 2016
My husband and I were lucky enough to find Mike's contact information through our florist as we were planning our wedding. Not that the flowers weren't beautiful, because they were, but the best thing we got from the florist was Mike!
My husband and I didn't know exactly what type of ceremony we wanted. We had little pieces of ideas, but no idea how we wanted them to go together. For example, I wanted a section during the ceremony for our guests to have the opportunity to renew their vows, but I didn't want it to cause a huge disruption in the ceremony, or be uncomfortable for guests that were attending alone. Also, we knew we wanted two readings during the ceremony, but my husband wanted more of his family to be involved somehow.
After just one meeting with Mike, where we seemed to throw random ideas at him in no order whatsoever, he put all of our ideas together seamlessly and sent us a draft of the ceremony. He also included options that we could pick from. For example, two different versions of vows, several different reading options (which could easily be split up by several readers), and he fit the renewing of the vows for our guests perfectly within the ceremony!
Both the rehearsal and the ceremony went flawlessly! Now that our wedding day has come and gone, the thing we hear most often as people are reminiscing about the day is how unique our ceremony was and how great Mike was.
We would highly recommend Mike to anyone looking for an officiant! If we did our wedding all over again, it's the one thing I know we would not change!