Daniela VillaRamos from Once Upon a Vow is a New York City based “wedding wordsmith” AKA wedding officiant. She specializes in custom and bilingual Spanish ceremonies.

 

This episode’s drinks:

Angry Orchard Hard Cider

 

Topics we covered:

• How Daniela and I discovered each other
• How Daniela got into officiating
• How I got into officiating
• Why Daniela prefers meeting in person before allowing a couple to book her services
• Why I love that couples never even have to talk with me if they don’t want to
• How serving religious couples brings up interesting concerns for non-religious officiants
• We share our religious upbringing and how it has impacted our businesses
• We respond to the “marriage is just a piece of paper” thing
• What we think the wedding ceremony is all about
• We discuss our 2017 goals
• How she plans her time on wedding day as a New Yorker versus how I plan my time as Californian
• How we handle marriage license filings

 

Links to the awesome things and people mentioned:

• Daniela’s website is Once Upon a Vow, and here’s her Instagram and Facebook
• Angry Orchard Hard Cider
• Evolve Your Wedding Business
• Bethel Nathan
• MileIQ
• Waze: GPS Navigation