The Officiants

What The Officiants does

The Officiants is a privately held, founder-led wedding officiant service operating exclusively in Southeast Florida. Its deliverable is a personalized, 100% custom wedding ceremony script written in each couple's voice — not a template — paired with in-person officiant delivery at the couple's chosen venue. The firm serves Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties (with destinations extending to the Florida Keys) and supports ceremonies in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French to address South Florida's multicultural family structures. Product surface covers full wedding ceremonies (10–300+ guests), elopements and micro-weddings, vow renewals, and bilingual/multilingual ceremonies. There is no technology platform, application, or software product; the core 'technology' is the officiant's craft, supported by a marketing website (officiants.wedding) and marketplace listings.

The team consists of four named officiants with a combined 80-plus years of ceremony experience — Dominic Church (Founder & Lead Officiant), Ted Church (Managing Officiant), Ramiro Malagon (Bilingual Officiant), and Ralph Liotta (Officiant & Educator) — and is supplemented by additional contracted support, which places total headcount in the 11–50 firmographic range. Revenue is generated through three tiered, one-time packages: Ceremony at $399 (virtual consultations), Enhanced at $599 (one in-person meeting and priority date booking), and Full-Service at $799 (two in-person meetings), plus optional add-ons (rehearsal attendance $250, basic sound system $100, deluxe sound system $200). There is no recurring or subscription revenue. Go-to-market is direct-to-consumer: couples discover the firm through SEO-optimized city landing pages, The Knot and WeddingWire marketplace listings, a Google Business Profile with 300+ reviews, and word-of-mouth referrals, then book via a free consultation form or phone call, with the firm committing to a reply within 24 hours.

The company reports 1,000+ ceremonies performed across Southeast Florida and a 4.9/5 average rating from 300+ verified reviews across The Knot, WeddingWire, and Google. It is bootstrapped, independently owned (founded 2014, based in Coconut Creek / Broward County, Florida), with no venture capital, private equity, or parent-company involvement disclosed. Operating capacity is structurally limited by officiant availability on peak Saturdays, which constrains both revenue ceiling and scaling velocity.

Name

The Officiants

Legal name

The Officiants

Website

https://officiants.wedding

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Officiants is a Southeast Florida wedding officiant firm that writes and performs 100%-custom, bilingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French) ceremony scripts for couples across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, delivered by a small team of four experienced officiants in three tiered packages priced from $399 to $799.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wedding Officiant Services

NAICS

Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (711510)

akta.pro primary industry

Ceremony Planning & Officiant Coordination (HSACABAL)

Keywords

• Wedding officiant services
• Custom ceremony writing
• Bilingual wedding ceremonies
• Elopement micro-wedding
• Vow renewal ceremonies

Headquarters

HQ city

Coconut Creek

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Wedding Officiant Services: One-time fee per ceremony event. Three tiered packages (Ceremony $399, Enhanced $599, Full-Service $799) differentiated by number of in-person consultations. Add-ons available: rehearsal attendance ($250), basic sound system ($100), deluxe sound system ($200). No recurring revenue component.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Officiants writes and performs personalized wedding, elopement, micro-wedding, and vow renewal ceremonies across Southeast Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties). Every ceremony features a 100% custom script written in each couple's voice, with unlimited revisions, optional bilingual/multilingual delivery (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French), and Florida marriage license signing and filing.

Product overview

The Officiants is a wedding officiant service offering personalized ceremony writing and performance across Southeast Florida. The core offerings consist of Wedding Ceremonies (full personalized ceremonies for 10 to 300+ guests), Elopement/Micro-Wedding services (intimate ceremonies scaled down), Vow Renewals (celebrating continued commitment), and Bilingual/Multilingual Ceremonies (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French). All ceremonies feature 100% custom scripts written in the couple's voice with unlimited revisions. The service is structured in three pricing tiers: Ceremony ($399, virtual consultations), Enhanced ($599, one in-person meeting), and Full-Service ($799, two in-person meetings). Optional add-ons include rehearsal attendance ($250), basic sound system ($100), and deluxe sound system ($200). The team consists of four officiants: Dominic Church (Founder & Lead), Ted Church (Managing Officiant), Ramiro Malagon (Bilingual), and Ralph Liotta (Officiant & Educator). Services are available across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wedding Ceremony A full personalized wedding ceremony for 10 to 300+ guests including a 100% custom script written in the couple's voice, unlimited revisions, vendor coordination, and Florida marriage license signing and filing. Available at beaches, hotels, country clubs, backyards, estates, and other Southeast Florida venues.
• Elopement / Micro-Wedding
• Vow Renewal
• Bilingual & Multilingual Ceremonies
• Ceremony Package Entry-level wedding officiant package priced at $399, including virtual consultations, a fully personalized script, unlimited revisions, and Florida marriage license signing and filing. All languages (EN, ES, PT, FR) are included.
• Enhanced Package
• Full-Service Package
• Rehearsal Attendance Add-On
• Basic Sound System Add-On
• Deluxe Sound System Add-On

Quantifiable outcome

• 4.9/5 average rating from 300+ couples across The Knot, WeddingWire, and Google
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• WeddingWire: Major wedding vendor marketplace where The Officiants also maintains a listing. Comparable as a parallel marketplace channel influencing officiant discovery, reviews, and lead generation in the same Southeast Florida wedding market.
• The Knot Marketplace: Leading wedding vendor marketplace owned by XO Group, where The Officiants is listed. Comparable because it controls a primary channel for officiant discovery and competes indirectly for couples' attention and wedding-services wallet share across the same geography.
• Universal Life Church: Large online ministry that ordains officiants and lists ministers for couples nationwide. Comparable to The Officiants because it operates in the same officiant-discovery and ceremony-provision space, though it functions as an ordination/marketplace platform rather than a localized, custom-script service.

Regional players

• Here Comes the Guide: California-anchored wedding vendor marketplace and editorial site featuring officiants and venues. Comparable as a regional marketplace operator with the same officiant-listing, review-aggregation, and SEO-driven acquisition playbook that The Officiants relies on, but operating in a different primary geography.
• Marry Me Tampa Bay: Florida-based wedding vendor directory and editorial site covering Tampa Bay and surrounding Gulf Coast markets. Comparable as a Florida-focused regional wedding marketplace that aggregates officiant and venue listings and drives Southeast-style SEO and referral dynamics, though in a different Florida sub-region.

Others

• Aisle Planner: Wedding business management software used by planners, venues, and vendors. Comparable as an ecosystem participant that supports the same wedding vendor network The Officiants serves, enabling planner and venue partners that drive referrals to officiants.

Emerging players

• Zola: DTC wedding planning platform offering registries, websites, and vendor booking across the US. Comparable because it increasingly competes for couples' ceremony and wedding-services wallet and is building marketplace presence that intersects with officiant services.
• Joy: Wedding planning platform with websites, RSVPs, registries, and vendor tools used by couples and planners. Comparable as an emerging end-to-end wedding platform whose vendor and planning features overlap with the discovery and booking journey that brings couples to officiant services like The Officiants.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/theofficiantsfl
• Facebookfacebook.com/TheOfficiantsFL
• Instagraminstagram.com/theofficiants
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/south-florida-officiants

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about The Officiants