Styles Weddings - Ottawa Wedding Officiant

Shelley was our officiant for our wedding day and we couldn’t be happier. She’s so warm, friendly, and easy to work with. She was also extremely helpful and always available throughout the entire process of us personalizing our ceremony script and vows. Anytime we had questions, she would offer to chat on the phone and respond to our emails quickly. She’s also incredibly accommodating, especially when we had some last minute changes to our script a day before the wedding. We highly recommend Shelley to anyone that is looking for an officiant.Thank you for everything, Shelley!

We are so grateful that Shelley was part of our special day. She was so easy to communicate with and was a breath of fresh air to work with. Shelley took care of the 'legal' side of things so we didn't have to stress about it. She also worked with us to tailor the wedding ceremony to suit our personalities perfectly, and the end result was a wedding ceremony we will cherish forever. Thank you Shelley for bringing such a calm and lovely presence to our wedding day!

I worked with Shelley recently for an elopement, and she was wonderful to work with as well as attentive to the couple's requests. She's professional and caring, and that is felt throughout the ceremony. A wonderful officiant for your special day!

Shelley Styles is an amazing officiant. She was so helpful throughout the ceremony planning process and allows you to completely customize your wedding ceremony. She is extremely professional and really knows how to run a wedding! I would highly recommend booking Shelley Styles for your wedding!

My husband and I only have the best of things to say about Shelley. She was so wonderful to have as an officiant for our ceremony and we couldn’t have imagined our perfect day without her. She was incredibly accommodating and made our ceremony feel like it was written just for us. She has a presence about her that makes you feel like you’ve known her forever.I would recommend her to anyone. She truly made our day so special.

Shelley was so amazing to work with for our big day! Even though we changed our wedding date three times (thank you covid), she kept all the details organized and was so helpful along the way! We had no idea where to start when it came to the ceremony, so Shelley provided us with multiple templates as a starting point to creating our dream ceremony.Shelley was so friendly, organized, and a true professional - it's no wonder she has done four weddings within our friend group!!

We were so happy we went with Shelley as our officiant. Shelley took the time to listen and understand our vision of our wedding and shared insights and guidance on ways to ensure the ceremony flowed well as well as ensure the desired tone for the day. We were immensely grateful for Shelley's calm approach, flexibility and adaptability as our plans changed due to COVID-19. We highly recommend Shelley for others looking for an officiant. Thank you again Shelley for everything! <3

We can’t say enough about Shelley – she is everything you’d look for in a wedding officiant, and more. Shelley is incredibly organized, creative, confident, and open to the couple’s vision for the day. We met with Shelley early on in the process, and were struck by her listening skills. She asked great questions and really focused on our ideas, personalities and needs. By the end of the meeting (just by answering her questions and having great conversation) we had a much better understanding of what was important to us for that day, and how we could shape our ceremony so it was meaningful and unique to us. At that point in the planning process, it was such a relief to have a sense of direction. Shelley then provided a wide range of information and resources that we could use to create our ceremony – including examples and templates. At the same time, she encouraged us to be creative and make the ceremony ours. Shelley was fun, enthusiastic and positive from start to finish and her energy and passion for what she does enhanced our excitement on the day of the wedding. She was early for every meeting and the rehearsal, and had all the necessary paperwork organized and clearly marked to keep things easy for us. She also kept a calm and upbeat demeanour despite a few uncontrollable elements during the outdoor ceremony, including some rain and a funny incident that involved a bumble bee trapped in the wedding dress. We would highly recommend Shelley to our friends, family, and others – she not only made the wedding process really easy, she truly added to the enjoyment of it.

Although an officiant can often be an afterthought in the planning process, they can make or break your ceremony. To me, it was important to find someone that suited our personalities, understood our vision, and could deliver the type of ceremony that we wanted. After all, they are the voice that greets your guests and directs you through your matrimonial vows.Shelley was earnest, accommodating, and really cared about making our wedding ceremony a true representation of us as a couple. We envisioned our ceremony to be short, intimate and moving, but also light-hearted. From our first phone call, to meeting in person, to walking us through our rehearsal, to officiating our wedding day―she was there every step of the way as the calming voice of expertise, whenever we had questions or needed advice.After getting a feel for how we wanted to ceremony to run, Shelley made scripting the ceremony so simple for us (note: I wanted to be a little more hands-on with the ceremony and she was happy to let us hold the reins when we wanted to!). She has a plethora of resources and sent us a number of samples to pick and choose from to help us piece together a mock-up. She always offered to share more samples or revise wording in case anything didn’t suit us. She never blinked an eye to any of the “less traditional” additions we wanted to include in the script, and even encouraged it. To me, this spoke volumes about her professionalism and adaptability.She made some suggestions for the ceremony (and that we, ourselves, would not have thought of!) that enhanced the experience for us and our guests. She also had a great sense of humour and evoked a few laughs from our guests with her ad-libbing, which was exactly what we wanted from her. She worked with our wedding party to write in personal anecdotes, which she shared with us during the ceremony. Altogether, the ceremony set the perfect tone for the rest of the day.Last but not least, Shelley even left us a card and gift on our wedding day, which was totally unexpected but so so so sweet. We truly could not have asked for a more lovely officiant to marry us off!