A Beautiful Ceremony

Kimberly did a fantastic job helping us plan for and officiate our non-​denominational wedding! Since we’re not religious, we weren’t sure what to include in our ceremony, but Kimberly provided tons of examples for us to pick and choose from until we got it just right! She also guided us through the process of acquiring our marriage license — she gave us insider tips and common pitfalls for the application paperwork and accompanied us to the the Napa County Clerk office where we were done in only 10 minutes! Throughout the whole planning process, Kimberly was always prompt in answering any questions, and went above and beyond (meeting at off-​hours, reviewing potential readings to provide feedback, etc) to make sure we were taken care of. On the day of our wedding, we were so grateful for her experience (she’s performed over 4200 weddings!) as she expertly guided us through our somewhat complicated wedding vows, and even had tissues on hand when both of us started crying. The whole ceremony went so smoothly and we’re grateful that Kimberly played such an important part of our big day!

We absolutely loved working with Kimberly! She is extremely professional and helped us figure out all of the details of our ceremony without us having to worry. Not to mention, getting our wedding license was a breeze. It was waiting for us when we got home from our honeymoon :) SO happy we chose to work with A Beautiful Ceremony.

Kimberly is just marvelous. What we thought would be a long and tedious process became immediately simple when we contacted Kimberly to officiate. She immediately put us at ease and helped us organize. She is sensitive, knowledgeable, and highly organized, answering all our questions timely. Kimberly always exhibited a calm, reassuring demeanor from planning to reception. Thanks to Kimberly, the ceremony went smoothly and was simply beautiful.

From the very beginning, Kimberly was awesome. She was a very good communicator and Brix was beautiful. Because she thought of every detail, everything went smoothly.
If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change a thing. Thank you!!!

Kimberly Thompson from A Beautiful Ceremony was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! I would highly recommend that you choose her as your officiant. We were looking for an officiant online and we chose Kimberly based on her reviews. What a great choice!
Initially we were planning on having a friend become an officiant and conduct our ceremony, but we were so glad we went with a professional.
Kimberly was extremely friendly, responsive, down-​to-​earth and very knowledgeable. Kimberly was always available by telephone or email. She put us at ease during the wedding planning process and helped us create a memorable ceremony and write our vows. Upon signing the contract, Kimberly will send you examples of other ceremonies to assist you with planning.
Kimberly arrived at our ceremony early and was socializing with our guests. She performed a beautiful ceremony and we were so thankful that we chose her as our officiant.
After the ceremony, Kimberly mailed our Marriage License back to the courthouse for us.
Kimberly treated my wife and I like we were king and queen throughout the entire process. Her business provides a full service experience and we are so thankful to have her perform our ceremony.

No less than 5 out of 5 stars on everything for Kimberly! She was the first person we met with when we arrived in Napa for our destination wedding and her positive energy was infectious and really helped us get excited for our ceremony. Kimberly is super organized and made the whole process very easy for us, not to mention delivered us a wonderful, emotional ceremony that we will remember for the rest of our lives. Of all the things the bride and groom have to worry about for their wedding, hiring Kimberly means that having a heartfelt, meaningful and flawless ceremony won’t be one of them!

Kimberly was so incredibly helpful, friendly, and professional. She followed-​up emails with phone calls, and was incredibly prompt with all communications. As an out-​of-​state couple, we were grateful for her help filing our marriage paperwork at the Napa County Clerk office. She also provided many example ceremony scripts for our non-​denominational wedding, as requested. She is a skilled orator and had a very professional appearance.
Highly recommended!

Kimberly was absolutely wonderful to work with… she handled everything with efficiency and professionalism. We got married with one of her elopement packages and other than the dress, ring and flowers, she handled the rest. It was a stress free wedding, if there is such a thing, we just enjoyed our day. Thank you Kimberly for all you do!

My husband and I planned our Napa wedding from across the country in NYC, so we needed an officant that was good at communicating and would give us the relaxed, non-​religious ceremony we wanted. Kimberly was great; easy to talk to, fast at replying to questions, and helpful in explaining and arranging the marriage license process, especially at the Napa County Clerk’s office. In planning our ceremony, Kimberly provided us with many examples and information. Once we put together an idea of the ceremony we wanted, she helped us perfect it. She scheduled regular check-​ins throughout the year and was always available by phone, Skype, and email for any questions or concerns. She also made a point of getting to know me and my husband, which made us feel special and at ease. She is very professional, and made us all feel at ease before and during the ceremony. I recommend Kimberly for anyone wanting a relaxed and meaningful event.

Planning a destination wedding from the opposite coast can be a bit difficult. From the moment I spoke with Kimberly, I knew I would have nothing to worry about. She covers every detail and is impeccably organized.
We got a bit confused finding the courthouse when we got to Napa and a lady walked up to us on the street and said, «Looking for Kimberly? 2 doors down on your right.». So cute and unexpected but she was there waiting for us with everything ready to go.
Our small wedding went off without a hitch and I know Kimberly played a large role in that. You cannot go wrong with letting her handle all the details. She will respond in a timely fashion to every single question every.single.time. And she will always be happy to do so.
And by happy I mean, energetic, enthusiastic, and excited. She loves her job and it shows.

Kimberly is the best Officiant in Sonoma County. She is well organized, efficient, responsive in all ways, and really just all around wonderful. She has such a contagious personality. She is always friendly and very sincere. I recommend her to every client I have that is in search of a professional officiant on their wedding day. Because I know Kimberly will put together the perfect ceremony that not only reflects the couple but brings their guests into the experience with them. She is a wonderful addition to all weddings. If you are looking for the perfect person to officiate your day look no further because Kimberly is the best.

If I could give Kimberly more than 5 stars, I would! From the moment I first contacted Kimberly, she made me feel extremely comfortable and really listened to our needs. She has always been extremely professional, kind, warm and so easy to get along with. Throughout the planning process, my husband and I grew close to Kimberly and met with her several times so that she could get to know us and we could get to know her. Kimberly really listened and helped to create the ceremony that we had always wanted! She provides her professional opinion but also gives you the space to create the ceremony that you want. She was also so supportive throughout the whole planning process and she always made my husband and I feel so special and like she valued us as much as we valued her. She delivered a beautiful ceremony on the wedding day and I am so glad that such a wonderful person married us! She became way more than just our officiant, but a confidant and someone we know that will always be our biggest cheerleader! If you are looking for a supportive and warm officiant that lets you create your own ceremony that is special to you, I would highly suggest hiring Kimberly as your officiant! Thank you Kimberly, for being so wonderful!

We can’t thank Kimberly enough for all that she did for us. From the first time we met with her, we knew she was the perfect person to work with… and she proved to be everything we thought and so much more. She definitely went above and beyond her job description. We are so happy in our decision to work with her.
In planning our ceremony, Kimberly provided us with many examples and information. Once we put together an idea of the ceremony we wanted, she helped us perfect it. She scheduled regular check-​ins throughout the year and was always available by phone and email for any questions or concerns. She also made a point of getting to know me and my husband personally, which made us feel special and at ease. While Kimberly is very professional, she really made us feel as though our wedding was being performed by an old friend.
Kimberly stands out in the work she does. She is organized, detail-​oriented, professional, experienced, friendly, and not afraid to take charge when needed to make your ceremony the most special day of your life. Many of our guests came up to us throughout the night and told us how wonderful our officiant was. Some even thought she was our wedding planner because if she saw something she could help with before the ceremony, she jumped right in. We are so grateful.
We strongly recommend Kimberly. She played a huge part in making our wedding day truly the most fun and special day of our lives. We will be passing on her information every chance we get.

We are so fortunate to have found such an amazing officiant. Her years of experience in this industry show in her seemless presentation. She knows the ins and outs of the entire wedding process and provides terrific recommendations. We received so many compliments from our guests.

Kimberly is awesome. She is professional and down to earth and reasonably priced. For me and my husband, she was patient when we needed patience, authoritative when we were lacking authority and guidance (we both had had no clue on where to stand, what to do, who normally says what first and when and all the details we both had no idea about). She is professional, kind, respectful and has a great sense of humor– all the ingredients of someone whom I wanted to marry us. She set the pace in the first few instances of my marriage and unlike others, to me, that is worth every penny. I couldn’t be happier with her service. I would and have recommended A Beautiful Ceremony.

My fiancé and I were planning our Sonoma wedding from across the country, so we needed an officant that was good at communicating and would give us the relaxed, non-​religious ceremony we wanted. Kimberly fit the bill perfectly. She’s super fast at replying to questions, and was very helpful in explaining and arranging the marriage license process. Best of all, you can work with all her sample ceremonies to meld the pieces you like into your final ceremony. Overall, it was a very stress free aspect of our wedding day, thanks to Kimberly.

Kimberly came highly recommended by the events planner at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn. After my first telephone call with her, I knew that she was the perfect person to make our marriage official. For those of you with writer’s block, Kimberly provides numerous templates as a starting point for drafting the ceremony. Her editing skills will surely give you an end product that won’t leave a dry eye in the crowd. My groom and I are extremely busy, and Kimberly’s organizational skills, professionalism, and great sense of humor made planning our ceremony so much fun (and easy)! She is knowledgeable about the licensing process and even sent us all of the materials we needed to fill out to further minimize the work we had to do. Lastly, she has a great sense of humor and despite her very busy schedule, Kimberly manages to make you feel as if you are the only couple she is working with.

Kimberly Thompson was a wonderful officiant and she is VERY VERY organized! Her organization is so great because when it comes to the ceremony, while it is the reason for your special day, it can often be overlooked and we knew that would not happen with Kimberly involved. She and our coordinator worked wonderfully together for our August 2008 wedding and Kimberly had much of the organization of the ceremony figured out and documented for our coordinator.
Kimberly was also very helpful in making suggestions for our ceremony and was professional in incorporating the suggestions we went with and for those we didn’t, she recognized it was our day and wanted to make sure it was what we wanted.
She has a vast amount of experience and has worked with many vendors at many venues across wine country. In addition, when I looked back at the references that many venues we reviewed for the day of after our wedding, I noted that she was often listed on this list of recommended officiants.
An additional perk is that Kimberly will meet with you and your fiancé when you pick up your license in Napa, ensuring you have all the paperwork set up properly.
Beyond all, Kimberly kept me on my toes! This is usually hard for someone to do because I am usually a step in front of most and she was always a step in front of me when asking for items. This was very helpful as we had originally planned for a friend to marry us but that did not work out so we were late in the game on finalizing an officiant and later on finalizing the ceremony details. We were lucky because of our Thursday wedding date to be able to book Kimberly. If it were not for that it would have been very hard to find one within 6 months of the wedding.
Last but definitely not least, Kimberly helped us locate a coordinator that was also absolutely phenomenal. I don’t know how it happened but we ended up having such an amazing day with absolutely wonderful vendors.

Five stars plus for Kimberly, one of the greatest people I have ever met! My husband and I made the right decision in choosing Kimberly to officiate over our wedding this summer in Calistoga. We spent a lot of time trying to find the right officiant to preside over our non-​denominational and intercultural wedding. I’m Chinese and my husband is Greek so having a ceremony that blended the two cultures together was key. Other officiants we had met with wanted to put a time limit on our ceremony, didn’t respect our cultures, or refused to do a rehearsal. We chose Kimberly because not only did she allow us the freedom to create a ceremony that would celebrate us as a couple and our cultures, but she also believed that a rehearsal was important in making our ceremony a success. Kimberly is extremely accessible, so easy to work with, very attentive, so organized, and has a knack for remembering everything down to the minute details. She is serious about her work but at the same time really cares about all of her brides and grooms and it shows through her communication and fun personality. If you’re looking to get married, I highly recommend Kimberly. You won’t regret it!

I love love love Kimberly. She made our wedding day perfect.
My big sister recommended I use her — Kimberly officiated her ceremony at Carneros the previous year and thought she was great.
Kimberly is incredibly organized — given that there are so many details in a wedding, it’s nice to know that she will take care of licensing, vows, coordinating the ceremony, etc. And she also is just super fun — we wanted something extremely simple and non-​religious. She was very flexible in putting together a ceremony that was very «us.» Basically, she presents a lot of different options to choose from and you can mix and match. We met her in person a month before our ceremony so she could get to know us.
What’s really great about Kimberly is that she has done a ridiculous number of ceremonies in wine country that she knows all the ins and outs of layout, structure, etc — so she was actually a wedding coordinator for us in addition to our officiant. She is a logistics freak which is exactly what you need on your wedding day. It unexpectedly poured the day of my ceremony and I was freaking out — but she knew exactly what the plan would be bc she had done so many weddings at our venue Viansa.