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