Personalized Ceremonies by Toni Maddi

Toni was fabulous!! We ended up firing our original reverend 2 weeks prior to our wedding and Toni stepped in and did a great job of customizing the ceremony that really reflected us. We received many compliments about how great she was and how the ceremony was very personalized and refelected who we were. She made us feel confident in the entire process and was always available for questions. I would highly recommend Toni to anyone planning a wedding and looking for that personal touch!!

We are so thankful that our life path's crossed with Rev. Toni's. We had no idea as to how we were going to select an officiant for our civil union. However, when we saw REv. Toni's picture on her website, her spirit shined through so brilliantly. We knew she was the one! Rev. Toni guided us in the selection of our vows with patience and grace. Our ceremony was such an intimate and sacred ceremony. We believe that Rev. Toni made all the difference in the world. Best wishes, Monika & Monica

Toni Maddi was absolutely amazing from start to finish. Our friends were married by her a year before, and when we got engaged, they e-mailed to tell us how wonderful Toni was. With such a recommendation, how could we not engage her services? Toni is extremely professional and very responsive to e-mails. Meeting her in person was like having coffee with a friend; she's very warm and very good at setting people at ease. Putting the ceremony together was so special. I loved being able to customize it, and Toni had great suggestions--all of which we used! At the ceremony, ah... it was just perfect. Exactly what we wanted. And Toni was such a huge part of it. She kept checking on my groom and me to make sure we were breathing, not locking our knees, and not about to pass out! The ceremony felt so intimate and friendly and was just to our liking. Thank you, Toni, for making our celebration so meaningful!

Toni officiated our 11/12/11 wedding and I highly recommend her. She was wonderful to work with. I planned our wedding from out of state so only had the chance to talk with her on the phone prior to the wedding day but she gave us an amazing ceremony and it felt like we had a real relationship. I got so many compliments from our guests saying that it was the nicest ceremony they'd ever attended. Two guests even said that they wished Toni had officiated their childrens' weddings. I can't recommend her enough.

We had an unusual wedding. It was a halloween wedding. Every one was in costume. It was a full Halloween theme. From the zombies as a part of my wedding party to the old hag passing out red apples. Toni was great. She made us feel comfortable and less stressed.

We found Toni to be very warm, friendly and professional. We had a ceremony that incorporated several of our own elements built around the framework and guidance that Toni offered. She was more than happy to incorporate what we wanted and had some very good advice to help with improvements (sharing elements among participants/offering to help prepare materials). She definitely looked the part on the day (she'd even had her hair done!) and was very good at calming nerves and making the whole ceremony feel very human but also deeply meaningful. We can whole-heartedly recommend her to you.

We found Toni to be an excellent officiant for our wedding. She was very personable to us and our families, and conducted a beautiful ceremony. She provided great guidance and even a document with example ceremony readings for us to choose from. It was a lot of help considering the astounding amount of research we had to do for other parts of our wedding - what a relief! All in all, we would recommend you use Toni. She is a great person and officiant. We really enjoyed her services.

I have nothing but absolutely positive things to say about working with Toni Maddi. She was everything that my husband and I wanted in a wedding officiant. She is extremely intelligent, thoughtful and professional. She truly listened to how we envisioned our ceremony and then brought it to life. We received many compliments from our guests on our ceremony-we could not be happier. I will forever be grateful to Toni for being such an important part of one of the happiest days of my life.

We had so many compliments on Toni & our ceremony.

Toni was awesome. She was extremly helpful throughout our entire wedding process. She would always response back in a prompt manner and made sure we are all on the same page. The ceremony was beautiful and most importantly short enough before we bore all of our guests, just the way we wanted!

Choosing Toni to be the Officiant for our wedding was the best decision! We e-mailed a couple of prospective Officiants and Toni's response was by far the most warm and professional. We met with her in a coffee shop and she impressed us so much we gave her the deposit on the spot. We loved the format that she uses for making the ceremony more personal. It made the whole process so much easier since we weren't starting from scratch. We wanted a ceremony that was pretty straightforward and non-religious but still personal and romantic and that's exactly what we got. Toni totally put us at ease and was very organized on the day of. She did an excellent job during the ceremony, we got soooo many compliments on the ceremony throughout the night. I would highly recommend Toni Maddi if you are getting married in the Chicago area.

HOORAY FOR TONI!!!!!! Toni was SO easy to work with and she was great about our wishes to have a non-demoninational ceremony. We talked about the ceremony a few days before and it was clear to us that Toni was 100% on it. She gave us a few key pieces of advice, the most valuable of which turned out to be giving our 5 year old ring bearer a fake ring to carry. "don't give a five year old your rings!" Our best man had the rings with him and our nephew had a costume ring in a matching sachet to the real ones - and sure enough, he was swinging that thing around, dropping it in the grass, etc for the 30 mins prior to the ceremony. Many of our guests commented that the ceremony was so moving and that Toni was the best officiant they had ever witnessed. Toni even managed to remind me to breathe (twice) without our guests noticing. She balanced the humor of our story with the the tenderness of the hand ceremony and the seriousness of her personal comments on marriage. Toni shepherded us through a dream ceremony - we cannot recommend her enough. THANK YOU TONI!!!!!! PS. From a note I sent to Toni on 2/27/11: We're STILL hearing from our wedding guests how much they loved you! Please feel free to send anyone our way - we would be so happy to be a reference for you.

Toni did an excellent job on our ceremony! We had many compliments from our guests about how much they liked our ceremony and the way Toni presented. Before meeting Toni, we met with numerous other officiants, and none of them compared to Toni. We connected with her from the first phone conversation. She is very easy to talk to and made us feel very comfortable. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a great wedding officiant!

Rev. Maddi was really great to work with. She's friendly and open with any ideas as well as providing ideas from previous experiences that she had. We didn't have a rehearsal but Rev. Maddi was able to guide everyone through the ceremony. Her ceremony guide made it easy for us to decide what needs to be included in the ceremony. She is very professional. We added a butterfly release to our ceremony about a week or so before our wedding and she jumped with the idea even though it wasn't discussed originally. I would recommend her to anyone looking for officiant service for their wedding. Thanks!

We had such a wonderful experience with Toni, and I would highly recommend her to anyone in the Chicago area looking for an officiant. She was very responsive at my initial request for information about her services, and during our planning meeting she was very warm and engaging, and flexible in creating a very personal wedding ceremony. She encouraged us to write our own vows, which I normally wouldn't have thought of doing, but in the end, reading vows was one of my favorite moments of the night! Our ceremony was so unique and special, and was absolutely my favorite part of our wedding. Toni had a very calming and professional presence at our wedding, and we can't imagine having had the ceremony without her!!

Toni, thank you for everything.This is your passion and it is obvious by the way our ceremony was given. Thank you for everything. Especially, thank you for the typed copy of our ceremony. I would recommend Toni to anyone and everyone!

I highly recommend Toni. We spoke on the phone and then met in person. She took the time to get to know us. We were able to select what we wanted (and didn't want) in our ceremony which made it "our" ceremony. She was always very quick to get back to us whether it was by phone or email. Very professional. We got a lot of comments from our guests on how beautiful the ceremony was.

I would recommend Toni Maddi to anyone in need of an officiant for their wedding. She is very prompt to respond back to any questions/comments/concerns we had, she is very professional, and she is very warm and friendly. We had an initial meeting with Toni to discuss what we had in mind for our ceremony and from the moment we met her, we knew she was going to be an excellent officiant for our wedding and the right "fit". We had a non-denominational/non-traditional wedding. I am Vietnamese and my husband is Caucasion. I had wanted to incorporate some of my Vietnamese cultural wedding traditions into the ceremony and Toni was very accomodating to what I had wanted (we ended up incorporating a Vietnamese Tea Ceremony into our wedding ceremony). She had a whole list of possibile "scripts" for our ceremony and we were able to pick and choose from her list and we were able to add/modify things to fit "us". This made the ceremony very clear-cut and easy for us because we had no idea on what to do or where even to begin when it came time to figure out what we wanted said during the wedding ceremony. We were able to write up a personal story about "us" and incorporate it into the wedding ceremony. We were able to write up our own vows and she was able to incorporate these into the ceremony. We had an outdoor ceremony and she projects her voice very loudly and clearly (our guest count was 200). At the end of the ceremony, she had us both turn to face our guests which was completely unexpected but I think for both my husband and I, this was one of our favorite parts of the ceremony. We got to stop and see all of our guests and all of their faces which is all such a blur when you're the bride and walking down the aisle to stand next to your man so this was a very nice touch in the end.

Toni gave us the most beautiful wedding ceremony! We continue to receive compliments on how wonderful and unique it was. Throughout the planning process and the actual ceremony, she made us feel very comfortable and helped us design a ceremony that fit us. She made me feel very relaxed on the day of the wedding which I greatly needed. I can't wait to see our wedding video to rehear all of her beautiful words and message.

Toni was fantastic to work with! Her ceremonies allow couples to have a lot of flexibility and decision-making in how to customize the ceremony to fit each couple's taste. We received numerous compliments about the ceremony and how unique it was in comparison to other weddings. It really left an impression with our guests!