Why Choose Chadwick Weddings?
Reason One: Experience.
Between photography and ministry I have provided wedding services for more than five hundred weddings. I’ve learned much helpful information wedding logistics and needs, and I love being helpful to my couples.
After more than five hundred weddings, I’ve seen where and when obstacles can came up, and I have learned how to help my couples overcome them and have a great wedding celebration.
Reason Two: Personal, Attentive Care.
I do whatever I can to help my couples and their guests have an excellent wedding day experience. Being a professional wedding vendor is a lot like being a life coach. Helping couples and guests navigate a day that can sometimes be stressful is just one of the many services that I take great pleasure in providing.
About Michael
Experienced, Professional Wedding Celebrant
I started out as a wedding photographer in 2008 and photographed more than 400 weddings before finally retiring from it. Many years ago I was photographing a wedding and the priest was almost an hour late. The couple was understandably panicked! My approach has always been to have a backup plan to help my couples in case of any emergency that might come up. So, just in case I would ever be needed to fill in, I got ordained in 2014. My first wedding ceremony performed was in 2021, and pretty soon I was performing more ceremonies than photographing – and I love it! I am ordained in NJ, PA, DE, and MD and am happy to register as an officiant in any other location.
I spent three decades as an opera and musical theater performer, audiobook narrator, and public speaker. I’m also a composer, in which capacity I get to share not only words, but music, with the world.
I married my wife Suzanne in 2008, and when you read my ceremonies it becomes clear how much I love and appreciate her. When your officiant is madly in love with their spouse, it just helps inform a more sincere and heartfelt ceremony text for your own wedding!