What Types of Wedding Ceremonies Does Officiant Eric Offer?

Officiant Eric offers traditional, creative, and interfaith wedding ceremonies, and he builds each one around the couple's personality, heritage, passions, and beliefs. He serves Los Angeles and Ventura Counties and is known as the Malibu Officiant. One important condition: his site states, "I am not taking on new clients," so the ceremony types below are best treated as a planning resource or a way to understand his style rather than a booking option. The site does invite visitors to "feel free to use the resources on this website for your wedding."

The three ceremony categories

Eric describes his work in three overlapping categories:

• Traditional weddings — ceremonies that follow familiar structures and include the classic elements many couples expect.
• Creative weddings — modern, unique ceremonies shaped around the couple rather than a fixed script.
• Interfaith weddings — ceremonies that blend or honor more than one faith tradition.

These are not rigid boxes. The stated goal is a ceremony that feels authentic to the couple, including their heritage, passions, and beliefs, so elements from different categories are commonly mixed.

Ceremony elements you can choose from

The site lists a long menu of ceremony sections. Sections marked in bold on the original page are the ones that appear in traditional wedding ceremonies.

A few of these are worth explaining because they signal how flexible the ceremonies can be:

• Interfaith and cultural elements — the Chuppah Ceremony, Seven Blessings, Veil/Cord/Coins, Jumping the Broom, and Quaich Ceremony each come from specific traditions, which is how a ceremony can honor more than one background.
• Symbolic unity rituals — Unity Candle, Sand Ceremony, Unity Canvas Painting, Wine Ceremony, and Love Letter and Wine Box let couples choose a visual moment that matches their style instead of a default.
• Inclusive touches — Those With Us In Spirit, Ring Warming, and Affirmation of the Community bring guests or absent loved ones into the ceremony.

How to tell whether this style fits your wedding

Ask three questions:

1. Do you want a ceremony that mixes traditions? If you and your partner come from different faiths or cultural backgrounds, the interfaith and cultural elements above are the relevant ones.
2. Do you want a standard structure or a custom one? If you want the familiar flow, the bolded traditional sections give you a ready-made backbone. If you want something personal, the creative elements are where the customization happens.
3. Do you want guests involved? Elements like Ring Warming and Affirmation of the Community are designed for that.

If the answer to any of these is yes, the ceremony samples on the site are the most useful next step, since they show how the individual sections fit together into a full ceremony.

Practical notes

• Location: Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
• Venues: Eric has officiated at venues including Adamson House, Bel-Air Bay Club, Brookview Ranch, Calamigos Ranch, Cielo Farms Malibu, Malibu Rocky Oaks, Malibu Solstice Vineyards, Malibu West Beach Club, Saddlerock Ranch, The Sunset Restaurant, and Triunfo Creek Vineyards.
• Availability: The site states he is not taking on new clients. If you are planning a wedding and need an officiant, use the ceremony samples and element list as a template you can bring to another officiant, or as a starting point for writing your own ceremony.
• Contact: The site lists 818-632-1900, though given the availability notice, the resources are the more immediately useful part of the site.