A Coaching Session: Covering the common pitfalls friend officiants make, and ways to ensure that the ceremony will be memorable for all the right reasons.

Technical Tips: Dressing for a celebration, finding your style and hacking your body for a boost of confidence. How to work with one microphone on a stand for all ceremony needs. How to print and format the final wedding ceremony script, and what’s the best thing to have in your hands. And the one simple thing you can do to make every wedding photographer love you!

A Vows Primer: Help the couple help you so that every element of the ceremony flows flawlessly.

BONUS CLASS! How to officiate for your friends during a pandemic. Keeping health and safety in mind this bonus content will guide you on everything from where to stand, masks or no masks, new microphone and live-streaming needs and other ceremony considerations, during the pandemic.

I’m Alisa Tongg, an award-winning certified Life-Cycle Celebrant and ordained minister. I’ve been creating and performing personal ceremonies for nearly a decade, with hundreds of five-star reviewed weddings and even some love in the New York Times. As a graduate of the Celebrant Foundation and Institute, I’ve made it my life’s work to honor the love of two people in what ways feel most personal to them. I’ve been formally trained as a ceremony expert for interfaith, intercultural and religiously unaffiliated couples as well as for blended families. And I’m passionate about working with lawmakers to update the marriage laws in Pennsylvania so that couples have a greater choice for a legally recognized personal wedding ceremony. And now I’ve taken all that experience and passion and I’m teaching you what I know. Conducting a wedding ceremony is hard. It can be nerve-wracking and scary. But it doesn’t have to be. Join my Master Class and learn my tricks of the trade, my secrets from experience and everything you need to make the wedding ceremony the most memorable part of the day. Let’s celebrate together! xo Alisa 

"Wedding Ceremony Master Class fills a need that has not been addressed before! Perfect for couples who are having friends officiate as there has not yet been a place to go to for professional guidance, legal guidance and ceremony delivery. As a wedding DJ, I have had many a pep-talk with a family/friend-officiant before a ceremony, to help them feel like they got their bases covered, and that they are saying the right things in the right order, and this should not be happening on the day of, right? Also an officiant myself, I highly recommend this course for your friend officiant, especially if they are new to this. This course is beautifully and thoughtfully written, designed in perfect bite-sized lessons, and is all delivered by Alisa Tongg, who really cares about your big day, no matter who you choose to officiate it. Very reasonably priced too, for something you can’t afford to just go and 'wing it.'"

— Rev & DJ Cherish the LUV

"Thanks for the great master class and supporting us in creating a wonderful ceremony. Every tip worked and people enjoyed, cried and laughed. We would not have succeeded in making this memorable day without you."

— Friend Officiant Paula P., Buenos Aires