Great Officiants

Great Officiants is a Long Beach-based wedding officiant company led by presiding officiant Alan Katz, offering a team of 39 licensed professional officiants for ceremonies across Southern California. The team covers a wide range of ceremony styles and officiants, including ministers, priests, rabbis, non-denominational, interfaith, bilingual, cosplay, and LGBTQ+-affirming officiants, with bilingual speakers fluent in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Italian, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Sanskrit, and Hindi. They also offer beach wedding setups, elopement packages, and ceremonies at their Long Beach chapel, as well as on-site marriage license issuance. Alan Katz founded the company after officiating his first ceremony in 2003, opened the Long Beach wedding chapel in 2008, and has received awards including Top Officiant in the USA by WIPA, Best Officiant in Los Angeles and Orange Counties by California Wedding Day Magazine, Trendsetter of the Year by the Association of Bridal Consultants, and Wedding Wire Couples Choice every year from 2009 through 2018. Based in Long Beach, with officiants serving Los Angeles, Orange County, and locations throughout Southern California, as well as destination weddings nationwide and worldwide. Couples highlight personalized touches such as ring warmings, lasso prayers, moments of silence, and interfaith traditions like the Mi Sheberach prayer, and frequently note that officiants like Clifford, Alan, and Mitzi balanced humor, warmth, and professionalism in ways that drew compliments from guests long after the ceremony.