Charlie Lake (she/her)

Our officiant Chris-Ann was so lovely. She made our small elopement ceremony very fun, easy, and memorable 🙂 Thank you to Young Hip & Married for connecting us!

Young Hip & Married were phenomenal to work with for our elopement. Danya and Charlie were very responsive to our questions and ideas and full of positive energy. The vow writing course provided helpful tips on developing thoughtful and meaningful vows. Charlie specifically was an absolutely great officiant for our ceremony and our guests could not stop talking about how great she was.

We had Chris-Ann Lake as our officiant, and it was a great fit. She was professional, organized and easy to connect with. We wanted a relaxed and unconventional ceremony, and Chris-Ann nailed it. Our love story and vows were meant to be informal and funny, and she was perfect in that role. I was only sad that we did not get to spend more time with her, as we were whisked off to photos rather quickly. Definitely recommend YH&M and Chris-Ann!

We were told it’s not always possible to get what you want from your officiant but Young Hip & Married proved that wrong and gave us and our guests the exact experience we were hoping for! Our ceremony was non-traditional and it was refreshing to know with Chris-Ann and the team any and all options were on the table for our special day (with the caveat we include those all important elements which make the event legally binding). Thanks Young Hip & Married!!

Finding Charlie through Young Hip & Married was a fantastic experience! From the first email to coordinating our first meeting with our officiant Charlie was a breeze!

We have tried to figure out how to put into words just how amazing it was to have Charlie officiate our wedding on June 11th! She elevated our ceremony to something I’ve never witnessed before at a wedding. Everyone in attendance raved about how unique, personal, sentimental and funny our ceremony was. Charlie is such a fun and energetic personality but also brought a great sense of calm when the nerves and emotions took over for us. We enjoyed the entire process of working with Charlie and honestly hiring her is one of the first decisions and best decisions we made for our wedding. Thank you so much for making our memorable day a whole lot more memorable!!!! We are truly honoured to have had you marry us.

I never imagined getting married could be so fun and easy! From the very start, staff were very responsive with clear instructions what to do – we even get a reminder what not to forget on the day of. Charlie & Heather are super chill and go above and beyond to be there for your needs with some good professional advice on preparing for the ceremony and photos. We loved our wedding day and not have to worry about anything but showing up !

We had a great experience with Young Hip & Married, and Charlie from start to finish. Communication was efficient, clear and timely. With the date quickly approaching, Young Hip & Married set us up with Charlie to do all of the legal proceedings during our wedding ceremony. I actually met Charlie for the first when it came time to sign our paperwork. Her energy and kindness were everything we could have asked for and I would highly recommend working with her!

Easy to work with and amazing ceremony that worked for us perfectly!

We had Charlie Lake officiate our micro-wedding (14 guests) and we were so impressed with how it felt like she’d known us for years! She was so personable, funny, and matched the vibe of our wedding perfectly. Working with Young Hip & Married was a super smooth process.

We flew from Australia to elope in Victoria BC. YHM were amazing and assisted us through the process while abroad so the day was stress free. Chris-Ann (“Charlie”) was so lovely and made our day special. Thank you!

Chris-Ann Lake is an amazing Officiant! Her service was top notch and I’m 100 percent happy with her! She provided us with both witnesses and a location for our Elopement!! I highly recommend her! 🙂

Charlie officiated our initiate elopement on the island this summer and I could not recommend her services more! Extremely friendly and easy to talk to, and the ceremony was exactly what we were looking for – nothing more, nothing less – it was perfect. YH&M also provided a bunch of helpful resources and links which we have very much appreciated. Thanks again!

We are SO HAPPY we picked Young Hip & Married. Our officiant Charlie was absolutely incredible, we had the chance to meet with her a few times throughout the summer as she also married our best friends! The Vow Course provided was also super helpful and created a great jumping off point for our personal vows. The best part of our wedding was the Ceremony for us and our guests everyone loved it. We could not recommend them more! Thank you, thank you!

We are very happy we chose Young Hip & Married! Chris-Ann was fantastic! She was very responsive and quick to reply to emails. Her overall vibe was exactly what we were hoping for. We were nervous to have a stranger marry us, especially because of covid so we couldn’t meet in person before the wedding, but Chris-Ann eased any trepidations we had during our zoom chat. The actual day of the wedding was so chaotic, but she remained cool, calm and so professional!!!!!

We had the honor of being wedded by Chris-Ann Lake. They were very responsive and is probably the best communicator via email I’ve ever had the honor to interact with.

The words that they shared with our guests were so beautiful and helped make our wedding day better than we ever could have imagined.

After Covid-19 canceled our wedding plans, we decided to get married anyway, and planned an elopement in just a couple of months. Young Hip and Married was easy to work with on a tight timeline. Our officiant, Chris-Ann Lake, had no problem traveling to our fairly remote location. She was warm and friendly and felt like someone we would like to hang out with- not just a random stranger from an internet search. While I’m hoping to never need a wedding officiant again, I’d definitely recommend their services to anyone else.

Our officiant, Charlie, was absolutely the best! Charlie came in super friendly and fit right in with our group. We couldn’t have asked for a better person to be a part of our special day. Thanks YH&M and huge huge huge thanks to Charlie!

We had the pleasure of working with Charlie as our officiant, and the experience was overwhelmingly positive. She was a fantastic resource to us in the lead up to our wedding, offering her time to answer questions, and helping plan what we needed to make our ceremony come to life.

We met Charlie for the first time in person on our wedding day and loved her immediately. She was so kind and brought with her the perfect energy for our small ceremony. If you are looking for an officiant to be part of your big day, you’d be lucky to have Charlie fill that role.

Also, Danya and the team at Young Hip and Married were very responsive and thoughtful when we initially inquired and it was clear from the onset that we were in good hands. Overall, it was a great experience.

Chris-Ann officiated our ceremony. She wrote a lovely ceremony for us, and the delivery was heartfelt and did not feel rehearsed at all. She made us and our guests laugh on several occasions. Thank you!

We had such a great experience with Young Hip and Married! Our officiant was very sweet, responded quickly, and over all did a great job with our ceremony it was everything and more we could have hoped for and wanted! She made our day so special and memorable! Thank you Charlie, I’d recommend you to anyone!

Amazing. Working with Young Hip and Married was so simple, and Chris-Ann was so compatible with our laid back style. We had so much fun working with her, and she gave us such a lovely ceremony script. We thought we would write our own vows, but ultimately decided that what she gave us to work with was so lovely we didn’t even need to! We highly recommend this service.

My wife and I decided to elope to coincide with a planned trip to Vancouver Island. I reached out to Young Hip & Married who were happy to help us secure an officiant and a photographer that fit into our tight schedule. From start to finish they were friendly, informative, and offered exactly the value and service we needed. Thank you Rebecca & Chris-Ann, you helped make a special day be perfect. I’m pretty sure they even managed to control the weather for us!

We had a very small ceremony with Chris-Ann Lakes as our officiant. As soon as we met her, we knew she was the perfect fit for us. She was warm and friendly and set the perfect tone for our ceremony. We did not want to write our own vows, so Chris-Ann scripted a beautiful ceremony for us, including our vows. Thank you Chris-Ann for a wedding ceremony we will always cherish.

Amazing! Charlie did such a wonderful job at preforming our wedding ceremony! She wrote a beautiful ceremony and let us alter some things to our liking. She was so chill and made the whole thing so much more comfortable and easy. Highly recommend her for your wedding day!

Oh my goodness Chris-Ann was the best officiant ever and we had the best ceremony! Thank you thank you thank you! Also you guys were sooo accommodating throughout all the changes for our wedding over Covid. You guys are so wonderful, thank you!

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It was awesome. Professional from the beginning when I contacted until the last minutes of the ceremony. I would recommend to any couples ready to tie the knot. Thank you for all the help!

Chris-Ann designed us the most intimate and personal wedding ceremony filled with love, laughter and everything in between. There wasn’t a dry eye at our wedding, mixed with smiles and cheers. Everyone has been talking about how intimate and personal and beautiful our ceremony was and that was the response we were hoping for. Thank you for guiding us through the process of writing our own personal vows and for marrying us. We couldn’t have asked for a better officiant.

Chris-Ann really had everyone talking about just how wonderfully different, personal and special her entire presentation, vibe and ceremony was! “One of the best weddings we’ve ever been to, it was so personal!” Thank you for making our wedding one of the best days of our lives!

Our officiant Chris-Ann was so great and really worked with us when it came to organizing and reviewing our ceremony. We did the Sweet and Simple package, and it really worked for us!

YH&M were wonderful to work with from start to finish. Charlie, our officiant, is a stellar human being and I cannot recommend her enough. She was a joy to speak with through email, and when we met in person as she showed up to officiate our wedding, it was a natural connection- as if she’d been a friend of ours for years, somehow!

Affordable, professional, courteous, respectful, and I N C L U S I V E!!!!! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the work Charlie and the YH&M team did for us.

We are so lucky and grateful to have Chris-Ann Lake marry us earlier this month (May 2023). She’s personable, professional, and easy to work with. Chris-Ann made our ceremony meaningful, touching, and easy going – captured exactly what we wanted for our ceremony. Thank you Chris-Ann and Young Hip & Married!

Our officiant, Chris-Ann, made our ceremony memorable and thoughtful by helping us customize the ceremony to meet our needs. The process and communication was simple and easy. Would definitely recommend!

We had Chris-Ann from Young Hip & Married as our officiant and we were thrilled! She was very organized, helpful and so hilarious in helping us with our wedding ceremony. Would for sure recommend.

We had a great time working with our officiant and ceremony coordinator for our special day. They helped us think of all of the important details about our ceremony, and the vow course was excellent as well. Experience with officiant was excellent. Thank you!

Everything was very easy – from booking until the actual day when we got married! We had an Intimate Elopement in Victoria, and it was exactly what we both wanted. Our commissioner Charlie was wonderful and we had the best day! Thank you for the great experience 🙂 also, the free vow writing course that comes with booking was super helpful for both of us.

We were so happy to have found Young Hip & Married! We wanted a simple beach wedding and they took care of the important things like the officiant & photographer. Service was amazing and we couldn’t be happier with how our wedding day turned out. It was absolutely perfect!

The perfect vows were sent to us , nothing needed to be changed , we could not believe what a wonderful person we were given to speak our vows with . Truly the best wedding of my life and I have had 3!

Chris-Ann Lake was amazing. We met via Zoom first to discuss the details, then went back and forth and figured out the ceremony. On the day she did such a great job delivering the ceremony and getting us organized. Would highly recommend working with Chris-Ann!

We really enjoyed our wedding, they made it super easy for us to elope. Charlie was super professional and so friendly she really made our special day perfect. We highly recommend it to anyone.

My husband and I just wanted a very small wedding and just a month to do all the planning and preps. When I researched and read about Young Hip and Married, read and heard really good feedback about their services I immediately contacted them and response time was superb, very professional, kind and warm. Our very intimate wedding in Beacon Park in Sidney was such a perfect day we could not have asked for more (except for the bride’s family was not able to come from overseas due to COVID). Chris-Ann (officiant) and Taylor (photographer) were SUPER AMAZING. We had Zoom meetings prior and email exchanges up to before the wedding day. They were so amazing guiding us throughout. Thank you again Chris-Ann, Taylor and Young Hip & Married. I really do recommend them.

Easy and they guided us step by step. Love Chris; made our ceremony special even during covid.

Chris-Ann was amazing! Great energy, flexible with how we wanted to do things, and great communicator.