Minister-Officiant Services - dedicated to making your special day as unique as the two of you with beautiful disctinctive wedding ceremonies.
Marriage Preparation Course
Large or small, formal or casual, traditional or contemporary.
It Is Your Special Day

If you are like most couples, you are devoting a lot of time and effort to insure that everything about your wedding turns out just right.

You are searching for a perfect location, shopping for that exquisite dress, ordering invitations, hiring a photographer, checking out DJs and musicians, sampling several caterers’ specialties, and engaging a florist.

But what about the ceremony itself? It is truly the heart of your wedding day. The words and promises spoken set the tone for your married life together.

This celebration of your love is too important not to give consideration to what will be said and to insure that you will have the best official “up there” with you. With Reverend Carolyn Claiborne, you can be assured that you have a professional and experienced wedding officiant. Her confident and calming presence will help you to relax and focus on your fiance.

Customized Ceremonies

Large or Small
Formal or Casual
Simple or Elaborate
Traditional or Contemporary
Non-Denominational or Civil
Indoors or Out
Any Location

With Reverend Carolyn, you always have a choice. She is focused on creating the perfect ceremony for you whether you are planning an elaborate themed wedding with a huge wedding party and hundreds of guests or you want a very simple civil ceremony for just you and your fiance.

You can use one of her lovely basic spiritual or civil ceremonies as is. Or you can add individual vows that you have written. Or you can use Reverend Carolyn’s wedding kit and work with her to create a one-of-a-kind ceremony that is a unique and perfect reflection of you and your fiance and your love for one another.

No Premarital Counseling Required
Although we highly recommend you consider taking advantage of our
Marriage Preparation Course.

No Restrictions on
Second Marriages or Varying Religious Traditions


Reverend Carolyn believes in honoring who you are and valuing all that you have experienced up to now in coming together at this point in time. If you have children from a previous marriage, there are many meaningful and beautiful ways of including them in your ceremony if you would like to do that. Likewise, if you would like to acknowledge your parents or other family members in some special way, Reverend Carolyn will help you do that as well.

Reverend Carolyn’s interfaith ceremonies are generally spiritual in nature rather than religious. Her words speak to all present in a common language of the heart showing respect for people of all beliefs. However, if your or your fiance’s religious traditions have special rituals you would like to include, Reverend Carolyn will help you incorporate them into your ceremony.

Support - Before, During and After the Ceremony

As soon as you experience her warmth and depth of caring, you will know you have found an ally in Reverend Carolyn. As a trained life coach, she can help you with stress relieving techniques and time management skills for the busy days and weeks leading up to your big day. She is also available for individual and relationship coaching before or after you officially begin your new life together.


Regularly serving couples throughout
All of East and Northeast Tennessee
Tri-Cities, Smoky Mountains, & Knoxville areas including
Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Townsend, Cades Cove, Cosby, Elizabethton, Mountain City, Roan Mountain,
Piney Flats, Bluff City, Blountville, Colonial Heights, Boones Creek, Gray, Jonesborough, Church Hill, Fall Branch, Unicoi, Erwin, Flag Pond, Rogersville, Surgoinsville, Greeneville, Mosheim, Bulls Gap, Morristown, Bean Station, Tazewell, LaFollette, Newport, Dandridge, Jefferson City, Rutledge, Marysville

Southwest Virginia
Including Abingdon, Damascus, Meadowview, Glade Spring, Saltville, Marion, Gate City, Weber City, Nickelsville, Jonesville, Ewing, Richland, Lebanon, Castlewood, Coeburn, Duffield, Big Stone Gap, Penington Gap, Wise, Norton

Western North Carolina
Including Asheville, Hot Springs, Mars Hill, Marshall, Weaverville, Leicester, Black Mountain, Fletcher, Burnsville, Barnardsville, Spruce Pine, Newland, Boone, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, Hendersonville, Candler, Canton, Waynesville, Maggie Valley, Sylva, Cherokee, Lake Lure, Fairview

and other areas by special request.
Reverend Carolyn Claiborne
Reverend Carolyn Claiborne
Is Passionate about Weddings!

Reverend Carolyn has been an ordained minister for over ten years. She is professional, experienced, intuitive and speaks from the heart.

“Celebrating a couple’s love for one another at their wedding has always been one of my most favorite parts of ministry. It will be my joy to create a perfect ceremony for your special day.”
For more information or to reserve your date
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Member in good standing of the National Association of Wedding Officiants. (NAWO)
Member in good standing of the American Association of Wedding Officiants. (AAWO)
Member in good standing of The National Association of Wedding Ministers.

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Minister-Officiant Services are provided by Unity Life Coaching and Sacred Gatherings, Inc., an alternative ministry affiliated with Unity Worldwide Services of the Association of Unity Churches.