Justice of the Peace - Mike Backer Reviews
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Jenn Sent on 12/06/2024Amazing JP!! Highly Recommend
My husband and I got married on 11/9/2024. Roughly 1 month prior to our wedding, I realized we never hired an officiant (pretty important 🤦🏼♀️). I searched Wedding Wire and found Mike Backer. He had amazing reviews so I reached out to him. We had a phone call and decided to meet to discuss things further. Mike is an extremely nice guy, clearly knows what he’s doing and has YEARS of experience. On our day, he ensured everyone knew exactly what they needed to do/where to be. Our ceremony was truly beautiful - short and sweet but still felt very personal. Our guests kept commenting all night (and weeks later) how wonderful our ceremony was and how much they... -
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Carlie Sent on 12/03/2024Incredible experience
10/10 recommend! Organized and experienced, we had an awesome ceremony thanks to him! -
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Yiming Sent on 09/18/2022Michael is great!
We really enjoyed working with Michael since our first phone call with him. Michael is professional, responsive, and very patient with our questions throughout the wedding process. What I appreciate the most is everything is well-organized when working with Michael. He has a blinder to help us build our own ceremony, and questionnaires to learn about us and our stories. Michael also took care of filing the marriage license so we don't have to worry about it, and we received our marriage certificate after we came back from our honeymoon.
Though I already knew the outline before the ceremony because Michael sent us the draft, I was still impressed during the wedding that Michael filled tons of... -
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Rachel Sent on 09/16/2022Wonderful Officiant
Mike is a warm, friendly, and experienced officiant. He has done this many times before, and it shows. From our first contact, he was extremely responsive. He met with us in person to make sure that he was the right fit for what we were looking for. He gave us a huge binder of options for the ceremony, which made it so easy to choose how we wanted it to go! On the day of, he made our ceremony incredibly personal and added so many nice touches and funny stories. He had everyone laughing, which is exactly the vibe we were going for. Mike was great every step of the way, and I highly recommend him! -
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Mary Sent on 07/28/2022Amazing!!!
We met Mike the year before our wedding at another couples wedding. We instantly fell in love with his style. He brings life to the ceremony. Very fun and personable. We hope he isn't booked June 26, 2032 so he can renew our vows! Would highly recommend to anyone worried about "the right" person to marry you. -
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Sarah Sent on 06/20/2022Excellent and Personal
Mike was absolutely fantastic to work with. He knows what he is doing and helps you out along the way. His binder was full of options for us to customize exactly what we wanted for our ceremony while adding in a ton of personal touches. Mike was easy going and added a touch of humor. The ceremony was great and our friends and family enjoyed Mike as well! -
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Janna Sent on 11/28/2021Best officiant we could have asked for!
Choosing Mike as our officiant was one of the best decisions we've made. He was so easy to work with and is such a pleasure to get to know. Mike helped us through the entire process of putting together our ceremony and was so accommodating with all of our requests. Plus, he's hilarious (if you want him to be)! We wanted some humor in our ceremony and Mike definitely delivered. I also loved his process of sending a questionnaire to each partner separately and then incorporating the responses into the ceremony. This made it so personal and it was really touching to hear each others candid responses during the ceremony. 11/10 would recommend! -
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Carolyn Sent on 11/12/2021Michael Backer is the BEST.
A true professional. We knew when we first spoke with Michael that he would be perfect for our wedding ceremony and I’m so happy to say he exceeded our expectations! Our wedding date changed 3 times due to COVID and Michael pivoted with us even with a change of venue and went above and beyond. His planning guides are so helpful and he made thoughtful suggestions that resulted in such a meaningful ceremony that we’ll remember forever. During the rehearsal the morning of the wedding, Michael put our minds at ease and walked through every step of the ceremony and gave great direction. Michael spoke clearly and has a great sense of humor and even got my dog, the... -
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Stephanie Sent on 10/21/2021Excellent JP!
Mike was great, thorough and made us feel comfortable throughout the process. He personalized the ceremony adding a really nice touch and had some suggestions and recommendations to include in our ceremony and paperwork that we will cherish forever. My family really enjoyed his company and sense of humor as well! Thank you for everything! -
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Jillian Sent on 10/06/2021We had a great experience working with Mike!
Mike was great to work with he was very flexible with us, we had to change our date 3 times because of Covid-19 and other circumstances and he was very understanding and accommodating through the process. He was also very thorough in answering all of our questions and concerns, he was a big hit with all of our guests as well! Mike is professional yet still personable we highly recommend him. -
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Kyle Sent on 08/24/2021Great Justice of the Peace
Mike was really great at explaining all of our options for our wedding and explaining how things will go. He had lots of ideas in a binder to customize our ceremony and let us and in a few extra things to include some of our friends. He added some personal touches too about us which was really great. -
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Josh Sent on 07/29/2021Mike is Amazing
Mike was amazing at our ceremony to the point our guests were asking for a business card. Mike was called on short notice for our wedding and we lived out of state and yet he was able to put a ceremony that was absolutely amazing, Warm, Friendly , personable and helps ease that nervousness. You will not be disappointed and having Mike as part of your special day. -
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Kyle Sent on 07/15/2021Made a great day even better
Mike was awesome and quick with a joke to fill in those awkward moments everyone has. He fit in well and got along with everyone. Recommend he does your rehearsal with you as he made it actually fun and not nervous -
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Jason Sent on 07/13/2021A Wonderful Experience
Going into the process of finding a justice of the peace, my wife and I really were not sure where to start. We read so many reviews on various sites and it was all a bit overwhelming. And add in trying to select an officiant during a pandemic and well, we just felt lost.
And then we found Michael. He had amazing ratings and we had to wonder, "is he real?" I can assure you he IS real and he was a joy to work with. Michael's experience as a justice of the peace was invaluable and reassuring. He allowed us to plan our ceremony with as much or as little help as we wanted. He had such... -
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Michael Sent on 07/13/2021Knowledgeable, Flexible, and Comfortable
Mike came highly recommended as we both live in the same town. He was available on extremely short notice (lucky for us) and made the process very seamless and comfortable (another bonus in an often hectic time for couples). He led us every step of the way and added inciteful touches to help make the process more personable. Thanks for being there for us on our special day! -
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Melissa Sent on 03/20/2021Amazing experience
My husband and I are thrilled to have worked with Mike on our wedding! We got married in October during the height of the pandemic, and Mike was the easiest person to work with during a very stressful process. He was patient and flexible as we changed our plans from a Boston ceremony at night to a back yard ceremony during the day. He listened to what we wanted and made thoughtful/knowledgeable recommendations when we needed them. Our ceremony turned out so special and personal. We highly recommend Mike! -
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Michael Sent on 01/29/2021Smooth and Stress free process
I highly recommend Michael Backer, he made the process of getting married during a pandemic straight forward and stress free. He told us what to expect from the local government office and other details. -
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Kathryn Sent on 12/17/2020Mike is exceptional!
My now-husband found Mike Backer on the internet almost immediately after we booked our wedding venue. We began our wedding planning in the spring of 2020 - right as the pandemic started affecting most wedding vendors (and every day life). Mike’s website detailed his extensive list of credentials, and he responded quickly to our inquiry. Mike invited us to meet with him personally at his home - he was so much fun to work with! Mike is very organized, super respectful, and very easy to communicate with. He brought a great sense of humor and calm to the whole experience. He provided us with a binder to help us craft our entire ceremony, and he welcomed and gave great... -
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Kathryn Sent on 11/04/2020Exceptional JOP
We were so happy to have our officiant be Mike Backer. He was so helpful, responsive and most of all, reassuring. He reminded us several times that our ceremony would be as personal as we wanted it to be. There was nothing that couldn’t be changed, added or removed. Of all our vendors, Mike was the most responsive, even adding our vows into the ceremony the DAY OF THE WEDDING (because we were crazy busy and forgot to send ahead of time). He was so patient and informative about where to get our marriage license, what fees we would incur, etc... we likely won’t be getting married again in the future but if we did, we would use Mike Backer again! -
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Emily Sent on 10/14/2020Personalized Perfection
Mike incorporated information from our bride/groom questionnaire to customize vows that were perfect for our personalities and reflected our values as a couple. Our guests couldn’t stop talking about how wonderful the ceremony was. He was very personable and easy to work with from start to finish. -
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Lisa Sent on 10/13/2020Justice of the Peace
We chose Michael Backer to officiate our wedding in September 2020. We were referred to him by our DJ, Michael did a fantastic job getting to know both my husband and I. He put together a fantastic ceremony! -
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Jade Sent on 07/07/2020Beautiful day
Mike Backer did a wonderful job, we were very happy with the simple but beautiful ceremony we had at Coggshall Park! He was very professional and gave us excellent what we wanted I’d recommend him to anyone looking to get married! -
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Douglas Sent on 03/09/2020Fun, friendly, consumate professional with a demeanor fitting any wedding
Mike was absolutely amazing. Words cannot desribe. In a very long story I won't share here we had to sub Mike in. Literally my wife and I met him for the FIRST time 10 minutes before our wedding (which we spent a fortune on and a year planning). He absolutely rocked it. DId everything we hoped plus added just the right amount of personal touches to make it unique. Use Michael Backer for your ceremony, you will be very happy you did. Full stop. -
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Janna Sent on 10/30/2019Mike is an expert
Mike was pivotal in making our ceremony special and perfect. He pays attention to detail and is professional yet tender at the same time. He personalizes with sweet and humorous additions. I have had numerous guests volunteer to me that they thought my officiant was excellent, funny, and well versed. He thought of important ceremony details we never would have. During the planning, he stayed on top of decisions we needed to make without pressuring. He was good at obtaining information he needed from us without overwhelming us with questions. I would 100% recommend him to anyone, across all faiths, personalities, and wedding sizes. -
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Christopher Sent on 10/28/2019Simply Amazing
We could honestly not have been happier with our decision to work with Mike. Everything was absolutely perfect! We had people all night come up to us and tell us how amazing the ceremony went and how personal it was, and were shocked when we told them we did not know Mike prior to our engagement. We highly recommend Mike for your own perfect, personalized, fun wedding ceremony!
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