Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe Reviews
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Abbie I. Sent on 05/29/2024
Wonderful Officiant
We are so so glad we found Malka and that she agreed to officiate our wedding. The whole process with her was very smooth. We really enjoyed our sessions with her leading up to the wedding. She was really flexible with our schedules and we especially appreciated how flexible she was in allowing us to make the ceremony our own. We were able to choose our own way of doing the seven circles and seven blessings. We even had a last minute change in who was saying the priestly blessing that she accommodated. We got such great feedback from our guests on how much they enjoyed the ceremony and thought she did an amazing job. She really did make our ceremony very special! -
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Lyndsey M. Sent on 03/07/2022
Rabbi Malka is the best!
Rabbi malka was amazing and made our wedding so special! Leading up to the wedding she was responsive and so easy to work with and was able to educate me on the Jewish traditions for the wedding. She was able to combine my catholic background with my fiancés Jewish background and created the perfect balance for our ceremony. She added personalized moments and all of my guests loved the ceremony!! We can’t recommend her enough! -
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Ilana P. Sent on 03/10/2022Thank you for a beautiful ceremony!
My husband and I are so grateful that we found Rabbi Malka! She was so lovely to work with as we prepared for our wedding. She really took the time to get to know us over multiple meetings, and we felt so comfortable with her. Though we are not very religious, Rabbi Malka helped us to incorporate Jewish traditions that reflected our values and honored our faith in a more modern way. Our guests have continued to share with us how beautiful and personal our ceremony was. We highly recommend Rabbi Malka and loved working with her!
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Silvana S. Sent on 03/22/2022Great personalized ceremony
Rabbi Malka worked closely with us to conceptualize an interfaith wedding that celebrated both our cultures in a way that was meaningful for us as individuals. After the wedding, we constantly heard our guests saying that it was the most beautiful and meaningful ceremony they had witnessed. We agree, and coundnt be happier with how it turned out. -
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Katie Sent on 03/07/2022Rabbi Malka shines so bright!
Malka made our ceremony perfect for us. She's organized, prompt, professional, and performed our wedding ceremony immaculately. She got to know us, guided us through all our options, and let us pick and choose exactly what we wanted to include in our ceremony. She made us feel so connected that day. Malka lovingly conveyed the love my husband and I have for eachother, and the importance of embracing my husband's Jewish heritage in a deep yet joyful way that I wholeheartedly believe no one else could. We laughed, we cried, and we got married! We are so very thankful to have found her. -
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A. Rose Sent on 03/07/2022
Rabbi Malka Helped Make Our Wedding Special
Rabbi Malka was such a pleasure to work with and officiated our interfaith wedding beautifully! -
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Shea C. Sent on 03/08/2022Rabbi Malka was great! After a phone consultation we knew that she was the right choice for our ceremony.
We would definitely recommend Rabbi Malka. She brought the exact energy to our ceremony that we hoped for and helped make it a night we’ll never forget. -
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Hila B. Sent on 03/09/2021Wonderful Rabbi!
We love Rabbi Malka! She is awesome. We love her ideals, what she stands for, and how special she made our wedding ceremony. She really got to know me and my now husband, and made our ceremony extremely personal. She's in charge of the Atlanta chapter of the non-profit 18Doors, and we have even gotten involved in some of their events like Couples Challah making. She made us feel more connected to our religion and the community, and we cannot recommend her enough to other Jewish and interfaith couples. We hope to continue our relationship with her.
**Note: all our meetings before our wedding day were virtual, and we had a small 10 person micro wedding, since we got married in February of 2021 -
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Jessica R. Sent on 12/16/2019
Officiant who puts her heart into everything she does
Rabbi Malka is extremely personable and relatable. With the help of her premartial counseling and Love and Religion group, my husband and I were able to go into our marriage stronger and more accepting of each other. Through our interactions she was able to put together a heartfelt and personal ceremony tailored to us as a couple. The whole experience was better than I could have ever expected. Even two months after getting married we constantly have family and friends talking about how our service was one of the best they had ever been to. Rabbi Malka is such a kind soul and I feel lucky to know her. -
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Katie M. Sent on 05/22/2022Rabbi Malka is the MOST Professional, Fun Wedding Officiant
What struck us most about Rabbi Malka was her professionalism and how easy it was to be open with her about what we wanted. She really took the time to get to know us and didn’t make any assumptions about our interfaith, intercultural wedding. Don’t let her title fool you - although she is a rabbi, she has officiated a variety of interfaith weddings, which was part of what made us contact her.
Booking Rabbi Malka was very easy, which was especially important to us because we booked her on rather short notice. (Our wedding was a COVID wedding which had to be rescheduled a few times).
Rabbi Malka also won the MVP award in our hearts for helping us navigate an unexpected curveball - our videographer was late, delaying the ceremony by 15 minutes. As I was getting more and more wound up about the delay, she gently checked in with me and my husband-to-be and did a grounding exercise, which cut through my mental noise and reminded me that in the grand scheme of things, a late videographer didn’t have to ruin the day.
Lastly, on top of being super professional, she is probably one of the most fun, warm people you will ever meet. If you are on the fence about booking Rabbi Malka, do it! You won’t regret it! -
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Maya L. Sent on 11/07/2019So much more than an officiant!
Rabbi Malka was a blessing from the heavens! My husband and I come from different backgrounds and practice various forms of spirituality. Malka fluidly wove the textures of our backgrounds and current beliefs into a contemporary Jewish wedding ceremony. We were happy and so were our families! Not only did she make the ceremony heartfelt, relatable and intimate, she spent many months together with us in private sessions, getting to know us and helping us better understand each other. It was far more than what I was expecting and I'm so grateful for the enriching experience! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts Malka! -
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Marianna Sent on 12/30/2018
Kind and thoughtful Rabbi for non-traditional Jewish ceremonies
Rabbi Malka was incredible to work with. Right from the start she understood the challenges we were facing as an inter-faith couple and counseled us on the choices we'd have to make when marrying and starting a family. We met with her multiple times before the wedding, and she helped us vocalize our concerns and also share our excitement. She tailored the ceremony perfectly to us, and did such a great job explaining each part of the ceremony to our guests, many of whom had never been to a Jewish ceremony before. She brought all of our guests through the rituals together. Rabbi Malka also put is in touch with other young couples she had officiated for and got us involved in other programming by her organization, InterFaith Families. We are so grateful to have met Rabbi Malka, were thrilled that she performed our wedding, and look forward to staying involved with her and her organization in the future. -
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Catherine Sent on 03/23/2020Couldn't have chosen a better Rabbi
Rabbi Malka was a true blessing leading up to and on our wedding day. In the months prior, we met with Rabbi Malka regularly to talk about our relationship, our wedding plans, and basically everything that came along with getting married. She really helped prepare us for the biggest day of our lives. On the actual wedding day, she was communicative, supportive, and incredibly gentle as we walked through all of the feelings. She incorporated so many special and personal moments into our ceremony, including sentimental items from family members that passed. She was thoughtful and encouraging and made the experience fun for us. Rabbi Malka is an incredible Rabbi, and if you're lucky enough to book her, I know you'll be as happy as we were. -
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Rebecca Sent on 09/10/2018Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe is the special ingredient in every wedding ceremony you never knew you needed. She combined warmth, love, humor, and tradition in what many guests were telling us was the "best wedding they'd ever been to." She perfectly captured the love my husband and I have for each other, and explained each ritual in our wedding so our guests felt welcomed and included. She was open to tailoring every part of the ceremony so it was unique to us, which was so refreshing. There wasn't a dry eye in the house, including the groom! If you want a memorable wedding, you NEED to work with Rabbi Packer-Monroe!
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Kelsey Sent on 09/30/2018We had such an amazing experience with Malka! My now father-in-law found her through some google searching after we were having a tough time finding an officiant. We live in Miami, but were getting married in Savannah, GA and were looking for a rabbi who fit with our beliefs and was willing to work with us on creating a personal and meaningful ceremony. Well as soon as we spoke to her I knew we found our rabbi!
Malka was so warm and welcoming and really wanted to get to know us as individuals and as a couple. We met with her several times over Skype discussing the ceremony and working through some marital workbooks. The workbooks really helped us explore our relationship and get to know each other better. We also had to write a letter to each other and give it to Malka so she could use it in our ceremony and give it to us on our wedding day. Everything we did leading up to the wedding helped us grow closer as a couple and made us so excited for the ceremony.
When it came to planning the ceremony Malka was so helpful in giving us guidance and information and also allowing us to include our own touches. When we decided to get married we thought really hard about what we wanted the ceremony to be like. We wanted everyone to understand the language, for it to feel warm and welcoming, and for each part to hold a meaning and not just feel like we were doing a ritual just because we were "supposed" to. Malka gave us exactly what we wanted. In my (completely biased) opinion, it was one of the more meaningful and beautiful ceremonies I have attended. All of our guests commented on how wonderful Malka was and how beautiful the ceremony was. After the wedding we went to Sicily for our honeymoon and opened our letters over looking the sunset. It was such a beautiful moment and I am so thankful that Malka did that for us. We could not be happier and cannot recommend Malka enough! -
Rebecca Sent on 06/19/2018Rabbi Malka was amazing throughout our whole wedding process. She did an amazing job at our ceremony and customized everything to us!! We love her so much and feel so lucky she was there for us.
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Jamie Sent on 01/05/2018Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe officiated our wedding in September, 2017 in Boston, MA. She was so helpful in the planning of our wedding ceremony leading up to the big day. We had regular communication with her via Skype to discuss the details of the ceremony and talk about our plans for our marriage. She had incredible suggestions for how to integrate our family and friends into the ceremony, especially those who don't identify as Jewish. While we had a jewish ceremony, we had readings and blessings from our loved ones outside of the traditional forms. Rabbi Malka is incredibly understanding, loving and kind in her work with couples and I can't recommend her enough! Thank you for everything! -
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