Press: Media Features and Media Resources
Media Features
The Knot
The Ultimate Guide to Non-Religious Wedding Ceremony Scripts
Martha Stewart Weddings
Green Wedding Shoes
Love Inc. Podcast
Crafting a Non-Gendered, Non-Religious Wedding Ceremony
Sunday Riley
How to Find LGBTQ-Inclusive Wedding Vendors
Thrive Global
Reverend Maureen Cotton On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective Public Speaker
Wedding Chicks
10 Wedding Things You May Hesitate Spending Money On (But Will Be Glad You Did!)
Love Inc.
The Knot
A Practical Wedding
Conjuring Up Courage Podcast
Planning an Intentional and Meaningful Wedding with Reverend Maureen Cotton
Catersource
Supporting LGBTQ+ Clients & Vendors in the Event Industry
So This Is Love
Copycat Friends: How to deal with stolen wedding ideas
Popped
7 Tips for Setting a Wedding Date During the Wedding Boom
We Do Wedding Podcast
Interview with Rev. Maureen Cotton of The Soulful Wedding
Wedding Chicks
Outdoor Nuisances To Put On Your Radar For Your Summer Wedding
Glamour & Grace
Meaningful Wedding Ceremony Ideas
Everyday Bride
A Modern Approach To Incorporating Parents Into Your Wedding
Perfete
Indoor Versus Outdoor Weddings
Mountainside Bride
Don’t Let The Small Details Overwhelm
Hey Wedding Lady
10 Tips For An Amazing Wedding Day Morning
Brooklyn Bride
8 Wedding Shortcuts To Avoid
Elizabeth Anne Designs
Unexpected Wedding Party Woes And How To Address Them Quickly
Catersource
Creative Ways To Maximize Productivity Without Overworking Yourself
So This Is Love
Honoring Your Pets On Your Big Day
The Wounded Healer Podcast
Ceremony for Crossing Thresholds of Grief and Bliss
A Practical Wedding
One Dozen of Our Favorite Queer Weddings for Pride
Expertise.com
Rated in top 10 Boston Wedding Officiants
Glamour & Grace
How To Level Up Your Ceremony Design
Media resources
Biography, information, and photos for use by the media.
Contact
Please send media inquiries to: media@thesoulfulwedding.com
Rev. Maureen Cotton bio
Reverend Maureen Cotton is an Interspiritual minister, serving the spiritual-but-not-religious and non-dogmatic people of faith. Since ordination at One Spirit Interfaith Alliance in 2015, she has worked as a hospital chaplain and officiated countless weddings. Currently, she offers premarital spiritual guidance, ceremony design, and ceremony writing through her business The Soulful Wedding.
Expertise
- Maureen is a leading thinker on ritual based on her experiences adapting religious ritual for her non religious couples and gendered wedding traditions for her LGBTQ couples.
- Maureen is a gifted writer, composing in depth reflective narratives for her couples to use in their wedding ceremonies.
- Maureen speaks frequently on the relationship between weddings and other rites of passages, especially death and grief. She expertly guides her couples in honoring their grief and deceased loved ones as part of their engagement and wedding.
- Maureen uniquely addresses the “family drama” infamous in the wedding industry, compelling her couples to compassionately address important issues that come up while planning a wedding.
- Maureen is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ inclusivity in the wedding industry. She brings both a personal vantage point (being married to a woman) and a professional one (having seen the industry evolve in Massachusetts since marriage equality began there in 2003).
Company overview
- Rev. Maureen Cotton is an ordained Interspiritual minister—a minister for the spiritual but not religious and non dogmatic people of faith.
- In 2008 Maureen began working as a full time wedding photographer in Boston, and was the premiere LGBTQ Boston wedding photographer for many years.
- Maureen graduated from One Spirit Interfaith seminary in 2015.
- In 2016 Maureen trained as a hospital chaplain through the CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) program at Beverly Hospital.
- In 2020 Maureen transitioned to officiating ceremonies full time.
- In 2021 Maureen started The Soulful Wedding, through which she offers premarital guidance and spiritual coaching, in addition to officiating wedding ceremonies.
- Maureen offers ceremony consulting services—designing and writing ceremonies that will be performed by couples’ family or friends.
Photography
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Photographer Credits (in order left to right): Lena Mirisola, Lindsay Hite, Lindsay Hite, Brian C Image, YiMotion, Lauren Dobish, YiMotion, Henry and Mac Photography
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