diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ef0ed7bbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.boot.internal;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceInitiator;
+import org.hibernate.boot.spi.SessionFactoryBuilderService;
+import org.hibernate.service.spi.ServiceRegistryImplementor;
+
+public final class DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator implements StandardServiceInitiator<SessionFactoryBuilderService> {
+
+	public static final DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator INSTANCE = new DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator();
+
+	private DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator() {
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public SessionFactoryBuilderService initiateService(Map configurationValues, ServiceRegistryImplementor registry) {
+		return DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService.INSTANCE;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Class<SessionFactoryBuilderService> getServiceInitiated() {
+		return SessionFactoryBuilderService.class;
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a599960aa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.boot.internal;
+
+import org.hibernate.boot.spi.BootstrapContext;
+import org.hibernate.boot.spi.SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor;
+import org.hibernate.boot.spi.SessionFactoryBuilderService;
+
+/**
+ * This is the default implementation of SessionFactoryBuilderService, which just
+ * returns the default SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.
+ */
+public final class DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService implements SessionFactoryBuilderService {
+
+	protected static final DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService INSTANCE = new DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService();
+
+	private DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderService() {
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor createSessionFactoryBuilder(final MetadataImpl metadata, final BootstrapContext bootstrapContext) {
+		return new SessionFactoryBuilderImpl( metadata, bootstrapContext );
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/MetadataImpl.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/MetadataImpl.java
index 23ba7c61c1..9b524ffb42 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/MetadataImpl.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/MetadataImpl.java
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ import org.hibernate.boot.spi.BootstrapContext;
 import org.hibernate.boot.spi.MetadataBuildingOptions;
 import org.hibernate.boot.spi.MetadataImplementor;
 import org.hibernate.boot.spi.SessionFactoryBuilderFactory;
+import org.hibernate.boot.spi.SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor;
+import org.hibernate.boot.spi.SessionFactoryBuilderService;
 import org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.NamedEntityGraphDefinition;
 import org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.NamedProcedureCallDefinition;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.function.SQLFunction;
@@ -154,7 +156,8 @@ public class MetadataImpl implements MetadataImplementor, Serializable {
 
 	@Override
 	public SessionFactoryBuilder getSessionFactoryBuilder() {
-		final SessionFactoryBuilderImpl defaultBuilder = new SessionFactoryBuilderImpl( this, bootstrapContext );
+		final SessionFactoryBuilderService factoryBuilderService = metadataBuildingOptions.getServiceRegistry().getService( SessionFactoryBuilderService.class );
+		final SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor defaultBuilder = factoryBuilderService.createSessionFactoryBuilder( this, bootstrapContext );
 
 		final ClassLoaderService cls = metadataBuildingOptions.getServiceRegistry().getService( ClassLoaderService.class );
 		final java.util.Collection<SessionFactoryBuilderFactory> discoveredBuilderFactories = cls.loadJavaServices( SessionFactoryBuilderFactory.class );
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/spi/SessionFactoryBuilderService.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/spi/SessionFactoryBuilderService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07b13bf29c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/spi/SessionFactoryBuilderService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.boot.spi;
+
+import org.hibernate.boot.internal.MetadataImpl;
+import org.hibernate.service.Service;
+
+/**
+ * Allows bootstrapping Hibernate ORM using a custom {@link SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor}
+ */
+public interface SessionFactoryBuilderService extends Service {
+
+	SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor createSessionFactoryBuilder(MetadataImpl metadata, BootstrapContext bootstrapContext);
+
+}
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/service/StandardServiceInitiators.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/service/StandardServiceInitiators.java
index e41aba7769..4ffc3d6b69 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/service/StandardServiceInitiators.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/service/StandardServiceInitiators.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.hibernate.boot.cfgxml.internal.CfgXmlAccessServiceInitiator;
+import org.hibernate.boot.internal.DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator;
 import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceInitiator;
 import org.hibernate.bytecode.internal.BytecodeProviderInitiator;
 import org.hibernate.bytecode.internal.ProxyFactoryFactoryInitiator;
@@ -54,6 +55,8 @@ public final class StandardServiceInitiators {
 	private static List<StandardServiceInitiator> buildStandardServiceInitiatorList() {
 		final ArrayList<StandardServiceInitiator> serviceInitiators = new ArrayList<StandardServiceInitiator>();
 
+		serviceInitiators.add( DefaultSessionFactoryBuilderInitiator.INSTANCE );
+
 		serviceInitiators.add( BytecodeProviderInitiator.INSTANCE );
 		serviceInitiators.add( ProxyFactoryFactoryInitiator.INSTANCE );