...her, videographer...etc
So my resort holds an open house for all the summer weddings to go and meet everyone who will be helping on the day.
I am really excited to meet my officiant I hav...
...g my wedding planning journey because things are finally starting to come together!!!
After talking to family & friends, we have decided to have out ceremony at the original location, an...
... our wedding planner. So we told the rev that we wanted to go with someone else and took the loss for the deposit. So my wedding planner found another officiant that I had originally wanted, but...
...tier cake we're have the middle 2 layers fake.
On top of the cake I need to.... and now here's the list of immediate stuff...
- Design invitation
- Price out paper for making them
- Ma...
...you've chosen your officiant!!!! I had one of those "OMG I'm getting married!!!!!!!!!" moments when we decided on our officiant and he agreed to do our wedding today. I have those moments ...
... Hello ladies. I know it has been a while but I've been so crazy busy. And still am but I had a little time and thought I'd make a quick post.
I got my jewelry a few weeks ago. I met a lad...
...ist. Flowers cost so much and I don't want to spend a fortune on them -- we have a tight budget.
In about a week we'll be heading in to pick out the tuxes for the boys and see what's availabl...
How did everyone find the minister or officant that is going to perform your wedding? We are not members of a Church although I do work at one and I am having trouble finding a minister. I wo...
...your wedding reception? I have heard of lots of people doing dancers or drum shows etc. I was just wondering if anyone here was doing any thing like that during the reception?
I have been ha...
My amazing fiance decided that we should write our own vows...awesome...though weird cause he isn't usually that emotional type. Well now all these people have read his and say they are amaz...
This is our Officiant. Her name is Ana Paula de Nova and she is so nice, She had us comfortable the second we met her.
Ceremony at a Location of your Choice-$350.00
This includes the ...
... the reception. Then to find an officiant.
I'm starting to freak out! We have 101 days to get this all together!
We'll be checking out The Woodbridge Banquet and Convention Hall, The Mille...
... our engagement pictures done next month, late by choice. I wanted the fall season with the colors & leaves on the ground in my shots.
- Met with Kristen (the venue coordinator) & got ...
I found a photgrapher!! This huge weight was lifted off my shoulders when I got the call yesterday. So exceited.
But then. . .
I made some calls to a couple of officiants yesterday a da...
...(cup)cake(s). We did pick out our save the dates & invitations, so that's exciting. & I am officially cracking down & going back on WW to lose (for good) some weight. I was successfu...
Well, not literally "booked".
After alot of thought between my husband and I, we have asked my uncle to marry us and he said, YES!! :)
Woo0Hoo!! Another check off my list!
He said ...
...ight budget within only three months time.
We gave up on that idea and decided to do something with our families in Mexico next year (where my mum and step dad and brother live) my father is...
I have 5 more weeks till the big day! We live near Chicago, but will be getting married in a small town in Wisconsin....so, while checking out the requirements for us to go next week to apply...
We finally booked our officiant yesterday. She's great, very bubbly and
outgoing. If there's ever a boring moment in a ceremony there definatley
will not be one with her.
On Monday, FH, FMIL my mother and I all drove down to Huntsville to meet up with our officiant. It was a basic meeting to go over the script that I gave her. I thought that I would be fine, b...
Today we meet with our officiant Pastor Frazier an associate pastor at our church. We had planned on getting together earlier but so much has been going on. Meeting tonight,why am I a little ...
We were originally wanting a family member or friend to officiate our wedding but couldn't come up with one. It would have been nice to save some money on it but oh well. So someone referred ...
Five weeks to go and I HATE our ceremony...
A friend of my family is doing our officiating which is awesome! HOWEVER, she's stuck on doing the traditional Anglican service (I grew up in an...
I had been worrying about find someone to marry us. My biggest fear is not having an officiant ....because then we won't be able to get married. Originally I was supose to get married in my m...
... the reception)
~nothing overly mushy, cheesy or expected. we wanted the ceremony to be light, funny and easy to sit through. we also wanted to focus on the fact that we started out as friends,...
... the wedding planning. Good thing she was so on top of things right after we got engaged, or we would be spinning in circles right now!
An exciting thing Matt and I are talking about is wha...
The really big things I had left to do was my outfit, mark's outfit and our officiant. We now have found all of these! YAY!
We went to a wedding of my friend's at City Hall two weeks ago ...
... I wouldn't want anyone else in the world to marry me!
We went online to the First Nation Church (a native american church) and registered her and ordered all the paperwork (which cost less...
If you're in the GTA region, I would love recos. if you've had a good experience and/or get good vibes from your officiant. I want someone who will conduct a spirtual and personalized ceremon...
...r my bridesmaids' bouquets - I would love to make my own bouquet as well, since I LOVE these gorgeous silk flowers, but my fiance insists I have a real bouquet.
- bought the square glass jar ...
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What is the best way to find an officiant? We have searched all over the internet only to find the same small group of people that all charge way too much and all require a payed meeting and ...
My husbands Uncle is a Minister, who's flying out to New York for our wedding as a GUEST.... But I was thinking about sending him a nice letter asking him to be our minister for the ceremony....
... his wedding band for him?
Sure... Our money has been combinded for a couple years now.. So I guess we both are buying it =)
Have you gone over your original wedding budget?
Well since my p...
... the cake, but that can wait a while. I'm sooo excited! Now that I got all the "big stuff" out of the way I can work on the smaller details!...
Ok girls... Im having a dilemma. My father is a pastor and I would like him to do my wedding of course but Im afraid I will be crying through the whole ceremony. Im also afraid I will get him...
I was looking around on weddingwire.com and found my venue and found out that they have a lot of great reviews (yay!). That helps me feel better. I also saw an ad on their page of other profe...
... our reception will be held and not in a church we had to find an officiant. Thankfully we already had an idea who we wanted. Last year some friends of ours were married at a golf course and the...
... We officially have 6 months to go! I can't believe how fast time is going. We had more than a year to go when we got engaged, and now 6 months. Absolutely ridiculous, and I know with the Holi...
... out wedding cake, but I am sure there are some fantastic bakeries in the area. I have included a picture of what she will be making for us! Mmmm chocolate!
I have searched the web for some cak...
... our invitations that otherwise we had put off till we had the start time, Yay!
The second picture is our officiant Patricia, you can see she's a very bubbly, kind & happy person. I feel ...
...hite dress! HA. Good thing I'm not pron to being klutzy!
Not sure how the white wine & red wine would taste together, maybe a Riesling & Cabernet would be a tasty combo or she suggest...
...oing invitations yet for the wedding this far out. One big reason for that is that we don't have an officiant yet.
I'm sure you're wondering, hey, I thought you had your church booked? We d...
... the photographer!!! YAY! It makes me very excited about 'the day'. I can't wait for it to get here and to see the pictures. I think I feel more excited about the photographer than I am my dress...
I just received an email our Pastor will not me able to marry us. He doesn't do weddings on Sundays! AWKKK
It would have been so nice to be married by our Pastor whom we love but now we ar...
... the reception either.
Now we just need to fill out the paperwork and come up with $450 for him! lol. (he requests $50 for the deposit, the remainder due 10 days after deposit)...
... So I was just wondering how many wedding officiants everyone met before choosing the one they were going to go with? I have e-mailed a few that have roughyl the same price but I am not too su...
...d to invite your officiant/minister to the reception? I am having my ceremony and recption at the same venue. I found an officiant for the ceremony by searching online , spoke with her and booke...
...t my hair trial yesterday- particularly to one person that a friend of mine referred me to. He didn't call. He didn't even lift the phone other than to call me to whine that he was hungry and th...
Well, things are slowly getting checked off THE LIST (I know every one of you girls have A LIST- feels so good to check stuff off!). I had left a pile of messages for people before we went ca...
... A couple weeks ago we went to meet a husband and wife officiant team who were so very friendly. They are very experienced so we were pretty comfortable with everything. They had a lot of grea...
We are meeting with an officiant this weekend who has insisted that he doesn't need to be at the rehearsal. This is the first time I heard about this. He says that he should just be a placeho...
... the wedding reception with your spouse?
Will you play any role in the ceremony -- give a blessing or prayer before the meal?
13. Are there any restrictions as to our attire, or our bridal...
We received a letter from our officiant today with a letter saying he had to cancel and a check for the amount of our deposit. Not even a phone call? SHEEESSH! So now back to square one. Fort...
... We met with the pastor of our church 2 weeks ago. He asked to met with us to talk about what we wanted for the wedding and to get to know the two of us a little better. We plan to start are p...
...ever wedding dresses are born. Once it arrives, this midget will need to chop off about a foot (maybe more) just to have it graze the floor, so alterations will definitely be needed.
Seeing a...
... the reception. We are having our vows renewed at the same venue, so...this is a thank you to Rev. Derrick Mann for renewing our vows. We've known him since high school! LOL...
... the photographer 2morrow also. I put the deposit on the flowers two weeks ago. I also went shopping today and bought two blue flexable bowls (almost like tubs) with handles to put ice pop and w...
It was sorta last minute, but one of my mom's friend's husband is a priest in my hometown! Im happy that I know him & he is halarious!! Im pretty excited that he will be marrying us!!
...
Rev. Thomas Johnson from Lawrenceville, GA. An Air Force chaplain and now he does tons of weddings - we just give him the vows we want and the order of the ceremony, very laid back!
Anothe...
... I'm so happy to get something as big as this checked off of our list!! At first, we were planning on having this man who's been a friend of my fiance's family for a very long time be our offi...
... the decor is orange and blue! That soooo clashes with my Pink and Brown!
Recently I decided to ask a family friend of ours that has his own ministry to officiate over my ceremony. His son a...
Since money is a little tight, we are trying to find ways to cut our wedding costs. I saw an article about a California couple who were getting married by on of their relatives. Our officiant...
... our cake topper too! We are using David's grandmothers.. the year of our wedding, the topper will be 50 years old! I haven't even seen it, but we know we want to use it :D I can't wait to see i...
... I was a bit upset the other day. The guy that I've wanted to officiate our wedding since we've been engaged can't do it. He's also a track coach and I guess that Memorial Day weekend is their...
I don't really want to have the officiant stay for our reception. I also don't want her to bring a quest. Do I have to offer for them to stay? Does the officiant usually stay for the reception?
... We thought it would be really cool to have someone we actually know personally marry us. We're not religious at all, and hiring someone we've never met before just seems too... commercial, or...
I've known the guy I want to officiate our wedding since 1999. I used to hang out with 4 of his 10 kids when I was in high school. I attended their youth group and their dad was the youth min...
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...f my Bridesmaids showed me a program the other day and asked what I was thinking of doing and I was shocked, I told her I hadn't thought of doing what at all. She said she had never seen a wedd...
... We Finally asked our friend Hans If he would be our Officiant.
He was very Surprised! We caught him so off-guard his first
words were "Me? Why?"
He did glady except the position after t...
... Our high school religion teacher is an ordained priest, and he will be marrying us. We pay a fee to the church we are marrying at, and they give a percentage of that to our priest. We would r...
...ings Photographer to shoot your Beach Portraits and Pictures of your Panama City Beach Weddings on the emerald coast....
... I was just wondering.....at what time is it appropriate to give the Officiant a donation. It is not required by our church, but we are giving our officiant X amount of money anyways. When sho...
...tail reception, reception) all for $925! I wanted it to come under 1,000 so I was happy :)
We put the deposit down Monday and that's another thing checked off our list.
They also referred ...
...have flower petals, birdseed, rice, confetti bubbles or any other item dropped or thrown neither inside or outside of the cathedral. So what in the hell is my flower girl supposed to do?!
as ...
A current trend in wedding ceremonies is for the bride and groom to be facing their guests with the officiant off to the side. What do you think? I like the idea but then again I may be even ...
...we'd invite about 100 people, but when we made a rough guest list and realized we weren't comfortable with telling people they can't bring guests, we realized that we'll prepare for 150. Our dat...
Long term Resident of Muskoka! Creates ceremonies that are unique!
...r my dress, get my bridemaids taken care of, get all the fun trimming for me, get the groomsmen fitted, get w/the florist (my aunt), the cake lady (his aunt) and get to see my invitations (made ...
We're going with Rev. Gary Davids with Orlandoceremony.com.
I think he's going to work very nicely.
he also seems really nice and funny.
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...ed a bridesmaid section, and even created a "Kevin's Stuff" section. It rocks!!
Aside from that, we met with an officiant today and really like his ceremonies and feel that his personality ...
We were both raised Catholic and have families that are involved in the church (my fiances uncle is a Catholic priest). We want to get married outside by the water at Klein Creek but we aren'...
We are slowly working our way down the MASSIVE list of wedding planning. Last night, we asked our officiant. He said YES! Check! That feels good.
