Weddings
Sacred Vows
A wedding is to celebrate two people who proclaim their love for each other and take sacred vows to: love, honor and support each other in good and bad times, forsake all others and comfort each other in sickness and health for their marriage. Vows are said out loud before witnesses with reverence. Vows can be written and read by the couple or with the officiant. If written by the couple, final vows are to be delivered to the officiant at least 24 hours before the wedding rehearsal.
Wedding Rehearsal*
A 1-hour rehearsal will take place the day (s) before the actual service at the wedding venue. All wedding party members are to attend this rehearsal. Venue coordinator, wedding consultant, photographer and technical sound person are welcome.
More Wedding Info
Each couple must obtain their marriage license in the county/parish where the wedding will take place. Certain counties/parishes in the United States have unique requirements. A couple is advised to check 45 days before the wedding with the respective county/parish for their stipulations.
When planning a Destination Wedding, the couple must confirm and communicate in writing what the local COVID-19 requirements are for travel – both into and out of the destination. The wedding couple needs to prepare for a Plan A, B, C, D… & more, especially during this pandemic.
The officiant must have the official marriage license in hand before or by the wedding rehearsal – no exceptions. The officiant will submit the completed marriage certificate to the county/parish where the marriage is performed and notify the couple of its delivery.
Renewal of Vows
A Renewal of Vows service is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate a lasting union. Contact Rev. Jody for specific information.
Click link above for more information about Premarital Counseling.
Wedding fees range from $115 - $500+ and depends on: size, location & other varying factors.
Wedding Rehearsal is included in the total Wedding fee.*
“Jody was our perfect wedding officiant! My husband and I come from 2 very different religious backgrounds. We also followed 2 very different paths to our current spiritual faiths. We were both nervous about starting to talk about what our ceremony would look like because of this. Jody did an amazing job guiding us through the premarital conversations and putting us at ease allowing us to openly discuss our relationship and where we both were spiritually. As we discussed what marriage meant to us, Jody developed a feel for our relationship. As we had conversations about our faith, Jody put together a ceremony that fit us and our relationship with God. My husband and I came out of her counseling a stronger couple and confident in our relationship.
She conducted the wedding rehearsal beautifully. She kept everyone in line when they needed to refocus and maintained control with a light hand. The day of the ceremony, Jody demonstrated just how much she had been paying attention during our counseling. The ceremony was absolutely perfect! She managed to combine our faiths, tuned into our desire for strong family bonds, and truly spoke to who we are as a couple. We couldn't have asked for a better officiant. Thank you Jody!"
Jessica Trawick — Peachtree City, Georgia
“Two years later, our experience with Jody both as an officiant and a pre-marital counselor is one that we look back on with gratitude. She gave us thoughtful advice and provided us with tools to reflect on our relationship, including a document of thorough questions about communication styles, conflict strategies, and how we planned to deal with things like money and other common relationship-enders. (I’ve taken about a thousand online relationship quizzes, and I read the advice columns of two major newspapers weekly, and I can confirm that these were not questions that you can just find online - she puts these together herself based on her extensive counseling work and they are worth the effort.) My husband and I had different backgrounds and relationships with religion (I am sort of loosely spiritual and my husband is non-religious), and she took the time to meet with us both individually and as a couple to counsel and respectfully meet us where we were at.
It can be really hard to find a good counselor and Jody is one hundred percent that - empathetic, principled, and experienced. She is also just a really nice lady.”
Elizabeth Raymond — Dallas, Texas
"And now faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
– 1 Corinthians 13:13 NRSV