SAN DIEGO WEDDING OFFICIANT / MINISTER
Kenneth Day Weddings – Officiant / Minister Services
Simple & Basic Wedding Ceremony $350
For Couples Requiring ONLY the Performance of a Wedding Ceremony.
Typically this may be a ceremony that is desired on short notice or for an eloping couple, or for couples having their ceremonies at a restaurant, county park, private residence etc. Where the wedding party & guests are typically less than 25. My service to you includes performance of your ceremony, unlimited phone, email support, and selection of 1 of 3 scripted ceremony wedding vows with a few variables within each.
Wedding Rehearsal & Ceremony $500
For Couples Requiring the Performance of a Wedding Rehearsal & Ceremony.
These ceremonies are of intermediate size ceremonies from 25 to 600 guests, often including medium to large bridal parties and significant use of customized wedding vows and other ceremony options. These couples want to rehearse and get comfortable with their wedding to get it right before the real ceremony. My services to you include planning your ceremony in a personal interview, online planning support, unlimited phone, email support, and a PDF or Word formatted guide to wedding vows as a starting point, along with an easy selection process for creating the ceremony you desire.
Of all your wedding day events none will be as important as the 30 minutes you entrust to the wedding officiant performing your ceremony. All of the time, effort and money you have invested in your wedding planning will culminate during that fraction of an hour. For there, in front of dozens or hundreds of your guests, you will both make your first public statement as husband and wife. Cameras and video recorders will forever save and make your images, your words, and most importantly- your wedding day decisions – permanent.
A great wedding ceremony is designed to engage its audience. It follows then that the bridal party should face their guests, which is visually alluring and eminently photogenic. The wording of the ceremony should be spoken in modern, conversational English whose meaning is readily and easily understood. And the choreography of the ceremony should involve a variety of highly effective vignettes, such as a sand ceremony, candle lighting, or wine sharing along with the presentation of roses and readings.
This imagery, along with the interaction of your family and friends, honors their relationship with you before all those present and those that will see photos and video in the days and years to come. These unforgettable moments produce smiles and tears – evidence that you have taken your guests to the coveted high ground of a wonderful wedding ceremony. Feelings make weddings, just like feelings make movies and novels.
With proper guidance and planning, your ceremony will say the right things about you, through the words and events of your choosing, and create indelible memories in the hearts and minds of your guests. This tailor-made approach in wedding ceremony design will produce opportunities for exceptional photography and video footage, and will place everyone in a jubilant mood for the reception that follows.
As a wedding officiant, I approach your ceremony as an opportunity- to show everyone present what this day means to you. I bring to my couples dozens of unique options they can use in making their ceremony photogenic, entertaining, and most importantly- evocative.
Greatness in a wedding ceremony will never be achieved by simply performing a rerun of the common wedding ceremony for your guests. Your wedding ceremony must be so much more than this.
As you and I discuss your ceremony plans, you'll discover that everything I do in a wedding ceremony is calculated for effect. Every word, every event, and every participant are collectively used in my ceremonies to deliver the praise and compliments of the audience. I don't have a casual interest in how your ceremony turns out.
Neither will I assume that you are "naturally" ready to give such a beautiful performance. This is why every aspect of your ceremony is explained first in detail and only then rehearsed. This is also why my couples excel in their performances- because they know fundamentally what their ceremony requires of them, and they are exceedingly comfortable and confident in delivering it.
As a wedding officiant / minister, and certified wedding planner/consultant, and wedding Master of Ceremonies for over 30 years, I know that far more goes into a beautiful wedding ceremony than ever meets the eye. Indeed the most effective communication in a wedding ceremony takes place subliminally, which is to say- without a single word. How you pose, repeat your vows, light your unity candle or present your roses, will give subtle messages to your guests. It is very important to ensure that you understand how to do all of these things tellingly- for imagery and performance in a wedding ceremony will far outweigh words and storytelling.
In my rehearsal session you will learn all that is required of your performance, and then you will practice it. From this experience will come confidence, and from confidence will come poise. There is no more preferable frame of mind to be in during your ceremony than calm, collected and confident, all of which you gained from your rehearsal.
My rehearsal sessions are typically an hour and fifteen minutes or more in length, which is three times the industry standard, and two and half times the length of the actual ceremony. Also please note- I will never send a substitute to rehearse for me- only I perform my rehearsals. Your rehearsal is the key to your performance which is why I personally conduct it. In a wedding ceremony, performance is everything, and my extensive rehearsal session thoroughly prepares you to be the lead actor and actress that you are.
No Ceremony has looked like this nor has the presentation been so heavily considered. And no ceremony, performed anywhere in San Diego, is as meticulously planned, thoroughly rehearsed, or supported by so many original, meaningful and photogenic options as are mine.
Your ceremony, unlike any your friends have ever seen, will make maximum use of choreography, imagery, dramatics and stage presence to render a ceremony that you, and they, hadn’t dreamed of.
The ceremony will at all times be visually impressive and engaging as the audience will be treated to seeing you rather than staring at your backs and wondering what is going on. Guests will applaud the unique aspects of your wedding, scoring you much higher for creativity and artistic expression rather than rigidly duplicating for them every wedding they've already seen.
Confident in your well designed and thoroughly rehearsed ceremony, my directorship during its performance will easily allow you to be calm, up-beat and at your best. That's why I take the lead in developing all aspects of the ceremony - helping musicians, photographers and videographers understand their opportunities to enhance and capture the “Moments” as well.
You can put your heart into your wedding ceremony and go for the gold. Use some or all of the options I offer, ceremony styles, and online store accessories I will provide you and genuinely impress your guests. Elegance, style and class- together with a ceremony that tugs on their heart - will make your wedding day unforgettable – for everyone.
Wedding Rehearsal, Ceremony, and Audio System $995
For Couples Requiring the Direction of a Wedding Rehearsal, Ceremony, and Audio System Support.
All of the elements of the Rehearsal & Ceremony Package PLUS - a state of the art audio system and all of the appropriate playback equipment or basic musician support, and discrete microphone, use to ensure your guests enjoy the ceremony as much as you and the wedding party. I provide the audio system and an assistant to operate it.
First a few details for your consideration and then some explanation of what we do as a wedding minister, which is more than a justice of peace or a justice of the peace. An officiant or wedding officiate is the person who is ordained to perform a wedding in a church or outside of a church. More commonly, someone that designated themselves as a wedding officiant or is part of a group of officiants is an ordained minister focused on performing only wedding ceremonies as the stated wedding officiant outside of a church or religious environment . They “minister” the wedding or become ordained to officiate a civil ceremony.
To become an ordained minister for weddings is not the typically exhaustive education required to become a minister of a church. Most marriage officiant’s become an ordained minister online solely to perform a non-religious wedding, unlike a wedding priest who does go through seminary. Wedding ministers are often described as non-denominational wedding ministers, non-denominational officiant, marriage minister, a wedding pastor, secular wedding officiant, or ceremony officiant, along with other general terms for a wedding officiant.
There are others that are identified by the terms of; wedding rabbi, wedding clergy, interfaith minister, ordained ministers who have attended an ordained ministry college in order to become an ordained minister for religious perposes. These people may or may not have attended a degree program to attain ordination.
If you desire someone that is collegiately ordained by a church group affiliated institution to perform your interfaith wedding or to religiously minister for your wedding. My advice is to utilize your church clergy or find a church that will provide a staff minister to officiate a religiously oriented wedding for you.
The action to become an officiant, however, is not required to make your non-denominational wedding officiant a legal representative, who can perform or be an officiant in San Diego or any of the other 48 states that recognize minister ordination online as legally capable of doing a county wedding officiant action. Generally they are being officiants for weddings, non-denominational minister for a non-denominational wedding ceremony.
Often times because of the desires of the bride and groom or ethnic influences the desire for a non-denominational officiant is preferred over their church clergy. Specifically to avoid the religious elements conflicting with desired flow of the ceremony and the friction it may potentially cause for the families.
Thus, we offer non-denominational wedding and elopement ceremonies for truly great couples in the San Diego area and beyond.